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Jamaica Plain

Index Jamaica Plain

Jamaica Plain is a neighborhood of in Boston, Massachusetts, US. [1]

142 relations: Activism, American Revolution, Andrew James Peters, Anglicisation, Arborway, Area codes 617 and 857, Arnold Arboretum, Artist, Babe Twombly, Benjamin Bussey, Boston, Boston and Providence Railroad, Boston Beer Company, Boston Police Strike, Boston Public Schools, Brick, Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital, British International School of Boston, Canadians, Candle, Canton, Massachusetts, Charles River, Chickatawbut, Coca-Cola, Condominium, Connecticut, Cuba, Dedham, Massachusetts, Diane Guerrero, Dole Food Company, Dominican Republic, Dracaena sanderiana, Eastern Time Zone, Emerald Necklace, Emily Greene Balch, Footlight Club, Forest Hills Cemetery, Forest Hills station (MBTA), Forest Hills, Boston, Francis Parkman, Francis Sargent, Franklin Park (Boston), Franklin Park Zoo, Frederick Law Olmsted, Gary Provost, Gay, George Washington, Governor of Massachusetts, Great Depression, Green Line "E" Branch, ..., Green Line (MBTA), Green Street station, Harold Hitz Burton, Harvard University, Huntington Avenue, Hyde Park, Boston, Independence Day (United States), Interstate 95 in Massachusetts, Irish people, Jackson Square station, Jamaica, Jamaica Pond, Jamaicaway, James Dole, James Michael Curley, Joey McIntyre, John Eliot (missionary), John F. Collins, John Hancock, John Ruggles, Joshua Loring, Latino, Lesbian, List of mayors of Cleveland, Loring–Greenough House, Loyalist (American Revolution), Malcolm Nichols, Massachusett, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Massachusetts Route 203, Maurice J. Tobin, Moxie, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Needham Line, Neighborhoods in Boston, New England, Northeastern University, Ohio, Old China Trade, Olmsted Park, Orange Line (MBTA), Pequot War, Peter Faneuil, Pierre Lallement, Prayer, Puerto Rico, Puritans, Redlining, Rhode Island, Riverway, Robert Bacon, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, Roxbury, Boston, Ruby Foo, Rum, Rural cemetery, Sachem, Saint, Samuel Adams, Saul Alinsky, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, Siege of Boston, Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet, Slavery, Southwest Corridor (Massachusetts), Southwest Corridor Park, Stony Brook (Boston), Stony Brook station (MBTA), Streetcar suburb, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Sugar, Sylvia Plath, The English High School, Thomas Gustave Plant, Three-decker (house), Traditional medicine, Triangular trade, U.S. Route 1 in Massachusetts, United States House of Representatives, University of Massachusetts Boston, Walpole, Massachusetts, Washington Street (Boston), Washington Street Elevated, West Roxbury, Westwood, Massachusetts, William F. Wharton, William Heath, William J. Devine Memorial Golf Course, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Zoo. Expand index (92 more) »

Activism

Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede, or direct social, political, economic, or environmental reform or stasis with the desire to make improvements in society.

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American Revolution

The American Revolution was a colonial revolt that took place between 1765 and 1783.

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Andrew James Peters

Andrew James Peters (April 3, 1872 – July 26, 1938) was an American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives and was the 42nd Mayor of Boston.

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Anglicisation

Anglicisation (or anglicization, see English spelling differences), occasionally anglification, anglifying, englishing, refers to modifications made to foreign words, names and phrases to make them easier to spell, pronounce, or understand in English.

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Arborway

Arborway (also known as The Arborway) consists of a four-lane, divided parkway and a two lane residential street in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.

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Area codes 617 and 857

Area codes 617 and 857 are the North American area codes serving Boston and several surrounding communities in Massachusetts—such as Brookline, Cambridge, Newton and Quincy (LATA code 128).

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Arnold Arboretum

The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University is an arboretum located in the Jamaica Plain and Roslindale sections of Boston, Massachusetts.

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Artist

An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art.

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Babe Twombly

Clarence Edward "Babe" Twombly (January 18, 1896 in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts – November 23, 1974 in San Clemente, California), was a former professional baseball player who was an outfielder in the Major Leagues from 1920 to 1921.

