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Boston
Boston (pronounced ) is the capital and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. Boston city proper had a 2009 estimated population of 645,169, making it the twentieth largest in the country. Boston is also the anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area called Greater Boston, home to 4.5 million people and the tenth-largest metropolitan area in the country. Greater Boston as a commuting region includes six Massachusetts counties, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Plymouth, and Worcester, all of Rhode Island and parts of New Hampshire; it is home to 7.5 million people, making it the fifth-largest Combined Statistical Area in the United States.
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Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre, also know as the Boston riot, was an incident that led to the deaths of five civilians at the hands of British troops on March 5, 1770, the legal aftermath of which helped spark the rebellion in some of the British American colonies, which culminated in the American Revolutionary War. A heavy British military presence in Boston led to a tense situation that boiled over into incitement of brawls between soldiers and civilians and eventually led to troops discharging their muskets after being attacked by a rioting crowd. Three civilians were killed at the scene of the shooting, eleven were injured, and two died after the incident.
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Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a direct action by colonists in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government. On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor. The incident remains an iconic event of American history, and other political protests often refer to it.
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Rome is a city in Oneida County, New York, United States. It is considered a part of upstate New York. The population was 34,950 at the 2000 census. It is in New York's 24th congressional district. During the Revolutionary War and for years thereafter, the city was originally known as Fort Stanwix, due to the fort being the only existing building in the area. In 1796, the city was founded and named Lynchville. Some time later, the city's name was changed to Rome, assumingly after the Italian city of Rome. The exact time, the reason, and the idea for this name change remains a mystery. Rome is one of two principal cities in the Utica–Rome, New York Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city is in the south-central part of the county. In the heart of the Leatherstocking Region made famous by James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, Rome is known as the City of American History.
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Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 – July 12, 1804) was the first United States Secretary of the Treasury, a Founding Father, economist, and political philosopher. Aide-de-camp to General George Washington during the American Revolutionary War, he was a leader of nationalist forces calling for a new Constitution; he was one of America's first Constitutional lawyers, and wrote most of the Federalist Papers, a primary source for Constitutional interpretation. Hamilton was the primary author of the economic policies of the George Washington Administration, especially the funding of the state debts by the Federal government, the establishment of a national bank, a system of tariffs, and friendly trade relations with Britain. He created and dominated the Federalist Party, and was opposed by Thomas Jefferson and his Democratic-Republican Party. Jefferson denounced Hamilton as too loose with the Constitution, too favorable to Britain, to monarchy and to the moneyed interests of the cities, but Hamilton's policies went into effect. A believer in a militarily strong national government, Hamilton helped defeat the tax revolt of western farmers in 1794, and built a new army to oppose France in the Quasi War of 1798, but Federalist President John Adams found a diplomatic solution that avoided war. Hamilton helped defeat Adams' reelection bid in 1800, but realizing that Aaron Burr would be a dangerous president, Hamilton threw his weight behind Jefferson who was chosen president in 1801. Tensions with Burr escalated to a duel, in which Hamilton was killed.
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Esther Forbes
Esther Louise Forbes (June 28, 1891 - August 12, 1967) was an American novelist and children's writer who received the Pulitzer Prize and the Newbery Medal.
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George Bancroft
George Bancroft (October 3, 1800 – January 17, 1891) was an American historian and statesman who was prominent in promoting secondary education both in his home state and at the national level. During his tenure as U.S. Secretary of the Navy, he established the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1845. Among his best-known writings is the magisterial series, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.
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Gilbert Stuart
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Israel Bissell
Israel Bissell (1752-1823) was a post rider in Massachusetts who alerted the American colonists of the British attack on April 19, 1775. He rode for four days and six hours covering the 345 miles from Watertown, Massachusetts to Philadelphia along the Old Post Road, shouting "To arms, to arms, the war has begun," and carrying a message from General Joseph Palmer which was copied at each of his stops and redistributed:
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Jack Jouett
John "Jack" Jouett, Jr. (December 7, 1754 – March 1, 1822) was a politician and a hero of the American Revolution, known as the "Paul Revere of the South" for his late night ride to warn Thomas Jefferson, then the Governor of Virginia, and the Virginia legislature of coming British cavalry who had been sent to capture them. Jouett was also the father of Matthew Harris Jouett, a famous painter from Kentucky.
