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LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" has reached $1 billion at the box office, achieving the milestone with record-setting hyper speed. The Walt Disney Co. said "The Force Awakens" crossed the billion-dollar mark Sunday, accomplishing the feat in just 12 days. The previous movie
Massachusetts
It is fitting that the same house that welcomed Concord minutemen and esteemed literary figures Nathaniel Hawthorne and Louisa May Alcott also welcomed weary slaves struggling for freedom along the Underground Railroad. The Wayside in Concord was a safe house for the fugitive travelers, and is located on the same
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While it looks like we won't be having a White Christmas in Boston this year, that doesn't mean we can't set the mood for the holiday season. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, one of our most famous "local" poets loved the outdoors. And here,
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BOSTON – When the Yale Glee Club began an impromptu rendition of the Christmas classic, "Carol of the Bells," aboard a moving Metro-North commuter train in Connecticut, last week, train conductor Bob McDonough immediately sprang into action. Using his ticket puncher, as shown in this Associated Press video, he
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GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) — Sheet music written by Ludwig van Beethoven and found in a Connecticut home has fetched $100,000 at auction. The Greenwich Time reports (http://bit.ly/1m1pooT) that appraiser Brendan Ryan spotted the sheet music when he visited the home of a Greenwich woman looking to sell
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — After months of secrecy and anticipation, "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" is thrilling fans and theater owners alike. The most anticipated film in the galaxy opened globally Thursday, setting international and pre-sale box-office records and delighting moviegoers who've had opening-night tickets in hand
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NEW YORK (AP) — Merriam-Webster has picked a small but powerful suffix as word of the year: ism. But not just any ism. The top isms to earn high traffic spikes and big bumps in lookups on the dictionary company's website in 2015 over the year before are socialism,
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Herman Melville's classic "Moby-Dick" has long been considered as a tale of vengeance and a battle against the forces of nature. Like Melville's novel, director Ron Howard's film "In the Heart of the Sea" (rated PG-13) concludes that, when pushed
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