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New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. It is bordered by the state of New York to the west and by the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick to the northeast and Quebec to the north. The Gulf of Maine and Atlantic Ocean are to the east and southeast, and Long Island Sound is to the southwest. Boston is New England's largest city and the capital of Massachusetts. Greater Boston is the largest metropolitan area, with nearly a third of New England's population; this area includes Worcester, Massachusetts, the second-largest city in New England, Manchester, New Hampshire, the largest city in New Hampshire, and Providence, Rhode Island, the capital of and largest city in Rhode Island.

In 1620, the Pilgrims established Plymouth Colony, the second successful settlement in British America after the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, founded in 1607. Ten years later, Puritans established Massachusetts Bay Colony north of Plymouth Colony. Over the next 126 years, people in the region fought in four French and Indian Wars until the English colonists and their Iroquois allies defeated the French and their Algonquian allies. (Full article...)

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Gloria near peak intensity on September 24 1985

Hurricane Gloria was a powerful Cape Verde-type hurricane that formed during the 1985 Atlantic hurricane season and prowled the Atlantic Ocean from September 16 to September 28. Gloria reached Category 4 status on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale near the Bahamas, but weakened significantly by the time it made landfall on North Carolina's Outer Banks. Gloria closely followed the Mid-Atlantic coastline and made a second landfall on Long Island, and, after crossing the Long Island Sound, it made a third landfall in Connecticut.

Overall, the storm caused extensive damage along the East Coast of the United States, amounting to $900 million ($2.55 billion in today's terms^[1]), and was responsible for eight fatalities. The storm was the first significant system to strike the northeastern United States since Hurricane Agnes in 1972 and the first major storm to affect New York and Long Island directly since Hurricane Donna in 1960. (Full article...)

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Portrait of George Washington Dixon, c. 1836

George Washington Dixon was an American singer, stage actor, and newspaper editor. He rose to prominence as a blackface performer (possibly the first American to do so) after performing "Coal Black Rose", "Zip Coon", and similar songs. He later turned to a career in journalism, during which he earned the enmity of members of the upper class for his frequent allegations against them. By 1835, Dixon considered journalism to be his primary vocation. His first major paper was Dixon's Daily Review, which he published from Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1835. He followed this in 1836 with Dixon's Saturday Night Express, published in Boston. (Full article...)

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Purple Finch

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Purple Finch, the official bird of the State of New Hampshire

