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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 north facade of the Rhode Island State House in Providence

Providence is the capital of, and the most populous city in, Rhode Island, and one of the first cities established in the United States. Located in Providence County, it is the estimated third-largest city in the New England region. Despite the city proper only having an estimated population of 178,042 as of 2010, it anchors the 37th largest metropolitan population in the country. With an estimated MSA population of 1,600,856, it exceeds that of Rhode Island itself by about 60% due to its reaching into southern Massachusetts. Situated at the mouth of the Providence River, at the head of Narragansett Bay, the city's small footprint is crisscrossed by seemingly erratic streets and contains a rapidly changing demographic. Providence was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He named the area in honor of "God's merciful Providence", which he believed was responsible for revealing such a haven for him and his followers to settle. One of the first American cities to industrialize, Providence became noted for its jewelry and silverware industry. Today, the city's economy has shifted into the service industries, though it still retains significant manufacturing activity. (Full article...)

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Publicity photograph of Hepburn, c. 1941

Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an American actress of film, stage, and television. Known for her headstrong independence and spirited personality, Hepburn's career as a Hollywood leading lady spanned more than 60 years. Her work came in a range of genres, from screwball comedy to literary drama, and she received four Academy Awards for Best Actress—a record for any performer. Hepburn's characters were often strong, sophisticated women with a hidden vulnerability.

Raised in Connecticut by wealthy, progressive parents, Hepburn began to act while studying at Bryn Mawr College. After four years in the theatre, favorable reviews of her work on Broadway brought her to the attention of Hollywood. Her early years in the film industry were marked with success, including an Academy Award for her third picture, Morning Glory (1933), but this was followed by a series of commercial failures. Hepburn masterminded her own comeback, buying out her contract with RKO Radio Pictures and acquiring the film rights to The Philadelphia Story, which she sold on the condition that she be the star. In the 1940s she was contracted to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where her career focused on an alliance with Spencer Tracy. The screen-partnership spanned 25 years, and produced nine movies. (Full article...)

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Tabby cat

Credit: Alvesgaspar (2010)

Tabby cat, the official cat of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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Image 1Alumni Hall at Saint Anselm College has served as a backdrop for media reports during the New Hampshire primary. (from New England)
Image 2The Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 3A 1779 five-shilling note issued by Massachusetts (from History of New England)
Image 4The New Haven system (from History of New England)
Image 5The 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 62. Worcester, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 74. Springfield, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 8Köppen climate types in New England (from New England)
Image 9Autumn in New England, watercolor, Maurice Prendergast, c. 1910–1913 (from New England)
Image 10A classic New England Congregational church in Peacham, Vermont (from New England)
Image 11Certificate of the government of Massachusetts Bay acknowledging loan of £20 to state treasury 1777 (from History of New England)
Image 12The Port of Portland in Portland, Maine, is the largest tonnage seaport in New England. (from New England)
Image 13Southeastern New England is home to a number of Lusophone ethnic enclaves. (from New England)
Image 14New England is home to four of the eight Ivy League universities. Pictured here is Harvard Yard of Harvard University. (from New England)
Image 15World's largest Irish flag in Boston. People who claim Irish descent constitute the largest ethnic ancestry in New England. (from New England)
Image 163. Providence, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 17Largest 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 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 195. Bridgeport, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 20Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a high concentration of startups and technology companies. (from New England)
Image 211. Boston, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 22Flag of New England flying in Massachusetts. New Englanders maintain a strong sense of regional and cultural identity. (from New England)
Image 23Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston and spent most of his literary career in Concord, Massachusetts. (from Culture of New England)
Image 24Montpelier, Vermont, is the smallest state capital in the United States. (from New England)
Image 257. New Haven, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 26New England's Siege of Louisbourg (1745) by Peter Monamy (from New England)
Image 27Indigenous territories, circa 1600 in present-day southern New England (from New England)
Image 28First Boston Latin School house (from History of New England)
Image 298. Hartford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 30Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (from New England)
Image 31A plowed field in Bethel, Vermont (from New England)
Image 32A portion of the north-central Pioneer Valley in Sunderland, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 3310. Manchester, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 34Phillips Exeter Academy and Phillips Academy are two prestigious New England secondary schools founded in the late 18th century (from New England)
Image 35Bread and Roses Strike. Massachusetts National Guard troops surround unarmed strikers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912. (from New England)
Image 369. Cambridge, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 37Map of the British and French dominions in America in 1755, showing what the English considered New England (from History of New England)
Image 38Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom is set on a fictional New England island and was largely filmed in Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 39Classic New England Congregationalist church in Peacham, Vermont (from Culture of New England)
Image 40Flag of the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC) (from New England)
Image 41New England regionalist poet Robert Frost (from New England)
Image 42A 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 43A Hartford Line train at Hartford Union Station (from New England)
Image 44An illustration from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (from Culture of New England)
Image 45An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (from New England)
Image 46The Hartford headquarters of Aetna is housed in a 1931 Colonial Revival building. (from New England)
Image 47A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre (from New England)
Image 48The White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of the Appalachian Mountains. (from New England)
Image 49Ethnic origins in New England (from New England)
Image 50The 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 516. Stamford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 52Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 53Soldier and explorer John Smith coined the name "New England" in 1616. (from New England)
Image 54A New England town meeting in Huntington, Vermont (from New England)
Image 55Opera houses and theaters, like the Vergennes Opera House in Vergennes, Vermont, are popular in New England towns. (from Culture of New England)

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... that the first railroad in New England was powered by horses?
... 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 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 Rockstar New England is based in Andover, Massachusetts, because it is the founder's "favorite place"?
... that the first time the New England Revolution competed in an international competition, they played their "home" match at their opponent's stadium?
... that New England Revolution manager Bruce Arena led the club to a record-breaking 73 points in the 2021 season?

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... that although Massachusetts is located at the 42nd parallel north, some of its rocks originated near the South Pole?
... that Nathaniel Ames, publisher of the first annual American almanac, avoided arrest by replacing his vituperative cartoon of local judges with a biblical quotation?

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Flag of Connecticut

Connecticut
Incorporated 1776
Co-ordinates 41.6°N 72.7°W

Connecticut is the 3rd least extensive, the 29th most populous, and 4th most densely populated of the 50 United States. Called the Constitution State, Nutmeg State, and "The Land of Steady Habits", Connecticut was influential in the development of the federal government of the United States.

The first major settlements were established in the 1630s by the English. Thomas Hooker led a band of followers overland from the Massachusetts Bay Colony and founded what would become the Connecticut Colony; other settlers from Massachusetts founded the Saybrook Colony and the New Haven Colony. In 1662, the three colonies were merged under a royal charter, making Connecticut a crown colony. This colony was one of the Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution. (Full article...)

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