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Mass-storage device A mass-storage device is usually a very high capacity computer storage medium that is an order of magnitude less costly than a hard disk or other primary storage media. In order for the device to be less costly there is usually some form of compromise which is often the time taken to store or recover the data.
Massa Johnston William Johnston (born 13 September, 1881 in Dunedin, New Zealand and died 9 January, 1951 in Sydney, Australia), better known as "Massa Johnston" was a New Zealand rugby union and later a rugby league player.
Massa Martana Massa Martana (in Antiquity, Vicus ad Martis on the Via Flaminia) is an ancient Italian town and comune in the Colli Martani mountain range in the province of Perugia (Umbria). At , it is 10 km N of Acquasparta, 18 km N of San Gemini and 32 km N of Narni; 14 km S of Bastardo and 27 km S of Bevagna.
Massabesic High School Massabesic High School is a public high school located in Waterboro, Maine, United States. The school is part of Maine School Administrative District 57, which serves six southwestern Maine towns with a combined population of approximately 15,000 residents: Alfred, Limerick, Lyman, Newfield, Shapleigh and Waterboro.
Massabesic Lake Massabesic Lake is a lake in southern New Hampshire, United States, covering about 2,900 acres within the city of Manchester and the town of Auburn. Because it provides drinking water for Manchester, swimming and water skiing are not allowed there.
Massacration Massacration is a humorous heavy metal band, the self-proclaimed "greatest and most classic heavy metal band, the inspiration behind most heavy bands since 1985, whose members' hairdos and posing influenced the whole heavy metal culture". The classical line-up consists of Detonator (a castratto vocalist, Bruno Sutter), Blond Hammet (lead guitar, Fausto Fanti), Jimmy "The Hammer" (drums, Felipe Torres), Headmaster (rhythm guitar, Adriano Pereira) and Metal Avenger (bass, Marco AntĂ´nio Silva).
Massacre The word massacre has a number of meanings, but most commonly refers to individual events of deliberate and direct mass killing, especially of noncombatant civilians or other innocents without any reasonable means of defense, that would often qualify as war crimes or atrocities. Massacres in this sense do not typically apply to combatants except figuratively; the deliberate mass killing of prisoners of war, however, is often considered a massacre.
Massacre (Fred Frith band) Massacre was a improvising and experimental rock band from New York City, formed in 1980 by guitarist Fred Frith, bassist Bill Laswell and drummer Fred Maher. They performed for just over a year and recorded a studio album, Killing Time (1981).
Massacre at Dolores In December 1904, the 38th Philippine Constabulary Scouts, under Lieutenant Stephen Hayt, were on patrol along the Dolores River in an attempt to link up with the 37th Constabulary Scouts and another Constable Company led by Lieutenant Hendryx.
Massacre at Huáşż The Massacre at Huáşż is the name given to describe the summary executions and mass killings that occurred during the Viet Cong and North Vietnam's capture, occupation and withdrawal from the city of Huáşż during the Tet Offensive, considered one of the longest and bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War. During the months and years that followed the battle, dozens of mass graves were discovered in and around Huáşż containing 2,800 civilians.
Massacre at Krusha e Madhe Massacre at Krusha e Madhe near Rahovec, Kosovo, took place during the Kosovo War on the afternoon of Thursday, March 25, 1999 the day after the NATO air campaign began. According to witnesses, Serbian special units, sent under the order of Slobodan Milosevic separated the men from women, and killed exclusively the men from the village, and forced the women and children toward the border with Albania.
Massacre at Thandikulam Massacre at Thandikulam happened on November 19 2006 when Sri Lankan Army troopes opened fire on a group of minority Sri Lankan Tamil and muslim students at an Agricultural College at Thandikulam close to Vavuniya in Sri Lanka. Five students were killed along with 10 injured.
