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79 unusual facts about Boston


2008 Major League Lacrosse season

August 24: The Rochester Rattlers win their first MLL championship with a 16-6 win over the Denver Outlaws in Boston.

6th Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Infantry

The 6th Tennessee Infantry was organized at Williamsburg and Boston, Kentucky and mustered in for a three year enlistment on April 18, 1862.

American Opera Company

It also toured, playing in April, May and June 1886 in, among other cities, Boston, Indianapolis, Philadelphia and St. Louis.

Anglesola

In the fourteenth century a stone altar was added to the church dedicated to the Virgin which is kept in a museum in Boston.

Antonia Stone

Playing to Win Network went on to form alliances with six other technology access programs in Harlem, some parts of Boston, Washington, D.C., and Pittsburgh, by 1990.

Beaver Bank, Nova Scotia

The community of Beaver Bank dates back to 1776 when Loyalists from Boston John Henry Barnstead (1764–1861) and his mother, Mary Brown Parcel Barnstead, arrived there.

Bela Pratt

During this time, Pratt sculpted a series of busts of Boston's intellectual community, including Episcopal priest Phillips Brooks (1899, Brooks House, Harvard University), Colonel Henry Lee (1902, Memorial Hall, Harvard University), and Boston Symphony Orchestra founder Henry Lee Higginson (1909, Symphony Hall, Boston).

Black Sluice

The Black Sluice is the name given to the structure that controls the flow of the South Forty-Foot Drain into The Haven, at Boston, Lincolnshire, England.

Boston Friary

Boston Friary refers to any one of four friaries that existed in Boston, Lincolnshire, England.

Boston Priory

The origins of Saint Botolphs church in Boston have their roots in the former priory church of the Benedictine monastery.

Boston, New York

Boston – A hamlet in the south part of the town on Boston State Road, NY-391.

Boys' Brigade

:Boys' Brigade companies were established by the early 20th century in several major U.S. cities in the northeast such as Baltimore and Boston, the midwest, and California.

Carnival Air Lines

Operations were transferred to Boston-Maine Airways, which resumed 727 service under the "Pan Am Clipper Connection" brand from February 17, 2005.

Charles Adcock

Charles Norman Adcock (21 February 1923–9 December 1998) was an English association football striker born in Boston, Lincolnshire.

Charles Green Shaw

Shaw’s work is part of most major collections of American Art, including the Whitney Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Guggenheim, the Smithsonian Institution, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Corcoran Gallery.

Charles K. Tuckerman

A native of Boston, Massachusetts, Tuckerman was educated at that city's Latin School.

Charles Zeuner

His oratorio “The Feast of Tabernacles,” which was published in 1832, was premiered by the Boston Academy of Music in 1837 at the Odeon.

Christopher Bratton

Christopher Bratton is an American educator, administrator, and the president of School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and deputy director of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Chrysoclista linneella

In the United States there are reports and records from other parts of New York State, New Jersey, near Boston, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Vermont.

Compas music

In North America, compas festivals take place frequently in Montreal, New York, Miami, Boston and Orlando.

Constant Ferdinand Burille

Constant Ferdinand Burille (born 30 August 1866 – died October 1914, Boston) was an American chess master.

Corinne Dixon Taylor

They first moved to Boston, but returned to Washington, D.C. soon after and moved into Frederick Douglass' old house, where Corinne's father-in-law was the caretaker.

David F. D'Alessandro

D’Alessandro became a restaurateur in 2006 with the purchase of Ristorante Toscano in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston.

Duilio Spagnolo

The first indication that the latter was not going to come came on March 25, 1947, when he made his American debut, against a top ranked heavyweight, Lee Savold, who proceeded to give Spagnolo his first knockout loss, in round eight at Boston's famed Boston Garden.

Dwight L. Moody

One of his uncle's requirements was that Moody attend the Congregational Church of Mount Vernon where Dr. Edward Norris Kirk was pastor.

Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney

Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney (June 27, 1824 – November 19, 1904) was a writer, reformer, and philanthropist, born on Beacon Hill, Boston to Sargent Smith Littledale and Ednah Parker (Dow).

Ellio's Pizza

When McCain foods acquired Ellio's in 1988, the frozen pizza brand was outselling all competitors in the New York City, Boston, and Philadelphia markets.

Everybody Wants to Be Italian

Jake Bianski is the owner of a fish market in the North End of Boston, Massachusetts.

