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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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Red Sox "Rolling Rally" through the streets of Boston

The 2004 World Series was the Major League Baseball (MLB) championship series for the 2004 season. It was the 100th World Series and featured the American League (AL) champions, the Boston Red Sox, against the National League (NL) champions, the St. Louis Cardinals. The Red Sox defeated the Cardinals four games to none in the best-of-seven series, played at Fenway Park and Busch Memorial Stadium. The series was played between October 23 and October 27, 2004, broadcast on Fox, and watched by an average of just under 25 and a half million viewers.

The Red Sox defeated the Anaheim Angels in the American League Division Series and the New York Yankees in the Championship Series (ALCS), to advance to their first World Series since 1986. The Red Sox won the World Series for the first time since 1918, which ended the "Curse of the Bambino," a curse that was supposed to have been inflicted on the team when Babe Ruth was sold to the Yankees in 1919. With the New England Patriots winning Super Bowl XXXVIII, the event made Boston the first city to have Super Bowl and MLB World Championships in the same year since Pittsburgh in 1979. (Full article...)

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Art Ross (c. 1910)

Art Ross was a Canadian ice hockey defenceman and executive from 1905 until 1954. Regarded as one of the best defenders of his era by his peers, he was one of the first to skate with the puck up the ice rather than pass it to a forward. He was on Stanley Cup championship teams twice in a playing career that lasted thirteen seasons. Like other players of the time, Ross played for several different teams and leagues. He retired as a player in 1918 when the home stadium of his team, the Montreal Wanderers, burned down

When the Boston Bruins were formed in 1924, Ross was hired as the first coach and general manager of the team. He would go on to coach the team on four separate occasions until 1945 and stayed as general manager until his retirement in 1954. Ross helped the Bruins finish first place in the league ten times and to win the Stanley Cup three times; Ross personally coached the team to one of those victories. After being hired by the Bruins, Ross, along with his wife and two sons, moved to a suburb of Boston, and became an American citizen in 1938. He died near Boston in 1964. (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 1A classic New England Congregational church in Peacham, Vermont (from New England)
Image 2A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre (from New England)
Image 3Certificate of the government of Massachusetts Bay acknowledging loan of £20 to state treasury 1777 (from History of New England)
Image 4Montpelier, Vermont, is the smallest state capital in the United States. (from New England)
Image 51. Boston, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 6Opera houses and theaters, like the Vergennes Opera House in Vergennes, Vermont, are popular in New England towns. (from Culture of New England)
Image 7Flag of New England flying in Massachusetts. New Englanders maintain a strong sense of regional and cultural identity. (from New England)
Image 8A New England town meeting in Huntington, Vermont (from New England)
Image 9A portion of the north-central Pioneer Valley in Sunderland, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 10Southeastern New England is home to a number of Lusophone ethnic enclaves. (from New England)
Image 114. Springfield, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 12Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston and spent most of his literary career in Concord, Massachusetts. (from Culture of New England)
Image 13The 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 14Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom is set on a fictional New England island and was largely filmed in Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 15New England is home to four of the eight Ivy League universities. Pictured here is Harvard Yard of Harvard University. (from New England)
Image 16Ethnic origins in New England (from New England)
Image 17Soldier and explorer John Smith coined the name "New England" in 1616. (from New England)
Image 18Boston'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 198. Hartford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 20World's largest Irish flag in Boston. People who claim Irish descent constitute the largest ethnic ancestry in New England. (from New England)
Image 21Alumni Hall at Saint Anselm College has served as a backdrop for media reports during the New Hampshire primary. (from New England)
Image 22Classic New England Congregationalist church in Peacham, Vermont (from Culture of New England)
Image 23The Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 24New England's Siege of Louisbourg (1745) by Peter Monamy (from New England)
Image 25Köppen climate types in New England (from New England)
Image 26Phillips Exeter Academy and Phillips Academy are two prestigious New England secondary schools founded in the late 18th century (from New England)
Image 27First Boston Latin School house (from History of New England)
Image 28A plowed field in Bethel, Vermont (from New England)
Image 295. Bridgeport, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 30Map of the British and French dominions in America in 1755, showing what the English considered New England (from History of New England)
Image 31Flag of the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC) (from New England)
Image 32The White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of the Appalachian Mountains. (from New England)
Image 3310. Manchester, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 34The Hartford headquarters of Aetna is housed in a 1931 Colonial Revival building. (from New England)
Image 35Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 36A Hartford Line train at Hartford Union Station (from New England)
Image 37The 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 38Bread and Roses Strike. Massachusetts National Guard troops surround unarmed strikers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912. (from New England)
Image 399. Cambridge, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 402. Worcester, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 41The Port of Portland in Portland, Maine, is the largest tonnage seaport in New England. (from New England)
Image 42The New Haven system (from History of New England)
Image 43An illustration from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (from Culture of New England)
Image 44Largest 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 45A 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 46New England regionalist poet Robert Frost (from New England)
Image 476. Stamford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 48Indigenous territories, circa 1600 in present-day southern New England (from New England)
Image 49Autumn in New England, watercolor, Maurice Prendergast, c. 1910–1913 (from New England)
Image 503. Providence, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 51Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (from New England)
Image 527. New Haven, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 53Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a high concentration of startups and technology companies. (from New England)
Image 54A 1779 five-shilling note issued by Massachusetts (from History of New England)
Image 55An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (from New England)

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... 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 time the New England Revolution competed in an international competition, they played their "home" match at their opponent's stadium?
... 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 Rockstar New England is based in Andover, Massachusetts, because it is the founder's "favorite place"?
... that the first railroad in New England was powered by horses?

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... 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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