Massacre of Glencoe The Massacre of Glencoe occurred in Glen Coe, Scotland, early in the morning of 13 February 1692, during the era of the Glorious Revolution and Jacobitism. The massacre began simultaneously in three settlements along the glen - Invercoe, Inverrigan, and Achacon - although the killing took place all over the glen as fleeing MacDonalds were pursued.
Massacre of Kalavryta The Holocaust of Kalavryta (), or the Massacre of Kalavryta (Σφαγή των Καλαβρύτων), refers to the extermination of the male population and the subsequent total destruction of the town of Kalavryta, in Greece, by German occupying forces during World War II on 13 December 1943. It is the most serious case of war crimes committed during the Axis Occupation of Greece during WWII.
Massacre of LwĂłw professors The murder of LwĂłw professors was the mass execution of approximately 45 Polish professors of the University of LwĂłw (John Casimir University/Uniwersytet Jana Kazimierza), their families and guests, committed in July 1941 in LwĂłw (Lviv) then occupied by Nazi Germany in the World War II. The mass murder was a continuation of AB Action, or Ausserordentliche Befriedungsaktion started in 1940.
Massacre of Margarita Belén The Massacre of Margarita Belén was an episode of the 1970s' Dirty War in Argentina. It involved the torture and execution of 22 political prisoners, near the town of Margarita Belén, Chaco Province, on 13 December 1976, in a joint operation of the Argentine Army and the Chaco Provincial Police.
Massacre of police officers in Eastern Sri Lanka in June 1990 The massacre of police officers was one of the largest massacres of Prisoners of War carried out by the LTTE. This massacre took place in June 1990 and resulted in the deaths of most of the 400 to 600 police officers captured after they had surrendered to the LTTEis in spite of a declaration by the LTTE in 1988 that it would abide by the Geneva Conventions[http://www.
Massacre of Serbian knights The Massacre of Serbian knights, known in Serbia as Seca knezova, was an event which occurred in the central square of Valjevo, when the most prominent nobles of Belgrade Pashaluk were brutally executed by the order of Ottoman authorities. The list included Aleksa Nenadovic and Ilija Bircanin, both fathers to the future diplomats of liberated Serbia.
Massacre of the Innocents The Massacre of the Innocents is an episode of Herod's infanticide, attested in the Gospel of Matthew 2:16ff, but not mentioned in the other gospels nor in the early apocrypha. According to Christian tradition, the described events fulfilled a verse of Jeremiah, interpreted as a prophecy of this event: "Thus says the Lord: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping.
Massacres of Poles in Volhynia The Massacre of Poles in Volhynia was an ethnic cleansing conducted in Volhynia () during World War II. In the course of it, up to 80,000 Poles are thought to have been massacred by the nationalist Ukrainian Insurgent Army (Ukrainska Povstanska Armiya, or UPA).
Massage Massage is the practice of applying structured or unstructured pressure, tension, motion, or vibration — manually or with mechanical aids — to the soft tissues of the body, including muscles, connective tissue, tendons, ligaments, joints and lymphatic vessels, to achieve a beneficial response. A form of therapy, massage can be applied to parts of the body or successively to the whole body, to aid the process of injury healing, relieve psychological stress, manage pain, and improve circulation.
Massage therapist A Massage therapist is a Health practitioner who uses a combination of therapeutic techniques in order to stimulate and enhance the life of another person. They will often treat clients in tandem with other health professionals such as Physiotherapists, Chiropractors and Osteopaths.
Massachsetts Tests for Educator Licensure The Massachusetts Tests for Educator Licensure® (MTEL®) program was initiated by the Massachusetts Department of Education in 1998. It is part of a statewide education reform initiative for educators seeking PreKindergarten to grade 12 licenses.
Massachusett The Massachusett were tribal communities of Native Americans who lived in areas surrounding Massachusetts Bay in what is now the state of Massachusetts. "Massachusett" translates from Algonquian as "The people who live near the great hill".