F. H. Gravely

Dr. Gravely also donated a variety of sculptures, carvings and bronzes to other institutions, including the Prince of Wales Museum, the Lucknow Museum and Dr. Ananda Coomaraswami's Museum in Boston.

Footlight Club

Based in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, the club currently owns and resides in historic Eliot Hall, which its members purchased in 1889 to provide a home for performances and save the building from demolition.

Forsyth Street

On the east side of the block from East Broadway to Canal Street, a number of so-called “Chinatown buses” (operated by different companies) start their routes to cities across the East Coast of the United States, including Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C..

Fred the Baker

So the company created an official "retirement" celebration for him, including a parade in the city of Boston and a "free donut" day that served over 6 million customers on September 22, 1997.

Gabrielle Wolohojian

A lesbian, Wolohojian lives in Charlestown with her partner Maura Healey, a career prosecutor who has announced her candidacy for Massachusetts Attorney General in the 2014 election.

Glendale Secondary School

The band has travelled to various locations to perform, including, but not limited to: Walt Disney World, Florida (8 times), Disneyland (4 times), New Orleans (3 times), New York City, Washington D.C., Boston, Atlanta, San Diego, Bermuda, Japan, Virginia Beach, and Williamsburg, VA Chicago/Cleveland .

Henrik Drescher

Drescher went to study at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston but quit after only one semester to become an illustrator.

Hogansville, Georgia

In 1905 the mill was bought by Consolidated Duck of Delaware, who sold it to Lockwood-Green of Boston in 1913.

Hotel Chocolat

The store in Boston in the United States, is the owner of Hotel Chocolat's first-ever "Tasting Room".

Jane Langton

She studied at the Boston Museum School from 1958 to 1959.

Jet Aviation

Since the mid '80s, the company bought existing FBOs in Boston/Bedford, Massachusetts, Palm Beach, Florida and added a FBO in Teterboro, New Jersey, in 1988 to serve the strategically important New York City corporate marketplace.

John F. Collins

Collins' administration focused on downtown redevelopment: Collins brought the urban planner Edward J. Logue to Boston to lead the Boston Redevelopment Authority and Collins' administration supervised the construction of the Prudential Center complex and of Government Center.

John Vassos

After serving in the British Naval Support Systems during World War I, he emigrated to Boston in 1919 where he attended the Fenway Art School at night.

Josephus Flavius Cook

Josephus Flavius Cook (1838–1901), commonly known as Joseph Cook, was an American philosophical lecturer, a descendant of Pilgrims who started his ascent to fame by way of Monday noon prayer meetings in Tremont Temple in Boston that for more than twenty years were among the city's greatest attractions.

Kibi no Makibi

A late 12th century narrative handscroll in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston depicting Kibi's journey to China is one of the earliest of all Japanese narrative pictorial handscrolls (e-maki) known to be extant.

Kingsbury family

Sarah Kingsberry was the first family member born in the New World, and was born in 1635 in modern day Boston.

Kyra E. Hicks

Hicks also confirmed the price of the Pictorial Quilt paid by the owner Maxim Karolik who donated the quilt to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Laisvė

Laisvė was launched in Boston, Massachusetts on April 5, 1911 under the editorship of Antanas Montvydas, a recent immigrant from Lithuania.

Laura Avery Sumner

McCashin explained to Boston.com in 2009 stating, "I was very hurt the way I was let go for financial reasons. I wish they'd handled my demise better".

Lechmere Square

The area is now best known for the CambridgeSide Galleria, one of the few full-fledged interior shopping malls within the city limits of Boston and Cambridge, which is on the site of the original Lechmere store (and, when built, incorporated a newly built Lechmere Sales store as one of its anchor tenants).

Lloyd Trotman

Lloyd Trotman (May 25, 1923 – October 3, 2007), born in Boston, was a jazz bassist who backed numerous jazz, dixieland, doo-wop and R&B artists in the 50s and 60s.

Louisville and Nashville Railroad Lebanon Branch

KRM runs excursion trains from New Haven to Boston and owns the tracks to New Hope (a bridge in need of repair prevents using the tracks east of New Haven, though a fundraising campaign is underway to raise the money to repair the bridge—the tracks are otherwise maintained).

MarAbel B. Frohnmayer Music Building

The architecture of Beall Concert Hall is reminiscent of the Boston Symphony Hall, which was studied by Ellis F. Lawrence during his time as an architecture student in Boston.

Marvin Perry

He is now retired and teaches as a Head Instructor at Red Line Fight Sports, a gym in Boston, Massachusetts.

