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Boston smart city: Stuff you can do (and didn't know you could)
Sometimes, smart city technology helps. Other times, not so much: say, interactive art prone to getting loved to death. Boston has tinkered with both feeble and fab apps, resulting in pretty useful apps. Here are six examples that will get you phone-jabby.
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Trolley Types of Boston
1955 shot of a Type 5 streetcar on the 29/Mattapan-Egleston line in Mattapan Square entering the Mattapan terminal, and more from Boston's history.
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Boston’s ‘Free Speech’ Rally Goes Bust vs. 40,000 Protesters
One organizer said he’s “definitely” not coming back soon after tens of thousands drowned out 50 people and him in a gazebo. Hours after he had been escorted from Boston Common in a police van, one of the organizers of the “free speech” rally was still shaken up. “I honestly thought I was going to die in there,” Steven said of the “paddy wagon” in which he and 16 others were escorted from a gazebo that hosted the “Boston Free Speech Rally.”
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Boston march against alt-right rally draws thousands
Tens of thousands of anti-racism protesters have converged on a "Free Speech Rally" in the US city of Boston that featured right-wing speakers. The rally on Boston Common, which attracted only a small crowd, disbanded early and the participants were escorted out by police. Organisers had said they would not give a platform to racism or bigotry.
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Far-right demonstrators 'outnumbered 10 to 1 by anti-fascists' at Boston protests
Far-right demonstrators in Boston appeared to be greatly outnumbered by their opponents - perhaps as much as ten to one - as the city braced for two competing rallies. The Mayor of Boston, Marty Walsh, issued an appeal to the many thousands of people taking part in the two events to be peaceful and show respect. “I ask everyone to be peaceful today and respect our city. Love, not hate. We stand together against intolerance,” said Mr Walsh. “We will not tolerate violence or property damage of any kind.”
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Boston Town
Della Mae
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The Sting of the Lie
For reporters, deception often is a formative experience. By Ann Marie Lipinski.
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Boston Red Sox Fan Reports A Racial Slur, And A Lifetime Ban Results
At the same baseball game that saw Boston Red Sox fans make amends with a player targeted by racial slurs at Fenway Park, one fan reportedly used a slur to comment on a singer — and that fan has now been banned from the stadium. "Yes, it was a racial comment," Red Sox club President Sam Kennedy said, according to the team. "It was a racial comment used to describe the national anthem that was taking place, the performance of the national anthem. It was sickening to hear."
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A Boston Taxi in the Night
I shot this on my way home from PAX East this year; I'm practicing photography as a hobby- I've a ways to go, I think, but I like the feeling of this picture.
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Boston Public Library Puts Its World-Class Collection Of Rare Shakespeare Works On Display
“To be, or not to be—that is the question.” Those might be the most famous words in all of English literature. But are they the original words in "Hamlet?" That is also the question, and just one of the many things you’ll encounter at the exhibit “Shakespeare Unauthorized” at the Boston Public Library, which includes some of the earliest and rarest surviving copies of Shakespeare’s greatest works.
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The tragedy that Boston forgot
“Patsy turned to Biggi and mentioned that they seemed to be going faster than usual. Suddenly, Walsh spotted a set of metal gates blocking the road 30 feet away. For an instant, he froze, then he grabbed the brake handle with his right hand, yanking so hard it bent...” By Eric Moskowitz.
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Boston Light Still Shines Bright after Three Centuries
Ahead of its 300th birthday, we get a special look at the history of America's first lighthouse in Little Brewster Island from its current and first woman keeper.
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Uber and Lyft to tip Massachusetts taxi drivers a nickel per trip
Add to the list of Massachusetts’ odd laws. The Codfish State already forbids tomatoes in clam chowder, tattooing and body piercing, dueling to the death on Boston Common on Sundays unless the Governor is present, and playing the fiddle in Boston at any time, according to Only in Your State. The latest judiciary jaw-dropper requires that ride-hail companies subsidize taxi companies, according to Reuters. The new law, just inked by the Massachusetts governor, requires that Uber, Lyft, and other ride-hailing companies pay a 5-cent fee per ride to taxi companies.
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Shipwreck found in Boston construction site
It was a typical day at work for construction crews in Boston. They were digging on a lot of land planned for a 400,000-square-foot office building, but little did they know they were about to unearth a historic find: the remains off a 50-foot wooden ship from the mid- to late 1800s. "This is the first shipwreck that I know of in Boston discovered in filled land," city archaeologist Joe Bagley told CNN affiliate WBZ. "This is the largest and most significant by far." The Skanska construction crew stumbled across the discovery in the Seaport District last week and immediately halted construction.
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2016 Boston Marathon: Ethiopian Runners Sweep Men’s, Women’s Races
On another day filled with powerful memories and images, two runners from Ethiopia were the men’s and women’s winners in the 120th Boston Marathon on Monday.
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In Cambridge, a haven for Muslim women to get their hair cut and styled in private
At previous haircuts, Zaynah Qutubuddin and her stylist squeezed into the salon’s break room, beside the trashcan, the microwave, and the bathroom door -- a private, if dim, substitute for the studio with big mirrors. Sometimes her mother -- a psychiatrist, not a stylist -- trimmed her hair. For Muslim women such as Qutubuddin, who wear the headscarf known as a hijab, getting a hair cut is no easy task. But that’s slowly beginning to change. By Kathleen Burge. (Nov. ’14)
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Boston Chinese: A Fusion Food Cooked Up in a Melting Pot City
Peking ravioli? Chow mein sandwiches? Bread as a standard side dish? There's a fascinating history behind Boston's unique spin on Chinese cuisine.
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Greater Boston - Audio Drama
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The Great Boston Molasses Flood
In 1919 a wave of molasses traveling at 35mph destroyed an entire neighborhood.
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Boston’s struggle with income segregation
In a region known for its searing struggles with racial division, another once-secondary form of segregation — income segregation — has become a defining force.
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