boston had a lot of fires. it was said that boston was built to burn by one other author, as a matter of fact. so we can look at this fire in the context of other fires in the city. i'd like to sort of set the stage as well about what boston was like in the in 1872. it was a city of about 250,000 people. it was a port city, very busy commerce activity. not only had the universities but it was a center for the sale and export of wholesale goods manufacturing. there were factories, many of which were in the downtown area. it the city, of course was very jealous of its we still are about a position as the athens of america that we are the bed of a lot of reforms of liberty and other things important in american history, particularly in the social justice, social such as women's suffrage and animal welfare, which i'm going to talk about in a bit now, the downtown area. and by that i mean, that area we now call crossing the basically the intersection of winter streets this area prior to 1872 had been kind of a neigh

another outside boston. recruits from the south would be inoculated at dumfries or alexander area in virginia or right where we are, right near where we sit in georgetown, maryland. one soldier recalled hundreds. a soldier from north carolina recalled hundreds of his fellow soldiers being inoculated, quote, where washington city now stands. in morristown, new jersey, where washington and the majority of the continental army were camped. he made a deal with the local population. local population wasn't so sure about having all these soldiers inoculating. won't that spread disease to our town? washington made a deal that if they allowed the soldiers to inoculate, he would provide free inoculations for anyone in the town who opened up their homes, churches and businesses to the soldiers that he would inoculate them for free. remember, this is a considerable expense. so soldiers and civilians inoculated together in morristown. very few soldiers. so this was a remarkable success. the inoculations of the continent

bob payne is borinhe so-called town of boston. in 1731 to world not much differt from the town of 16,000 shown here in ts paul revere engraving, his parents are a preacher turned merchant named thomas paine. a preacher turned merchant. figure that one out and a preacher's daughter named eunice. her father, reverend samuel treat, was a minister among native americans on cape cod and, you know, thomas and eunice raise him and three sisters in a house a block from the public latin school. so bob has no excuse for tardiness. indeed, he graduates at the head of his class, other future patriot alumnae include samuel adams and john hancock, the school's most famous dropout. benjamin franklin, whom paine will soon meet and discover a shared interest in scientific matters. bob's diary records his fascination with what he calls the electra city, as well as fire works at age 14, when boston is celebrating the fall of the french colonial city of lewisburg home court, two marauding privateers during the dimly recalled war of austrian successio

it was a pillar of the late streets of boston. it was something i had never really known about before. i was astonished by my ignorance. it is a wonderful thing for reported to be. but also by the relations between jim and his patients. harvard educated, people arguing with statues and sleeping on park benches. the duration of the want between he and those peoples will request only to me. it felt good somehow. i wanted to go back just to see if my impression was corrected. i went out with him all along. there was corrected. i think i decided i would really like to write about this. >> there were some parallels between your 2009 pulitzer prize-winning book about mountains beyond mountains, someone who worked on an international stage but people who had so few resources. are you drawn to these kinds of subjects? >> that one did not win the pulitzer prize. >> you on the -- you won the pulitzer prize. let's go back to the parallels. do you feel like you are drawn to these sorts of stories of people that are administering to those who

meanwhile, the soldiers and boston are soon quartered with citizens. it is only a matter of time before british soldiers and local citizens come to blows in late february, a customs informer defending himself from an angry mob fires into the crowd and kills 11 year old christopher cider on a snowy marsh fifth in 1770 in front of the town house, british soldiers fire on unarmed civilians and kill five, including native american black crispus attucks. four days later, samuel adams is colleague william molnar sends a letter to paine in taunton, formerly requesting him to return to boston and lead the prosecute in which he is fully willing to do. he accepts, but first he must attend to a personal matter. marrying sally cobb, who has been carrying his chil for seven months. when he finally gets wo of it in february and the next day, immediately asks for her hand in marriage. ten days after the massacre, which was march 5t on march 15th, bob and sally marry her parents house, the first of their eighthildren is born. two months later, a name for the father. t

