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Boston (pronounce /ˈbɒstən/ (help·info)) is the capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The city is located in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, in the northeastern United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the entire region. The city, which had an estimated population of 590,763 in 2006, lies at the center of the Cambridge–Boston-Quincy metropolitan area—the 10th-largest metropolitan area (5th largest CSA) in the U.S., with a population of 4.5 million.

Trivia about boston

  • Benjamin Franklin was born in this city in 1706
  • In 1805 Charles Bulfinch enlarged this city's Faneuil Hall
  • When visiting this New England capital, stop at Charlestown Navy Yard to see "Old Ironsides"
  • John Hancock Tower
  • Massachusetts
  • While in this city's famous rocker you may enjoy its famous baked beans
  • "Beantown"
  • The Museum of Fine Arts in this Massachusetts capital is noted for its Asiatic collection
  • Musically, this capital is known for its "Pops" concerts & summer concerts on the Charles River Esplanade
  • The 25 hospitals you can choose from in this city include the famous Massachusetts General
  • Its nicknames include "The Athens of America" & "The Cradle of Liberty"
  • In 1907 this city's Braves stopped wearing red socks, so this city's other major league team adopted the name
  • The "City of Paul Revere"
  • Nicknamed the "Bay Horse", it's the capital of the "Bay State"
  • PBS fans know that "Evening at Pops" refers to this city's Pops
  • It was the site of a famous "Tea Party", December 16, 1773
  • Union Oyster House--a Massachusetts city
  • "Porgy And Bess" was first performed on September 30, 1935, at the Colonial Theatre in this Mass. city
  • The 100th birthday of this New England city's Symphony Hall inspired the line "A plain home with a sense of place"
  • The Gibson House on Beacon Street in this city is named for its original 19th century furnishings
  • Before munching on Philly cheese steaks, I lived most of the first 17 years of my life in this city
  • Sob not
  • The 3-mile-long Freedom Trail (& a few other Revolutionary War bits of history, here & there)
  • In 1993 Thomas Menino became the 1st non-Irish American since 1929 elected mayor of this city
  • America's first public high school was opened in 1821 in this New England capital
  • St. John's, Newfoundland has Signal Hill; this state capital is home to Beacon Hill
  • The Ritz-Carlton hotel in this Mass. capital is the setting for Moss Hart's comedy "Light Up the Sky"
  • This Massachusetts capital is the most populous city in New England
  • Charles Bulfinch is famous for the beautiful houses he built on Beacon Hill in this city
  • Children can dress up in old clothes in The Dress Up Shop, part of this Mass. city's Children's Museum
  • In 1993 the New York Times company paid $1.1 billion to acquire the globe, a newspaper in this city
  • The Back Bay has been described as this New England's city's "Yuppieville"
  • "Pahk the cah in Hahvahd Yahd" is the classic line identifying the accent of this city
  • WBZ, based in this New England city, was one of the USA's first commercial radio stations
  • Paul Revere Mall, a park in this city, has bronze tablets honoring the people of the North End
  • Henry Hobson Richardson designed this Massachusetts city's Trinity Church in the Romanesque style
  • In 1854 this New England capital opened the first major free public library in the U.S.
  • Historic places of interest in Massachusetts include the Old State House & the Old North Church in this city
  • In 1984 Lorraine Moller of New Zealand won this New England city's grueling marathon
  • If they'd decided to call this town Shawmut, the native name for the area, we'd have Shawmut baked beans
  • One of its nicknames is the "City of Paul Revere"
  • On July 4, 1831 "America" was first sung at this city's Park Street Church at the foot of Beacon HIll
  • On March 5, 1770 British troops fired into a crowd in this city, killing 5
  • Charles Bulfinch, who contributed to the Capitol in Washington, D.C., designed this city's state house on Beacon Hill
  • It's traditional to serve this city's steamed brown bread with its world-famous baked beans
  • In the 1970s windows kept falling out of this city's new John Hancock Tower
  • Paul Revere's house in this capital is the city's only 17th century building downtown
  • You'll find the John F. Kennedy Federal Building in this state capital
  • In 1635 the Public Latin School, the first public school in British America, was established in this city
  • In 1993 the New York Times Company bought this city's Globe for deep pocket change, $1.1 billion
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes claimed this city "Is the thinking center of the continent, and therefore of the planet"
  • Logan International Airport
  • No beans about it, this capital is the largest city in New England
  • This city's orchestra began its Pops Concerts in 1885 under the name Promenade
  • Bartender Sam Malone
  • ____ cream pie(false advertising: it's really cake!)
  • This city's inhabitants are known as Beantowners (Hmm...does that make their kids Beanie Babies?)
  • In the 1980s Benjamin Thompson & Associates updated this city's Faneuil Hall Marketplace
