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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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All matches at Lockdown were contained in the "Six Sides of Steel"

Lockdown (2008) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) promotion, which took place on April 13, 2008 at the Tsongas Arena in Lowell, Massachusetts. It was the fourth under the Lockdown chronology and fourth event in the 2008 TNA PPV schedule. Eight professional wrestling matches, two of which for championships, were featured on the card. In the tradition of Lockdown events, every match took place inside a six sided steel structure known as the Six Sides of Steel. (Full article...)

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Holmes in about 1853

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. was a Massachusetts-born physician, poet, professor, lecturer, and author. Regarded by his peers as one of the best writers of the 19th century, he is considered a member of the Fireside Poets. His most famous prose works are the "Breakfast-Table" series, which began with The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858). He is also recognized as an important medical reformer. Surrounded by Boston's literary elite—which included friends such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and James Russell Lowell—Holmes made an indelible imprint on the literary world of the 19th century. Many of his works were published in The Atlantic Monthly, a magazine that he named. For his literary achievements and other accomplishments, he was awarded numerous honorary degrees from universities around the world. Holmes's writing often commemorated his native Boston area, and much of it was meant to be humorous or conversational. (Full article...)

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Boston Massacre

Credit: Paul Revere (1770)

Paul Revere's 1770 engraving, depicting the Boston Massacre

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Image 1A classic New England Congregational church in Peacham, Vermont (from New England)
Image 2New England is home to four of the eight Ivy League universities. Pictured here is Harvard Yard of Harvard University. (from New England)
Image 3Montpelier, Vermont, is the smallest state capital in the United States. (from New England)
Image 4Classic New England Congregationalist church in Peacham, Vermont (from Culture of New England)
Image 5Largest 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 6World's largest Irish flag in Boston. People who claim Irish descent constitute the largest ethnic ancestry in New England. (from New England)
Image 76. Stamford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 88. Hartford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 9Köppen climate types in New England (from New England)
Image 10Opera houses and theaters, like the Vergennes Opera House in Vergennes, Vermont, are popular in New England towns. (from Culture of New England)
Image 11A plowed field in Bethel, Vermont (from New England)
Image 12Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (from New England)
Image 13The Hartford headquarters of Aetna is housed in a 1931 Colonial Revival building. (from New England)
Image 14A New England town meeting in Huntington, Vermont (from New England)
Image 15The Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 161. Boston, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 17Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston and spent most of his literary career in Concord, Massachusetts. (from Culture of New England)
Image 18Map of the British and French dominions in America in 1755, showing what the English considered New England (from History of New England)
Image 19First Boston Latin School house (from History of New England)
Image 204. Springfield, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 21Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a high concentration of startups and technology companies. (from New England)
Image 22Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom is set on a fictional New England island and was largely filmed in Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 23Indigenous territories, circa 1600 in present-day southern New England (from New England)
Image 24Southeastern New England is home to a number of Lusophone ethnic enclaves. (from New England)
Image 252. Worcester, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 26A 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 27Phillips Exeter Academy and Phillips Academy are two prestigious New England secondary schools founded in the late 18th century (from New England)
Image 2810. Manchester, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 29Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 303. Providence, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 31Bread and Roses Strike. Massachusetts National Guard troops surround unarmed strikers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912. (from New England)
Image 32Flag of New England flying in Massachusetts. New Englanders maintain a strong sense of regional and cultural identity. (from New England)
Image 33Autumn in New England, watercolor, Maurice Prendergast, c. 1910–1913 (from New England)
Image 34Flag of the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC) (from New England)
Image 35The Port of Portland in Portland, Maine, is the largest tonnage seaport in New England. (from New England)
Image 36An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (from New England)
Image 37New England regionalist poet Robert Frost (from New England)
Image 38Certificate of the government of Massachusetts Bay acknowledging loan of £20 to state treasury 1777 (from History of New England)
Image 39Soldier and explorer John Smith coined the name "New England" in 1616. (from New England)
Image 40A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre (from New England)
Image 41The White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of the Appalachian Mountains. (from New England)
Image 42A Hartford Line train at Hartford Union Station (from New England)
Image 43Alumni Hall at Saint Anselm College has served as a backdrop for media reports during the New Hampshire primary. (from New England)
Image 445. Bridgeport, Connecticut (from 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 467. New Haven, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 47An illustration from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (from Culture of New England)
Image 48New England's Siege of Louisbourg (1745) by Peter Monamy (from New England)
Image 49A portion of the north-central Pioneer Valley in Sunderland, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 50Ethnic origins in New England (from New England)
Image 519. Cambridge, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 52The New Haven system (from History of New England)
Image 53A 1779 five-shilling note issued by Massachusetts (from History of New England)
Image 54The 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 55Boston's Symphony Hall is the home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra—the second-oldest of the Big Five American symphony orchestras. (from New England)

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... that the tugboat R. B. Forbes was the first iron mercantile vessel built in New England?
... that Clayton Weishuhn set the New England Patriots single-season record of 229 tackles in 1983, a record that still stands?
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... that New England Revolution manager Bruce Arena led the club to a record-breaking 73 points in the 2021 season?
... that the first railroad in New England was powered by horses?
... that Rockstar New England is based in Andover, Massachusetts, because it is the founder's "favorite place"?
... that the first time the New England Revolution competed in an international competition, they played their "home" match at their opponent's stadium?
... 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 Major League Baseball player Dan Coogan later coached the baseball teams at the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University, Bowdoin College, and Georgetown University?
... that Gene Sharp's book on the American Struggle for Independence supports President Adams' claim that the revolution was "substantially effected before hostilities commenced"?
... that Harriet Hanson Robinson went on strike from her job as a bobbin doffer at age eleven?
... that during the Antinomian Controversy, Anne Hutchinson withstood two separate trials without counsel before being banished from Massachusetts?
... that in 1885, American neurologist James Leonard Corning became the first to perform neuraxial anesthesia?

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Maine
Incorporated 1820
Co-ordinates 45.5°N 69°W

Maine is both the northernmost and easternmost portion of New England. It is known for its scenery—its jagged, mostly rocky coastline, its low, rolling mountains, its heavily forested interior and picturesque waterways—as well as for its seafood cuisine, especially lobsters and clams.

As Maine entered the 18th century, only a half dozen European settlements survived. Patriot and British forces contended for Maine's territory during the American Revolution and the War of 1812. Maine was part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts until 1820, when it voted to secede from Massachusetts. On March 15, 1820, it was admitted to the Union as the 23rd state under the Missouri Compromise. Maine is the 39th most extensive and the 41st most populous of the 50 United States. (Full article...)

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