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Benjamin Bussey

Benjamin Bussey (17571842) was a prosperous merchant, farmer, horticulturalist and patriot in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, who made significant contributions to the creation of the Arnold Arboretum.

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Boston

Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Boston and Providence Railroad

The Boston and Providence Railroad was a railroad company in the states of Massachusetts and Rhode Island which connected its namesake cities.

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Boston Beer Company

The Boston Beer Company is a brewer founded in 1984.

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Boston Police Strike

In the Boston Police Strike, Boston police officers went on strike on September 9, 1919.

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Boston Public Schools

Boston Public Schools (BPS) is a school district serving the city of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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Brick

A brick is building material used to make walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction.

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Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital

Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital (BWFH) is a 162-bed, non-profit community teaching hospital located in Boston, Massachusetts.

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British International School of Boston

The British International School of Boston (formerly known as the British School of Boston) is a non-sectarian, co-educational college preparatory day school located in the Moss Hill section of the Jamaica Plain neighborhood in Boston, MA.

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Canadians

Canadians (Canadiens / Canadiennes) are people identified with the country of Canada.

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Candle

A candle is an ignitable wick embedded in wax, or another flammable solid substance such as tallow, that provides light, and in some cases, a fragrance.

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Canton, Massachusetts

Canton is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Charles River

The Charles River (sometimes called the River Charles or simply the Charles) is an long river in eastern Massachusetts.

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Chickatawbut

Chickatawbut was the sachem, or leader, of a large group of indigenous people of what is now eastern Massachusetts, United States known as the Massachusett tribe, during the initial period of English settlement in the region in the early seventeenth century.

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Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola, or Coke (also Pemberton's Cola at certain Georgian vendors), is a carbonated soft drink produced by The Coca-Cola Company.

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Condominium

A condominium, often shortened to condo, is a type of real estate divided into several units that are each separately owned, surrounded by common areas jointly owned.

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Connecticut

Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Cuba

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is a country comprising the island of Cuba as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos.

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Dedham, Massachusetts

Dedham is a town in and the county seat of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Diane Guerrero

Diane Guerrero (born July 21, 1986) is an American actress and author.

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Dole Food Company

Dole Food Company, Inc. is an American agricultural multinational corporation headquartered in Westlake Village, California.

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Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic (República Dominicana) is a sovereign state located in the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region.

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Dracaena sanderiana

Dracaena sanderiana is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, also known as Dracaena braunii.

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Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing 17 U.S. states in the eastern part of the contiguous United States, parts of eastern Canada, the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico, Panama in Central America, and the Caribbean Islands.

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Emerald Necklace

The Emerald Necklace consists of a chain of parks linked by parkways and waterways in Boston and Brookline, Massachusetts.

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Emily Greene Balch

Emily Greene Balch (January 8, 1867 – January 9, 1961) was an American economist, sociologist and pacifist.

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Footlight Club

The Footlight Club is the oldest continuously-running community theatre group in the United States of America, having performed every year since 1877.

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Forest Hills Cemetery

Forest Hills Cemetery is a historic cemetery, greenspace, arboretum and sculpture garden located in the Forest Hills section of the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.

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Forest Hills station (MBTA)

Forest Hills station is an intermodal transfer station in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Forest Hills, Boston

Forest Hills is a part of the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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Francis Parkman

Francis Parkman Jr. (September 16, 1823 – November 8, 1893) was an American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his monumental seven-volume France and England in North America. These works are still valued as historical sources and as literature.

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Francis Sargent

Francis Williams Sargent (July 29, 1915 – October 22, 1998) was an American politician who served as the 64th Governor of Massachusetts from 1969-75.

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Franklin Park (Boston)

Franklin Park, a partially wooded parkland in the Jamaica Plain, Roxbury, and Dorchester neighborhoods of Boston, Massachusetts, is maintained by the City of Boston Parks and Recreation Department.

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Franklin Park Zoo

The Franklin Park Zoo is a zoo located in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Frederick Law Olmsted

Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822 – August 28, 1903) was an American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator.

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Gary Provost

Gary Provost (November 14, 1944 – May, 1995) was an American writer and writing instructor, author of works including Make every word count: a guide to writing that works--for fiction and nonfiction (1980) and 100 Ways to Improve Your Writing: Proven Professional Techniques for Writing with Style and Power (1985).