Massachusetts 2006 Health Reform Statute Massachusetts 2006 Health Reform Statute was enacted as Chapter 58 of the Acts of 2006 of the Massachusetts Legislature, entitled: An Act Providing Access to Affordable, Quality, Accountable Health Care. The law was designed to require health care coverage for nearly all of the residents of Massachusetts, U.
Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science at WPI Located in Worcester, Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science at WPI (Mass Academy) is an 11th and 12th grade public high school for 100 academically accelerated youths in Massachusetts. It was founded in 1992 after a strong push from Pauline LaMarche and Robert Salvatelli.
Massachusetts Animal Rights Coalition The Massachusetts Animal Rights Coalition, or MARC, is a nonprofit volunteer-run animal rights organization based in Massachusetts. MARC is the largest and most active animal rights group in Massachusetts, with over 700 members of all ages and backgrounds.
Massachusetts Appellate Tax Board The Massachusetts Appellate Tax Board (ATB) is a quasi-judicial agency within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' Office of the Governor. Though part of the executive branch, the ATB is "not subject to its control in the conduct of its adjudicatory functions.
Massachusetts Association of School Committees The Massachusetts Association of School Committees is a member-driven association, whose mission is to support Massachusetts school leaders in their increasingly complex governance role. Through a wide range of programs and services including training workshops and institutes, policy development and administrator search services, legal and advocacy support, and as an information clearinghouse, the Association provides important guidance and expertise to its members and serves to communicate the school committee perspective to government leaders, the media, administrative agencies and other education-related associations.
Massachusetts Banishment Act The Massachusetts Banishment Act also known as the "Banishment Act of the State of Massachusetts" was an act passed on September, 1778, "to prevent the return to this state of certain persons therein named and others who have left this state or either of the United States, and joined the enemies thereof".
Massachusetts Bay Colony The Massachusetts Bay Colony (sometimes called the Massachusetts Bay Company, for the institution that founded it) was an English settlement on the east coast of North America in the 17th century, in New England, centered around the present-day cities of Salem and Boston. The area is now in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, one of the 50 United States.
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) is "a body politic and corporate, and a political subdivision" of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts formed in 1964] to finance and operate most [[bus, subway, commuter rail and ferry systems in the greater Boston, Massachusetts, USA area. It replaced an earlier agency called the Metropolitan Transit Authority, or the MTA, as immortalized in the popular Kingston Trio folk-protest lament "The MTA Song".
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Police The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Police (T Police / Transit Police) is a police force which has primary jurisdiction on Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) property and vehicles in each of the 178 cities and towns within the MBTA District. The department has grown to an authorized strength of 230 officers and 10 civilians.
Massachusetts Board of Education 'The Massachusetts Board of Education' (BOE) is responsible for interpreting and implementing laws relevant to public education in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Public education in the Commonwealth is organized according to the regulations adopted by the BOE, which are good faith interpretations of Massachusetts state and federal law.
Massachusetts Body of Liberties The Massachusetts Body of Liberties was the first legal code to be established by European colonists in New England. Compiled by the Puritan minister Nathaniel Ward, the laws were established by the Massachusetts General Court in 1641.
Massachusetts Burma Law The Massachusetts Burma Law was a law enacted in 1996 by the Massachusetts legislature limiting state entities from purchasing services from companies doing business with Myanmar (Burma). A "restricted trade" list was compiled by the Commonwealth, which included 34 members of the National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC).
Massachusetts congressional elections, 2006 The Massachusetts Congressional elections of 2006 were held on Tuesday, November 7, 2006. The terms of all ten Representatives to the United States House of Representatives will expire on January 3, 2007, and therefore all were put up for contest.
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts The Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) is a public state college located in North Adams, Massachusetts. Originally established as part of the state's normal school system for training teachers, it now offers a variety of programs leading to Bachelor of Science and Arts degrees, as well as a Master of Education track.
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (or MCPHS) is an accredited private institution providing traditional and non-traditional programs of study focusing on vocational education] of [[pharmacy and areas of the health sciences.
