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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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The Perfect Storm to the south of Nova Scotia

The 1991 Perfect Storm, also known as the Halloween Nor'easter of 1991, was a nor'easter that absorbed Hurricane Grace and ultimately evolved into a small hurricane late in its life cycle. The initial area of low pressure developed off Atlantic Canada on October 28. Forced southward by a ridge to its north, it reached its peak intensity as a large and powerful cyclone. The storm lashed the East Coast of the United States with high waves and coastal flooding, before turning to the southwest and weakening. Moving over warmer waters, the system transitioned into a subtropical cyclone before becoming a tropical storm. It executed a loop off the Mid-Atlantic states and turned toward the northeast. On November 1 the system evolved into a full-fledged hurricane with peak winds of 75 miles per hour (120 km/h), although the National Hurricane Center left it unnamed to avoid confusion amid media interest in the predecessor extratropical storm. It later received the name "the Perfect Storm" after a conversation between Boston National Weather Service forecaster Robert Case and author Sebastian Junger. The system was the fourth hurricane and final tropical cyclone in the 1991 Atlantic hurricane season. The tropical system weakened, striking Nova Scotia as a tropical storm before dissipating. ( Full article...)

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Smith (center) visiting the USSR upon invitation from General Secretary Yuri Andropov

Samantha Reed Smith was an American schoolgirl, peace activist and child actress from Manchester, Maine, who became famous in the Cold War-era United States and Soviet Union. In 1982, Smith wrote a letter to the newly appointed CPSU General Secretary Yuri Andropov, and received a personal reply which included a personal invitation to visit the Soviet Union, which she accepted.

Smith attracted extensive media attention in both countries as a " Goodwill Ambassador", and became known as "America's Youngest Ambassador" participating in peacemaking activities in Japan. She wrote a book about her visit to the Soviet Union and co-starred in the television series Lime Street, before her death at the age of 13 in the Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 plane crash. ( Full article...)

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Purple Finch

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Purple Finch, the official bird of the State of New Hampshire

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Image 1Map of the British and French dominions in America in 1755, showing what the English considered New England (from History of New England)
Image 2Opera houses and theaters, like the Vergennes Opera House in Vergennes, Vermont, are popular in New England towns. (from Culture of New England)
Image 3 Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a high concentration of startups and technology companies. (from New England)
Image 4Alumni Hall at Saint Anselm College has served as a backdrop for media reports during the New Hampshire primary. (from New England)
Image 5 Boston's Symphony Hall is the home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra—the second-oldest of the Big Five American symphony orchestras. (from New England)
Image 67. New Haven, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 7A classic New England Congregational church in Peacham, Vermont (from New England)
Image 8 Montpelier, Vermont, is the smallest state capital in the United States. (from New England)
Image 9Ethnic origins in New England (from New England)
Image 10The White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of the Appalachian Mountains. (from New England)
Image 119. Cambridge, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 12Southeastern New England is home to a number of Lusophone ethnic enclaves. (from New England)
Image 13The Hartford headquarters of Aetna is housed in a 1931 Colonial Revival building. (from New England)
Image 145. Bridgeport, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 15The Port of Portland in Portland, Maine, is the largest tonnage seaport in New England. (from New England)
Image 16New England's Siege of Louisbourg (1745) by Peter Monamy (from New England)
Image 17Certificate of the government of Massachusetts Bay acknowledging loan of £20 to state treasury 1777 (from History of New England)
Image 183. Providence, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 19 Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston and spent most of his literary career in Concord, Massachusetts. (from Culture of New England)
Image 20A New England town meeting in Huntington, Vermont (from New England)
Image 21A 1779 five-shilling note issued by Massachusetts (from History of New England)
Image 22First Boston Latin School house (from History of New England)
Image 23World's largest Irish flag in Boston. People who claim Irish descent constitute the largest ethnic ancestry in New England. (from New England)
Image 2410. Manchester, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 25A portion of the north-central Pioneer Valley in Sunderland, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 26The Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 27Soldier and explorer John Smith coined the name "New England" in 1616. (from New England)
Image 28Autumn in New England, watercolor, Maurice Prendergast, c. 1910–1913 (from New England)
Image 29Largest 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 302. Worcester, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 31 Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom is set on a fictional New England island and was largely filmed in Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 32Classic New England Congregationalist church in Peacham, Vermont (from Culture of New England)
Image 33 Phillips Exeter Academy and Phillips Academy are two prestigious New England secondary schools founded in the late 18th century (from New England)
Image 34A plowed field in Bethel, Vermont (from New England)
Image 35 Bread and Roses Strike. Massachusetts National Guard troops surround unarmed strikers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912. (from New England)
Image 366. Stamford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 37 Flag of New England flying in Massachusetts. New Englanders maintain a strong sense of regional and cultural identity. (from New England)
Image 38A 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 39New England is home to four of the eight Ivy League universities. Pictured here is Harvard Yard of Harvard University. (from New England)
Image 408. Hartford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 41The 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 424. Springfield, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 431. Boston, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 44The New Haven system (from History of New England)
Image 45A Hartford Line train at Hartford Union Station (from New England)
Image 46Indigenous territories, circa 1600 in present-day southern New England (from New England)
Image 47 Köppen climate types in New England (from New England)
Image 48New England regionalist poet Robert Frost (from New England)
Image 49 Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 50The 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 51An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (from New England)
Image 52 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (from New England)
Image 53Flag of the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC) (from New England)
Image 54A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre (from New England)
Image 55An illustration from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (from Culture of New England)

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... that the tugboat R. B. Forbes was the first iron mercantile vessel built in New England?
... that the first railroad in New England was powered by horses?
... 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?
... that Clayton Weishuhn set the New England Patriots single-season record of 229 tackles in 1983, a record that still stands?
... that Cora Agnes Benneson, one of the first female lawyers in New England, was rejected by Harvard Law School because "the equipments were too limited to make suitable provision for receiving women"?
... that the Chippewa have smoked the root of the New England aster in pipes to attract game?
... that the first time the New England Revolution competed in an international competition, they played their "home" match at their opponent's stadium?
... that Rockstar New England is based in Andover, Massachusetts, because it is the founder's "favorite place"?

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... that Alvin Adams founded Adams and Company, forerunner to Adams Express Company, to haul express freight shipments by rail in 1840?
... that professional baseball player Terry Doyle works as a substitute teacher during the offseason?
... that Linda Bean, heiress to part of the L.L. Bean company, twice ran for the United States Congress?
... that Uncle Tom once led a professional baseball league in stolen bases?
... that American folklorist Helen Hartness Flanders recorded, transcribed and catalogued traditional ballads from New England at a time when people were ceasing to sing them?

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Flag of Maine

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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