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Location of New England (in red) in the United States

New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. It is bordered by the state of New York to the west and by the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick to the northeast and Quebec to the north. The Atlantic Ocean is to the east and southeast, and Long Island Sound is to the southwest. Boston is New England's largest city, as well as the capital of Massachusetts. Greater Boston is the largest metropolitan area, with nearly a third of New England's population; this area includes Worcester, Massachusetts (the second-largest city in New England), Manchester, New Hampshire (the largest city in New Hampshire), and Providence, Rhode Island (the capital of and largest city in Rhode Island).

In 1620, the Puritan Pilgrims established Plymouth Colony, the second successful English settlement in America, following the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia founded in 1607. Ten years later, more Puritans established Massachusetts Bay Colony north of Plymouth Colony. Over the next 126 years, people in the region fought in four French and Indian Wars, until the English colonists and their Iroquois allies defeated the French and their Algonquian allies in America. (Full article...)

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Traprock cliffs on Chauncey Peak, Connecticut

The Metacomet Ridge, Metacomet Ridge Mountains, or Metacomet Range of southern New England, United States, is a narrow and steep fault-block mountain ridge known for its extensive cliff faces, scenic vistas, microclimate ecosystems, and communities of plants considered rare or endangered. An important recreation resource located within 10 miles (16 km) of a population corridor of over 2.5 million people, the ridge is home to four long distance hiking trails and over a dozen parks and recreation areas including several state and nationally recognized historic sites. Because of its natural, historic, and recreational value, the ridge has been the focus of ongoing conservation efforts involving municipal, state, and national agencies as well as nearly two dozen non-profit organizations. The Metacomet Ridge extends from New Haven and Branford, Connecticut on Long Island Sound, through the Connecticut River Valley region of Massachusetts, to northern Franklin County, 2 miles (3.2 km), short of the Vermont and New Hampshire borders, a distance of 100 miles (160 km). (Full article...)

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Calvin Coolidge (1923)

Calvin Coolidge was the 30th President of the United States, from 1923 to 1929. He was born in Plymouth, Vermont on July 4, 1872. He went to St. Johnsbury Academy for a year before attending Amherst College. After graduating, he followed the footsteps of a local law firm, and became active in politics. He worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state. He got placed into the national spotlight after the Boston Police Strike in 1919, and was elected Vice President shortly after. Upon the death of Warren G. Harding, Coolidge became president. He was then reelected in 1924. On January 5, 1933, he died of a heart attack in his home. (Full article...)

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Connecticut native Ernest Borgnine upon the honorary promotion to Chief Petty Officer

Ernest Borgnine

Credit: Mark D. Faram, USN (2004)

Connecticut native Ernest Borgnine upon the honorary promotion to Chief Petty Officer

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The following are images from various New England-related articles on Wikipedia.

