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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston
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.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Fine_Arts,_Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts (often abbreviated as MFA Boston or MFA) is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the 20th-largest art museum in the world, measured by public gallery area. It contains 8,161 paintings and more than 450,000 works of art, making it one of the most comprehensive collections in the Americas. With more than 1.2 million visitors a year, it is the 79th-most-visited art museum in the world as of 2022.
Founded in 1870 in Copley Square, the museum moved to its current Fenway location in 1909. It is affiliated with the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts.
Additional Foreign Language Tags:
(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"
From our trip this march, we visited as much a we could in the 5 days we were there, from Foxbrough to Salem and everything in between. freedom trail, Aquarium, sail round harbour the state house, Bunker hill, Boston common, science museum, Fenway park and the top of the Prudential building
-Boston, Massachusetts-January 24, 2017-
NEWEA 2017 Annual Conference & Exhibit
© Photo by Cindy M. Loo
(Boston, MA 7/14/21) Mayor Kim Janey attends the ground breaking for the North Meadow on Greenway. (Mayor’s Office Photo by John Wilcox)
Boston view taken from riverside of M.I.T in cloudy day. After I drove far away through snow storm from Vermont to rain storm in Boston, Massachusetts on the way to my home Virginia. It was such a long long day of driving.
(Boston, MA 03/26/18) Mayor Martin Walsh speaks to the crowd gathered at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul for the Walk for Hunger Kickoff. Monday, March 26, 2018. (Mayor's Office Photo by John Wilcox)
A transformer fire near the Back Bay Hilton spread thick black smoke across Back Bay and the Charles River. Seen here from the Cambridge esplanade
Merrimack College Christmas celebration, Friday, Dec. 12, 2023 at the Park Plaza hotel in Boston, Mass. Photo by Mary Schwalm
(Boston, MA 09/7/18) Mayor Martin Walsh attends Red Sox game at Fenway Park. (Mayor's Office Photo by John Wilcox)
As seen from Crystal Cove, Winthrop, MA.
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