Blake and his brother opened the first Friendly’s in 1935.
Massachusetts
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He won 8 NBA titles with the Celtics as a player and 2 as head coach.
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One man’s death, 250 years ago this month, became a great symbol of U.S. independence. That man was Crispus Attucks, and he’s considered the first person killed in the American Revolution. He…
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Survived 10 Nazi concentration camps.
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Ram Dass was a beloved spiritual guru who was a pioneer of the 1960s psychedelic drug movement. Born Richard Alpert in Boston, Massachusetts, Dass was a psychologist who taught at Harvard. There…
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Arrested about 100 times for her activism and protests, she said 100 times was “Not enough.”
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Michael J. Kittredge II founded the Yankee Candle Company, the largest U.S. candle company known for its wide range of scented candles in jars.
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Fernando Corbato was a computer scientist who was a pioneer of time-sharing operating systems and introduced the first computer password as part of that work.
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News Obituaries
Dominick J. Arena (1929–2019), police chief arrested Senator Ted Kennedy after Chappaquiddick
He was the police chief of Edgartown, Massachusetts.
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JFK’s death brought America together; five years later, the murder of his brother Bobby helped tear us apart…
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