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Gay

Gay is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual.

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George Washington

George Washington (February 22, 1732 –, 1799), known as the "Father of His Country," was an American soldier and statesman who served from 1789 to 1797 as the first President of the United States.

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Governor of Massachusetts

The Governor of Massachusetts is the head of the executive branch of the Government of Massachusetts and serves as commander-in-chief of the Commonwealth's military forces.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.

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Green Line "E" Branch

The "E" Branch (also referred to as the Huntington Avenue Branch, or formerly as the Arborway Branch) is a streetcar line in the Boston, Massachusetts area, operating as a branch of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Green Line.

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Green Line (MBTA)

The Green Line is a light rail system run by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) in the Boston, Massachusetts, metropolitan area.

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Green Street station

Green Street station (signed as Green) is a rapid transit station in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Harold Hitz Burton

Harold Hitz Burton (June 22, 1888 – October 28, 1964) was an American politician and lawyer.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Huntington Avenue

Huntington Avenue is a secondary thoroughfare in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, beginning at Copley Square, and continuing west through the Back Bay, Fenway, Longwood, and Mission Hill neighborhoods.

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Hyde Park, Boston

Hyde Park is the southernmost neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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Independence Day (United States)

Independence Day, also referred to as the Fourth of July or July Fourth, is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.

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Interstate 95 in Massachusetts

Interstate 95 (I-95) is a part of the Interstate Highway System that parallels the East Coast of the United States from Houlton, Maine in the north to Miami, Florida in the south.

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Irish people

The Irish people (Muintir na hÉireann or Na hÉireannaigh) are a nation and ethnic group native to the island of Ireland, who share a common Irish ancestry, identity and culture.

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Jackson Square station

Jackson Square station is a rapid transit station in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Jamaica

Jamaica is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea.

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Jamaica Pond

Jamaica Pond is a kettle pond, part of the Emerald Necklace of parks in Boston designed by Frederick Law Olmsted.

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Jamaicaway

The Jamaicaway is a four-lane, undivided parkway in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts near the border of Brookline.

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James Dole

James Drummond Dole (September 27, 1877 – May 20, 1958), also known as the "Pineapple King'", was an American industrialist who developed the pineapple industry in Hawaii and established the Hawaiian Pineapple Company.

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James Michael Curley

James Michael Curley (November 20, 1874 – November 12, 1958) was an American Democratic Party politician from Boston, Massachusetts.

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Joey McIntyre

Joseph Mulrey McIntyre (born December 31, 1972), known professionally as Joey or Joe McIntyre, is an American singer-songwriter and actor.

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John Eliot (missionary)

John Eliot (c. 1604 – May 21, 1690) was a Puritan missionary to the American Indians whom some called "the apostle to the Indians" and the founder of Roxbury Latin School in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1645.

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John F. Collins

John Frederick Collins (July 20, 1919 – November 23, 1995) was the mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, United States from 1960 to 1968.

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John Hancock

John Hancock (October 8, 1793) was an American merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution.

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John Ruggles

John Ruggles (October 8, 1789June 20, 1874) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Maine.

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Joshua Loring

Joshua Loring (3 August 1716 – 5 October 1781) was an 18th-century colonial American naval officer in British service.

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Latino

Latino is a term often used in the United States to refer to people with cultural ties to Latin America, in contrast to Hispanic which is a demonym that includes Spaniards and other speakers of the Spanish language.

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Lesbian

A lesbian is a homosexual woman.

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List of mayors of Cleveland

The Mayor of Cleveland is the chief executive of the city's government.

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Loring–Greenough House

The Loring–Greenough House is the last surviving 18th century residence in Sumner Hill, a historic section of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, a neighborhood of Boston.

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Loyalist (American Revolution)

Loyalists were American colonists who remained loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolutionary War, often called Tories, Royalists, or King's Men at the time.

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Malcolm Nichols

Malcolm Edwin Nichols (May 8, 1876 – February 7, 1951) was a journalist and a U.S. political figure.

