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New England is a region consisting of 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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Satellite image of Carrie near Massachusetts

Tropical Storm Carrie was a strong tropical storm that affected the East Coast of the United States in early September 1972. The third tropical cyclone of the 1972 Atlantic hurricane season, Carrie formed on August 29 from a complex sequence of meteorological events starting with the emergence of a tropical wave into the Atlantic in the middle of August. Tracking nominally northward throughout its life, Carrie reached an initial peak intensity as a moderate tropical storm before nearly weakening back into tropical depression status. The storm began to reintensify owing to baroclinic processes after turning toward the northwest; its winds of 70 miles per hour (110 km/h) eclipsed the cyclone's previous maximum strength as it was transitioning into an extratropical system. The extratropical remnants of Carrie skirted eastern New England before making landfall in Maine on September 4 and dissipating over the Gulf of Saint Lawrence over the next two days. (Full article...)

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Captain Hudner addresses a crowd wearing his Medal of Honor

Thomas Jerome Hudner, Jr. is a retired officer of the United States Navy and a former naval aviator. He rose to the rank of captain, and received the Medal of Honor for his actions in trying to save the life of his wingman, Ensign Jesse L. Brown, during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir in the Korean War.

Born in Fall River, Massachusetts, Hudner attended Phillips Academy and the United States Naval Academy. Initially uninterested in aviation, he eventually took up flying and joined Fighter Squadron 32, flying the F4U Corsair at the outbreak of the Korean War. Arriving near Korea in October 1950, he flew support missions from the USS Leyte.

On 4 December 1950, Hudner and Brown were among a group of pilots on patrol near the Chosin Reservoir when Brown's Corsair was struck by ground fire from Chinese troops and crashed. In an attempt to save Brown from his burning aircraft, Hudner intentionally crash-landed his own aircraft on a snowy mountain in freezing temperatures to help Brown. In spite of these efforts, Brown died of his injuries and Hudner was forced to evacuate, having also been injured in the landing. (Full article...)

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John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum

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John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Boston

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

Image 1A 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 2The 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 3The Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 4The Hartford headquarters of Aetna is housed in a 1931 Colonial Revival building. (from New England)
Image 5Flag of the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC) (from New England)
Image 6The Port of Portland in Portland, Maine, is the largest tonnage seaport in New England. (from New England)
Image 7Phillips Exeter Academy and Phillips Academy are two prestigious New England secondary schools founded in the late 18th century (from New England)
Image 8The White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of the Appalachian Mountains. (from New England)
Image 94. Springfield, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 108. Hartford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 112. Worcester, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 12A New England town meeting in Huntington, Vermont (from New England)
Image 13Certificate of the government of Massachusetts Bay acknowledging loan of £20 to state treasury 1777 (from History of New England)
Image 14A 1779 five-shilling note issued by Massachusetts (from History of New England)
Image 15Indigenous territories, circa 1600 in present-day southern New England (from New England)
Image 16World's largest Irish flag in Boston. People who claim Irish descent constitute the largest ethnic ancestry in New England. (from New England)
Image 17An illustration from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (from Culture of New England)
Image 185. Bridgeport, Connecticut (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 20New England regionalist poet Robert Frost (from New England)
Image 211. Boston, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 22Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a high concentration of startups and technology companies. (from New England)
Image 239. Cambridge, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 247. New Haven, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 25A classic New England Congregational church in Peacham, Vermont (from New England)
Image 26Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 27A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre (from New England)
Image 28Flag of New England flying in Massachusetts. New Englanders maintain a strong sense of regional and cultural identity. (from New England)
Image 29A Hartford Line train at Hartford Union Station (from New England)
Image 30Boston'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 31Köppen climate types in New England (from New England)
Image 326. Stamford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 33Alumni Hall at Saint Anselm College has served as a backdrop for media reports during the New Hampshire primary. (from New England)
Image 3410. Manchester, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 35Autumn in New England, watercolor, Maurice Prendergast, c. 1910–1913 (from New England)
Image 36The New Haven system (from History of New England)
Image 37First Boston Latin School house (from History of New England)
Image 38Largest 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 39Southeastern New England is home to a number of Lusophone ethnic enclaves. (from New England)
Image 403. Providence, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 41Montpelier, Vermont, is the smallest state capital in the United States. (from New England)
Image 42A portion of the north-central Pioneer Valley in Sunderland, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 43Bread and Roses Strike. Massachusetts National Guard troops surround unarmed strikers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912. (from New England)
Image 44An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (from New England)
Image 45The 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 46Soldier and explorer John Smith coined the name "New England" in 1616. (from New England)
Image 47New England is home to four of the eight Ivy League universities. Pictured here is Harvard Yard of Harvard University. (from New England)
Image 48Opera houses and theaters, like the Vergennes Opera House in Vergennes, Vermont, are popular in New England towns. (from Culture of New England)
Image 49Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom is set on a fictional New England island and was largely filmed in Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 50A plowed field in Bethel, Vermont (from New England)
Image 51Ethnic origins in New England (from New England)
Image 52New England's Siege of Louisbourg (1745) by Peter Monamy (from New England)
Image 53Classic New England Congregationalist church in Peacham, Vermont (from Culture of New England)
Image 54Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (from New England)
Image 55Map of the British and French dominions in America in 1755, showing what the English considered New England (from History of New England)

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Massachusetts
Incorporated 1775
Co-ordinates 42.3°N 71.8°W

Massachusetts is the 7th least extensive, but the 14th most populous and the 3rd most densely populated of the 50 United States. The state features three separate metropolitan areas: Greater Boston in the east - which also includes all of Rhode Island - and the Springfield and Pittsfield metropolitan areas in the west.

Massachusetts has played a significant historical, cultural, and commercial role in American history. Plymouth was the site of the colony founded in 1620 by the Pilgrims, passengers of the Mayflower. Harvard University, founded in 1636, is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. In 1692, the towns surrounding Salem experienced one of America's most infamous cases of mass hysteria, the Salem Witch Trials. Originally dependent on fishing, agriculture, and trade, Massachusetts was transformed into a manufacturing center during the Industrial Revolution. In the 21st century, Massachusetts is a leader in higher education, health care technology, high technology, and financial services (Full article...)