Massachusetts Communications College Massachusetts Communications College (Mass Comm) was a private, two-year college located in Boston, Massachusetts. The school offered Associate Degree and certificate programs in broadcasting, Internet communications, multimedia communications, recording arts, and communication studies.
Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System The Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, commonly called the MCAS (pronounced , is a series of standardized tests first administered by the Massachusetts Department of Education, and designed by the Massachusetts Board of Education to meet the requirements of the Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993. This reform gave birth to the MCAS, which was designed to test all public school students across the Commonwealth, including students with disabilities and students with limited English proficiency.
Massachusetts Compromise The Massachusetts Compromise was the solution that was reached in a controversy between Federalists and Anti-Federalists in the debate over the ratification of the United States Constitution. The compromise helped sway sufficient support for the document to ensure its ratification and lead to the adoption of the first ten amendments, the Bill of Rights.
Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1853 The Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1853 met in order to consider changes to the Massachusetts Constitution. This was the third such convention in Massachusetts history; the first, in 1779–80, had drawn up the original document, while the second, in 1820-21, submitted the first nine articles of amendment to a popular vote where all were approved.
Massachusetts Convention Fandom, Inc MCFI, the organization behind Noreascon Four, the 62nd World Science Fiction Convention, was created in 1974 by the people who ran Noreascon (1971) under the auspices of NESFA. Its purpose was to bid for a Boston Worldcon in 1980.
Massachusetts Correctional Institution - Cedar Junction Massachusetts Correctional Institution - Cedar Junction (MCI-Cedar Junction), built in the 1950s, is 1 of 2 Supermax prisons for male offenders in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. MCI-Cedar Junction also houses the Departmental Disciplinary Unit, or DDU.
Massachusetts Correctional Institution - Framingham Massachusetts Correctional Institution - Framingham (MCI-Framingham} is the Massachusetts Department of Correction's only committing institution for female offenders. It is located in Framingham, Massachusetts, a large town located midway between Worcester and Boston.
Massachusetts Correctional Institution - Norfolk Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk, or MCI-Norfolk, is a medium security prison in Norfolk, Massachusetts with an average daily population of 1250 inmates. Though it is rated medium security, it also houses up to 98 maximum security inmates.
Massachusetts Correctional Institution - Plymouth Massachusetts Correctional Institution - Plymouth or MCI - Plymouth is a minimum-security prison facility located in the Myles Standish State Forest in Plymouth, Massachusetts. It is not to be confused with much larger Plymouth County Correctional Facility, also located in Plymouth, which has housed a number of celebrity inmates including "Survivor" winner Richard Hatch and shoe-bomber Richard Reid.
Massachusetts Department of Public Health The Massachusetts Department of Public Health is a governmental agency of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts with various responsibilities related to public health within that state. It is headquartered in Boston and headed by Commissioner Paul J.
Massachusetts Education Law of 1647 The Massachusetts Education Law of 1647, also known as the "Old Deluder Satan Law" or "The General School Act of 1647", is commonly looked to as the historical first step toward compulsory public education in the United States of America. This law, enacted in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, required every town having more than 50 families to hire a teacher, and every town of more than 100 families to establish a "grammar school".
Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993 The Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993 is legislation passed in Massachusetts mandating several modern educational reforms over a 7-year period. The most widely discussed and debated reforms included the introduction of charter schools and the standardized test, the MCAS.
Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company The Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company was founded in 1854 by Eli Thayer of Massachusetts to fight against the extension of slavery to Kansas Territory. In 1855, the company reorganized and changed its named to the New England Emigrant Aid Company.
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary is a specialty hospital providing patient care for disorders of the eye, ear, nose, throat, head and neck. Founded in 1824, MEEI is an international leader in Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology research and a teaching partner of Harvard Medical School.
Massachusetts flying club The Massachusetts Flying Club [or MFC] is a virtual general aviation flight club based out of Katama Airpark on Martha's Vineyard. The MFC began late July in 2006, soon it became one of the most popular flight clubs on FS TOP GUN.
