PLYMOUTH, Mass. -- In 1620, Miles Standish led 101 other Mayflower colonists ashore here. He battled Indians, took part in the first Thanksgiving and inspired Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's classic poem ...

MONTPELIER — When professional baseball player Miles Standish died in 1905, news of his demise broke the heart of more than one sportswriter who had taken pleasure in deriving similes and puns ...

THE introduction and acclimatization of the hexameter upon English soil has been an affair of more than two centuries. The attempt was first systematically made during the reign of Elizabeth, but the ...

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In the painting, "The Embarkation of the Pilgrims," by Robert W. Weir, Myles Standish and his wife, Rose, are on the far right, in the foreground. (Wikimedia Commons) Massachusetts is deciding whether ...