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John Hancock
John Hancock ( – October 8, 1793) was a merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is remembered for his large and stylish signature on the United States Declaration of Independence, so much so that "John Hancock" became, in the United States, a synonym for "signature".
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Jonathan Mayhew
Jonathan Mayhew (October 8, 1720 – July 9, 1766) was a noted American minister at Old West Church, Boston, Massachusetts. He is credited with coining the phrase "no taxation without representation."
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Laura Secord
Laura Ingersoll Secord (September 13, 1775 – October 17, 1868) was a Canadian heroine of the War of 1812. She is known for warning British forces of an impending American attack that led to the British victory at the Battle of Beaver Dams.
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Oswald Eve
Oswald Eve (or Oswell Eve) (c. 1715 – 1793, New Providence Island, the Bahamas) was a mariner, ship chandler, gunpowder manufacturer and member of the American Philosophical Society, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended the College of Philadelphia and was an associate of Dr. Benjamin Rush, later signer of the Declaration of Independence.
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Peleg Wadsworth
Peleg Wadsworth (May 6, 1748 – July 18, 1829) was an American officer during the American Revolutionary War and a Congressman from Massachusetts representing the District of Maine. He was also grandfather of noted American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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Puritan
The Puritans were a significant grouping of English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries. Puritanism in this sense was founded by some Marian exiles from the clergy shortly after the accession of Elizabeth I of England in 1559, as an activist movement within the Church of England. The designation "Puritan" is often incorrectly used, notably based on the assumption that hedonism and puritanism are antonyms: historically, the word was used to characterize the Protestant group as extremists similar to the Cathari of France, and according to Thomas Fuller in his Church History dated back to 1564. Archbishop Matthew Parker of that time used it and "precisian" with the sense of . T. D. Bozeman therefore uses instead the term precisianist in regard to the historical groups of England and New England.
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Richard Gridley
Richard Gridley (January 3, 1710 – June 21, 1796) was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He was the son of Richard Gridley and Rebecca Scarborough. He was a soldier and engineer who served for the British Army during the French and Indian Wars and for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
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Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams ( – October 2, 1803) was an American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. As a politician in colonial Massachusetts, Adams was a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, and was one of the architects of the principles of American republicanism that shaped the political culture of the United States. He was a second cousin to President John Adams.
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Samuel Prescott
Samuel Prescott (August 19, 1751 – c. 1777) was a Massachusetts Patriot during the American Revolutionary War.
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Sybil Ludington
Sybil Ludington (April 16, 1761- February 26, 1839),
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Thomas Gage
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Thomas Jefferson
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William Dawes
William Dawes, Jr. (April 5, 1745 – February 25, 1799) was one of several men and a woman who alerted colonial minutemen of the approach of British army troops prior to the Battle of Lexington and Concord at the outset of the American Revolution.
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beastie boys - Rhymin & Stealin - Licensed To Ill
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- Duration: 4:05
- Published: 12 Dec 2008
- Updated: 22 Apr 2012
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beastie boys - Time to Get Ill - Licensed To Ill
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- Duration: 3:37
- Published: 12 Dec 2008
- Updated: 24 Apr 2012
Free muzic for all beastie boys - Time to Get Ill - Licensed To Ill
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How the Beastie Boys party. (Licensed To Ill VHS 1987.)
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- Duration: 7:23
- Published: 12 Jan 2009
- Updated: 25 Apr 2012
Taken from the Licensed To Ill VHS 1987.
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beastie boys - Paul Revere - Licensed To Ill
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- Duration: 3:41
- Published: 12 Dec 2008
- Updated: 24 Apr 2012
Free muzic for all beastie boys - Paul Revere - Licensed To Ill
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beastie boys - Girls - Licensed To Ill
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- Duration: 2:13
- Published: 12 Dec 2008
- Updated: 25 Apr 2012
Free muzic for all beastie boys - Girls - Licensed To Ill
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beastie boys - She's Crafty - Licensed To Ill
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- Duration: 3:33
- Published: 12 Dec 2008
- Updated: 24 Apr 2012
Free muzic for all beastie boys - She's Crafty - Licensed To Ill
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Beastie Boys-Time To Get Ill
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- Duration: 3:38
- Published: 03 Jun 2009
- Updated: 22 Apr 2012
From Licensed To Ill (1986).
