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If you go to Boston.com you can find examples of behavior prohibited by colonial-era blue laws that are still on the books in Massachusetts – among them, kissing in public, wearing gold buttons worth more than 200 British pounds, and being an idle "tobacco taker." One blue law
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Stadtluft Macht Frei, "city air makes you free," was once a statement of Germanic law: a serf who lived in a city for a year and a day was freed from his obligations to his manorial master. Today, the phrase has a deeper truth, reminding us of how
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BOSTON – Hours of sunlight decrease and temperatures drop as Americans once again reopen the now-yearly debate over what to call this time of year – the Christmas season? The holiday season? December? Yet few Americans know that this debate, in various forms, arises almost as regularly as the season and dates
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PLYMOUTH – When Plimoth Plantation's deputy executive director Richard Pickering awaited his first interview in 1984 for an acting role, he heard a group of role players in the room confess a common fear – discussing religion with the village's visitors. "If the staff is frightened to
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