Mary Antin

Born to Israel and Esther Weltman Antin, a Jewish family in Polotsk, Belarus, at that time part of Russia, she immigrated to the Boston area with her mother and siblings in 1894, moving from Chelsea to Ward 8 in Boston's South End, a notorious slum, as the venue of her father's store changed.

Mary Cummings

Boston had already incorporated several formerly adjacent towns such as Roxbury, Dorchester, Brighton and Hyde Park.

Matsutarō Shōriki

The position of Chair of the Department of Asia, Oceania, and Africa at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is also named after Shōriki.

Mel Sharples

Mel has always had three waitresses working at the diner - his longest-employed waitress was rambunctious Florence Jean Castleberry, better known as Flo; Vera Louise Gorman-Novak, was a shy, nervous woman from Boston; and Alice Hyatt who was born in New Jersey.

Middleboro Subdivision

Its north end is at Amtrak's Northeast Corridor, over which CSX has trackage rights to reach the Framingham Subdivision at Mansfield and the Boston Subdivision in Boston (via the Dorchester Branch).

Mitsunari Kanai

He was also highly respected for his metalworking skills and deep historical knowledge of the Japanese sword, the katana, serving at times as a specialist advisor to the East Asian Collection at the nearby Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Muriel Vanderbilt

Muriel Vanderbilt married three times, the first in 1925 to Frederic Cameron Church, Jr., a Boston insurance executive.

Neponset, Illinois

Neponset was named for the Massachusetts hometown of Myron Lee, the railroad's first agent at the Neponset station.

Pennsylvania Railroad World War II Memorial

In November 2010, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston put Walker's one-third-scale plaster model, which had sat in storage for years, on permanent exhibit in the new Art of the Americas Wing.

Perpetual Motion Roadshow

The first Roadshow was in April 2003, featuring New York spoken-word artist Corey Frost, Boston fiction writer Charlie-girl Anders and Toronto comic artist Marc Ngui.

Poetry Records

He holds a masters degree from the New England Conservatory of Music (Boston), where he studied with great guitarist Maestro Eliot Fisk.

Roxbury Conglomerate

The American poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, wrote a poem called "The Dorchester Giant" in 1830, and referred to this special kind of stone, "Roxbury puddingstone", also quarried in Dorchester, which was used to build churches in the Boston area, most notably the Central Congregational Church (later called the Church of the Covenant) in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood.

Samuel Parkman Tuckerman

He was born in Boston and became the organist of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in 1840.

Stasia Czernicki

Czernicki was the first woman bowler regularly seen on the long-running TV show Candlepin Bowling, broadcast on Boston's WHDH-TV (later WCVB-TV), Channel 5.

Supernatural abilities in Scientology doctrine

In 1957, Hubbard claimed that he was contacted by physicists from a scientific congress in Boston: "They wanted to know if I had any proof I could offer that thought created matter".

The Great Reset

Cities with cosmopolitan bases such as Austin, Boston, and San Francisco are seeing large increases in population, with a heavy concentration of creative people.

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He lists several notable ones around the world including the BosWash corridor which encompasses Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington D.C, and ChiPitts which contains the major cities in the American Midwest.

The Jew

Shortly after its London premiere, the play began to be performed in the United States, first in Boston, Philadelphia and New York City and later in Richmond, Charleston and many other cities and towns.

The Supermen

A live version recorded at the Boston Music Hall on 1 October 1972 was released with the Sound and Vision box set in 1989.

Thornton Burgess

The Museum of Science in Boston awarded him a special gold medal for "leading children down the path to the wide wonderful world of the outdoors".

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Graduating from Sandwich High School in 1891, Burgess briefly attended a business college in Boston from 1892 to 1893, living in Somerville, Massachusetts, at that time.

Typhlops meszoelyi

Meszoely of the Center for Vertebrate Studies at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.

Washougal, Washington

Shortly after Capt. Robert Gray, a Boston fur trader, entered the mouth of the Columbia River in May 1792, the famed British explorer George Vancouver traveled to the region to verify Gray's discovery.

Winslow Sargeant

Sargeant's parents immigrated to the U.S. from Barbados and he grew up in Dorchester, Massachusetts, "one of Boston's mostly minority neighborhoods".

Youth council

Many cities, including Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Miami, Houston, Dallas, Seattle, and San Jose, California, have active youth councils that inform city government decision-making.

Zabdiel Boylston

Zabdiel Boylston, FRS (1679 in Brookline, Massachusetts – March 2, 1766) was a physician in the Boston area.