Massachusetts Governor's Council The Governor's Council (also known as the Executive Council) of Massachusetts is a popularly-elected board which oversees judicial nominations and other matters. The councillors are elected every two years from eight councillor districts (each district consisting of the entirety of five Massachusetts Senate districts).
Massachusetts Governor's Council elections, 2006 Elections for the Massachusetts Governor's Council will be held on November 7 2006, with all 8 of the seats up for election. The Governor's Council (also known as the Executive Council) of Massachusetts is a popularly-elected board which oversees judicial nominations.
Massachusetts Governor's Task Force on Hate Crimes The Governor's Task Force on Hate Crimes was an agency created by then-Governor William Weld, linking representatives of the state police and local law enforcement agencies with community advocates to further the state government's commitment to eradicating bias-motivated crime in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Task Force was given permanent status by former Governor Paul Cellucci in 1998.
Massachusetts Hall Massachusetts Hall is the oldest surviving building at Harvard College, the first institution of higher learning in the English colonies in America, and the oldest or second oldest academic building in the United States. As such, it possesses great significance not only in the history of American education but also in the story of the developing English Colonies of the 18th century.
Massachusetts Handicap Frequently dubbed the "MassCap", the Massachusetts Handicap is a thoroughbred horse race held at Suffolk Downs, in Boston, Massachusetts. It was first held on October 16, 1935, and was won by a nose by Top Row.
Massachusetts High School Drama Guild The Massachusetts High School Drama Guild is usually known as MHSDG. According to their website, the MHSDG exists "for the charitable and educational purpose of promoting and strengthening excellence, access, and education in the theatrical arts for middle and secondary school students and teachers.
Massachusetts Historical Society The Massachusetts Historical Society is a major historical archive specializing in early American, Massachusetts, and New England history. It is located at 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts and is the oldest historical society in the United States.
Massachusetts Horticultural Society The Massachusetts Horticultural Society, sometimes abbreviated to MassHort, is an American horticultural society based in Massachusetts. It describes itself as the oldest, formally-organized horticultural institution in the United States.
Massachusetts House elections, 2006 Elections for the Massachusetts House of Representatives were held on November 7 2006, with all of the 160 seats in the House up for election. Since Representatives are elected for two-year terms,Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Article LXXXII.
Massachusetts in the American Civil War In the years leading up to the American Civil War, Massachusetts was a center of abolitionist activity within the United States. Two prominent abolitionists from the state were William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips.
Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA) is an organization of 360 high schools that sponsor athletic activities in 33 sports. More than 200,000 young men and women compete annually in approximately 100,000 competitions among MIAA member schools.
Massachusetts Library Association The Massachusetts Library Association (MLA) is the Massachusetts professional library association that "advocates for libraries, librarians, and library staff, defends intellectual freedom, and provides a forum for leadership, communication, professional development, and networking to keep libraries vital."
Massachusetts Maritime Academy Massachusetts Maritime Academy is a regionally accredited, coeducational, state college offering Bachelor of Science degrees in maritime-related fields, as well as graduate degrees and professional studies. Located in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, in the United States, the Academy prepares students especially for careers in the Merchant Marine and the U.
Massachusetts Medical Society The Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) is the oldest continuously-operating state medical society in the United States. Incorporated on November 1, 1781, by an act of the Massachusetts General Court, the MMS is a non-profit organization that consists of approximately 18,500 physicians, medical students and residents.
Massachusetts Metaphysical College The Massachusetts Metaphysical College was founded in 1881 by Mary Baker Eddy in Boston, Massachusetts, to teach her school of Christianly scientific metaphysical healing that she named Christian Science. Eddy records in the preface of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, her chief work on scientific Christian healing, p.
Massachusetts Midstate Trail The Massachusetts Midstate Trail is a scenic footpath which runs 92 miles through Worcester County, Massachusetts, approximately 45 miles west of Boston. The trail is highly accessible, easy to hike and close to large population centers; however; the trail is remarkably wild and scenic.
