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- Official Name: Commonwealth of Massachusetts
- Capital: Boston
- Population:
6,349,097 (2000 U.S. Census Bureau)
- Area:
8,257 square miles (land and water)
- Climate:
Average monthly temperatures in Boston range from 28.2° in January to 72.0° in July
- Quick Facts
- Massachusetts
has produced half of all the Nobel Prize winners in the
country
- The State's total R&D expenditures are nearly 3 times
greater than the national average
- Major League Sports Teams
- Baseball- Boston Red Sox
- Football- New England Patriots
- Hockey- Boston Bruins
- Basketball- Boston Celtics
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| New England Patriots |
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| Oct. 30 |
at Pittsburgh Steelers |
4:15 PM ET |
| Nov. 6 |
New York Giants |
4:15 PM ET |
| Nov. 13 |
at New York Jets |
8:20 PM ET |
| Mon, Nov. 21 |
Kansas City Chiefs |
8:30 PM ET |
| Nov. 27 |
at Philadelphia Eagles |
4:15 PM ET |
| Dec. 4 |
Indianapolis Colts |
8:20 PM ET |
| Dec. 11 |
at Washington Redskins |
1:00 PM ET |
| Dec. 18 |
at Denver Broncos |
4:15 PM ET |
| Sat, Dec, 24 |
Miami Dolphins |
1:00 PM ET |
| Jan. 1 |
Buffalo Bills |
1:00 PM ET |
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Boston Area
Museum of Fine Arts
Degas and the Nude
The nude figure was critical to the art of Edgar Degas from the beginning of his career in the 1850s until the end of his working life. Featuring paintings, pastels, drawings, prints, and sculpture from Degas’s early years to the last decades of his working career.
October 9, 2011 - February 5, 2012 |
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Around
the State
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
Michael Cooper: A Sculptural Odyssey
Organized by the Museum of Craft and Design and guest curator Harold B. Nelson. This exhibition has been made possible through funding from the Windgate Charitable Foundation. Funding for related programming has been provided by the Collectors of Wood Art.
November 12, 2011 – May 13, 2012 |
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Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, 413-298-4100
9 Route 183, Stockbridge, MA 01262
Norman Rockwell Museum is dedicated to education and art appreciation inspired by the legacy of Norman Rockwell. The museum preserves, studies and communicates with a worldwide audience the life, art and spirit of Norman Rockwell in the field of illustration.
Open Daily
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Decordova Sculpture Park and Museum
35 acres of beautiful rolling woodlands and lawns, and is the largest park of its kind in New England. The Sculpture Park provides a constantly changing exhibition of large-scale, outdoor, Modern and contemporary American sculpture and site-specific installations.
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2 December 1872
Boston’s Board of Health re-established after absence of fifty years
3 December 1860
Wendell Philips mobbed at a memorial meeting for John Brown in Boston
4 December 1806
African Meeting House opens on Belknap Street in Boston
5 December 1784
Phillis Wheatley, African-American poet and the first black woman poet recognized in the United States, dies in Boston.
6 December 1806
Dedication of African Meeting House on Belknap Street in Boston
6 December 1879
Emancipation Statue placed in Park Square in Boston
10 December 1805
William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist and writer, born in Newburyport
15 December 1995
Ted Williams Tunnel opens to traffic in Boston
16 December 1773
The Boston Tea Party
17 December 1719
Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) visible in Boston
17 December 1807
Poet John Greenleaf Whittier born in Haverhill
21 December 1767
Phillis Wheatley publishes first poem.
23 December 1954
First successful human organ transplant operation at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
24 December 1906
First radio program broadcast (from Brant Rock, Marshfield)
25 December 1815
Handel & Haydn Society presents its first concert (in Boston)
26 December 1849
Abolitionist David Ruggles dies in Florence, MA
28 December 1874
Post Office Square named in Boston
29 December 1723
Old North Church opens for worship in Boston
30 December 1809
Wearing masks at balls was forbidden in Boston.
31 December 1803
Construction completed on the Middlesex Canal connecting the Charles and Merrimack Rivers
31 December 1839
First Lowell Lecture presented.
31 December 1862
Abolitionists in Boston gather to celebrate Emancipation Proclamation.
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Our Survey Question of the Month |
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Survey of the Month
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What is your favorite uniquely-Boston food?
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This famous Patriot was born 300 years ago in
Boston. At age 16, he secretly wrote a series
of witty, satirical letters signed, “Mrs. Silence
Dogood” and published in his brother’s newspaper,
where he worked as an apprentice. The letters
charmed Boston, but when his brother learned
the true identity of the author, the ill will
caused him to permanently leave Boston for Philadelphia.
Who was this famous American?
A. Thomas Jefferson
B. William Pitt
C. Benjamin Franklin
D. William Penn
In
Massachusetts-speak what can be described as
a sandwich or a sub baked in a pizza oven?
What
book written by Robert McCloskey is honored
by a series of bronze sculptures by Nancy Schoen
in Boston’s Public Garden?
Test
your Massachusetts wisdom with our Massachusetts
Knowledge Quizzes. Score high on
our latest quiz and win a discount on your next
purchase. (Answers to above questions: C-Benjamin
Franklin, A-grinder,
and Make Way for Ducklings)
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Massachusetts
Language
The
unusual accent of Bostonians may
have originated in East Umbria,
England. Here are some translations
of common Massachusetts terms.
For more, visit the Wicked
Good Guide to Boston English.
Frappe A
milkshake or malted elsewhere, here it's ice cream,
milk and chocolate syrup blended together. The 'e'
is silent. Despite the chocolate syrup, it actually
comes in many flavors.
Badadoes-
Come baked or French fried
Wicket
– Means “very”,
as in “wicked” good
Smoot
- Unit of measure across the Harvard
Bridge near MIT
Tonic
- A soda
Hamburg -
Goes with hot dog
Hermits -
Molasses cookies.
Milkshake - Milk with some flavored
syrup, but NO ice cream.
Examples
of Place Name Pronunciation
Worcester –
cross between wooster and wister
Gloucester- glosster
Leominster- lemunster
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| The Boston Citgo Sign |
| London has Big Ben, Paris has the Eiffel Tower. Boston has the CITGO sign. Ever since 1965, the CITGO sign has held a place deep in the hearts of Boston residents. Learn all about it and download a Citgo Sign screensaver. |
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