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Saturday, November 28th, 2009
Fifty years ago today, the world got its first look at Judd Asher Nelson, and vice versa. Born in Portland and...
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Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
November 22, 1963. Comedian Lenny Bruce takes the stage. The audience, reeling from the events of earlier that day,...
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
Back in March, an interview with Stephen King appeared in USA Weekend. In it, he was asked to compare J.K. Rowling,...
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Maine is the only state that's well known for two different beans. One is B&M Baked Beans, produced in...
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John Cariani, who grew up in Presque Isle (he once said, "They call Montana Big Sky Country. Well. . .they...
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Back in 1969, Britney Spears's mother was 14, JFK Jr. was 8, Kurt Cobain was 2, and a children's program went on...
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Maine has not one, not two, but three famous people who are associated with eye patches. That's got to be a record...
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Maine's got a long record of witches and ghosts and inexplicable paranormal kind of stuff, and with Halloween...
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In 1882, Hiram Stevens Maxim, native of Sangerville and recent emigrant to Britain, was told by a man in Vienna,...
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Shiloh Pepin of Kennebunkport was born with sirenomelia, or "mermaid syndrome" - her legs were fused...
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