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Boston Bicycle Club

Posted on February 11, 2025 by Caryn

While I’m not a bicycle fan, I know that a lot of people really love to go cycling. In the United States, the recreational bicycling fad began on February 11, 1878, when the Boston Bicycle Club became the first organization … Continue reading →

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The Perfect, But Not So Perfect Crime

Posted on January 17, 2025 by Caryn

On January 17, 1950, eleven men conspired to steal over $2 million, which is equivalent to 29 million today, from the Brink’s Armored Car depot in Boston, Massachusetts. It was nearly the perfect crime, because the culprits were not apprehended until January 1956, Continue reading →

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Charleston, South Carolina Quake

Posted on August 31, 2024 by Caryn

The shaking began at 9:51pm that August 31, 1886, and by the time it was over, more than 100 people in Charleston, South Carolina would be dead and hundreds of buildings were destroyed. It wasn’t that there were no warnings. Continue reading →

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1919 Anarchist Bombings

Posted on June 3, 2024 by Caryn

In late April 1919, anarchists, a group of people who believe that “society should have no government, laws, police, or any other authority. Most anarchists in the US advocate change through non-violent, non-criminal means. Continue reading →

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The Talk Of The Town

Posted on December 30, 2023 by Caryn

Out of the blue, in 1722, the readers of a paper published in Boston, called The Courant, were treated to and fascinated by letters that were sent in by a widow with an razor-sharp wit and a gift for sarcasm. Her name was Mrs Silence Dogood. Mrs Dogood had an unusual sense of humor. Continue reading →

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The Cocoanut Grove Fire

Posted on November 29, 2022 by Caryn

One of the saddest realities is that safety standards are often the result of a tragedy. That is exactly what happened during what is still the deadliest nightclub fire in the world, and the second-deadliest single-building fire…after the Iroquois Theatre fire. On November 28, 1942, Continue reading →

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Firefighter Benjamin Franklin

Posted on May 24, 2022 by Caryn

Firefighter and Benjamin Franklin…not usually thought of in the same sentence, but really, they should be. In 1736, Benjamin Franklin was already a young man of influence, but his ambitions didn’t stop at just a few. Continue reading →

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The Continental Army

Posted on June 10, 2021 by Caryn

No country can truly be secure without an army, and the Thirteen Colonies (now the United States) was no different. After the beginning of the Revolutionary War, John Adams began to see the value of an army, so on June 10, 1775, Continue reading →

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What You Didn’t Know

Posted on February 11, 2021 by Caryn

I have been to and inside the Statue of Liberty, and it is a place I’ll never forget. I was a teenager at the time, but I can still vividly picture the inside, as well as the outside. I think the thing that most stuck in my head is that to go Continue reading →

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Wired

Posted on July 25, 2018 by Caryn

Sometimes, a picture can instill such a strange awareness within us that it is hard to get the picture out of our heads. It doesn’t have to be something horrible, bloody, or shocking, but simply something unusual. The phone tower … Continue reading →

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