Zilpha Drew Smith

She was widely involved in social work in Boston between 1872 and 1918 and lectured on the subject.


Aldgate

In 1773 Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley, the first book by an African American was published in Aldgate after her owners could not find a publisher in Boston, Massachusetts.

Allston–Brighton

They are connected to the Fenway/Kenmore area of Boston by a tiny strip of land containing Boston University along the Charles River, with Brookline lying to the south and southeast, Cambridge to the north and Newton to the west, so they retain a very distinct neighbourhood identity together.

Art in Bloom

The original exhibit was held in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 1976, where it is held annually; other institutions hosting such displays include the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and the Saint Louis Art Museum in St. Louis, Missouri.

Atom Technologies

location = Boston House, 3rd Floor, Suren Road, Chakala, Andheri (East), Mumbai, India

Benjamin Pierce Cheney

Cheney joined Nathaniel White and William Walker in 1842 to organize an express line between Boston and Montreal.

BYF

Boston Youth Fund, which provides summer job and internship opportunities to high school age Boston residents

Carroll D. Wright

From 1872 to 1873 he served in the Massachusetts Senate, where he secured the passage of a bill to provide for the establishment of trains for workers to Boston from the suburban districts.

Charles Zeuner

Charles Zeuner (20 September 1795 Eisleben, Saxony - 7 November 1857 Philadelphia) was an organist and composer active in Germany for a time, and then in Boston and Philadelphia in the United States.

Clara Bloodgood

" She next appeared with Arnold Daly in "How He Lied to Her Husband," and a production of "The Gentleman from India," in Boston. In 1905 at the Hudson Theatre in New York she played Violet Robinson in George Bernard Shaw’s "Man and Superman," with Robert Loraine.

Combat Zone, Boston

It was located between the classic, studio-built movie palaces such as the RKO-Keith and Paramount theaters and the stage theatres such as the Colonial on Boylston Street.

Committee of Sixty

The Committee of Fifty was formed May 16, 1774 in response to the news that the port of Boston would be closed under the Boston Port Act.

David H. Mason

In the House he was a leading proponent of the leveling of Boston's Fort Hill, the merger of the Western Railroad and the Boston and Worcester Railroad, and the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

David Pauley

He posted a 2–3 with a 2.39 ERA in 10 starts for the Sea Dogs before making his major league debut on May 31 starting for Boston in place of the injured David Wells.

Deborah Meier

In 1996 Meier moved to Boston where she became the founding principal of a small K-8 pilot school, Mission Hill School, within the Boston Public Schools system.

Duncan Haldane

His awards include Fellow of the Royal Society of London; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Boston); Fellow of the American Physical Society; Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK); Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; winner of the Oliver E. Buckley Prize of the American Physical Society (1993); Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow (1984–88); Lorentz Chair (2008), and Dirac Medal (2012).

Food and Nutrition Service

It administers the programs through its headquarters (HQ) in Alexandria, VA; regional offices (ROs) in San Francisco, Denver, Dallas, Chicago, Atlanta, Boston, and Robbinsville (NJ); and field offices throughout the US.

Gordon Edes

Edes is famous in Boston for his club house confrontation with former Red Sox outfielder Carl Everett.

Gustin Gang

The Gustin Gang was one the earliest Irish-American gangs to emerge during the Prohibition era and dominate Boston's underworld during the 1920s.

History of Maine

The Portland Company built early railway locomotives and the Portland Terminal Company handled joint switching operations for the Maine Central Railroad and Boston and Maine Railroad.

Holden Thorp

In the summer of 1981, at age 17, while studying guitar at Boston's Berklee College of Music, Thorp won first place and a $500 prize in a northeast regional competition to solve a Rubik's Cube puzzle.

Il pesceballo

One evening George Martin Lane was trying to make his way to Cambridge, MA, from Boston.

Jalal Alamgir

Jalal Alamgir (17 January 1971 – 3 December 2011), a Bangladeshi academic, was Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and the son of prominent Awami League MP Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir.

Jick

Andy Jick, public address announcer for the Boston College Eagles

John Coburn House

In 1851 he was arrested, tried, and acquitted for the court-house rescue of Shadrach Minkins, a freedom seeker who was caught in Boston by federal slave catchers empowered by the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

John Garabedian

By 1971, John was a program director at WMEX/1510 (now WUFC), and worked with well-known Boston-area disc jockey Arnie "Woo-Woo" Ginsburg.

Johnny Kelley

In 1993, a statue of Kelley to commemorate him was erected near the City Hall of Newton, Massachusetts, on the Boston Marathon course, one hill and about one mile prior to the foot of Heartbreak Hill.

