Christian Science is a set of beliefs and practices which are associated with members of theChurch of Christ, Scientist. Adherents are commonly known as Christian Scientists or students of Christian Science, and the church is sometimes informally known as the Christian Science church. It was founded in 1879 inNew England byMary Baker Eddy, who wrote the 1875 bookScience and Health with Key to the Scriptures, which outlined the theology of Christian Science. The book was originally calledScience and Health; the subtitlewith a Key to the Scriptures was added in 1883 and later amended towith Key to the Scriptures.
The book became Christian Science's central text, along with theBible, and by 2001 had sold over nine million copies. (Full article...)
In 2001, MBTAFramingham/Worcester Line and Amtrak operations were shifted to a new set of platforms nearby, which have high-level sections for handicapped-accessible boarding and a footbridge for crossing the tracks. This new station is among the busiest on the MBTA system, with 41 daily MBTA and 2 Amtrak trains on weekdays. The H. H. Richardson-designed station building remains largely intact and is currently used as a restaurant. (Full article...)
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Radar scan of the supercell at 7:03 p.m.
TheGreat Barrington tornado (also known as theMemorial Day Tornado of 1995) was a violent and deadlyF4tornado that occurred in the westernMassachusetts town ofGreat Barrington on May 29, 1995. The tornado remains the last (E)F4 tornado inNew England, a streak of over 30 years. It is also one of the deadliest and costliest tornadoes in New England history, causing 3 deaths and $25 million (1995USD) worth of damage. Due to the unusual strength of the tornado for its location, as well as complex terrain interactions with theAppalachian Mountains, the tornado was the focal point of a 2006 paper researching tornadogenesis over complex terrain. (Full article...)
She was one of the first women from the Detroit area to enlist in the WAAC (established on May 14, 1942). Sarafian Jehl enlisted for the corps in July 1942. The WAAC provided secretaries, switchboard operators and cooks for the army. (Full article...)
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Moynahan in 2023
Kathryn Bridget Moynahan (born April 28, 1971) is an American actress and former model. She graduated fromLongmeadow High School in Massachusetts in 1989 and began pursuing a career in modeling. Moynahan appeared in department-store catalogs and magazines, and after doing television commercials, began taking acting lessons. She made her television debut in a guest appearance in the comedy seriesSex and the City in 1999, where she later had a recurring role as Natasha.
Postcard illustrating the Lightning roller coaster at Revere Beach
Lightning was a steel roller coaster that operated from 1927 until 1933 atRevere Beach inRevere,Massachusetts. It was one of the infamousGiant Cyclone Safety Coasters which were constructed by noted roller coaster engineerHarry G. Traver in the mid-1920s (the rides were, in fact, anything but safe, and became known as the "terrifying triplets"). Lightning was the only Giant Cyclone Safety Coaster not to bear the "Cyclone" name, as a roller coaster namedCyclone already existed at Revere Beach when Lightning was constructed in 1927. The other two members of this group of coasters included theCrystal BeachCyclone and thePalisades ParkCyclone (A fourth Traver roller coaster namedZip had a similar—but smaller—design and was installed atOaks Amusement Park inPortland,Oregon). (Full article...)
In 1901, Buel became a professor at Georgetown University. He took charge of the university in 1905, after the sudden removal of the president. In this role, he promotedintramural sports, oversaw construction of Ryan Gymnasium, and reformed the curriculum and university governance. He also instituted strict discipline and curtailedintercollegiate athletics, stoking fierce opposition from the student body and their parents, which resulted in his removal by the Jesuit superiors in 1908. Buel then performed pastoral work and taught for several years, before resigning from the Jesuit order in 1912 and secretly marrying inConnecticut. When word reachedWashington, D.C., his former Jesuit colleagues publicly condemned him, and the media claimed his actions resulted in hisexcommunicationlatae sententiae. (Full article...)
Born toLevi Lincoln Sr., a prominent Worcester lawyer, he studied law and entered the state legislature in 1812 as aDemocratic-Republican. He supported theWar of 1812 (a minority position inFederalist-dominated Massachusetts) and opposed theHartford Convention. Over the next ten years his politics moderated, and he was elected governor in 1825 in a nonpartisan landslide after serving one year on theMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Lincoln oversaw significant economic development in Massachusetts during his tenure and issued the first-everveto by a Massachusetts governor. Lincoln andDaniel Webster were leading forces in the foundation of theNational Republican (laterWhig) Party in Massachusetts, which dominated state politics until the 1850s. (Full article...)
TheLarinda is a recreationalschooner inspired by the 1767 Boston schoonerHMS Sultana. It was built over a period of twenty-six years in the backyard of its owner and launched in 1996. It sank duringHurricane Juan on September 29, 2003, was raised a month later and eventually returned to service. (Full article...)
