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2 days ago · At the beginning of English settlement in the 17th century, the Shawmut Peninsula was called Trimountain (or Tramount) because of its dominating three-topped hill on the northwest corner near the mouth of the Charles River. Beacon Hill is its only surviving, though greatly reduced, remnant.
4 days ago · In 1822, scholar John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder (quite a name there) posited that “Mannahatta,” which the explorers claimed to have heard, was actually “Manahachtanienk,” which meant ...
2 days ago · He was the third American in space and the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962. [3] Following his retirement from NASA, he served from 1974 to 1999 as a U.S. Senator from Ohio; in 1998, he flew into space again at the age of 77.
2 days ago · Get the detailed weather forecast for Boston Spa, West Yorkshire. Access 10 day and 16 day views, maps, meteograms and timelines for accurate predicitions.
2 days ago · Boston - Postcolonial Expansion: In the last years of the 18th century, when space in the city became scarce, a series of major changes began to transform the urban landscape.
3 days ago · There has been a Christian presence in the villages served by the Bramham Benefice for hundreds of years. The Anglican churches of St Mary’s, Boston Spa, All Saints’, Bramham, St Luke’s, Clifford, All Saints’, Thorp Arch and St Peter’s, Walton continue this inheritance of Christianity in our villages through loving service of one ...
22 hours ago · The 25-year-old Irish man became the only man ever lynched in Mapleton, Maine, [161] after he committed a robbery and beat two deputy sheriffs to death with an axe. [162] [163] [164] Unknown man 1875: A factory worker in Manchester found a mouse on her table and screamed. A man rushed over to her and tried to shoo it away, but it tried to hide ...
