On September 10, 2001, Mohamed Atta picked up Omari from the Milner Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts, and the two drove their rented Nissan to a Comfort Inn in South Portland, Maine, where they spent the night in room 232.

The railroad connected Lower Manhattan via the South Ferry to Greenport on the North Fork of Long Island, where a ferry connected to Stonington, Connecticut to a rail link that continued to Boston.

Benjamin Franklin was born on Milk Street, in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 17, 1706 and baptized at Old South Meeting House.

East – west traffic on the Massachusetts Turnpike now proceeds directly through the Ted Williams Tunnel to Logan Airport and Route 1A beyond, with new exits in South Boston along the way.

Yet another plan, the North-South Rail Link that would have connected North and South Stations ( the major passenger train stations in Boston ), was part of the original Big Dig but was ultimately dropped by the Dukakis administration as an impediment to acquiring federal funding for the project.

A Boston Globe report, however, countered that by stating there were nearly 700 leaks in a single section of tunnel beneath South Station.

On July 10, 2006, a concrete ceiling panel weighing 3 tons ( 2722 kg ) and measuring 20 by 40 ft ( 6. 1 by 12. 2 m ) fell on a car traveling on the two-lane ramp connecting northbound I-93 to eastbound I-90 in South Boston, killing Milena Del Valle, who was a passenger, and injuring her husband, Angel Del Valle, who was driving.

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* In 1946, upper deck seats were installed ; Fenway Park is essentially the first double-tiered ballpark in Boston since the South End Grounds of the 1880s.

One plan even involved building a " Sports Megaplex " in South Boston, where a new Fenway would be located next to a new stadium for the New England Patriots.

" Cardoso claimed that " gonzo " was South Boston Irish slang describing the last man standing after an all-night drinking marathon.

Bell advised the couple to contact the Perkins Institute for the Blind, the school where Bridgman had been educated, which was then located in South Boston.

To some South Boston residents, Kennedy's support of a plan that " integrated " their children with blacks and his apparent unwillingness to do the same with his own children, was hypocrisy.

" In The Last Egyptian, Lord Roane uses " nigger " to insult the title character, while in The Daring Twins, set in the American South, the only character to use the term is a boy from Boston complaining that his mother uses their money to help " naked niggers in Africa.

Riots and lynchings against Italian Americans erupted into the 20th century in the South, as well as in New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia and Boston.

The IWW also had a presence among waterfront workers in Boston, New York City, New Orleans, Houston, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Eureka, Portland, Tacoma, Seattle, Vancouver as well as in ports in the Caribbean, Mexico, South America, Australia, New Zealand, Germany and other nations.

In his memoir, All Souls, Michael Patrick MacDonald describes how many white residents of the Old Colony housing project in South Boston used this meaning to degrade the people considered to be of lower status, whether white or black.

Tubman hoped to offer her own expertise and skills to the Union cause, too, and soon she joined a group of Boston and Philadelphia abolitionists heading to the Hilton Head District in South Carolina.

The Massachusetts Port Authority ( Massport ) operates the Port of Boston, which includes a container shipping facility in South Boston, and Logan International Airport in East Boston.

Except for the Back Bay and part of South Boston, Boston has no street grid, which is confusing for nonresident drivers.

France Telecom is present in the US through its Equant enterprise services and its venture capital arm, Innovacom as well as two R & D labs: one in Boston and the other in South San Francisco, California.

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In 1923, The Boston Globe reported that a section of the North End had been dubbed " Radio Row " because of the large number of radio antennas being installed in that neighborhood.

The Boston Molasses Disaster, also known as the Great Molasses Flood and the Great Boston Molasses Tragedy, occurred on January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts in the United States.

She presented the North End in Boston, Massachusetts, as an idealization of this persistent occupation and tasking in a condensed city space, as a model for criminal control.

He began depositing the money in the Hanover Trust Bank of Boston ( a small bank on Hanover Street in the mostly Italian North End ), in the hope that once his account was large enough he could impose his will on the bank or even be made its president ; he bought a controlling interest in the bank through himself and several friends after depositing $ 3 million.

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Paul Revere was born in the North End of Boston on December 21, 1734, according to the Old Style calendar then in use, or January 1, 1735, in the modern calendar.

Nimoy was born in Boston, Massachusetts in the West End, to Yiddish-speaking Orthodox Jewish immigrants from Iziaslav, Soviet Union ( now Ukraine ).

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The main campus is situated along the Charles River in Boston's Fenway-Kenmore and Allston neighborhoods, while the Boston University Medical Campus is in Boston's South End neighborhood.

Boston Grammar School, an all male selective school, is on South End, near the John Adams Way ( A52 / A16 ), Geoff Moulder Leisure Centre and River Witham.

Also, notably Boston gays moving to the South End and for lesbians, to Jamaica Plain.

In Boston, the trendy and upscale South End neighborhood has a large population of gay men, and the Jamaica Plain and Roslindale neighborhoods are home to scores of lesbians, also with vibrant but less trendy downtown areas.

Industrial buildings that were formerly vacant have been converted into loft spaces by real estate developers, and bought by young home-buyers who seek the urban lifestyle of Boston proper, but can't afford the higher prices of Boston's South End and similar neighborhoods.

Prince Hall, for example, was interred in Copp's Hill Burying Ground in the North End of Boston 35 years later.

Sherman's " The End of a Symphony ," spotlighting Arthur Fiedler's Boston Pops Orchestra, reached # 113 on the " Bubbling Under " chart in 1964, but did not make the Hot 100.

* Carl Boggs and David Plotke, The Politics of Eurocommunism: Socialism in Transition, Boston: South End Press, 1999 ( reprint ) ISBN 0-89608-051-X

Thomas Hutchinson was born on 9 September 1711 in the North End of Boston, the fourth of twelve children of Thomas and Sarah Foster Hutchinson.

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