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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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Satellite image of Carrie near Massachusetts

Tropical Storm Carrie was a strong tropical storm that affected the East Coast of the United States in early September 1972. The third tropical cyclone of the 1972 Atlantic hurricane season, Carrie formed on August 29 from a complex sequence of meteorological events starting with the emergence of a tropical wave into the Atlantic in the middle of August. Tracking nominally northward throughout its life, Carrie reached an initial peak intensity as a moderate tropical storm before nearly weakening back into tropical depression status. The storm began to reintensify owing to baroclinic processes after turning toward the northwest; its winds of 70 miles per hour (110 km/h) eclipsed the cyclone's previous maximum strength as it was transitioning into an extratropical system. The extratropical remnants of Carrie skirted eastern New England before making landfall in Maine on September 4 and dissipating over the Gulf of Saint Lawrence over the next two days. (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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Purple Finch

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Purple Finch, the official bird of the State of New Hampshire

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Image 1Largest 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 2A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre (from New England)
Image 3First Boston Latin School house (from History of New England)
Image 4Phillips Exeter Academy and Phillips Academy are two prestigious New England secondary schools founded in the late 18th century (from New England)
Image 5Opera houses and theaters, like the Vergennes Opera House in Vergennes, Vermont, are popular in New England towns. (from Culture of New England)
Image 6A plowed field in Bethel, Vermont (from New England)
Image 7The Port of Portland in Portland, Maine, is the largest tonnage seaport in New England. (from New England)
Image 88. Hartford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 9A 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 101. Boston, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 11The New Haven system (from History of New England)
Image 12The 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 13Southeastern New England is home to a number of Lusophone ethnic enclaves. (from New England)
Image 14A Hartford Line train at Hartford Union Station (from New England)
Image 157. New Haven, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 166. Stamford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 17Classic New England Congregationalist church in Peacham, Vermont (from Culture of New England)
Image 18Soldier and explorer John Smith coined the name "New England" in 1616. (from New England)
Image 19Bread and Roses Strike. Massachusetts National Guard troops surround unarmed strikers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912. (from New England)
Image 20The Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 21Flag of New England flying in Massachusetts. New Englanders maintain a strong sense of regional and cultural identity. (from New England)
Image 22An illustration from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (from Culture of New England)
Image 23A classic New England Congregational church in Peacham, Vermont (from New England)
Image 249. Cambridge, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 25Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 26Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a high concentration of startups and technology companies. (from New England)
Image 2710. Manchester, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 28World's largest Irish flag in Boston. People who claim Irish descent constitute the largest ethnic ancestry in New England. (from New England)
Image 29A 1779 five-shilling note issued by Massachusetts (from History of New England)
Image 30Flag of the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC) (from New England)
Image 31Boston'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 32New England's Siege of Louisbourg (1745) by Peter Monamy (from New England)
Image 33A New England town meeting in Huntington, Vermont (from New England)
Image 343. Providence, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 35The White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of the Appalachian Mountains. (from New England)
Image 36The Hartford headquarters of Aetna is housed in a 1931 Colonial Revival building. (from New England)
Image 374. Springfield, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 38Autumn in New England, watercolor, Maurice Prendergast, c. 1910–1913 (from New England)
Image 39Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston and spent most of his literary career in Concord, Massachusetts. (from Culture of New England)
Image 40Montpelier, Vermont, is the smallest state capital in the United States. (from New England)
Image 41Alumni Hall at Saint Anselm College has served as a backdrop for media reports during the New Hampshire primary. (from New England)
Image 42A portion of the north-central Pioneer Valley in Sunderland, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 43New England is home to four of the eight Ivy League universities. Pictured here is Harvard Yard of Harvard University. (from New England)
Image 44Köppen climate types in New England (from New England)
Image 455. Bridgeport, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 46Ethnic origins 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 48Map of the British and French dominions in America in 1755, showing what the English considered New England (from History of 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 50Certificate of the government of Massachusetts Bay acknowledging loan of £20 to state treasury 1777 (from History of New England)
Image 51New England regionalist poet Robert Frost (from New England)
Image 52An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (from New England)
Image 53Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (from New England)
Image 54Indigenous territories, circa 1600 in present-day southern New England (from New England)
Image 552. Worcester, Massachusetts (from New England)

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... that the Chippewa have smoked the root of the New England aster in pipes to attract game?
... that the tugboat R. B. Forbes was the first iron mercantile vessel built in New England?
... 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 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 the first railroad in New England was powered by horses?

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... that the Connecticut Supreme Court found that giving the finger was offensive, but not obscene?
... that Puritan Reverend John Wilson implored Mary Dyer to repent and not be "carried away by deceit of the devil" before her execution in Boston as a Quaker martyr?
... that pioneering immunologist Bunny Koshland helped develop an oral cholera vaccine before she worked on the Manhattan Project?

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Flag of Rhode Island

Rhode Island
Incorporated 1776
Co-ordinates 41.7°N 71.5°W

Rhode Island, officially the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is the smallest in area, the 8th least populous, but the 2nd most densely populated of the 50 U.S. states.

Rhode Island was the first of the original Thirteen Colonies to declare independence from British rule, declaring itself independent on May 4, 1776, two months before any other colony. The State was also the last of the thirteen original colonies to ratify the United States Constitution.

Rhode Island's official nickname is "The Ocean State," a reference to the State's geography, since Rhode Island has several large bays and inlets that amount to about fourteen (14) percent of its total area. Its land area is 1,045 square miles (2706 km²), but its total area is significantly larger. (Full article...)

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