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beastie boys - Posse in Effect - Licensed To Ill
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- Duration: 2:25
- Published: 12 Dec 2008
- Updated: 20 Apr 2012
Free muzic for all beastie boys - Posse in Effect - Licensed To Ill
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Beastie Boys & The Pharcyde - Drop - Slimkid3
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- Duration: 3:33
- Published: 07 May 2011
- Updated: 25 Apr 2012
www.slimkid3.com - Beastie Boys - You know, a lot of people have asked me about the making of the "Drop" video and how we managed to get the Beastie Boys in it as well and I just had to pause a minute and truly think about it.
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beastie boys - The New Style - Licensed To Ill
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- Duration: 4:33
- Published: 12 Dec 2008
- Updated: 22 Apr 2012
Free muzic for all beastie boys - The New Style - Licensed To Ill
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Beastie Boys - Girls
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- Duration: 1:40
- Published: 19 Sep 2007
- Updated: 17 Apr 2012
This is a Lego stop motion of Beastie Boys - Girls.
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(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)
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- Duration: 4:11
- Published: 16 Jun 2009
- Updated: 25 Apr 2012
Music video by The Beastie Boys performing (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party). (C) 1986 The Island Def Jam Music Group
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beastie boys - Brass Monkey - Licensed To Ill
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- Duration: 2:36
- Published: 12 Dec 2008
- Updated: 23 Apr 2012
Free muzic for all beastie boys - Brass Monkey - Licensed To Ill
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Beastie Boys - Rhymin' & Stealin' (Official Video)
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- Duration: 3:30
- Published: 14 Jan 2009
- Updated: 23 Apr 2012
Taken from the Licensed To Ill VHS 1987.
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Beastie Boys - No Sleep Til Brooklyn
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- Duration: 4:06
- Published: 06 Sep 2007
- Updated: 25 Apr 2012
Artist- Beastie Boys Song- No Sleep Til Brooklyn Album- Licensed To Ill
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beastie boys - Fight for Your Right - Licensed To Ill
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- Duration: 3:25
- Published: 12 Dec 2008
- Updated: 11 Apr 2012
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Beastie Boys-I'm Down-unreleased 86 not on Licensed to ill
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- Duration: 3:41
- Published: 09 Jul 2008
- Updated: 16 Apr 2012
the other unreleased track from the Def Jam Master Demos, they did'nt put this track on Licensed to ill, i believe it was because they sampled The Beatles and whoever owned the rights to the song (Michael Jackson i believe) at the time would'nt let them use the sample so it was never released! see also the Scenario song in my vids!
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Beastie Boys-She's Crafty
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- Duration: 3:35
- Published: 02 Oct 2009
- Updated: 22 Apr 2012
From Licensed To Ill (1986).
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Beastie Boys-Paul Revere
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- Duration: 3:41
- Published: 22 Dec 2008
- Updated: 25 Apr 2012
From Licensed To Ill album.
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Beastie Boys-Posse In Effect
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- Duration: 2:38
- Published: 02 Oct 2009
- Updated: 22 Apr 2012
From Licensed To Ill (1986).
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Beastie Boys-The New Style
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:37
- Published: 18 Jan 2009
- Updated: 25 Apr 2012
From Licensed To Ill album.
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Beastie Boys Posse In Effect
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:50
- Published: 22 Feb 2009
- Updated: 24 Apr 2012
"Desperado" by the Beastie Boys
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- Duration: 3:26
- Published: 18 Feb 2009
- Updated: 22 Apr 2012
This is a rare track that was recorded during the License to Ill sessions, but never made it to the LP.
