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A lighthouse keeper in Newport, Rhode Island, became nationally famous in the late 1800s for rescuing sailors. Her name was Ida Lewis — and she drew the attention of a sitting president and the early suffragette movement.
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William Fly’s pirate career was short and brutal — and his death in 1726 is sometimes considered to mark the end of the days when pirates ruled the Atlantic.
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Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick was partially inspired by his time as a whaleman in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The book begins there. And part of it centers on an unusual church where Melville himself once worshiped.
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Herman Melville’s classic novel Moby Dick follows Ishmael — a crew member on a whaling ship in the 1800s — and the maniacal Captain Ahab. The book was partially inspired by Melville’s time as a young whaler, when he set sail on a whaling voyage from New Bedford, Massachusetts.
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Black Sam Bellamy was one of history’s most successful pirates. His most famous capture was a former slave ship called the Whydah — on which he lost his life during a fateful storm off the coast of Cape Cod.
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WSHU's Davis Dunavin begins this season with one of history's most notorious pirate ships — the Whydah Galley — and its captain, Black Sam Bellamy. He was one of history's most successful pirates until his dramatic death in a shipwreck off the coast of Cape Cod.
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Betty and Barney Hill were at the center of one of America’s most famous alien abduction cases. They were also an interracial couple and civil rights leaders at the time. But their alleged abduction on a late night in New Hampshire in 1961 — set them on a different path, according to a new book.
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Two people on a road trip in New Hampshire in 1961 were at the center of one of America’s first high-profile alien abduction cases. Their account of that night set the tone for how we imagine extraterrestrials today.
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Betty and Barney Hill said they had an encounter with aliens more than 60 years ago. Their story became the launching point for alien abductions in popular culture. They said it happened late one night on a lonely road in New Hampshire’s White Mountains.
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Andrew Wyeth’s 1948 painting “Christina’s World” shows the reality of life for his longtime friend, a woman with a disability, on her farm in coastal Maine.