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Image 1The Hartford headquarters of Aetna is housed in a 1931 Colonial Revival building. (from New England)
Image 21. Boston, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 3Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a high concentration of startups and technology companies. (from New England)
Image 4New England regionalist poet Robert Frost (from New England)
Image 5Autumn in New England, watercolor, Maurice Prendergast, c. 1910–1913 (from New England)
Image 6A political and geographical map of New England shows the coastal plains in the southeast, and hills, mountains and valleys in the west and the north. (from New England)
Image 7The MBTA Commuter Rail serves eastern Massachusetts and parts of Rhode Island, radiating from downtown Boston, with planned service to New Hampshire. The CTrail system operates the Shore Line East and Hartford Line, covering coastal Connecticut, Hartford, and Springfield, Massachusetts. (from New England)
Image 8Ethnic origins in New England (from New England)
Image 94. Springfield, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 103. Providence, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 117. New Haven, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 12Alumni Hall at Saint Anselm College has served as a backdrop for media reports during the New Hampshire primary. (from New England)
Image 13Montpelier, Vermont, is the smallest state capital in the United States. (from New England)
Image 14Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom is set on a fictional New England island and was largely filmed in Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 159. Cambridge, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 16A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre (from New England)
Image 176. Stamford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 18First Boston Latin School house (from History of New England)
Image 19Opera houses and theaters, like the Vergennes Opera House in Vergennes, Vermont, are popular in New England towns. (from Culture of New England)
Image 20A New England town meeting in Huntington, Vermont (from New England)
Image 21Bread and Roses Strike. Massachusetts National Guard troops surround unarmed strikers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912. (from New England)
Image 222. Worcester, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 2310. Manchester, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 24Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston and spent most of his literary career in Concord, Massachusetts. (from Culture of New England)
Image 25Southeastern New England is home to a number of Lusophone ethnic enclaves. (from New England)
Image 26Phillips Exeter Academy and Phillips Academy are two prestigious New England secondary schools founded in the late 18th century (from New England)
Image 27A plowed field in Bethel, Vermont (from New England)
Image 28An illustration from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (from Culture of New England)
Image 29An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (from New England)
Image 30New England is home to four of the eight Ivy League universities. Pictured here is Harvard Yard of Harvard University. (from New England)
Image 318. Hartford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 32World's largest Irish flag in Boston. People who claim Irish descent constitute the largest ethnic ancestry in New England. (from New England)
Image 33Certificate of the government of Massachusetts Bay acknowledging loan of £20 to state treasury 1777 (from History of New England)
Image 34New England's Siege of Louisbourg (1745) by Peter Monamy (from New England)
Image 35Flag of New England flying in Massachusetts. New Englanders maintain a strong sense of regional and cultural identity. (from New England)
Image 36The Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 37The New Haven system (from History of New England)
Image 38Flag of the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC) (from New England)
Image 39Boston's Symphony Hall is the home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra—the second-oldest of the Big Five American symphony orchestras. (from New England)
Image 40Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 41Soldier and explorer John Smith coined the name "New England" in 1616. (from New England)
Image 42The White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of the Appalachian Mountains. (from New England)
Image 43Indigenous territories, circa 1600 in present-day southern New England (from New England)
Image 44Map of the British and French dominions in America in 1755, showing what the English considered New England (from History of New England)
Image 45The New England Ensign, one of several flags historically associated with New England. This flag was reportedly used by colonial merchant ships sailing out of New England ports, 1686 – c. 1737. (from New England)
Image 46A 1779 five-shilling note issued by Massachusetts (from History of New England)
Image 47Largest self-reported ancestry groups in New England. Americans of Irish descent form a plurality in most of Massachusetts, while Americans of English descent form a plurality in much of the central parts of Vermont and New Hampshire as well as nearly all of Maine. (from New England)
Image 48The Port of Portland in Portland, Maine, is the largest tonnage seaport in New England. (from New England)
Image 49A portion of the north-central Pioneer Valley in Sunderland, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 50A Hartford Line train at Hartford Union Station (from New England)
Image 51Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (from New England)
Image 525. Bridgeport, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 53Köppen climate types in New England (from New England)
Image 54Classic New England Congregationalist church in Peacham, Vermont (from Culture of New England)
Image 55A classic New England Congregational church in Peacham, Vermont (from New England)

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... that Cora Agnes Benneson, one of the first female lawyers in New England, was rejected by Harvard Law School because "the equipments were too limited to make suitable provision for receiving women"?
... that Clayton Weishuhn set the New England Patriots single-season record of 229 tackles in 1983, a record that still stands?
... that Rockstar New England is based in Andover, Massachusetts, because it is the founder's "favorite place"?
... that the tugboat R. B. Forbes was the first iron mercantile vessel built in New England?
... that the Chippewa have smoked the root of the New England aster in pipes to attract game?
... that the first railroad in New England was powered by horses?
... that Benjamin Tompson's poem "Harvardine Quils" called for writers in New England to memorialize the loss of "whole towns and Churches" in King Philip's War?

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... that the First Congregational Church of Litchfield, now regarded as iconic, was replaced in 1873 after being said to have "not a single line or feature ... suggesting taste or beauty"?
... that although Massachusetts is located at the 42nd parallel north, some of its rocks originated near the South Pole?
... that Nathaniel Ames, publisher of the first annual American almanac, avoided arrest by replacing his vituperative cartoon of local judges with a biblical quotation?

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Flag of New Hampshire

New Hampshire
Incorporated 1776
Co-ordinates 44°N 71.5°W

New Hampshire, named after the southern English county of Hampshire, is the 5th least extensive and the 9th least populous of the 50 U.S. states.

It became the first post-colonial sovereign nation in the Americas when it broke off from Great Britain in January 1776, and six months later was one of the original thirteen states that founded the United States of America. In June 1788, it became the ninth state to ratify the United States Constitution, bringing that document into effect. New Hampshire was the first U.S. state to have its own state constitution.

It is known internationally for the New Hampshire primary, the first primary in the U.S. presidential election cycle. Concord is the state capital, while Manchester is the largest city in the state. It has no general sales tax, nor is personal income (other than interest and dividends) taxed at either the state or local level. (Full article...)

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