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Boston’s 10 most outlandish historical moments

Fact is stranger than fiction! Enjoy these odd (but true!) landmark events in Boston's history: No. 1: Fenway's red seat

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No. 2: Watch and Ward Society bans Whitman in Boston

Members of upper echelons of Hub society, known as Boston Brahmins, led a vigilante campaign for decades to ban any works of art or literature that they deemed "immoral." Their passion for the task made "Banned in Boston" a national catch phrase, and sometimes was used