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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 Gulf of Maine and Atlantic Ocean are to the east and southeast, and Long Island Sound is to the southwest. Boston is New England's largest city and 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 Pilgrims established Plymouth Colony, the second successful settlement in British America after the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, founded in 1607. Ten years later, 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. (Full article...)

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Adiantum viridimontanum growing in a dunite roadcut

Adiantum viridimontanum, commonly known as Green Mountain maidenhair fern, is a rare fern found only in outcrops of serpentine rock in New England and Canada. The leaf blade is cut into finger-like segments, themselves once-divided, which are borne on the outer side of a curved, dark, glossy rachis (the central stalk of the leaf). These finger-like segments are not individual leaves, but parts of a single compound leaf. The "fingers" may be drooping or erect, depending on whether the individual fern grows in shade or sunlight. Spores are borne under false indusia (rolled flaps of tissue) at the edge of the subdivisions of the leaf, a characteristic unique to the genus Adiantum.

Until 1991, A. viridimontanum was grouped with the western maidenhair fern, A. aleuticum, which grows both in western North America and as a disjunct on serpentine outcrops in eastern North America. At one time, A. aleuticum itself was classified as a variety (A. pedatum var. aleuticum) of the northern maidenhair fern, A. pedatum. However, after several years of study, botanist Cathy Paris recognized that A. aleuticum was a distinct species, and that some of the specimens that had been attributed to that taxon (group of organisms) were a third, hybrid species intermediate between A. pedatum and A. aleuticum. She named the new species A. viridimontanum for the site of its discovery in the Green Mountains in Vermont; it has since been located in Quebec and in one site on serpentine in coastal Maine. (Full article...)

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Francis and the Pixies headlining at the Brixton Academy, October 2009

Black Francis (born Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV) is a Massachusetts-born singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as the frontman of the influential alternative rock band Pixies, with whom he performs under the stage name Black Francis. Following the band's breakup in 1993, he embarked on a solo career under the name Frank Black. After releasing two albums with 4AD, he left the label and formed a new band, Frank Black and the Catholics. He reformed the Pixies in 2004 and continues to release solo records and tour as a solo artist, having re-adopted his current stage name in 2007. (Full article...)

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Smoky quartz

Credit: JJ Harrison (2009)

Smoky quartz, the official gem of the State of New Hampshire

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Image 1New England's Siege of Louisbourg (1745) by Peter Monamy (from New England)
Image 2Montpelier, Vermont, is the smallest state capital in the United States. (from New England)
Image 3An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (from New England)
Image 4Certificate of the government of Massachusetts Bay acknowledging loan of £20 to state treasury 1777 (from History of New England)
Image 58. Hartford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 6A classic New England Congregational church in Peacham, Vermont (from New England)
Image 7A plowed field in Bethel, Vermont (from New England)
Image 8A portion of the north-central Pioneer Valley in Sunderland, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 910. Manchester, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 10The New Haven system (from History of New England)
Image 11Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom is set on a fictional New England island and was largely filmed in Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 12New England is home to four of the eight Ivy League universities. Pictured here is Harvard Yard of Harvard University. (from New England)
Image 13First Boston Latin School house (from History of New England)
Image 14The 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 15Alumni Hall at Saint Anselm College has served as a backdrop for media reports during the New Hampshire primary. (from New England)
Image 163. Providence, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 174. Springfield, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 18A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre (from New England)
Image 19Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston and spent most of his literary career in Concord, Massachusetts. (from Culture of New England)
Image 20A 1779 five-shilling note issued by Massachusetts (from History of New England)
Image 21Flag of New England flying in Massachusetts. New Englanders maintain a strong sense of regional and cultural identity. (from New England)
Image 22Autumn in New England, watercolor, Maurice Prendergast, c. 1910–1913 (from New England)
Image 23Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a high concentration of startups and technology companies. (from New England)
Image 247. New Haven, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 25World's largest Irish flag in Boston. People who claim Irish descent constitute the largest ethnic ancestry in New England. (from New England)
Image 26Ethnic origins in New England (from New England)
Image 27The White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of the Appalachian Mountains. (from New England)
Image 28New England regionalist poet Robert Frost (from New England)
Image 29The Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 30Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 319. Cambridge, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 32Soldier and explorer John Smith coined the name "New England" in 1616. (from New England)
Image 33Indigenous territories, circa 1600 in present-day southern New England (from New England)
Image 34The Hartford headquarters of Aetna is housed in a 1931 Colonial Revival building. (from New England)
Image 35Map of the British and French dominions in America in 1755, showing what the English considered New England (from History of New England)
Image 361. Boston, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 37Bread and Roses Strike. Massachusetts National Guard troops surround unarmed strikers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912. (from New England)
Image 38Southeastern New England is home to a number of Lusophone ethnic enclaves. (from New England)
Image 39Köppen climate types in New England (from New England)
Image 40The 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 41Flag of the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC) (from New England)
Image 42Classic New England Congregationalist church in Peacham, Vermont (from Culture of New England)
Image 43A 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 442. Worcester, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 45Boston'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 46Largest 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 475. Bridgeport, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 48An illustration from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (from Culture of New England)
Image 49The Port of Portland in Portland, Maine, is the largest tonnage seaport in New England. (from New England)
Image 50A Hartford Line train at Hartford Union Station (from New England)
Image 51A New England town meeting in Huntington, Vermont (from New England)
Image 52Phillips Exeter Academy and Phillips Academy are two prestigious New England secondary schools founded in the late 18th century (from New England)
Image 53Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (from New England)
Image 546. Stamford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 55Opera houses and theaters, like the Vergennes Opera House in Vergennes, Vermont, are popular in New England towns. (from Culture of New England)

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... that Rockstar New England is based in Andover, Massachusetts, because it is the founder's "favorite place"?
... that the Chippewa have smoked the root of the New England aster in pipes to attract game?
... that the first railroad in New England was powered by horses?

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Connecticut
Incorporated 1776
Co-ordinates 41.6°N 72.7°W

Connecticut is the 3rd least extensive, the 29th most populous, and 4th most densely populated of the 50 United States. Called the Constitution State, Nutmeg State, and "The Land of Steady Habits", Connecticut was influential in the development of the federal government of the United States.

The first major settlements were established in the 1630s by the English. Thomas Hooker led a band of followers overland from the Massachusetts Bay Colony and founded what would become the Connecticut Colony; other settlers from Massachusetts founded the Saybrook Colony and the New Haven Colony. In 1662, the three colonies were merged under a royal charter, making Connecticut a crown colony. This colony was one of the Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution. (Full article...)

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