Image 1Flag of the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC) (from New England)
Image 2A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre (from New England)
Image 310. Manchester, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 4New England is home to four of the eight Ivy League universities. Pictured here is Harvard Yard of Harvard University. (from New England)
Image 59. Cambridge, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 6An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (from New England)
Image 7Montpelier, Vermont, is the smallest state capital in the United States. (from New England)
Image 8Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a high concentration of startups and technology companies. (from New England)
Image 9Flag of New England flying in Massachusetts. New Englanders maintain a strong sense of regional and cultural identity. (from New England)
Image 10First Boston Latin School house (from History of New England)
Image 11An illustration from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (from Culture of New England)
Image 12Alumni Hall at Saint Anselm College has served as a backdrop for media reports during the New Hampshire primary. (from New England)
Image 13Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 14New England's Siege of Louisbourg (1745) by Peter Monamy (from New England)
Image 15The New England Ensign, one of several flags historically associated with New England. This flag was reportedly used by colonial merchant ships sailing out of New England ports, 1686 – c. 1737. (from New England)
Image 16Bread and Roses Strike. Massachusetts National Guard troops surround unarmed strikers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912. (from New England)
Image 17Opera houses and theaters, like the Vergennes Opera House in Vergennes, Vermont, are popular in New England towns. (from Culture of New England)
Image 18The MBTA Commuter Rail serves eastern Massachusetts and parts of Rhode Island, radiating from downtown Boston, with planned service to New Hampshire. The CTrail system operates the Shore Line East and Hartford Line, covering coastal Connecticut, Hartford, and Springfield, Massachusetts. (from New England)
Image 19Certificate of the government of Massachusetts Bay acknowledging loan of £20 to state treasury 1777 (from History of New England)
Image 20Boston's Symphony Hall is the home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra—the second-oldest of the Big Five American symphony orchestras. (from New England)
Image 21Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom is set on a fictional New England island and was largely filmed in Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 22The Hartford headquarters of Aetna is housed in a 1931 Colonial Revival building. (from New England)
Image 23A portion of the north-central Pioneer Valley in Sunderland, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 24The New Haven system (from History of New England)
Image 25Map of the British and French dominions in North America in 1755, showing what the English considered New England (from History of New England)
Image 26A New England town meeting in Huntington, Vermont (from New England)
Image 278. Hartford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 28Largest self-reported ancestry groups in New England. Americans of Irish descent form a plurality in most of Massachusetts, while Americans of English descent form a plurality in much of the central parts of Vermont and New Hampshire as well as nearly all of Maine. (from New England)
Image 29A political and geographical map of New England shows the coastal plains in the southeast, and hills, mountains and valleys in the west and the north. (from New England)
Image 30Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (from New England)
Image 31Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston and spent most of his literary career in Concord, Massachusetts. (from Culture of New England)
Image 32A plowed field in Bethel, Vermont (from New England)
Image 334. Springfield, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 343. Providence, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 352. Worcester, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 36Köppen climate types in New England (from New England)
Image 37Autumn in New England, watercolor, Maurice Prendergast, c. 1910–1913 (from New England)
Image 38The Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 39A 1779 five-shilling note issued by Massachusetts. (from History of New England)
Image 401. Boston, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 415. Bridgeport, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 42A Hartford Line train at Hartford Union Station (from New England)
Image 436. Stamford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 44New England regionalist poet Robert Frost (from New England)
Image 45Classic New England Congregationalist church in Peacham, Vermont (from Culture of New England)
Image 46A classic New England Congregational church in Peacham, Vermont (from New England)
Image 47The Port of Portland in Portland, Maine, is the largest tonnage seaport in New England. (from New England)
Image 48The White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of the Appalachian Mountains. (from New England)
Image 49Indigenous territories, circa 1600 in present-day southern New England (from New England)
Image 50World's largest Irish flag in Boston. People who claim Irish descent constitute the largest ethnic ancestry in New England. (from New England)
Image 517. New Haven, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 52Soldier and explorer John Smith coined the name "New England" in 1616. (from New England)
Image 53Phillips Exeter Academy and Phillips Academy are two prestigious New England secondary schools founded in the late 18th century (from New England)
Image 54Southeastern New England is home to a number of Lusophone ethnic enclaves. (from New England)

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... that Benjamin Tompson's poem "Harvardine Quils" called for writers in New England to memorialize the loss of "whole towns and Churches" in King Philip's War?
... that the tugboat R. B. Forbes was the first iron mercantile vessel built in New England?
... that radio station WNLC in New London, Connecticut, was off the air for three weeks after the 1938 New England hurricane destroyed its tower and flooded the transmitter building?
... that the first railroad in New England was powered by horses?
... that Rockstar New England is based in Andover, Massachusetts, because it is the founder's "favorite place"?
... that Bernie Sanders was the first socialist mayor in New England since Jasper McLevy?
... that the Chippewa have smoked the root of the New England aster in pipes to attract game?
... that Clayton Weishuhn set the New England Patriots single-season record of 229 tackles in 1983, a record that still stands?

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... that Arnold Aronson, a founder of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, helped inspire the career of his nephew, singer-songwriter and organizer Si Kahn?
... that while he was manager of the Milwaukee Brewers, Rip Egan once served alcohol to the opposing pitcher late into the night to keep him from playing at his full potential the next day?
... that Mark Twain and General Custer visited P. T. Barnum in Iranistan?

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Flag of Rhode Island

Rhode Island
Incorporated 1776
Co-ordinates 41.7°N 71.5°W

Rhode Island, officially the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is the smallest in area, the 8th least populous, but the 2nd most densely populated of the 50 U.S. states.

Rhode Island was the first of the original Thirteen Colonies to declare independence from British rule, declaring itself independent on May 4, 1776, two months before any other colony. The State was also the last of the thirteen original colonies to ratify the United States Constitution.

Rhode Island's official nickname is "The Ocean State," a reference to the State's geography, since Rhode Island has several large bays and inlets that amount to about fourteen (14) percent of its total area. Its land area is 1,045 square miles (2706 km²), but its total area is significantly larger. (Full article...)

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