Boston
About Boston
Boston is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It serves as a cultural and financial center of New England, a region of the Northeastern United States. Boston has an area of 48.4 sq mi (125 km2) and a population of 675,647 as of the 2020 census, making it the third-most populous city in the Northeastern United States after New York City and Philadelphia. The larger Greater Boston metropolitan statistical area had a population of 4.9 million in 2023, making it the largest metropolitan area in New England and the eleventh-largest in the United States.
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The Boston Tea Party was on December 16th, 1773, a huge landmark day for civil disobedience.
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So much was banned in Boston that 'banned in Boston' became a famous phrase, and authors would try to get their books banned there because it was a mark of respect.
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Boston had a reputation throughout its history as a place both of debauchery and of atoning for it, with a fragile peace lasting into the late 1980s in an area called the Combat Zone.
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The Boston Massacre kicked off from a snowball fight: one guy threw a snowball and it all escalated, and the papers really seized on it.
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In Boston a sailor called Captain Kemble was punished for publicly kissing his wife on a Sunday after returning from three years at sea.
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Boston is one of the biggest ports, so it always had a lot of sailors coming in.
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The Boston Tea Party contained sandwiches, because the Earl of Sandwich was present.
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The furthest the Boston Marathon has ever been run off course was by Sunita Williams, a NASA astronaut, who ran it on a treadmill on the International Space Station.
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Coordinates: 42.3603, -71.0578