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Settlers endured terror, pain
Did you ever wonder how we know about Pocahontas and her role in the history of Jamestown, Va.? Or how we learned that Squanto helped the Pilgrims at Plymouth? Perhaps you've wondered if the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay followed the law as severely...Tags: Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Smith, Politics, Executive Branch, Pocahontas
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PBS looks for 'God in America'
Zap2ItAiring over three consecutive nights beginning Monday, Oct. 11 (check local listings), the six-hour PBS series "God in America," a co-venture of "Frontline" and "American Experience," blends documentary footage, historical dramatizations and interviews...Tags: Politics, Documentary (genre), Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr., Keith David
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We're on the brink of apocalypse! Again!
The sky is falling! The end is near! Just in time for the Christmas season, Pat Buchanan has published yet another jeremiad warning that America is about to go belly up. You'd think that the American public would get tired of the unrelenting gloominess...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Abraham Lincoln, Massachusetts, Martin Luther King Jr., George W. Bush
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America tortures (yawn)
IT WAS MUCH LIKE the usual Nigerian e-mail scam, but it had a dispiriting twist. "Greetings," went the e-mail, "I am Captain Smith Scott of the US Marine Force … in Baghdad-Iraq. On the 10th day of February 2007 … we captured three (3) of the Terrorists…...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Prisons, Politics, Wars and Interventions, National Government
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Mystical Allure
Courant Staff WriterWhat better activity on a warm sunny spring day than hanging out, people-watching on a river bank while you absorb a few rays, lick an ice cream cone and pretend to read a magazine. And there's no better place to do that than Mystic River Park, which...Tags: Groton, Connecticut, Middletown, Ice Cream, Wetlands
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Clinton, Reagan, Nixon, LBJ: Farewells
The Swampby Mark Silva As President George W. Bush and his writers place the final touches on 15 minutes of televisied talk that will deliver a farewell to the nation after two tumultuous terms in office, it's worth remembering the most......Tags: Gerald Ford, Inflation and Deflation, Family, White House, Population
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Merrimack Valley/North Shore - Massachusetts
Wood Pond PressMERRIMACK VALLEY CHELMSFORD >> Chelmsford Dining Suggestions Vincenzo's, 170 Concord Road, Chelmsford. (978) 256-1250. TYNGSBORO >> Tyngsboro Lodging and Dining Suggestions Stonehedge Inn, 160 Pawtucket Blvd., Tyngsboro. (978) 649-4400 or (888) 649-...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Moshe Safdie, Family, John Singleton, Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning
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Chapter One: The Plantation Next Door
The most disturbing evidence of Connecticut's long and profitable complicity in slavery lies hidden in plain sight in the town of Salem, in the fields and woods around an ice cream bar near Routes 11 and 82. There, archaeologists from Central Connecticut...Tags: Horse (animal), Tourism and Leisure, Haddam, Family, New York
Nov 18, 2011
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Oct 6, 2010
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Dec 3, 2007
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Feb 23, 2007
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May 29, 2007
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Sep 24, 2002
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Sep 29, 2002
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