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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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Godsmack in 2007

Godsmack is an American heavy metal band from Lawrence, Massachusetts, formed in 1995. The band is composed of founder, frontman and songwriter Sully Erna, guitarist Tony Rombola, bassist Robbie Merrill, and drummer Shannon Larkin. Since its formation, Godsmack has released five studio albums, one EP, four DVDs, one compilation album collection and one live album.

The band has had three consecutive number one albums (Faceless, IV, and The Oracle) on the Billboard 200. The band also has parked a ratified 20 top ten rock radio hits, including 15 songs in the Top Five, a record number of top ten singles by a rock artist. (Full article...)

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Captain Hudner addresses a crowd wearing his Medal of Honor

Thomas Jerome Hudner, Jr. is a retired officer of the United States Navy and a former naval aviator. He rose to the rank of captain, and received the Medal of Honor for his actions in trying to save the life of his wingman, Ensign Jesse L. Brown, during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir in the Korean War.

Born in Fall River, Massachusetts, Hudner attended Phillips Academy and the United States Naval Academy. Initially uninterested in aviation, he eventually took up flying and joined Fighter Squadron 32, flying the F4U Corsair at the outbreak of the Korean War. Arriving near Korea in October 1950, he flew support missions from the USS Leyte.

On 4 December 1950, Hudner and Brown were among a group of pilots on patrol near the Chosin Reservoir when Brown's Corsair was struck by ground fire from Chinese troops and crashed. In an attempt to save Brown from his burning aircraft, Hudner intentionally crash-landed his own aircraft on a snowy mountain in freezing temperatures to help Brown. In spite of these efforts, Brown died of his injuries and Hudner was forced to evacuate, having also been injured in the landing. (Full article...)

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John Quincy Adams

Credit: Arthur J. Stansbury (1848)

Sketch of Massachusetts native and former President John Quincy Adams after the stroke that would claim his life

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Image 1Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a high concentration of startups and technology companies. (from New England)
Image 23. Providence, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 3Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (from New England)
Image 46. Stamford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 5Classic New England Congregationalist church in Peacham, Vermont (from Culture of New England)
Image 6A 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 7New England's Siege of Louisbourg (1745) by Peter Monamy (from New England)
Image 8Köppen climate types in New England (from New England)
Image 9New England is home to four of the eight Ivy League universities. Pictured here is Harvard Yard of Harvard University. (from New England)
Image 108. Hartford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 11The New Haven system (from History of New England)
Image 12Largest 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 13Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom is set on a fictional New England island and was largely filmed in Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 14A plowed field in Bethel, Vermont (from New England)
Image 15The Port of Portland in Portland, Maine, is the largest tonnage seaport in New England. (from New England)
Image 16Southeastern New England is home to a number of Lusophone ethnic enclaves. (from New England)
Image 17The Hartford headquarters of Aetna is housed in a 1931 Colonial Revival building. (from New England)
Image 18Indigenous territories, circa 1600 in present-day southern New England (from New England)
Image 1910. Manchester, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 20Opera houses and theaters, like the Vergennes Opera House in Vergennes, Vermont, are popular in New England towns. (from Culture of New England)
Image 21A 1779 five-shilling note issued by Massachusetts (from History of New England)
Image 22Certificate of the government of Massachusetts Bay acknowledging loan of £20 to state treasury 1777 (from History of New England)
Image 23A New England town meeting in Huntington, Vermont (from New England)
Image 24An illustration from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (from Culture of New England)
Image 25New England regionalist poet Robert Frost (from New England)
Image 26World's largest Irish flag in Boston. People who claim Irish descent constitute the largest ethnic ancestry in New England. (from New England)
Image 27Flag of New England flying in Massachusetts. New Englanders maintain a strong sense of regional and cultural identity. (from New England)
Image 28An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (from New England)
Image 29The 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 30A portion of the north-central Pioneer Valley in Sunderland, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 31The 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 32The Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 33Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston and spent most of his literary career in Concord, Massachusetts. (from Culture of New England)
Image 34A Hartford Line train at Hartford Union Station (from New England)
Image 35Ethnic origins in New England (from New England)
Image 36Bread and Roses Strike. Massachusetts National Guard troops surround unarmed strikers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912. (from New England)
Image 37Soldier and explorer John Smith coined the name "New England" in 1616. (from New England)
Image 38Alumni Hall at Saint Anselm College has served as a backdrop for media reports during the New Hampshire primary. (from New England)
Image 39Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 407. New Haven, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 414. Springfield, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 421. Boston, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 439. Cambridge, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 44Map of the British and French dominions in America in 1755, showing what the English considered New England (from History of New England)
Image 45Phillips Exeter Academy and Phillips Academy are two prestigious New England secondary schools founded in the late 18th century (from New England)
Image 46Autumn in New England, watercolor, Maurice Prendergast, c. 1910–1913 (from New England)
Image 472. Worcester, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 48Boston'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 49A classic New England Congregational church in Peacham, Vermont (from New England)
Image 505. Bridgeport, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 51First Boston Latin School house (from History of New England)
Image 52Flag of the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC) (from New England)
Image 53Montpelier, Vermont, is the smallest state capital in the United States. (from New England)
Image 54The White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of the Appalachian Mountains. (from New England)
Image 55A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre (from New England)

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... 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 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?
... 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 Rockstar New England is based in Andover, Massachusetts, because it is the founder's "favorite place"?
... that the Chippewa have smoked the root of the New England aster in pipes to attract game?

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... that although he was expelled by the Jesuit order for supporting the ordination of women, William R. Callahan insisted he was just "following the example of Jesus, who was never willing to shut up"?
... that because a car crashed through his store's window, Steve Bernard's Cape Cod Potato Chips company survived a difficult winter, after which business boomed?
... that Boston mayor Thomas Menino called Clover Food Lab's soy bacon sandwich the "best BLT in Boston"?

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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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