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The Examiner
The Beastie Boys are climbing back up the Billboard 200. The groundbreaking rap trio saw a boost in sales after the passing of founding member Adam “MCA” Yauch on May 4, and now their 1986 debut album Licensed to Ill has reentered the album chart at No. 18. Nielsen SoundScan reports the record sold...(size: 6.3Kb)
Beastie Boys accused of stealing beats from funk group for 'Licensed to Ill' and 'Paul’s Boutique'
09 May 2012
New York Daily News
The Beastie Boys pirated beats and vocals from a funk group to make songs on their classic hip-hop albums “Licensed to Ill” and “Paul’s Boutique,” a new lawsuit charges. Record label Tuff City Music Group made the accusations in Manhattan Federal Court a...(size: 1.7Kb)
Beastie Boys accused of stealing beats from funk group for “Licensed to Ill” and “Paul’s Boutique”
09 May 2012
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The Beastie Boys pirated beats and vocals from a funk group to make songs on their classic hip-hop albums “Licensed to Ill” and “Paul’s Boutique,” a new lawsuit charges. Record label Tuff City Music Group made the accusations in Manhattan...(size: 1.6Kb)
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The first rap album to hit No. 1 on the chart returns to the top 20 this week. Following the death of on May 4, the band's 1986 album "Licensed to Ill" reenters the tally at No. 18 with 19,000 sold according to Nielsen SoundScan (up 802%). The blockbuster set reached the top on March 7, 1987 and...(size: 3.2Kb)
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The first rap album to hit No. 1 on the chart returns to the top 20 this week. Following the death of on May 4, the band's 1986 album "Licensed to Ill" reenters the tally at No. 18 with 19,000 sold according to Nielsen SoundScan (up 802%). The blockbuster set reached the top on March 7, 1987 and...(size: 3.2Kb)
Bad Timing Alert! Grieving Beastie Boys Sued Over Licensed to Ill, Paul's Boutique Tunes
09 May 2012
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Well, this is awkward. The Beastie Boys-the surviving two of whom are mourning the death of Adam "McA"...(size: 0.7Kb)
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The Beastie Boys were hit with a lawsuit one day before Adam "MCA" Yauch passed away. Today in really unfortunate timing: The Beastie Boys have been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit over samples used on Licensed to Ill and Paul's Boutique....(size: 10.6Kb)
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In an unfortunately timed bit of courtroom maneuvering, the Beastie Boys were sued...(size: 0.6Kb)
Beastie Boys sued over allegedly illegal 'Paul's Boutique' and 'Licensed to Ill' samples
08 May 2012
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It’s been a bad week in the Beastie Boys’ corner of the universe. A day before founding member Adam Yauch’s death, the band was hit with a lawsuit over the use of samples on two of their best regarded...(size: 1.5Kb)
| {{infobox album |name | Licensed to Ill |Type Album |Artist Beastie Boys |Cover Licensed to ill.jpg |Released November 15, 1986 |Recorded 1986 |Genre Hip hop, rap rock |Length 44:33 |Label Def Jam/ColumbiaCK-40238 |Producer Rick Rubin, Beastie Boys |Last album ''Rock Hard'' EP(1985) |This album ''Licensed to Ill''(1986) |Next album ''Paul's Boutique''(1989) }} |
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It was the first hip hop LP to top the ''Billboard'' 200 chart. It was also Columbia Records' fastest-selling debut record to date and sold over 9 million copies.
Background
Kerry King of Slayer made an appearance on the album playing lead guitar on "No Sleep Till Brooklyn" and appeared in the music video which is a parody of glam metal. The name of the song itself is a spoof on Motörhead's ''No Sleep 'til Hammersmith'' album. King's appearance on the track came about because Rick Rubin was producing both bands simultaneously (Slayer's ''Reign in Blood'' was originally released on Def Jam).The full album cover, front to back, features a Boeing 727 — with "Beastie Boys" emblazoned on the tail — crashing head-on into the side of a mountain. The tail of the plane has the Def Jam logo and the legend '3MTA3' which spells 'EATME' when viewed in a mirror. The livery of the plane is based on that of American Airlines.
The original title for this album was ''Don't Be a Faggot'', but Columbia Records flatly refused to release the album with this title and pressured Russell Simmons (their manager and label Def Jam head) into having the Beastie Boys to come up with another name. Adam Horovitz has since apologized for the band's earlier title.
Music videos were made for the songs "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)", "No Sleep till Brooklyn", "Hold It, Now Hit It", "Rhymin' and Stealin'" and "She's Crafty".
