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Clearly, the Count Rumford grave is the University's least used and most unusual property holding. The Count, who was born Benjamin Thompson of Concord, New Hampshire, attended lectures on experimental philosophy at Harvard in the mid-18th century. After spying on America and defecting to England, Rumford conducted pioneering work in the caloric theory of heat. He later served the Bavarian government, receiving the title Count Rumford of the Holy Roman Empire...
...Concord native became the first Harvard fencer ever to snag the award as well as Harvard's first individual NCAA champion since...
...lean, pock-marked man got to talking about the food in jail. It isn't bad in Concord Penitentiary; they give you half a chicken on Sundays. But the South Shore, now--that was the worst...
Anti-nuclear groups meanwhile plan to protest and lobby in an effort to prevent the operation of Seabrook. Concord'sSeacoast Clamshell, an anti-nuclear organization,plans to hold a candlelight vigil next month atthe gates of Seabrook to commemorate the Chernobylnuclear accident, said Clamshell member PaulGunter
...soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone." So wrote Henry David Thoreau at Walden Pond, the once bucolic site that provided his retreat from civilization. If Thoreau returned today, he would be appalled: last year some 350,000 visitors swarmed through the 400-acre state park near Concord, Mass., in an attempt to recapture the writer's sense of tranquillity...