minus 13 in boston. numbers in the morning will be even more dangerous, and that wed spot blizzard warning, that's for blowing snow on the ground. minus 57 in caribou. minus 11 in new york. this is hype thermic stuff, frostbite in minutes. but a rapid rebound in temperatures coming during the day sunday. we'll start in single digits in many spots all the way into the 40s for sunday, monday, and tuesday. it's just a matter of survival for the next 36 hours. >> whiplash for sure, but take saturday seriously. rob, we thank you. get back inside. >> we're going to turn next to the doctor struck by a car. police say he was then attacked. he did not survive. that emergency room doctor riding his bike on the pacific coast highway, stuck by a driver. police say the driver then got out of the car and stabbed the dr. bystanders taking the man down. here's matt gutman from california tonight. >> reporter: tonight, an e.r. doctor is dead after police in california say a motorist slammed into him, then got out of his

and so yeah, it's boston. so they're used to cold weather but nothing quite like this alzheimer's game. amazon though, out in it, in boston, many festive, april insurance capitol of protested against the cost of a parade barking independence day. $550000.00 of public funds were used for the military event and colombo shall anchor is in the midst of its worst economic crisis from history and to serious michelle fernandez, was there the irony of a country celebrating the 75th anniversary of its independence, but very much on the siege. like you can see the people behind me essentially the ordinary. she luncheons locked out. we've had a number of senior police officers telling people they can't go clearing them. now this is one of the sort of entrance points to the parade location. obviously, a number of police, a special task force personnel as well as the military in other areas. now there are obviously water cannons at the ready or with the complimentary water buzzers. and these are in the event that the prote

the founding and early leadership of boston's of fine ar.thatummer of 1880 homer also in painting a series of dramatic sunsets, many of them with loose brushwork and aearance of abstraction. until one looks more carefully at their which reflect homer's characteristically disciplined geometric methodology. in this case, the returning schooners bow just touches the vertical center line. the tree of gloucester's western shore make a slightiagonal balance like a seesaw. precisely at the horizontal center lines. midpoint. homer's work of that long, productive sumr 1880 did in fact finance his second european trip as he hoped it would. he spent 20 months in 1881 and 1882. primary early in the north sea english fishing village of cullercoats near newcastle. we are in a darker palette. he made more ambitious, larger watercolors. his eye generally focused on the stolid women and children who remained on shore as their husbands, brothers and fathers journey journeyed out to fish by day. again, he deployed a methodical, geometric compositional system t

they also want to send the craft to boston, boston is known as a hotbed of raging abolitionists, it is place where there is a strong black community and neighborhood where they physically can be protected. if you go there now, right next to the african meeting house can see alleyways where people go in and out. it has been described as a honeycomb. it would be really hard to physically get them out of that neighborhood. susan: in philadelphia if they reveal themselves to the abolitionist community, did the word start spreading immediately? you say this was an age of communication, did the story spread far and wide at that point? ilyon woo: absolutely because this has been evidenced today, it's a great story. i have been following these different activists and you can hear the whispers, did you hear this? have you heard of this incredible feat? it's like nothing i've ever heard of. so people are writing back and forth, and news is often traveling across the country because they encounter this man who is a self a man dissipated -- emancipated man, a great storyteller and lecturer antisla

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and he still sitting freeze up in boston and new york with that certainly breeze. most the central states are looking fine. there is winter in the west. once again, rain's coming down the california coast and easily tends to snow in land. and that's true in the rockies to where that snow is maintained. in fact, the code it produces a bit more snow in the midwest. this is nothing extraordinary. no excessive, extraordinary bearing caribbean, the steady trade winds mean frequent, but fatty light charged the most part, some heavy stuff, i think round the nose, bahamas, at least to start sunday. in south america, there are showers extending all the way from valley staff in crew and bolivia. down towards the southeast, brazil really looks relatively dry south of that. the problem is not so much been rain as the heat is produced, forest fires south of santiago and given there's no real change out of the wind or the rain. there's a light continue. ah, oncology, the coast to europe's population is aging, should pension schemes be reformed. egypt and pakistan's economic cris

