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The Boston Traveler

July 13th, 2008

Bastille Day Festivities Continue at The Beehive

If you thought Cambridge’s Bastille Day Block Party in Harvard Square this weekend was the only festive celebration of the French holiday in the Boston area, you are incorrect. On Monday, July 14, the actual date the holiday falls on, South End nightspot The Beehive (541 Tremont Street, Boston, 617-423-0069) will hold yet another […]

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July 10th, 2008

Weekend Highlight: Bastille Day Block Party in Harvard Square

Although the French national holiday Bastille Day officially takes place on July 14, Boston residents and visitors will get to celebrate it early when Harvard Square hosts a marathon block party this Sunday, July 13, to commemorate the start of the French Revolution in 1789.
The assorted activities scheduled during the family-oriented event include attractions for […]

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March 7th, 2008

Boston Hospital Gets First U.S. Go-Ahead for Face Transplants

File this under FASCINATING.
Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston has once again made history. In December 1954, future Nobel Prize winner Dr. Joseph Murray performed the world’s first successful human organ transplant there when he transplanted a kidney from 23-year-old Ronald Herrick to his seriously ill identical twin brother Richard Herrick. The Harvard […]

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