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Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the Northeastern United States. The city boundaries encompass an area of about 48.4 sq mi (125 km2) and a population of 675,647 as of 2020. The city is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area known as Greater Boston, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to 4,941,632 people as of 2020, ranking as the eleventh-largest MSA in the country. A broader combined statistical area (CSA), generally corresponding to the commuting area and including Worcester, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island, is home to approximately 8.2 million people, making it the seventh-most populous in the United States.
Boston is one of the nation's oldest municipalities, founded on the Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by Puritan settlers from the English town of the same name. During the American Revolution and the nation's founding, Boston was the location of several key events, including the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, the hanging of Paul Revere's lantern signal in Old North Church, the Battle of Bunker Hill, and the siege of Boston. Following American independence from Great Britain, the city continued to play an important role as a port, manufacturing hub, and center for American education and culture. The city has expanded beyond the original peninsula through land reclamation and municipal annexation. Its rich history attracts many tourists, with Faneuil Hall alone drawing more than 20 million visitors per year. Boston's many firsts include the United States' first public park (Boston Common, 1634), the first public school (Boston Latin School, 1635), the first subway system (Tremont Street subway, 1897), and the first large public library (Boston Public Library, 1848).
In the 21st century, Boston has emerged as a global leader in higher education and academic research. Greater Boston's many colleges and universities include Harvard University and MIT, both located in suburban Cambridge and both routinely included among the world's most highly ranked universities. The city is also a national leader in scientific research, law, medicine, engineering, and business. With nearly 5,000 startup companies, the city is considered a global pioneer in innovation and entrepreneurship. Boston's economic base also includes finance, professional and business services, biotechnology, information technology, and government activities. Households in the city claim the highest average rate of philanthropy in the United States. Boston businesses and institutions rank among the top in the country for environmental sustainability and new investment.
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(United States) "الولايات المتحدة" "Vereinigte Staaten" "アメリカ" "美国" "미국" "Estados Unidos" "États-Unis"
(Massachusetts) "ماساتشوستس" "麻萨诸塞州" "मैसाचुसेट्स" "マサチューセッツ" "매사추세츠 주" "Массачусетс"
(Boston) "بوسطن" "波士顿" "बोस्टन" "ボストン" "보스턴" "Бостон"
-Boston, MA-January 25, 2023-
NEWEA 2023 Annual Conference and Exhibit at the Boston Marriott Copley Place.
© 2023 Photo by Cindy M. Loo
-Boston, MA-January 25, 2023-
NEWEA 2023 Annual Conference and Exhibit at the Boston Marriott Copley Place.
© 2023 Photo by Cindy M. Loo
What's left of the newbury alleys (As of 12-24-2006)
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View of the Boston Massachusetts Skyline at Sunset from the Prudential Center Skywalk Observatory
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This night, I followed my girl and hang arround Boston to find a bar... She kept on reading the guide while I was taking picutres. I spent a great night with her even if we didn't find an open one...
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Boston Manor in concerto al Rock Im Park 2025 di Norimberga foto di Pier Paolo Campo per www.rockon.it
View of the Orange Line from the Lechmere-bound Green Line platform. 8 Jan 2008. © 2009 Peter Ehrlich
Boston. Massachusetts.
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File name: 11_07_000409
Title: Boston suburban aerial view (unspecified location), unspecified Boston suburb
Creator/Contributor: Grant, Spencer, 1944- (photographer)
Date created: 1974
Physical description: 1 negative : film, black & white ; 35 mm.
Genre: Film negatives; Aerial views
Subjects: Houses; Residential streets
Notes: Title from photographer caption.
Collection: Spencer Grant Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: Copyright © Spencer Grant
(Boston, MA 3/30/20) Marty Martinez, Chief of Heath and Human Services for the City of Boston, answers a question as he and Mayor Martin Walsh update the city on the coronavirus outbreak during a press conference outside of City Hall. (Mayor’s Office Photo by John Wilcox)
Stained Glass Window
17 - Roundel - hybrid archer set on seaweed foilage.
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Welcome to Boston Guildhall Museum and Tourist Information Centre.
