Boston Curiosities

Author : Bruce Gellerman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1461747325
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boston Curiosities written by Bruce Gellerman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-01-19 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things Beantown has to offer!

Author : Ted Clarke
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625843917
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boston Curiosities written by Ted Clarke and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of odd and obscure moments in Boston history, starring colonists and criminals, baseball players and barmaids, and many more. Boston has been a favorite backdrop for novels, films, and television series, but some of the best stories about the city are true ones. Historian Ted Clarke explores these stories, both the familiar and the obscure, that have earned Boston such nicknames as “the epicenter of American crime fiction,” “the cradle of liberty,” and “the ice cream capital of the world.” The fifteen-foot tidal wave of molasses that roared down Commercial Street in 1919 is one of the more famous legends. Lesser known, but equally stunning, is the case of Albert Tirrell, who in 1845 murdered his mistress in a Boston boardinghouse but was released after presenting the first successful sleepwalking defense in the United States. From the mysterious story of John Jacob Loud, who patented the first ballpoint pen, to the dubious early enterprises of merchant prince turned philanthropist Thomas Perkins, Boston Curiosities offers up a medley of memorable events that give Beantown its celebrated flavor

Author : Bruce Gellerman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1461747228
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Massachusetts Curiosities written by Bruce Gellerman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008-08-03 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover more than 200 of the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Bay State has to offer in this completely revised and updated edition.

Author : William Willder Wheildon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Curiosities of History: Boston, September Seventeenth, 1630-1880 written by William Willder Wheildon and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William W. (William Willder) Wheildon
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781314911510
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Curiosities of History written by William W. (William Willder) Wheildon and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : William W. Wheildon
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Curiosities of History: Boston, September Seventeenth, 1630-1880 written by William W. Wheildon and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-09-18 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Curiosities of History: Boston, September Seventeenth, 1630-1880" by William W. Wheildon. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Ted Clarke
Publisher : History Press Library Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781540219350
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boston Curiosities: A History of Beantown Barons, Molasses Mayhem, Polemic Patriots & the Fluff in Between written by Ted Clarke and published by History Press Library Editions. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boston has been a favorite backdrop for novels, films and television series, but some of the best stories about the city are true ones. Historian Ted Clarke explores these stories both the familiar and the obscure that have earned Boston such epithets as 'the epicenter of American crime fiction', 'the cradle of liberty' and 'the ice cream capital of the world'. The fifteen-foot tidal wave of molasses that roared down Commercial Street in 1919 is one of the more famous legends. Lesser known, but equally stunning, is the case of Albert Tirrell, who in 1845 murdered his mistress in a Boston boardinghouse but was released after presenting the first successful sleepwalking defense in the United States. From the mysterious story of John Jacob Loud, who patented the first ballpoint pen, to the dubious early enterprises of merchant prince turned philanthropist Thomas Perkins, Boston Curiosities offers up a medley of memorable events that give Beantown its celebrated flavor.

Author : State Street Trust Company (Boston, Mass.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Some Interesting Boston Events written by State Street Trust Company (Boston, Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Willder Wheildon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781436817257
Total Pages : 148 pages
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Download or read book Curiosities of History: Boston, September Seventeenth, 1630-1880 (1880) written by William Willder Wheildon and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : William Willder Wheildon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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