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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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Tuck Hall, the School's main administrative building

The Amos Tuck School of Business Administration (or the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, as it is now called) is the graduate business school of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. Founded in 1900, Tuck is the oldest graduate school of business in the world, and was the first institution to offer master's degrees in the field of business administration. Tuck is one of six Ivy League business schools and it consistently ranks in the top five in many business school rankings.

Tuck grants only one degree, the Master of Business Administration (MBA), alongside shorter programs for executives and recent college graduates, although there are opportunities for dual degrees with other institutions. The school places a heavy emphasis on its tight-knit and residential character, and has a student population that hovers near 500 students and a full-time faculty of 46. Tuck claims over 8,400 living alumni in a variety of fields, with the highest rate of alumni donation of any business school. (Full article...)

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Portrait of Chester A. Arthur, 1882

Chester Alan Arthur was the 21st President of the United States. Becoming President after the assassination of President James A. Garfield, Arthur struggled to overcome suspicions of his beginnings as a politician from the New York City Republican machine, succeeding at that task by embracing the cause of civil service reform. His advocacy for, and enforcement of, the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act was the centerpiece of his administration.

Born in Fairfield, Vermont, Arthur grew up in upstate New York and practiced law in New York City. He devoted much of his time to Republican politics and quickly rose in the political machine run by New York Senator Roscoe Conkling. Appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant to the lucrative and politically powerful post of Collector of the Port of New York in 1871, Arthur was an important supporter of Conkling and the Stalwart faction of the Republican Party. In 1878 he was replaced by the new president, Rutherford B. Hayes, who was trying to reform the federal patronage system in New York. When James Garfield won the Republican nomination for President in 1880, Arthur was nominated for Vice President to balance the ticket by adding an eastern Stalwart to it. (Full article...)

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Battle of Ticonderoga (1759)

Credit: William Brasier (1759)

British Army plans for the attack on Fort Ticonderoga during the French and Indian War

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Image 1A classic New England Congregational church in Peacham, Vermont (from New England)
Image 2Largest 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 3A New England town meeting in Huntington, Vermont (from New England)
Image 4A Hartford Line train at Hartford Union Station (from New England)
Image 5Flag of the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC) (from New England)
Image 6Alumni Hall at Saint Anselm College has served as a backdrop for media reports during the New Hampshire primary. (from New England)
Image 7The Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 8Boston'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 99. Cambridge, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 103. Providence, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 11The New Haven system (from History of New England)
Image 12A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre (from New England)
Image 13A 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 14Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a high concentration of startups and technology companies. (from New England)
Image 15First Boston Latin School house (from History of New England)
Image 16Bread and Roses Strike. Massachusetts National Guard troops surround unarmed strikers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912. (from New England)
Image 17Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 18Soldier and explorer John Smith coined the name "New England" in 1616. (from New England)
Image 19An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (from New England)
Image 20Indigenous territories, circa 1600 in present-day southern New England (from New England)
Image 21The White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of the Appalachian Mountains. (from New England)
Image 22Montpelier, Vermont, is the smallest state capital in the United States. (from New England)
Image 23A 1779 five-shilling note issued by Massachusetts (from History of New England)
Image 24The Hartford headquarters of Aetna is housed in a 1931 Colonial Revival building. (from New England)
Image 258. Hartford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 26New England regionalist poet Robert Frost (from New England)
Image 275. Bridgeport, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 281. Boston, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 29An illustration from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (from Culture of New England)
Image 30Ethnic origins in New England (from New England)
Image 31Opera houses and theaters, like the Vergennes Opera House in Vergennes, Vermont, are popular in New England towns. (from Culture of New England)
Image 32World's largest Irish flag in Boston. People who claim Irish descent constitute the largest ethnic ancestry in New England. (from New England)
Image 332. Worcester, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 346. Stamford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 35Köppen climate types in New England (from New England)
Image 36New England is home to four of the eight Ivy League universities. Pictured here is Harvard Yard of Harvard University. (from New England)
Image 37Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (from New England)
Image 38A portion of the north-central Pioneer Valley in Sunderland, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 39New England's Siege of Louisbourg (1745) by Peter Monamy (from New England)
Image 40Certificate of the government of Massachusetts Bay acknowledging loan of £20 to state treasury 1777 (from History of New England)
Image 4110. Manchester, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 42Southeastern New England is home to a number of Lusophone ethnic enclaves. (from New England)
Image 43Phillips Exeter Academy and Phillips Academy are two prestigious New England secondary schools founded in the late 18th century (from New England)
Image 44A plowed field in Bethel, Vermont (from New England)
Image 45Flag of New England flying in Massachusetts. New Englanders maintain a strong sense of regional and cultural identity. (from New England)
Image 46The Port of Portland in Portland, Maine, is the largest tonnage seaport in New England. (from New England)
Image 47The 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 48Autumn in New England, watercolor, Maurice Prendergast, c. 1910–1913 (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 507. New Haven, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 51Map of the British and French dominions in America in 1755, showing what the English considered New England (from History of New England)
Image 52Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston and spent most of his literary career in Concord, Massachusetts. (from Culture of New England)
Image 53Classic New England Congregationalist church in Peacham, Vermont (from Culture of New England)
Image 544. Springfield, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 55The 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)

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... 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?
... 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 the tugboat R. B. Forbes was the first iron mercantile vessel built in New England?

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Massachusetts
Incorporated 1775
Co-ordinates 42.3°N 71.8°W

Massachusetts is the 7th least extensive, but the 14th most populous and the 3rd most densely populated of the 50 United States. The state features three separate metropolitan areas: Greater Boston in the east - which also includes all of Rhode Island - and the Springfield and Pittsfield metropolitan areas in the west.

Massachusetts has played a significant historical, cultural, and commercial role in American history. Plymouth was the site of the colony founded in 1620 by the Pilgrims, passengers of the Mayflower. Harvard University, founded in 1636, is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. In 1692, the towns surrounding Salem experienced one of America's most infamous cases of mass hysteria, the Salem Witch Trials. Originally dependent on fishing, agriculture, and trade, Massachusetts was transformed into a manufacturing center during the Industrial Revolution. In the 21st century, Massachusetts is a leader in higher education, health care technology, high technology, and financial services (Full article...)

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