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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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Francis and the Pixies headlining at the Brixton Academy, October 2009

Black Francis (born Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV) is a Massachusetts-born singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as the frontman of the influential alternative rock band Pixies, with whom he performs under the stage name Black Francis. Following the band's breakup in 1993, he embarked on a solo career under the name Frank Black. After releasing two albums with 4AD, he left the label and formed a new band, Frank Black and the Catholics. He reformed the Pixies in 2004 and continues to release solo records and tour as a solo artist, having re-adopted his current stage name in 2007. (Full article...)

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Boston campaign

Credit: Sir Thomas Hyde Page (1777)

British map of intrenchments during the Boston campaign of the American Revolutionary War

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Image 13. Providence, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 2Classic New England Congregationalist church in Peacham, Vermont (from Culture of New England)
Image 3Phillips Exeter Academy and Phillips Academy are two prestigious New England secondary schools founded in the late 18th century (from New England)
Image 4The 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 5Montpelier, Vermont, is the smallest state capital in the United States. (from New England)
Image 68. Hartford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 7New England regionalist poet Robert Frost (from New England)
Image 8First Boston Latin School house (from History of New England)
Image 9Boston'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 10A 1779 five-shilling note issued by Massachusetts (from History of New England)
Image 11Southeastern New England is home to a number of Lusophone ethnic enclaves. (from New England)
Image 1210. Manchester, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 13The Port of Portland in Portland, Maine, is the largest tonnage seaport in New England. (from New England)
Image 14An illustration from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (from Culture of New England)
Image 15Köppen climate types in New England (from New England)
Image 16The White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of the Appalachian Mountains. (from New England)
Image 175. Bridgeport, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 18Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a high concentration of startups and technology companies. (from New England)
Image 19Alumni Hall at Saint Anselm College has served as a backdrop for media reports during the New Hampshire primary. (from New England)
Image 20Map of the British and French dominions in America in 1755, showing what the English considered New England (from History of New England)
Image 212. Worcester, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 22A plowed field in Bethel, Vermont (from New England)
Image 23Flag of the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC) (from New England)
Image 24A portion of the north-central Pioneer Valley in Sunderland, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 25Largest 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 26Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (from New England)
Image 27Bread and Roses Strike. Massachusetts National Guard troops surround unarmed strikers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912. (from New England)
Image 28The Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 296. Stamford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 30New England's Siege of Louisbourg (1745) by Peter Monamy (from New England)
Image 31A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre (from New England)
Image 32The Hartford headquarters of Aetna is housed in a 1931 Colonial Revival building. (from New England)
Image 33The New Haven system (from History of New England)
Image 34A Hartford Line train at Hartford Union Station (from New England)
Image 35A New England town meeting in Huntington, Vermont (from New England)
Image 361. Boston, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 377. New Haven, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 38Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston and spent most of his literary career in Concord, Massachusetts. (from Culture of New England)
Image 39Ethnic origins in New England (from New England)
Image 40Opera houses and theaters, like the Vergennes Opera House in Vergennes, Vermont, are popular in New England towns. (from Culture of New England)
Image 41New England is home to four of the eight Ivy League universities. Pictured here is Harvard Yard of Harvard University. (from New England)
Image 42Autumn in New England, watercolor, Maurice Prendergast, c. 1910–1913 (from New England)
Image 43An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (from New England)
Image 44Soldier and explorer John Smith coined the name "New England" in 1616. (from New England)
Image 45Indigenous territories, circa 1600 in present-day southern New England (from New England)
Image 46A classic New England Congregational church in Peacham, Vermont (from New England)
Image 47Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 48World's largest Irish flag in Boston. People who claim Irish descent constitute the largest ethnic ancestry in New England. (from New England)
Image 49Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom is set on a fictional New England island and was largely filmed in Rhode Island (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 519. Cambridge, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 52A 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 534. Springfield, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 54Flag of New England flying in Massachusetts. New Englanders maintain a strong sense of regional and cultural identity. (from New England)
Image 55Certificate of the government of Massachusetts Bay acknowledging loan of £20 to state treasury 1777 (from History of 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?
... 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 railroad in New England was powered by horses?
... 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"?
... 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 among Connecticut's contributions to the American Civil War are the Henry rifle and the song "Marching Through Georgia"?
... that The Cyclone at Revere Beach was the world's first roller coaster to reach 100 feet (30 m) in height?
... that American football star Albie Booth became famous after he scored all of Yale’s points in a 1929 upset win over Army?
... that Frye's Measure Mill is the only remaining water-powered measure mill in the United States after some 150 years of operations?
... that, in 2009, Anne Donahue was one of only five Republicans in the Vermont House of Representatives to vote in favor of a bill legalizing same-sex marriage in the state?

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Vermont
Incorporated 1791
Co-ordinates 44°N 72.7°W

Vermont is the 6th least extensive and the 2nd least populous of the 50 United States. It is the only New England state not bordering the Atlantic Ocean. Lake Champlain forms half of Vermont's western border, which it shares with the state of New York.

Originally inhabited by two major Native American tribes, much of the territory that is now Vermont was claimed by France during its early colonial period. France ceded the territory to the Kingdom of Great Britain after being defeated in 1763 in the French and Indian War. For many years, the nearby colonies, especially New Hampshire and New York, disputed control of the area. Settlers who held land titles granted by these colonies were opposed by the Green Mountain Boys militia, which eventually prevailed in creating an independent state, the Vermont Republic. Founded in 1777 during the Revolutionary War, the republic lasted for fourteen years. Vermont is one of seventeen U.S. states (along with Texas, Hawaii, the brief Republic of West Florida, and each of the original Thirteen Colonies) to have had a sovereign government in the past. In 1791, Vermont joined the United States as the 14th state, the first outside the original 13 Colonies. It abolished slavery while still independent, and upon joining the Union became the first state to have done so. (Full article...)