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...very high for placing your mark on a road here. Brattle Street is named for a leading Tory general, William Brattle, who tipped off the Royal government when citizens started arming themselves in advance of the Revolution. Then he seized the rebels’ gunpowder and fled to Nova Scotia??€”great guy! And let’s not bother delving into the sins of Harvard’s philandering and racist former presidents, whose names adorn a multitude of Cambridge roads and University buildings...

Author: By Zachary M. Seward | Title: Get Me Rewrite! | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

...tree this year have cast a shadow over a tradition between Boston and Canada. For the past 34 years, Nova Scotia has sent a carefully-selected tree to Boston as a gesture of gratitude for the help that Boston gave to Halifax—the capital of Nova Scotia??€”in the aftermath of a December 1917 explosion of two ships near the port of Halifax that killed and injured thousands of citizens...

Author: By Charles R. Drummond iv, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Boston's 'Holiday Tree' Sparks Controversy | 11/28/2005 | See Source »

...important part of the trade between the two countries, Cellucci said, is commerce in oil, natural gas and other energy sources. He highlighted work done during his days as Mass. Governor to alleviate a home heating oil crisis by opening a direct pipeline to the state from Nova Scotia??€™s Sable Island...

Author: By David S. Hirsch, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cellucci Urges Foreign Trade | 2/12/2002 | See Source »

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