Massachusetts Miracle The term "Massachusetts Miracle" refers to a period of economic growth in the state of Massachusetts during most of the 1980s. Previous to this, the state had been hit hard by deindustrialization and resulting unemployment.
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, commonly referred to as MASS MoCA, is a museum located in North Adams, Massachusetts, USA. Designed by the Cambridge architecture firm of Bruner Cott & Assoc, it was awarded highest honors by the American Institute of Architects and The National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Massachusetts Port Authority Massachusetts Port Authority, or Massport, is a port district in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It operates the airports, seaport, and Mystic River Bridge in Boston, Massachusetts and the surrounding areas.
Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (MASSPIRG) is a student activism non-profit organization that is one of the largest of the state PIRG organizations. It works on a variety of activist activities, including environmental activism, textbook trading on college campuses, and help for the homeless.
Massachusetts Republican Party The Massachusetts Republican Party, as its name implies, is the Massachusetts branch of the United States Republican Party. Elected by the party’s state central committee, its current chairman is Peter Torkildsen.
Massachusetts Rifle Association Although there are several clubs that claim the title, the Massachusetts Rifle Association (also known as "Walnut Hill", "Mass Rifle" or the "MRA") is the oldest active gun club in the United States and was founded in 1875, just four years following the creation of the National Rifle Association in 1871. The MRA has been continuously active since its founding and in the same location since 1876.
Massachusetts Route 104 Route 104 is a (short) east-west state highway in Massachusetts. Beginning just over the line at the intersection of Route 106 in East Bridgewater, Route 104 runs west through Bridgewater and Raynham before finally ending at its intersection with U.
Massachusetts Route 111 Route 111 is both a north-south and east-west state highway in Massachusetts, though it is signed exclusively as a north-south route on newer signs. A few older east-west directional signs still exist east of Harvard, where the road changes direction.
Massachusetts Route 114 Route 114 is a Massachusetts state route that essentially is a northwest-southeast route, but is technically considered to go east-west. It runs from Route 28 in Lawrence to Route 129 in Marblehead, Massachusetts, which also terminates there.
Massachusetts Route 125 Route 125 is a Massachusetts state route that essentially is a southwest-northeast route, but is technically considered to go north-south. It runs from Interstate 93 in Wilmington to the Massachusetts-New Hampshire state line in Haverhill, where it continues as New Hampshire Route 125 through Plaistow to Rochester, New Hampshire.
Massachusetts Route 128 Route 128, also known as the Yankee Division Highway (for the 26th Infantry Division), and originally the Circumferential Highway, is a partial beltway around Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The majority of the highway is built to freeway standards, and about 3/5 of it is part of the Interstate Highway System.
Massachusetts Route 129A Route 129A is an east-west Massachusetts state route that serves as an alternate to Route 129, located entirely in Lynn, Massachusetts. The route was created in 1996, taking over the old routing of Route 129 in Lynn after it was realigned to enter downtown.
Massachusetts Route 146 Route 146 is a high-speed road, mostly freeway, linking Rhode Island Route 146 (the North Smithfield Expressway towards Providence, Rhode Island) to I-290 in Worcester, Massachusetts. South of the interchange with Route 122A, Route 146 is known as the Worcester-Providence Turnpike.
Massachusetts Route 177 Route 177, is a short west-east state highway in Massachusetts. It starts as an offshoot of US-6 in the Westport Factory neighborhood of Westport, just northwest of the UMASS Dartmouth main campus in Dartmouth; Route 177 runs south through the town of Westport to the Massachusetts/Rhode Island state boundary, where Route 177 continues over the Massachusetts state boundary into the town of Tiverton, Rhode Island as Route 177.
Massachusetts Route 213 Route 213 is a short Massachusetts state highway, which connects Interstate 93 with Interstate 495 in Methuen, Massachusetts, just south of the New Hampshire border. It is a four-lane, controlled access highway along its entire length.
