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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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Gloria near peak intensity on September 24 1985

Hurricane Gloria was a powerful Cape Verde-type hurricane that formed during the 1985 Atlantic hurricane season and prowled the Atlantic Ocean from September 16 to September 28. Gloria reached Category 4 status on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale near the Bahamas, but weakened significantly by the time it made landfall on North Carolina's Outer Banks. Gloria closely followed the Mid-Atlantic coastline and made a second landfall on Long Island, and, after crossing the Long Island Sound, it made a third landfall in Connecticut.

Overall, the storm caused extensive damage along the East Coast of the United States, amounting to $900 million ($2.55 billion in today's terms^[1]), and was responsible for eight fatalities. The storm was the first significant system to strike the northeastern United States since Hurricane Agnes in 1972 and the first major storm to affect New York and Long Island directly since Hurricane Donna in 1960. (Full article...)

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Smith (center) visiting the USSR upon invitation from General Secretary Yuri Andropov

Samantha Reed Smith was an American schoolgirl, peace activist and child actress from Manchester, Maine, who became famous in the Cold War-era United States and Soviet Union. In 1982, Smith wrote a letter to the newly appointed CPSU General Secretary Yuri Andropov, and received a personal reply which included a personal invitation to visit the Soviet Union, which she accepted.

Smith attracted extensive media attention in both countries as a "Goodwill Ambassador", and became known as "America's Youngest Ambassador" participating in peacemaking activities in Japan. She wrote a book about her visit to the Soviet Union and co-starred in the television series Lime Street, before her death at the age of 13 in the Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 plane crash. (Full article...)

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Charles Pomeroy Stone

Credit: Unknown Photographer (1863)

Massachusetts native and Civil War General Charles Pomeroy Stone

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Image 1Flag of the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC) (from New England)
Image 28. Hartford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 3A classic New England Congregational church in Peacham, Vermont (from New England)
Image 41. Boston, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 5Boston'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 6World's largest Irish flag in Boston. People who claim Irish descent constitute the largest ethnic ancestry in New England. (from New England)
Image 7The 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 8Certificate of the government of Massachusetts Bay acknowledging loan of £20 to state treasury 1777 (from History of New England)
Image 9A 1779 five-shilling note issued by Massachusetts (from History of New England)
Image 10The 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 119. Cambridge, Massachusetts (from 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 136. Stamford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 14The Hartford headquarters of Aetna is housed in a 1931 Colonial Revival building. (from New England)
Image 15Southeastern New England is home to a number of Lusophone ethnic enclaves. (from New England)
Image 16Flag of New England flying in Massachusetts. New Englanders maintain a strong sense of regional and cultural identity. (from New England)
Image 17A Hartford Line train at Hartford Union Station (from New England)
Image 18A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre (from New England)
Image 19New England regionalist poet Robert Frost (from New England)
Image 205. Bridgeport, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 21Phillips Exeter Academy and Phillips Academy are two prestigious New England secondary schools founded in the late 18th century (from New England)
Image 22Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston and spent most of his literary career in Concord, Massachusetts. (from Culture of New England)
Image 233. Providence, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 24Autumn in New England, watercolor, Maurice Prendergast, c. 1910–1913 (from New England)
Image 25Map of the British and French dominions in America in 1755, showing what the English considered New England (from History of New England)
Image 26Bread and Roses Strike. Massachusetts National Guard troops surround unarmed strikers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912. (from New England)
Image 27A portion of the north-central Pioneer Valley in Sunderland, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 28Soldier and explorer John Smith coined the name "New England" in 1616. (from New England)
Image 29Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (from New England)
Image 3010. Manchester, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 31Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 32Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a high concentration of startups and technology companies. (from New England)
Image 33Classic New England Congregationalist church in Peacham, Vermont (from Culture of New England)
Image 34Alumni Hall at Saint Anselm College has served as a backdrop for media reports during the New Hampshire primary. (from New England)
Image 35Indigenous territories, circa 1600 in present-day southern New England (from New England)
Image 36First Boston Latin School house (from History of New England)
Image 372. Worcester, Massachusetts (from 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 39New England's Siege of Louisbourg (1745) by Peter Monamy (from New England)
Image 40Köppen climate types in New England (from New England)
Image 41The Port of Portland in Portland, Maine, is the largest tonnage seaport in New England. (from New England)
Image 42New England is home to four of the eight Ivy League universities. Pictured here is Harvard Yard of Harvard University. (from New England)
Image 43Opera houses and theaters, like the Vergennes Opera House in Vergennes, Vermont, are popular in New England towns. (from Culture of New England)
Image 44A New England town meeting in Huntington, Vermont (from New England)
Image 45Ethnic origins in New England (from New England)
Image 46A plowed field in Bethel, Vermont (from New England)
Image 47A 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 48The Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 49The New Haven system (from History of New England)
Image 504. Springfield, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 51The White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of the Appalachian Mountains. (from New England)
Image 52An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (from New England)
Image 53An illustration from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (from Culture of New England)
Image 54Montpelier, Vermont, is the smallest state capital in the United States. (from New England)
Image 557. New Haven, Connecticut (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 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 the tugboat R. B. Forbes was the first iron mercantile vessel built in New England?
... that the Chippewa have smoked the root of the New England aster in pipes to attract game?
... that the first railroad in New England was powered by horses?
... 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"?

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... that Uncle Tom once led a professional baseball league in stolen bases?
... 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 New Hampshire

New Hampshire
Incorporated 1776
Co-ordinates 44°N 71.5°W

New Hampshire, named after the southern English county of Hampshire, is the 5th least extensive and the 9th least populous of the 50 U.S. states.

It became the first post-colonial sovereign nation in the Americas when it broke off from Great Britain in January 1776, and six months later was one of the original thirteen states that founded the United States of America. In June 1788, it became the ninth state to ratify the United States Constitution, bringing that document into effect. New Hampshire was the first U.S. state to have its own state constitution.

It is known internationally for the New Hampshire primary, the first primary in the U.S. presidential election cycle. Concord is the state capital, while Manchester is the largest city in the state. It has no general sales tax, nor is personal income (other than interest and dividends) taxed at either the state or local level. (Full article...)

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