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Massachusett

The Massachusett are a Native American people who historically lived in areas surrounding Massachusetts Bay, as well as northeast and southern Massachusetts in what is now the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, including present-day Greater Boston.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (abbreviated MBTA and known colloquially as "the T") is the public agency responsible for operating most public transportation services in Greater Boston, Massachusetts.

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Massachusetts College of Art and Design

Massachusetts College of Art and Design (also known as MassArt) is a publicly funded college of visual and applied art, founded in 1873.

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Massachusetts Route 203

Route 203 is a 5.5-mile (8.9 km) state-numbered route in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, running from old U.S. Route 1 in Jamaica Plain east to Interstate 93/U.S. Route 1/Route 3 and Route 3A at Neponset.

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Maurice J. Tobin

Maurice Joseph Tobin (May 22, 1901July 19, 1953) was a Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, the Governor of Massachusetts, and United States Secretary of Labor.

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Moxie

Moxie is a brand of carbonated beverage that was among the first mass-produced soft drinks in the United States.

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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, is the fifth largest museum in the United States.

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Needham Line

The Needham Line is a branch of the MBTA Commuter Rail system, running west from downtown Boston, Massachusetts through Roxbury, Jamaica Plain, Roslindale, West Roxbury, and the town of Needham.

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Neighborhoods in Boston

Boston's diverse neighborhoods serve as a political and cultural organizing mechanism.

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New England

New England is a geographical region comprising six states of the northeastern United States: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.

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Northeastern University

Northeastern University (NU, formerly NEU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, established in 1898.

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Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States.

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Old China Trade

The Old China Trade refers to the early commerce between the Qing Empire and the United States under the Canton System, spanning from shortly after the end of the American Revolutionary War in 1783 to the Treaty of Wanghsia in 1844.

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Olmsted Park

Olmsted Park is a linear park in Boston and Brookline, Massachusetts, and a part of Boston's Emerald Necklace of connected parks and parkways.

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Orange Line (MBTA)

The Orange Line is one of the four subway lines of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.

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Pequot War

The Pequot War was an armed conflict that took place between 1636 and 1638 in New England between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of the colonists of the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies and their allies from the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes.

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Peter Faneuil

Peter Faneuil (June 20, 1700 – March 3, 1743) was a wealthy American colonial merchant, slave trader, and philanthropist who donated Faneuil Hall to Boston.

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Pierre Lallement

Pierre Lallement (October 25, 1843 – August 29, 1891) is considered by someNew York Times:, accessed July 18, 2010 to be the inventor of the pedal bicycle.

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Prayer

Prayer is an invocation or act that seeks to activate a rapport with an object of worship, typically a deity, through deliberate communication.

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Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico (Spanish for "Rich Port"), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, "Free Associated State of Puerto Rico") and briefly called Porto Rico, is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea.

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Puritans

The Puritans were English Reformed Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to "purify" the Church of England from its "Catholic" practices, maintaining that the Church of England was only partially reformed.

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Redlining

In the United States, redlining is the systematic denial of various services to residents of specific, often racially associated, neighborhoods or communities, either directly or through the selective raising of prices.

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Rhode Island

Rhode Island, officially the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is a state in the New England region of the United States.

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Riverway

Riverway is a parkway in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Robert Bacon

Robert Bacon (July 5, 1860 – May 29, 1919) was an American statesman and diplomat.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston (Archidioecesis Bostoniensis) is an ecclesiastical territory or Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the New England region of the United States.

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Roxbury, Boston

Roxbury is a dissolved municipality and a currently officially recognized neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.

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Ruby Foo

Ruby Foo Wong (1904-1950), better known as Ruby Foo, was a restaurateur who founded the historic Ruby Foo's Den in Boston in 1929.

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Rum

Rum is a distilled alcoholic beverage made from sugarcane byproducts, such as molasses or honeys, or directly from sugarcane juice, by a process of fermentation and distillation.

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Rural cemetery

The rural cemetery or garden cemetery is a style of burial ground that uses landscaping in a park-like setting.

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Sachem

Sachem and Sagamore refer to paramount chiefs among the Algonquians or other Native American tribes of the northeast.

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Saint

A saint (also historically known as a hallow) is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness or likeness or closeness to God.

