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    The New-England Courant (also spelled New England Courant), one of the first American newspapers, was founded in Boston in 1721, by James Franklin. It...
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  • up courant in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Courant may refer to: Hexham Courant, a weekly newspaper in Northumberland, England The New-England Courant...
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  • in the American colonies. James published the New England Courant, one of the oldest and the first truly independent American newspapers, and the short...
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    New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont...
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  • The Hartford Courant is the largest daily newspaper in the U.S. state of Connecticut, and is advertised as the oldest continuously published newspaper...
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    Mrs. Silence Dogood was the pen name used by Benjamin Franklin to get his work published in the New-England Courant, a newspaper founded and published...
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    "taken from the Gazette and other Public Prints of London" some six months late. Instead, he launched a third newspaper, The New England Courant." His associates...
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    (December 1, 1996). "A Litchfield Jail For Ben Franklin's Son". Hartford Courant. Retrieved August 31, 2013. Thayer 2012, p. 36. Chaplin 2007, p. 14. Lemay...
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    Franklin's The New England Courant was founded in August amid the outbreak and the issue of smallpox and preservation from it became front page news. The Courant...
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  • The Boston Courant was a weekly newspaper in Boston, whose coverage focused on issues of local interest to the Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Downtown, Fenway...
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    known as the New England Whalers throughout its time in the WHA. The Whalers moved 100 miles (160 km), to Hartford, in 1974 and joined the NHL in the NHL–WHA...
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    characters, Benjamin Franklin offered advice in the New England Courant and later in the Pennsylvania Gazette. The popular columnist Dorothy Dix began her column...
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    publisher of the New-England Courant. A fan of the Spectator by Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele, Franklin slipped an anonymous paper under the door of...
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    broadcasts regional coverage of professional sports events throughout New England with a major focus on Boston area teams, as well as several original...
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    The Boston Post was a daily newspaper in New England for over a hundred years before its final shutdown in 1956. The Post was founded in November 1831...
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    ""Displaying the Ensigns of Harmony": The French Army in Newport, Rhode Island, 1780–1781". The New England Quarterly. 85 (3): 438. doi:10.1162/TNEQ_a_00208...
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  • The New-England Repertory was a newspaper published from 1803 through 1820. It was first published in Newburyport, Massachusetts, but was moved to Boston...
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  • newspaper by Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of the new religious movement Christian Science, Church of Christ, Scientist. The newspaper has been based in...
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  • Six Flags New England. May 5, 2000. Retrieved October 5, 2015. Marks, Paul. "A PLACE FOR FAMILY FUN SINCE PICNICS RULED IN THE 1800S". courant.com. Retrieved...
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  • responsible for making the Globe the most used Newspaper in New England. He went into greater details regarding social movements such as the Women's Suffrage...
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    The 2002 season was the New England Patriots' 33rd in the National Football League (NFL), their 43rd overall and their third under head coach Bill Belichick...
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    fictitious character wholly conceived by Franklin. The letters appeared in The New-England Courant, a newspaper owned by his older brother James, who...
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  • William Douglass (physician) (category Alumni of the University of Edinburgh)
    through newspapers like The Boston Gazette and The New-England Courant respectively. By the next year, however, Douglass admitted that the inoculations were...
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    World Journal 08-25-2014. Wikimedia Commons has media related to World Journal. Official website World Journal - East Coast Boston/New England Branch...
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  • The story appeared in an extra bearing the dateline "Somewhere Over New England". Throughout the 1990s, there was a great deal of focus on making the...
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    from the original on September 8, 2014. Retrieved December 30, 2012. Stacom, Don (May 6, 2000). "The Debut Of Six Flags New England". Hartford Courant. Archived...
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    The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage was the first American abolition society. It was founded April 14, 1775, in Philadelphia...
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    for husbands and wives were published for entertainment.: 10–11  The New-England Courant, by brothers James and Benjamin Franklin, printed a satirical marriage...
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  • Dorchester Reporter (category Weekly newspapers published in the United States)
    The Dorchester Reporter is a weekly community newspaper founded in 1983 by husband-and-wife Ed and Mary Forry to serve the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston...
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    the American Revolution, the trustees were seen as Loyalist sympathizers. Thomas Coombe, Jr., who had been a valedictorian, fled to England once the British...
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