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The Cocoanut Grove Fire is one of the darker events in Boston history. The Cocoanut Grove was a popular downtown nightclub, located at 17 Piedmont St. in the Bay Village neighborhood. On Nov. 28, 1942, a fire in the club killed 492 people and injured many more. It isn'
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You've probably heard of a Ponzi Scheme – in 2009 Bernie Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison for his biggest-ever Ponzi swindle. But did you know that Charles Ponzi, the eponymous originator of such scams, set up the first one when he lived right here in Massachusetts?
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What do Ho Chi Minh, Malcolm X, and Emeril Lagasse have in common? They all worked at the Omni Parker House Hotel in Boston before rising to fame (or notoriety). Ho Chi Minh worked as a baker in the hotel's kitchen in the early 20th century, decades before
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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
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BOSTON – Massachusetts holds a "precarious footing" on its economic future, according to a group of regional economists and forecasters, who cited global uncertainty, a potential debt crisis and a U.S. economic slowdown as reasons for concern. The outlook released Wednesday by MassBenchmarks economists notes that first quarter
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BOSTON – Controversy seems to follow the Olympic Games around the globe, from the original logo devised for the 2020 games in Tokyo to the aborted Boston 2024 bid and a series of concerns surrounding this year's games in Rio de Janiero. But organizers of the Tokyo games offered
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BOSTON — More working Americans — 31 percent — believe they will retire later than the minimum age to collect their full Social Security benefits than held that expectation 20 years ago, a recent study from Gallup shows. By comparison, already retired Americans say they stopped working at an average age of 61.
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BOSTON – Boston and its environs boast world-class universities and a bustling innovation economy. People from all over the world travel to the Hub to study, but after graduating, many highly skilled and well-educated foreigners learn that they can't remain in the U.S. legally. This amounts to a