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Map depicting lines of charters and grants for Massachusetts-related colonies and provinces The territory of theCommonwealth of Massachusetts, one of the fifty United States, was settled in the 17th century by several different English colonies. The territories claimed or administered by these colonies encompassed a much larger area than that of the modern state, and at times included areas that are now within the jurisdiction of otherNew England states or of the Canadian provinces ofNew Brunswick andNova Scotia. Some colonial land claims extended all the way to thePacific Ocean.
The first permanent settlement was thePlymouth Colony (1620), and the second major settlement was theMassachusetts Bay Colony atSalem in 1629. Settlements that failed or were merged into other colonies included the failedPopham Colony (1607) on the coast of Maine, and theWessagusset Colony (1622–23) inWeymouth, Massachusetts, whose remnants were folded into the Plymouth Colony. The Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies coexisted until 1686, each electing its own governor annually. The governance of both colonies was dominated by a relatively small group of magistrates, some of whom governed for many years. TheDominion of New England was established in 1686 and covered the territory of those colonies, as well as that ofNew Hampshire,Connecticut, andRhode Island. In 1688, it was further extended to includeNew York andEast andWest Jersey. The Dominion was extremely unpopular in the colonies, and it was disbanded when its royally appointed governor SirEdmund Androswas arrested and sent back to England in the wake of the 1688Glorious Revolution. (Full article...)
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The front entrance to Boston Latin School on Avenue Louis Pasteur
Boston Latin School is apublicexam school located inBoston, Massachusetts, that was founded in 1635. It is the first public school and the oldest existing school in the United States.
The school's first class included nine students; the school now has 2,400 pupils drawn from all parts of Boston. Its graduates have included fourHarvard presidents, eightMassachusetts state governors, and fivesigners of theUnited States Declaration of Independence, as well as several preeminent architects, a leading art historian, a notable naturalist and the conductors of theNew York Philharmonic andBoston Pops orchestras. There are also several notable non-graduate alumni, includingLouis Farrakhan, a leader of theNation of Islam. Boston Latin admitted only male students at its founding in 1635. The school's first female student was admitted in the nineteenth century. In 1972, Boston Latin admitted its first co-educational class. (Full article...)
Thislist of birds of Massachusetts includesspecies documented in theU.S. state ofMassachusetts and accepted by the Massachusetts Avian Records Committee (MARC). As of July 2023, there are 516 species included in the official list. Of them, 194 are on the review list (see below), six have beenintroduced to North America, three areextinct, and one has beenextirpated. An additional seven species are on a supplemental list of birds whose origin is uncertain. An additional accidental species has been added from another source.
This list is presented in thetaxonomic sequence of theCheck-list of North and Middle American Birds, 7th edition through the 62nd Supplement, published by theAmerican Ornithological Society (AOS). Common and scientific names are also those of theCheck-list, except that the common names of families are from theClements taxonomy because the AOS list does not include them. (Full article...)
Godsmack is an Americanrock band founded in 1995 by singerSully Erna and bassistRobbie Merrill. The band has released ninestudio albums, oneEP, twocompilations, threevideo albums, and thirty-foursingles. Erna and Merrill recruited local friend and guitarist Lee Richards and drummerTommy Stewart to complete the band's lineup. In 1996,Tony Rombola replaced Richards, as the band's guitarist. In 1998, Godsmack released theirself-titled debut album, a remastered version of the band's self-released debut,All Wound Up.... The album was distributed byUniversal/Republic Records and shipped four million copies in the United States. In 2001, the band contributed the track "Why" to theAny Given Sunday soundtrack. After two years of touring, the band releasedAwake. Although the album was a commercial success, it failed to match the sales ofGodsmack. In 2002, Stewart left the band due to personal differences, and was replaced byShannon Larkin.
The band's third album,Faceless (2003), debuted at number one on the USBillboard 200. In 2004, Godsmack released an acoustic-based EP titledThe Other Side. The EP debuted at number five on theBillboard 200 and was certified gold by theRIAA.[1] The band contributed the track "Bring It On" to the Madden 2006 football game in 2005; this track is not featured on any known album or compilation. The band released its fourth studio album,IV, in 2006.IV was the band's second release to debut at number one, and has since been certified platinum. After touring in support ofIV for over a year, Godsmack released agreatest hits album calledGood Times, Bad Times... Ten Years of Godsmack. The album included every Godsmack single (with the exception of "Bad Magick"), a cover of theLed Zeppelin song "Good Times Bad Times" and aDVD of the band's acoustic performance at theHouse of Blues inLas Vegas,Nevada. (Full article...)
