TheFall River Railroad opened through Freetown in 1845. Two stations on the line in Freetown were open until the 1930s. Freetown was announced as a potential South Coast Rail station in 2009. The planned station site was relocated slightly to the northeast in 2018. A construction contract was issued in 2020, and the station was substantially completed in December 2022. (Full article...)
The company raised $2.7 million in aseed round in 2013, $7.5 million in itsSeries A round in 2014, $13.6 million in itsSeries B round in 2015, $35 million in itsSeries C round in 2015, and $50 million in its Series D round in 2018. Research firm CB Insights, in a study commissioned byThe New York Times, listed Greenhouse among fifty startups predicted to becomeunicorns, companies with at least a $1 billionvaluation. (Full article...)
Anthony Francis CiampiSJ (bornAntonio Francesco Ciampi; 29 January 1816 – 24 November 1893) was an ItalianCatholic priest andJesuit missionary to the United States. As the three-time president of theCollege of the Holy Cross, he was responsible for rebuilding the college after it was destroyed by fire. He also rescued it from financial ruin and pressure to close by the Jesuit superiors.
Born inRome, Ciampi was educated at theRoman College before volunteering in 1840 as amissionary to the United States. He studied and was ordained atGeorgetown University before working in various Jesuit institutions. In the 1850s and 1860s, he was twicethe president of the College of the Holy Cross inMassachusetts, where he reformed the curriculum in theliberal arts tradition and reduced its significant debt. (Full article...)
Judy Garland (bornFrances Ethel Gumm; June10, 1922 – June22, 1969) was an American actress and singer. Possessing a strongcontralto voice, Garland was celebrated for her emotional depth and versatility across film, stage, and concert performance. She achieved international recognition for her portrayal ofDorothy Gale in the musical filmThe Wizard of Oz (1939). Her rendition of "Over the Rainbow" won theAcademy Award for Best Original Song, and became Garland'ssignature song. Garland's resilience, artistic range and enduring recordings have ensured her lasting impact on popular culture and her reputation as a cultural icon.
This article contains alist of Wikipedia articles about recipients of the United States Army'sSoldier's Medal, awarded to "any person of the Armed Forces of the United States or of a friendly foreign nation who, while serving in any capacity with the Army of the United States, distinguished himself or herself by heroism not involving actual conflict with an enemy." (Army Regulation 600-8-22). (Full article...)
William Reed Callahan (September 5, 1931 – July 5, 2010) was an AmericanCatholic priest whose activism to changeVatican policy on women's ordination,gay Catholics and social justice led to his expulsion from theSociety of Jesus in 1991. He was thereafter forbidden to act as a priest.
TheBoston Elevated Railway (BERy) opened theAtlantic Avenue Elevated on August 22, 1901, with a station at State Street. The BERy opened theEast Boston Tunnel under State Street and Long Wharf for streetcars on December 30, 1904. Construction of the intermediate station at Atlantic Avenue under the Elevated was delayed; it opened on April 5, 1906. Unlike other early stations in Boston, which were built withcut-and-cover tunneling, most of Atlantic Avenue station was built as a largebarrel vault. The access shaft at the east end of the station was topped with a three-story headhouse, which included a footbridge to the elevated station. Four unusualangled elevators connected the headhouse to the platforms. (Full article...)
Black line indicates southern border of Erie Triangle within Erie County
TheErie Triangle is a roughly 300-square-mile (780-square-kilometre) tract of land that was the subject of several competingcolonial-era claims. It was eventually acquired by the U.S. federal government and sold toPennsylvania so that the state would have access to a freshwater port onLake Erie. The Erie Triangle land makes up a large portion of present-dayErie County, Pennsylvania. (Full article...)
Featured lists have been determined by the Wikipedia community to be the best lists on English Wikipedia.
Image 1
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...)
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 2025. 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...)
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...)
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...)
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...)
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...)
Image 10
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...)
Image 11
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...)
Image 7Major 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 11Certificate of government of Massachusetts Bay acknowledging loan of £20 to state treasury by Seth Davenport. September 1777 (fromHistory of Massachusetts)
Image 32Fenway Park, home stadium of theBoston Red Sox. Opened in 1912, Fenway Park is theoldest professional baseball stadium still in use. (fromBoston)
Image 43Concerning Evil Spirits (Boston, 1693) by Increase Mather (fromHistory of Massachusetts)
Image 44Harvard Stadium, the nation's first collegiate athletic stadium made of concrete (fromBoston)
Image 45AnMBTA Red Line train departing Boston forCambridge. Over 1.3 million Bostonians utilize the city's buses and trains daily as of 2013. (fromBoston)
This list was generated fromthese rules. Questions and feedbackare always welcome! The search is being run daily with the most recent ~14 days of results.Note: Some articles may not be relevant to this project.
.jpg)
_by_Sandro_Halank%25E2%2580%2593143.jpg)
.jpg)
%2c_Lowell%2c_Massachusetts.JPG)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
