Born Richard Melville Hall, Moby received his nickname as a child; it derives from the fact that Herman Melville, the author of Moby Dick, is his great-great grand uncle. Moby was born and raised in Darien, CT.
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"the wordy shipmates" by sarah vowell
THE THREE ODDEST THINGS...
By W. Szymborska
"When I pronounce the word Future,
the first syllable already belongs to the past.
When I pronounce the word Silence,
I destroy it.
When I pronounce the word Nothing,
I make something no non-being can hold."
MASSACHUSETTS' FAMOUS FIRSTS...
1621 The first Thanksgiving was celebrated in Plymouth,
1634 Boston Common became the first public park in America,
1636 Harvard, the first American university, was founded in Newtowne (now Cambridge),
1638 The first American printing press was set up in Cambridge by Stephen Daye,
1639 The first post office in America was Richard Fairbanks' tavern in Boston,
1716 The first American lighthouse was built in Boston Harbor,
1806 The first church built by free blacks in America, the African Meeting House, opened on Joy Street in Boston,
1826 The first American railroad was built in Quincy,
1827 The first swim school in America, among the first to enroll was John Quincy Adams,
1840 The typewriter was invented by Charles Thurber in Worcester,
1875 The first American Christmas card was printed in Boston,
1896 Landscape architect Charles Eliot developed Revere Beach as the first public beach in America,
1897 The first Boston Marathon, with ...15 runners,
1944 M.I.T's Howard Aiken developed the first automatic digital computer.
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