Joseph W. Cullen

Joseph Cullen grew up in the Boston area attending Boston Latin School where he developed his strong debate and speaking skills which he displayed throughout his professional career.

Lawrence Edwards

Advocated for the New York City region as well as a Boston to Washington line by the Regional Plan Association, — the invention was praised by Secretary of Transportation John Volpe as well as editorials in The New York Times and professional and scientific journals.

Life Safety Code

After a disastrous series of fires between 1942 and 1946, including the Cocoanut Grove Nightclub fire in Boston, which claimed the lives of 492 people and the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta which claimed 119 lives, the Building Exits Code began to be utilized as potential legal legislation.

Mechanics Arts High School

John D. O'Bryant School of Mathematics & Science in Boston, Massachusetts, originally named "Mechanic Arts High School"

National Register of Historic Places listings in northern Boston, Massachusetts

Two historic districts overlap into both northern and southern Boston: milestones that make up the 1767 Milestones are found in both areas, and the Olmsted Park System extends through much of the city.

New York City Police Department Highway Patrol

Only a few other cities feature a similarly elite unit, most notably Philadelphia and its Philadelphia Highway Patrol and Boston and its Boston Police Special Operations Unit.

Olmsted Park System

Olmsted Park, Boston and Brookline, Massachusetts, also known as Olmsted Park System (and listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) under that name)

Orville Dewey

He was compelled to resign his charge in 1848, and retired to his farm in Sheffield, where he prepared a course of lectures for the Lowell Institute of Boston, on the "Problem of Human Life and Destiny," which course was repeated twice in New York, and delivered in many other cities.

Perry Jackson

Jackson, a teammate of Arnie Shockley's from Southwestern Oklahoma State University, used Archie's invitation to try-out for Boston.

Philip Berrigan

These people stole files out of 4 Boston Draft Boards in order to prove that the State of Massachusetts was drafting mostly Puerto Ricans and poor whites to fill their quotas.

Port Columbus Airport Crossover Taxiway Bridge

Bridge Architect, Miguel Rosales of Boston-based transportation architects Rosales + Partners provided the Conceptual Design, Visualizations and Final Design.

Quebec Expedition

The fleet arrived in Boston on 24 June, and the troops were disembarked onto Noddle's Island (the present-day location of Logan International Airport).

Richard Gridley

He directed the construction of the fortifications on Dorchester Heights which forced the British to evacuate Boston in March 1776.

Rick Wise

On March 30, during spring training, he was traded by the Boston Red Sox with Ted Cox, Bo Díaz and Mike Paxton to the Cleveland Indians for future Hall of Famer Dennis Eckersley and Fred Kendall.

Rose Pitonof

Her record stood for several years and her unprecedented success in the Boston Light Swim was noted in a 1912 Chicago Tribune article titled, "Is There Anything Women Can't Do?"

Sara Moulton

She began working in restaurants immediately, first in Boston, Massachusetts, and then in New York City, taking off time only for a postgraduate apprenticeship with Master Chef Maurice Cazalis of the Henri IV Restaurant in Chartres, France, in 1979.

St Thomas the Apostle, Hanwell

St Thomas the Apostle is a Church of England church, which is situated along Boston Road in Hanwell, in the London Borough of Ealing.

Suffolk County Jail

Charles Street Jail, also known as the Suffolk County Jail, an 1851 era church in Boston

The College Club of Boston

The College Club of Boston is a private membership organization founded in 1890 as the first women's college club in the United States.

The Daily News Transcript

By 1980, the Transcript -- then called the Daily Transcript -- was the flagship of a five-paper chain, Transcript Newspapers Inc., that included the News-Tribune of Waltham and three weekly newspapers in West Roxbury-Roslindale (neighborhoods of Boston), Newton and Needham (suburbs west of Boston).

The Holdup

Some notable locations are: The Roxy - Los Angeles, CA; Slims -San Francisco, CA; The Catalyst -Santa Cruz, CA; BB King’s Blues Club - New York, NY; House of Blues - Boston, MA; House of Blues - Anaheim, CA; Shoreline Amphitheater - Mountain View, CA; The Bellyup - San Diego, CA; and Great American Music Hall - San Francisco, CA.

W.N. Flynt Granite Co.

Many public buildings in Monson and the surrounding communities were constructed of Flynt granite, but the quarry also shipped granite for buildings in Boston, New York, Chicago, and even as far as Kansas and Iowa.