Massachusetts Route 225 Route 225 is a northwest-southeast state highway in Massachusetts, which is signed as an east-west route. It was formerly known as Route 25 prior to the construction of Interstate 495 south of Raynham in 1957, which was given the Route 25 designation.
Massachusetts Route 24 Route 24 is a freeway south of I-495 in Southeastern Massachusetts, linking Fall River with the Boston metropolitan area. Route 24 is also known as the Fall River Expressway, and officially as the Amvets Highway.
Massachusetts Route 28 Route 28 is a nominally north-south route running from the New Hampshire state line, through Boston and the western reaches of Norfolk and Plymouth counties, and then west-to-east on Cape Cod, finally ending as a south-north section between Chatham and Orleans. Its original form was as a New England interstate route and it continues northward as New Hampshire Route 28.
Massachusetts Route 295 Route 295 is a state highway in Richmond, Massachusetts of approximately 2 miles that serves as a connector between New York's State Route 295 and Massachusetts's Route 41. The highway gets its number from its corresponding New York route number, and is the highest numbered Massachusetts state highway.
Massachusetts Route 30 Route 30 is an east-west arterial, connecting Grafton with Kenmore Square in Boston. Route 30 runs roughly parallel to Interstate 90 (the Massachusetts Turnpike) and Route 9, but unlike those two larger highways, takes a more meandering path from town to town.
Massachusetts Route 38 Route 38 is a 27-mile (44 km) state-numbered route in Massachusetts, United States, running from Sullivan Square in Boston north via Lowell to the New Hampshire state line in Dracut, where it continues as New Hampshire Route 38. Its south end is at Route 99, though most signage indicates that it ends at Route 28, its former end in Somerville.
Massachusetts Route 39 Route 39 is an east-west route through the towns of Orleans, Brewster and Harwich, on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. It begins and ends at Route 28, acting as a bypass route for those not wishing to follow the route through Chatham.
Massachusetts Route 3A (south) Route 3A is a state highway in eastern Massachusetts, whose southern portion parallels Route 3 from Cedarville in southern Plymouth to Neponset in the Dorchester area of Boston. Towns and cities that Route 3A traverse along its path include Plymouth, Kingston, Duxbury, Marshfield, Scituate, Cohasset, Hingham, Weymouth and Quincy.
Massachusetts Route 75 Route 75 is the extension of Connecticut Route 75 into Massachusetts. It passes through the villages of Hubbard Corner and Suffield Corner in Agawam, and has a raised intersection with the divided highway section of Massachusetts Route 57.
Massachusetts Route 88 Route 88, is a northwest-southeast state highway in Massachusetts. It starts as an offshoot of Interstate 195 just northeast of the Lakeside neighborhood in Westport; Route 88 runs south through the town and finally ending in Horseneck Beach State Reservation in southern Westport.
Massachusetts Route 97 Route 97 is an North-South Massachusetts state route that connects Methuen and Beverly. Its northern terminus is at NH Route 97 at the New Hampshire state line in Methuen, and its southern end is at Route 1A in Beverly.
Massachusetts Senate The Massachusetts Senate is the upper house of the Massachusetts General Court, the bicameral state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. There are 40 Senatorial Districts in Massachusetts, named for the counties and former counties that they represent.
Massachusetts Senate elections, 2006 As a result of the Massachusetts general election, 2006, the Democrats picked up one open seat in the Massachusettes State Senate, the only change from the previous session. The current session began in January, 2007, and consists of 35 Democrats and 5 Republicans.
Massachusetts School Building Authority The Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) was created on July 28, 2004, of the Chapter 208 of the Acts of 2004, by the Massachusetts legislature. It is an independent public authority that assesses school building needs in cities and towns throughout the state.
Massachusetts School Law of 1642 Massachusetts became one of the earliest colonies to implement mandatory form of education for children including children who were servants in 1642. Schooling did not necessarily involve a building with a paid professor but rather was the responsibility of the parents or masters to educate the students for the purpose of being able to read the laws passed by the Commonwealth.

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