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TheCommonwealth ofMassachusetts has 14counties, though eight of these fourteen county governments were abolished between 1997 and 2000. The counties in the southeastern portion of the state retain county-level local government (Barnstable,Bristol,Dukes,Norfolk,Plymouth) or, in one case (Nantucket County), consolidated town-county government. Vestigial judicial and law enforcement districts still follow county boundaries even in the counties whose county-level government has been disestablished, and the counties are still generally recognized as geographic entities if not political ones. Three counties (Barnstable,Hampshire, andFranklin) have formed new county regional compacts to serve as a form of regional governance. (Full article...)
A dominant team in the early 20th century, the Red Sox (as the Boston Americans) won the firstWorld Series in1903 and had won a further four championships by1918. Their following 86-year championshipdrought is one of the longest in baseball history, often attributed to the "Curse of the Bambino" said to have been initiated against the Red Sox upon the1919 trade of star playerBabe Ruth to theNew York Yankees. The Red Sox' drought ended when the team won their sixth World Series championship in2004, and they have since gone on to win another three World Series titles (in2007,2013, and2018), to become the first and so far only team to win at least four World Series championships in the 21st century. The team's overall .518 regular seasonwinning percentage is the 5th-highest in MLB. (Full article...)
Officially known as the "First-Year Player Draft", the draft is MLB's primary mechanism for assigning amateur baseball players from high schools, colleges, and other amateur baseball clubs to its teams. The draft order is determined based on the previous season's standings, with the team possessing the worst record receiving the first pick. In addition, teams that lostfree agents in the previous off-season may be awardedcompensatory or supplementary picks. (Full article...)
Boston is the capital of theU.S. state ofMassachusetts and the largest city inNew England. It is home to over 580 completed high-rises, 73 of which stand taller than 300 feet (91 m) as of 2026. Boston's skyline is by far the largest inNew England, and the city has the second most skyscrapers taller than 492 ft (150 m) in theNortheastern United States, afterNew York City. The tallest building in Boston is the 62-story 200 Clarendon, better known as theJohn Hancock Tower; the office skyscraper rises 790 ft (241 m) in theBack Bay district, southwest ofDowntown Boston.
The history of skyscrapers in Boston began early with the completion of the 13-storyAmes Building in 1893. TheGreek Revival styleCustom House Tower, which was Boston's tallest building from 1915 to 1964, was among the first skyscrapers outside of New York City. Boston went through a major building boom from the 1960s to the early 1990s, resulting in the construction of over 30 buildings taller than 300 ft (91 m), including the John Hancock Tower and the city's second-tallest building, thePrudential Tower. At the time of the Prudential Tower's completion in 1964, it stood as the tallest building in North America outside ofNew York City. (Full article...)
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Team photograph of the 1890 Boston Reds TheBoston Reds were aMajor League Baseball franchise that played in thePlayers' League (PL) in 1890, and one season in theAmerican Association (AA) in 1891. In both seasons, the Reds were their league's champion, making them the second team to win back-to-back championships in two different leagues. The first franchise to accomplish this feat was theBrooklyn Bridegrooms, who won the AA championship in 1889 and theNational League (NL) championship in 1890. The Reds played their home games at theCongress Street Grounds.
The Reds were an instant success on the field and in the public's opinion. The team signed several top-level players, and they played in a larger, more comfortable and modern ballpark than theBoston Beaneaters, the popular and well established cross-town rival. Player signings that first year included futureHall of FamersKing Kelly,Dan Brouthers, andCharles Radbourn, along with other veterans such asHardy Richardson,Matt Kilroy,Harry Stovey, andTom Brown. The PL ended after one season, leaving most of its teams without a league. (Full article...)
Image 3Major boundaries of Massachusetts Bay and neighboring colonial claims in the 17th century and 18th century; modern state boundaries are partially overlaid for context (fromHistory of Massachusetts)
Image 17Certificate of government of Massachusetts Bay acknowledging loan of £20 to state treasury by Seth Davenport. September 1777 (fromHistory of Massachusetts)
Image 18Historical population changes among Massachusetts municipalities. Click to see animation. (fromHistory of Massachusetts)
Image 26AnMBTA Red Line train departing Boston forCambridge. Over 1.3 million Bostonians utilize the city's buses and trains daily as of 2013. (fromBoston)
Image 31Fenway Park, home stadium of theBoston Red Sox. Opened in 1912, Fenway Park is theoldest professional baseball stadium still in use. (fromBoston)
Image 32Boston Latin School, established in 1635, is the oldest public high school in the U.S. (fromBoston)
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