Built in the 1390’s this building is a testament to the wealth and influence of the Guild of St Mary at a time when Boston’s power as a centre of trade was second only to London. This wonderfully preserved building, with a wealth of original features, has survived the centuries and is to be enjoyed as one of Boston’s finest visitor attractions.
A wealth of stories, secrets and experiences are told and shared throughout the building including the history of the Guild of St Mary, international trade with the Hanseatic League, the foundation of the Corporation of Boston and the very famous trial and imprisonment of the Pilgrims.
Boston Guildhall Museum is free to visit and our opening hours are Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10:30am – 3:30pm, last admission to the museum is 3pm.
www.mybostonuk.com/bostonguildhall/
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Boston’s wealth was due to the activities of the Guildsmen of St Mary – an internationally significant religious fraternity in one of the most important ports of medieval England who were able to communicate directly with the pope.
The merchant’s Guild of St Mary was a religious guild founded in 1260. For a gold coin fee and annual subscription, men, and unusually for the time, women, could be members and they maintained the Lady Chapel in Boston Stump for the purposes of “get out of purgatory” prayer. They also made provision for support of the poor of the parish.
The merchants made their fortunes trading mainly in wool – the backbone and driving force of medieval English economy. Boston’s Guildsmen worked hard and played hard. They recruited paupers of the town, giving them board, lodging and pay, to be beadsmen. The Beadsmen, so named because of the rosary beads they used during prayer, were paid by the merchants to help save their souls from the torture of eternal damnation. They believed that they could carry on living sinful and debauched lives so long as they continued to pay the Beadsmen to say prayers to reduce the time they would have to spend in the limbo of purgatory where their souls would be purified from sin.
When the Crown gave approval for guilds to possess assets, Boston’s fantastically rich merchants almost immediately built the Guildhall, making it one of the first in the country. The Guildhall was built from a new material not readily available in the 13th Century. The clay to mike its red bricks was dug out locally, and even Flemish brick makers were employed when it would have been much easier and cheaper to build out of more traditional materials such as stone or timber.
Their Beadsmen now had a home from which to pray for doomed souls – and the merchants celebrations went on, much of it actually in the new Guildhall’s banqueting hall. Many of these celebrations or festivities centred around religious dates on the calendar – feast and saints’ days – but there would always be food galore and mead and wine on these occasions.
They believed that in order to further to reduce their time in purgatory, gifts of property and land were given to the guild in return for salvation, calculated on a “pay” scale, ranging from 100 days remission from penance all the way up to 500 years of absolution. Over the centuries the guild acquired many sacred relics including a silver and gilt case containing an image of the Virgin and Child and, most fantastically, a sample of the Virgins breast milk. These items, along with others, recorded on an inventory on display in the Council Chamber. Were such alleged artefacts to still exist today Boston would be a world centre for pilgrimage to rival Lourdes and Turin. Along with a silver and gilt case containing part of the stone of Calvary, Boston Guildhall’s treasures have been long lost, claimed by King Henry VIII when he broke his ties with the pope and renounced religious guilds, taking land and property from them.
The Guildhall’s use as a religious building ended with the dissolution of the guilds and the founding of the new Corporation in 1545.
www.mybostonuk.com/bostonguildhall/museum/
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Boston Guildhall is a former municipal building in Boston, Lincolnshire. It currently serves as a local museum and also as a venue for civil ceremonies and private functions. It is a Grade I listed building.
File name: 08_06_014809
Title: Longfellow Bridge and new drive
Creator/Contributor: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967 (photographer)
Date created: 1931-10
Physical description: 1 negative : glass, black & white ; 4 x 5 in.
Genre: Glass negatives
Subjects: Bridges; Subways
Notes: Title and date from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve.
Collection: Leslie Jones Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: Copyright © Leslie Jones.
Preferred credit: Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection.
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The Boston Alliance of Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Youth (BAGLY) is a "youth-led, adult-supported social support organization committed to social justice, and creating, sustaining and advocating for programs, policies and services for the GLBT community." Services youth up to age 22. - www.bagly.org/about