Culture of Massachusetts

17th century English possession in North America

artificial waterway in Massachusetts, USA, connecting Cape Cod Bay to Buzzards Bay

civic holiday in the USA

The smoot is a nonstandard, humorous unit of length created as part of an MIT fraternity pledge to Lambda Chi Alpha by Oliver R. Smoot, who in October 1958 lay down repeatedly on the Harvard Bridge between Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, so that his fraternity brothers could use his height to measure the length of the bridge.

commemorates the evacuation of British forces from Boston in 1776

town common and battle site in Massachusetts, USA

beauty contest

sports association for the city of Boston, hosts such events as the Boston Marathon

rowing race on the Charles River, Boston/Cambridge