  • No beans about it, the British made news when they evacuated this city March 17, 1776
  • On April 19, 1897 this city's marathon was run for the first time; John McDermott won in 2 hrs., 55 min., 10 sec.
  • The first of the Intolerable Acts closed this city's harbor as retribution for a certain "Party"
  • This city's Globe newspaper, founded in 1872, won Pulitzers for Public Service in 1966, 1975 & 2003
  • Patriot & silversmith Paul Revere
  • Mass General, as it's known
  • William Bradford wrote of this Massachusetts city, "Thou now art grown / To be a great and wealthy town"
  • Early settlers of this northeast state capital lived in Charlestown before moving to the Shawmut Peninsula
  • Puritan women in this city baked beans on Saturday & served them for Sunday dinner, thus the nickname "Beantown"
  • The John F. Kennedy National Historic Site, JFK's birthplace, is in Brookline, a suburb of this city
  • This city's 4th of July celebration includes fireworks & music on the Charles, near the Longfellow Bridge
  • Paul Revere
  • "The City of Paul Revere"
  • On Jan. 17, 1950 robbers made off with $2.7 mil. from the Brinks Building near this city's Charlestown bridge
  • On Dec. 16, 1773 American patriots dumped 342 chests of tea into this city's harbor
  • The Prudential Center Skywalk provides spectacular views of this New England capital
  • The back of a Salem rocker is usually lower than the back of this other rocker named for a Mass. city
  • Copley Square Hotel,The Omni Parker House,Back Bay Hilton
  • Its newspapers include the Globe, the Herald & the Christian Science Monitor
  • Peter Faneuil, who gave this city its hall, inherited his uncle's fortune after another nephew was cut off for marrying
  • Ritz-Carlton,Copley Plaza,Back Bay Hilton
  • The expression "Banned in" this city came from that city's enthusiastic censorship of books in the 1920s
  • Nieman Marcus & Christian Dior are among the high-end stores at Copley Place in this city's Back Bay area
  • Much of the trendy Back Bay area of this state capital is built on a landfill
  • $1 bills tell you which Federal Reserve bank issued the bill; "A" represents the district in this New England city
  • In 1750 theater was banned in this then-colonial capital as a form of Mass. entertainment
  • For "traducing the ministers", Anne Hutchinson was among the first to be "banned in" this capital
  • "What troubles you, Yankee phantoms?" asked Whitman in a ballad of this New England city
  • 491 perished when the Coconut Grove nightclub caught fire in this New England capital city in 1942
  • James Curley inspired the novel "The Last Hurrah" as a political boss & mayor of this city
  • On Nov. 9, 1630 a ferry began service between this city & Charlestown
  • Tall buildings in this city include One Federal St. & One Beacon St.
  • Although most of the ingredients come from old England, Tremont Ale is brewed in this New England city
  • 3 million people in this city celebrated like it was 1918 after they won the World Series in 2004
  • In "Curtains", it's curtains for a leading lady who ends up dead in this New England city during a pre-Broadway run
  • "Common" place city(6)
  • 1978's "Don't Look Back" was the follow-up to this New England band's hit debut album
  • "The Practice"
  • (I'm master carpenter Norm Abram.) The 1st old house we renovated was a run-down Victorian in the Dorchester section of this city
  • 18th-century hero Colonel William Prescott seen herein a state capital
  • This city's subway is the oldest in America
  • Charles Bulfinch served on this city's Board of Selectmen from 1791 to 1817
  • It's "More Than A Feeling" that this group's 1976 debut album was one of the biggest sellers in rock history
  • Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman moved from this northeastern city to Colorado Springs, Colorado
  • This city's Logan International Airport is about 180 miles closer to Europe than New York City is
  • This city's newspapers include The Globe & The Christian Science Monitor
  • Hull Street,Revere Street,Shawmut Avenue
  • John Adams said "the child of Independence" was born in "the old Council Chamber" of this city's Old State House
  • A member of the Butterhead family:___ lettuce
  • Shawmut was the Indian name for the peninsula on which this city was founded in 1630
  • In the NHL, the Bruins bruise up the opposition when in this home city
  • "More Than A Feeling","Amanda"
  • In 1895 this Northeastern city's library in Copley Square opened the first U.S. library area just for children
  • Thomas Menino, who followed Ray Flynn
  • In 1848 ladies said "Yes!" when the USA's first medical school for women opened in this state capital
  • In 2005 it was announced that the Atlantic Monthly would leave this city where it was founded in 1857
  • An offshoot of the Salem colony, this city was founded on September 17, 1630 by John Winthrop & others
  • The opening guitar lick from one of this "geographic" band's biggest hits is recreated here
  • And finally... their 1976 hit with "More Than A Feeling" just made the list at No. 500
  • Tremont Street in this city's shopping district is where William Lloyd Garrison gave his first antislavery speech
  • In the 1800s, Josiah Quincy, his son & grandson all served as the mayor of this capital

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