massacre also happens again in boston. in 1773 when a group of colony us who are disguised as native americans, interestingly, boarded three ships in the harbor where they threw more than 300 chests of tea into the water, resulting in the loss of 10,000 gbp worth of property, which in today's dollars is roughly $4 million worth. okay, so a lot of property loss there. this is known today as the boston tea party. and the destruction was in response to a tea tax that had been imposed and which the colonists rejected as yet another violation of their right to consent to the british respond quickly and very harshly to what they see as a big here. the new prime minister, lord north, he declares that it was time to really put to the test whether the british had real authority the colonies to kind of go there and demonstrate that were in control or else figure out if they weren't. now the result of this was the imposition of what the americans called the coercive or intolerable acts of the boston port was closed until the tea woul

they gave the lowest on record in my washington lowest 3rd since 1957 boston. you heard this already, but you add the wind that then you get the wind you about. these are the things that make headlines. mount washington minus 70 it ridiculous figure. that's why you're warned not to go and stand out and discuss what it feels like to you in boston. it felt like minus 30 at this time the morning. felt like morning minus 45 in ottawa. now you said it does not very often fairly obviously, and this one's that is bit off to iceland to cause some trouble, but nothing like as bad. i have to say one of the advantages or one of the pretty things when you get out to care over was resisting cold arctic sea smoke where the effect of the water ex, acts like a kettle. as i said, is all gone. now the cold is out of the way it did start coating for even now is minus 5 in boston. and yes, you could still call it wind chill windshield megs. it probably feels to gabrielle like, minus 30 see. but this is the worst off it is now on its way out by the end of the day. we should see pos

people are used to cold weather here in boston this time of year. but this is unusual. the last time it got this cold in boston was 1957 in parts of maine, it was so cold, there were frost quakes. small earthquakes caused by sudden cracks in frozen soil. elsewhere the brutal, cold, complicated the emergency response to a massive fire after train derailment overnight in ohio, freezing the water being pumped to fire fighters. icey roads have made for hazardous driving in some states, like here in oklahoma. but back in boston, temperatures began to creep up slightly in the afternoon, reaching negative 12. people began to come out and brave the elements having some fun. but this is certainly a deep freeze that people here won't forget any time soon. gabriel's ando al jazeera boston, i still ahead on al jazeera will be lied to you by the capital of sa sedan, where pope francis is holding a big mass as he wraps up his 3 day visit to the country. stay with us. ah, february what i just need rhinos and tigers in the pool, post to the brink of extinction, one or one, he's discove

plus i'm gabriel's onto in boston, massachusetts. we're an arctic blast of cold air is rolling through the northeast of america, causing record low temperatures. that story coming up. i'm devin ashwin sports also lives in the premier league for just the 2nd time this season. the leaders and beaten by struggling everton who in their 1st game under the manage f as shown, dice is not not ah, it is just after 1800 hours, gmc president joe piped and says that the u. s. will take care of what the pentagon calls a chinese surveillance balloon that's floating over american soil biden. didn't specify how washington intends to proceed. beijing, as urged for calm as the balloon float of a charlotte in the state of north carolina. let's get straight to washington to odyssey rosette, mike hannah, who's there for us? what can we read into mike, president biden's words when he says that the u. s. will take care of this balloon? well, very difficult to assume what he meant by that he was responding to a question shouted out to him by a report on a t

and about the brave people of boston, i represent charles smitty, not boston. mr. president. sir, virginia is bound by both honor and self-interest to share one faith with our sister here. i recognize. i know one be just the part of it only the king. and i the colonies are tied to through their ties to the crown. virginia is a self governing domain in within the british empire. the gentleman virginia should be prepared and i consider acts of parliament limiting our westward growth, attempting to tax our without their consent, closing the port of boston. indeed of the intolerable acts. gentlemen, these the aggressive acts of. a foreign power and they must be resisted. gentlemen, with all means within our power. the god who gave us, gave us liberty at the same time. i earnestly call on this convention to support mr. henry's resolution. sir. it it's jefferson. we must be led discretion, which is guided by simple reason. how can we be discreet, sir? we can aim at short range. and those ships soon be in the chesapeake bay. mr. president. i'm independent. john kerry. thank you, sir