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77 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.

22 Songs You'll Never Want to Hear Again!

22 Songs You'll Never Want To Hear Again was the debut release by Boston-based punk band Darkbuster.

A Day Without Me

After DJ Carter Alan of WBCN in Boston heard "A Day Without Me" in a record store, he became a U2 fan and included the song in his playlist.

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.

Ben Stahl

Working with the CIO to organize workers in the railroad, telephone, government, social work, brewing, jewelry, and education sectors would take him and his wife around the country from Boston to Los Angeles.

Boston Friary

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

Boston Priory

Boston Priory was a priory in Boston, Lincolnshire, England.

Boston Sports Megaplex

The proposed sites for this hybrid convention center-stadium were Summer Street in South Boston or at the so-called Crosstown site along Melnea Cass Boulevard in Roxbury, adjacent to Boston's South End.

Boston Standard

Boston Standard (previously Lincolnshire Standard is a weekly newspaper based in the town of Boston, Lincolnshire, the Boston Target (another weekly newspaper) is its main component.

Bostonian

A Bostonian is a resident of Boston or Greater Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

Charles Follen Adams

Charles Follen Adams (born 21 April 1842 in Dorchester, Massachusetts– 8 March 1918) was an American poet.

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.

Chasing the Bear

The recollection ends with Spenser going off to college in Boston on a football scholarship.

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.

Conger Metcalf

Metcalf graduated from Coe in 1936, then attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Constant Ferdinand Burille

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

Curt DiCamillo

He is a specialist on the British country house and has taught classes on British culture, art, and architecture at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Damian O'Flynn

Damian O'Flynn (January 29, 1907 – August 8, 1982) was an Irish-American actor of film and television originally from Boston, Massachusetts.

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.

Ed O.G.

Born in Roxbury—a working class, predominantly black neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts.

Eliezer Poupko

One of Rabbi Poupko's sons-in-law was the renowned Rabbi Mordechai Savitzky, Chief Rabbi of Boston and author of twenty-two works on the Talmud.

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.

Francis Davis Millet

Millet was among the founders of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and was influential in the early days of the American Federation of Arts.

Franklin Place

Also as part of the complex were included Boston Theater (1793), the first theater built in Boston, placed at the northeast end of the square, and Holy Cross Church (begun 1800), the city’s first Roman Catholic church, directly opposite the theater at the southeast end.

Franz Joseph Untersee

His last work completed just before his death was the Mission High School, Roxbury, Massachusetts.

Hillsdale, New York

In 1776 Henry Knox passed through Hillsdale while transporting cannons from Albany, New York to Boston, Massachusetts.

Hubway

There are 65 stations in the Boston neighborhoods of Allston-Brighton, Fenway-Kenmore, Back Bay, South End, Beacon Hill, West End, North End, and the Financial District.

Jane Langton

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

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.

Kaffe Fassett

He received a scholarship to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston at the age of 19, but shortly left school to paint in London and moved there to live in 1964.

Kasteel Well

Every fall and spring semester, approximately eighty students from Emerson's Boston, Massachusetts, campus live in and take classes at Kasteel Well.

Katherine Sherwood Bonner McDowell

On September 3, 1873, when her daughter was not yet two years old, Bonner left her in the care of her mother-in-law and took a train to Boston, arriving with very little money and no acquaintances, save a literary correspondent by the name of Nahrum Capen.

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".

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.

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.

Mary Cummings

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

Mary Morain

After working part-time for the New England Home for Little Wanderers, an institution that cared for vulnerable mothers, she became a volunteer for Planned Parenthood, later becoming president of the Planned Parenthood Association in Boston, as well as the League of Women Voters.

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).

Muriel Vanderbilt

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

Nathaniel Carver

This story apparently convinced his fellow countrymen, and indeed, when Nelson died in 1805, a letter from Boston arrived in England, which repeated Carver's version of events.

Nathaniel Jeremiah Bradlee

1874– Second Church, Boston, on Boylston Street, between Dartmouth and Clarendon

National Photographic Association of the United States

Conferences occurred annually, beginning in June 1869, with the "National Photographic Association Exposition and Convention" held in Boston.

Neponset, Illinois

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

New Sherwood Hotel

In the bar room there is a "massive" oak and mahogany back-bar and counter that was originally used in Louisville's old Greenstreet Saloon; it was place in New Haven after the nearby town of Boston, Kentucky voted to be a "dry" town.

Old North

Second Church, Boston (est.1649), also known as "Old North;" in the 17th-18th centuries located in North Square, Boston, Mass.

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.

Shore Line Trolley Museum

The Shore Line Museum also owns two other trolley buses, ex-Philadelphia 210, identical to No. 205 (and acquired at the same time) and being used only as a source of parts, and ex-Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (Boston-area) 4037, a 1976 Flyer E800 which the museum acquired in 2009 and which is also able to operate on the line.

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.

Stuart Robson

He appeared in many theatrical productions from the 1860s to the early 1900s in New York City, Boston, and London.

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 Communards

Coles followed his Christian leanings and, after periods as a journalist for the Times Literary Supplement and Catholic Herald, he was ordained in the Church of England, spending time as the curate of St Botolph's (The Stump) in Boston, Lincolnshire and as assistant priest at St Paul's Knightsbridge and Chaplain to the Royal College of Music.

The Great Reset

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 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.

Tim Killick

Tim Killick (born Boston, Lincolnshire, UK, 1958) is an English television and theatre actor.

