23 March 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General
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Salisbury is a small coastal beach
town and summer tourist destination in
Essex County, Massachusetts , United States. The community is a popular
summer resort beach town situated on the
Atlantic Ocean , north of
Boston on the
New Hampshire border. It is home to the new Salisbury Beach Boardwalk, full of souvenir shops, restaurants, cafes, arcades and panoramic views of the Atlantic Ocean. The population was 9,236 at the
2020 census . Parts of town comprise the
census-designated place of
Salisbury .
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4 March 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , Bon appétit , Shopping
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Chinatown, Boston is a
neighborhood located in
downtown Boston ,
Massachusetts . It is the only surviving historic
ethnic Chinese enclave in
New England since the demise of the
Chinatowns in
Providence, Rhode Island and
Portland, Maine after the 1950s. Because of the high population of Asians and
Asian Americans living in this area of Boston, there is an abundance of
Chinese and
Vietnamese restaurants located in Chinatown. It is one of the most densely populated residential areas in Boston and serves as the largest center of its
East Asian and
Southeast Asian cultural life.
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24 March 2023 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General
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Old Orchard Beach is a
resort town and
census-designated place (CDP) in
York County ,
Maine ,
United States . The population was 8,960 at the
2020 census . It is part of the
Portland −
South Portland −
Biddeford , Maine
Metropolitan Statistical Area .
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10 March 2023 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General
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Hyannis is the largest of the seven villages in the town of
Barnstable, Massachusetts , in the United States. It is the commercial and transportation hub of
Cape Cod and was designated an
urban area at the 1990 census. Because of this, many refer to Hyannis as the “Capital of the Cape”. It contains a majority of the Barnstable Town offices and two important shopping districts: the historic downtown Main Street and the Route 132 Commercial District, including
Cape Cod Mall and Independence Park, headquarters of
Cape Cod Potato Chips .
Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis is the largest on Cape Cod.
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18 February 2023 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General
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The Thirteen Colonies, also known as the Thirteen British Colonies, the Thirteen American Colonies, or later as the
United Colonies , were a group of
British colonies on the Atlantic coast of
North America . Founded in the 17th and 18th centuries, they began fighting the
American Revolutionary War in April 1775 and formed the
United States of America by
declaring full independence in July 1776. Just prior to declaring independence, the Thirteen Colonies in their traditional groupings were: New England (
New Hampshire ;
Massachusetts ;
Rhode Island ;
Connecticut ); Middle (
New York ;
New Jersey ;
Pennsylvania ;
Delaware ); Southern (
Maryland ;
Virginia ;
North Carolina ;
South Carolina ; and
Georgia ). The Thirteen Colonies came to have very similar political, constitutional, and legal systems, dominated by
Protestant English-speakers. The first of these colonies was
Virginia Colony in 1607, a
Southern colony . While all these colonies needed to become economically viable, the founding of the
New England colonies , as well as the colonies of Maryland and Pennsylvania, were substantially motivated by their founders’ concerns related to the practice of religion. The other colonies were founded for business and economic expansion. The
Middle Colonies were established on an earlier Dutch colony,
New Netherland . All the Thirteen Colonies were part of
Britain’s possessions in the New World , which also included territory in
Canada ,
Florida , and the
Caribbean .
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15 October 2022 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General
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Edgartown is a tourist destination on the island of
Martha’s Vineyard in
Dukes County ,
Massachusetts , United States, for which it is the
county seat . It was once a major whaling port, with historic houses that have been carefully preserved. Today it hosts yachting events around its large harbour. It includes the smaller
island of Chappaquiddick . Edgartown is a part of Massachusetts’s 9th congressional district, represented in the Massachusetts Senate as a portion of the Cape and Islands district. The town’s population was 5,168 at the 2020 census.
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29 April 2022 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General
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Oak Bluffs is a
town located on the island of
Martha’s Vineyard in
Dukes County ,
Massachusetts , United States. The population was 5,341 at the
2020 United States Census . It is one of the island’s principal points of arrival for summer tourists, and is noted for its “gingerbread cottages” and other well-preserved mid- to late-nineteenth-century buildings. The town has been a historically important center of African American culture since the eighteenth century.
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24 September 2021 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , Universities, Colleges, Academies
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Yale University is a
private Ivy League research university in
New Haven, Connecticut . Founded in 1701 as the
Collegiate School , it is the
third-oldest institution of
higher education in the United States and one of the nine
Colonial Colleges chartered before the
American Revolution . The Collegiate School was renamed
Yale College in 1718 to honor the school’s largest private benefactor for the first century of its existence,
Elihu Yale .
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29 July 2021 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , Universities, Colleges, Academies
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Brown University is a
private Ivy League research university in
Providence, Rhode Island . Founded in 1764 as the
College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations , Brown is the
seventh-oldest institution of
higher education in the United States and one of the nine
colonial colleges chartered before the
American Revolution . Admission is among the most selective in the United States; in 2021, the university reported an acceptance rate of 5.4%.
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