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Samuel Adams

Samuel Adams (– October 2, 1803) was an American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

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Saul Alinsky

Saul David Alinsky (January 30, 1909 – June 12, 1972) was an American community organizer and writer.

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School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts

The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts (also known as the Museum School or SMFA at Tufts; formerly the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) is one of the schools that Tufts University comprises, located in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Siege of Boston

The Siege of Boston (April 19, 1775 – March 17, 1776) was the opening phase of the American Revolutionary War.

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Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet

Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet (bapt. 12 July 1712 – 16 June 1779) was a British colonial administrator who served as governor of the provinces of New Jersey and Massachusetts Bay.

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Slavery

Slavery is any system in which principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy and sell other individuals, as a de jure form of property.

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Southwest Corridor (Massachusetts)

The Southwest Corridor or Southwest Expressway was a project designed to bring an eight-lane highway into the City of Boston from a direction southwesterly of downtown.

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Southwest Corridor Park

Southwest Corridor Park is a linear urban park in Boston, Massachusetts, part of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston and managed by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR).

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Stony Brook (Boston)

Stony Brook is a major watercourse, now almost entirely covered, in the city of Boston, USA.

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Stony Brook station (MBTA)

Stony Brook station is a rapid transit station in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Streetcar suburb

A streetcar suburb is a residential community whose growth and development was strongly shaped by the use of streetcar lines as a primary means of transportation.

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Suffolk County, Massachusetts

Suffolk County is a county in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in the United States.

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Sugar

Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food.

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Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer.

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The English High School

The English High School of Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the first public high schools in America, founded in 1821.

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Thomas Gustave Plant

Thomas Gustave Plant (1859–1941) was a French-Canadian immigrant who made his fortune manufacturing shoes under the Queen Quality Shoes label.

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Three-decker (house)

A certain type of three-story apartment building is often called a three-decker or triple-decker in the United States.

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Traditional medicine

Traditional medicine (also known as indigenous or folk medicine) comprises medical aspects of traditional knowledge that developed over generations within various societies before the era of modern medicine.

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Triangular trade

Triangular trade or triangle trade is a historical term indicating trade among three ports or regions.

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U.S. Route 1 in Massachusetts

In the U.S. state of Massachusetts, U.S. Route 1 (US 1) is a major north–south highway through Boston.

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United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, the Senate being the upper chamber.

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University of Massachusetts Boston

The University of Massachusetts Boston, also known as UMass Boston, is an urban public research university and the third-largest campus in the five-campus University of Massachusetts system.

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Walpole, Massachusetts

Walpole is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States and also encompasses the entirely distinct entity of Walpole (CDP), with its much smaller area of 2.9 square miles and smaller population of 5,198 at the 2010 census.

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Washington Street (Boston)

Washington Street is a street originating in downtown Boston, Massachusetts that extends southwestward to the Massachusetts–Rhode Island state line.

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Washington Street Elevated

The Washington Street Elevated was an elevated segment of Boston's Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority subway system, comprising the southern stretch of the Orange Line (named after the original name for a section of Washington St, Orange St.). It ran from Chinatown through the South End and Roxbury, ending in Forest Hills in Jamaica Plain, Boston.

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West Roxbury

West Roxbury is a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts bordered by Roslindale to the northeast and Hyde Park to the southeast.

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Westwood, Massachusetts

Westwood is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States.

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William F. Wharton

William F. Wharton (1847–1919), was a Boston attorney who served as the United States Assistant Secretary of State from 1889 to 1893.

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William Heath

William Heath (March 2, 1737 – January 24, 1814) was an American farmer, soldier, and political leader from Massachusetts who served as a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.

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William J. Devine Memorial Golf Course

William J. Devine Memorial Golf Course, colloquially referred to and contained within '''Franklin Park''', is a municipal golf course in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, bordered by the neighborhoods of Dorchester and Roxbury.

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Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is a non-profit non-governmental organization working "to bring together women of different political views and philosophical and religious backgrounds determined to study and make known the causes of war and work for a permanent peace" and to unite women worldwide who oppose oppression and exploitation.

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Zoo

A zoo (short for zoological garden or zoological park and also called an animal park or menagerie) is a facility in which all animals are housed within enclosures, displayed to the public, and in which they may also breed.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_Plain

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