Typhlops meszoelyi

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

Will Pappenheimer

The son of Harvard physiology professor John Pappenheimer (1915-2007) he received his under graduate degree from his father's alma mater of Harvard University and then did his graduate studies at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where he received his MFA.

Woodstock Iron Works

While there were suggestions that settlers around the Woodstock area had recognized iron deposits in the surrounding landscape in approximately 1820, it was not until sixteen years later in 1836 that Dr. Jackson of Boston, who was on a geological survey conducted by the state of Maine, confirmed the presence of iron ore.

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.


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.

Amazing Crowns

During the quartet's heyday, they won Boston's WBCN Rumble, were nominated for seven Kahlua Boston Music Awards, toured extensively with the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, The Cramps, The Reverend Horton Heat and others, signed with Velvel Records and released a 1998 album entitled The Amazing Royal Crowns.

Amy Boesky

Formerly from the Detroit area, Amy has studied and worked in various locations, including Oxford, England; Washington, D.C., and the Boston area, where she has lived since 1992.

Arthur Pardee

In 1961 Pardee became Professor in Biochemical Sciences at Princeton University while in 1975 he moved to Boston to become Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School as well as Chief for the Division of Cell Growth and Regulation at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Atom Technologies

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

Ben Revere

On April 15, 2013, the day of the Boston Marathon bombings, Revere inscribed "Pray for Boston" onto a piece of masking tape and taped it to his glove, which he left sitting out while he stretched.

Benjamin Pierce Cheney

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

Boston Daily Advertiser

In William Dean Howells' 1885 novel The Rise of Silas Lapham, Bromfield Corey reads The Boston Daily Advertiser.

British Rail railbuses

Following export around 1981 it was used on an experimental extension of MBTA (Boston) commuter service to Concord, New Hampshire.

Celtic Ash

On the advice of Irish-born trainer Tom Barry, Celtic Ash was purchased by Boston, Massachusetts banker Joseph E. O'Connell, who imported him to the United States to race for his Green Dunes Farm.

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.

David Germain

After leaving Shadows Fall in 2001, Germain joined Boston, Massachusetts based punk/ska band Jaya the Cat, who have recorded three studio albums (Basement Style, First Beer of a New Day and the latest, More Late Night Transmissions) as well as performing on the live album Ernesto's Burning.

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.

Garnet Bailey

Bailey, and his fellow Flight 175 passenger Mark Bavis are mentioned in the Boston-based Dropkick Murphys song "Your Spirit's Alive." Denis Leary wore a Bailey memorial T-shirt as the character Tommy Gavin in the season 1 episode "Immortal" and the fourth season episode "Pussified" in the TV series Rescue Me.

George Naccara

George Naccara is serving as the Federal Security Director (FSD) for the United States Transportation Security Administration under the Department of Homeland Security at Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts.

Gordon Edes

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

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.

Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Students Association

In 1998, Taiwanese American students at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Tufts University established the Boston Intercollegiate Taiwanese Students Association (BITSA) to serve the many campuses in the Boston area.

Jacqueline Liebergott

She is also involved with the Friends of the Public Garden and Boston Common, Downtown Crossing Association.

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.

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.

Joseph F. O'Connell

While at Boston College, O'Connell and Joseph Drum helped create the first Boston College football team.

Larz Anderson Auto Museum

The Carriage House which the museum occupies was designed by the Boston architect Edmund M. Wheelwright and completed in 1889.

Leopold Lichtenberg

After spending three years more in Europe, Lichtenberg gave another series of concerts in America, after which he settled for some time in Boston, Massachusetts, as a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Lloyd Sexton, Jr.

In 1933 he had a show of flower paintings at the Vose Galleries in Boston, followed by exhibitions at the Honolulu Museum of Art and at Gump's in San Francisco.

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.

Navid

Naveed Nour, an international artist and photographer based in Boston, Massachusetts

Nixes Mate

In 1726, upon the arrest of pirate chief William Fly, officials brought him to Boston where he was executed.

Painesdale, Michigan

Painesdale was built by the Champion Mining Company between 1899 and 1917, and named after the Boston businessman William A. Paine, who was associated with many mines as well as the Paine Webber brokerage.

Paper cup

Dixie Cup is the brand name for a line of disposable paper cups that were first developed in the United States in 1907 by Lawrence Luellen, a lawyer in Boston, Massachusetts, who was concerned about germs being spread by people sharing glasses or dippers at public supplies of drinking water.

Paul Evans

Paul F. Evans, American law enforcement officer who served as Commissioner of the Boston Police Department from 1994 to 2003

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.

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.

Robert Ball Hughes

After a short stay in New York, and then Philadelphia, he settled in Boston, where he produced busts of Washington Irving (1836) and Edward Livingston, and a large bronze of mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch for Mount Auburn Cemetery (1847).

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.

Stoughton Musical Society

From the inspiration of a singing school given in Stoughton in 1774 by Boston composer, William Billings, a group of male singers in town decided to form a singing society.

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 Fools

In 1979, the band released "Psycho Chicken", a parody of The Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer", and it was an immediate hit on Boston radio stations.

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.

The Laughing Dogs

They also played at Boston popular club The Rat, The Bottom Line, My Father's Place, and colleges.

Water biscuit

In 1801, Josiah Bent began a baking operation in Milton, Massachusetts, selling "water crackers" or biscuits made of flour and water that would not deteriorate during long sea voyages from the port of Boston.