CBS/Fox Video released a video album of the five ''Licensed to Ill'' videos, plus "She's on It" in 1987 to capitalize on the album's success. A laserdisc version was also released in Japan. All versions of the CBS/Fox release are currently out of print due to the rights to the album passing from Columbia and Sony Music to Universal Music Group, and also because of the acrimonious nature of the band's departure from Def Jam Records. Until the 2005 release of the CD/DVD ''Solid Gold Hits'', none of the Def Jam-era videos had been included on any subsequent Beastie Boys video compilations. The ''Solid Gold Hits'' DVD includes the videos for "Fight for Your Right" and "No Sleep Till Brooklyn", as well as a live version of "Brass Monkey" from a 2004 concert.
Reception
In 1998, the album was selected as one of The Source's 100 Best Rap Albums.It is still the only album by a white hip-hop act to receive the coveted 5 mics from The Source.
In 2003, the album was ranked number 217 on ''Rolling Stone'' magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
''Vibe'' (12/99, p. 158) – Included in ''Vibe'''s 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century.
''Q'' magazine (9/94, p. 123) – 4 stars – "''Licensed to Ill'' remains the world's only punk rock rap album, arguably superior to ''Never Mind the Bollocks''...knowing that apathy and slovenliness were just around the corner."
''Melody Maker'' (7/22/95, p. 35) – Bloody Essential – "There's lots of self-reverential bragging, more tenuous rhymes than are usually permitted by law and, most importantly of all, an unshakably glorious celebration of being alive....A surprisingly enduring classic."
In 2006, ''Q'' magazine placed the album at #16 in its list of "40 Best Albums of the '80s".
Track listing
All songs written by Beastie Boys and Rick Rubin, except where noted. # "Rhymin & Stealin" – 4:08 # "The New Style" – 4:36 # "She's Crafty" – 3:35 # "Posse in Effect" – 2:27 # "Slow Ride" – 2:56 # "Girls" – 2:14 # "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)" – 3:28 # "No Sleep till Brooklyn" – 4:07 # "Paul Revere" (Horovitz/McDaniels/Rubin/Simmons) – 3:41 # "Hold It, Now Hit It" – 3:26 # "Brass Monkey" – 2:37 # "Slow and Low" (McDaniels/Rubin/Simmons) – 3:38 # "Time to Get Ill" – 3:37
Personnel
Chart positions
Album
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Singles
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| "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)" | The Billboard Hot 100 | ||
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| Hot R&B;/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks |
Samples
"Rhymin & Stealin""She's Crafty"
"Posse in Effect"
"Slow Ride"
"Slow and Low"
In the booklet included with the Beastie Boys' anthology set ''The Sounds of Science'', Adam Yauch (MCA) noted that "Slow and Low" was first recorded by Run-D.M.C. in the sessions for their second album, ''King of Rock'', but was ultimately left off the original release (though the demo version later appeared on the album's 2005 Deluxe Edition re-release). Being one of the Beasties' favorite songs from the sessions, they got Run-D.M.C.'s permission to record a cover version. Yauch states that only two lines were changed for the Beastie Boys' version: "D sees real well 'cause he has four eyes" was replaced with "White Castle fries only come in one size", and a line stating Run-D.M.C.'s name was changed to "We're the Beastie Boys, not Cheech and Chong". The notes for ''The Sounds of Science'' expand the writing credits to "Beastie Boys/J. Simmons/D. McDaniels/R. Rubin/D. Hayden", a credit corroborated by ASCAP's database.
"Time to Get Ill"
References
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| name | Paul Revere |
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| birth date | January 01, 1735(O.S.: December 21, 1734) |
| birth place | Boston (North End) |
| death date | May 10, 1818 |
| death place | Boston, Massachusetts |
| occupation | silversmith, colonial militia officer |
| spouse | Sarah Orne (1757–73) (her death)Rachel Walker (1773–1813) (her death) |
| children | 8 with Sarah Orne (6 survived)8 with Rachel Walker (5 survived) |
| signature | }} |
Paul Revere ( May 10, 1818) was an American silversmith and a patriot in the American Revolution. He is most famous for alerting Colonial militia of approaching British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord, as dramatized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, Paul Revere's Ride. As a result, his "midnight ride" is a legendary part of United States history.
Revere was a prosperous and prominent Boston silversmith, who helped organize an intelligence and alarm system to keep watch on the British military. Revere later served as an officer in the Penobscot Expedition, one of the most disastrous campaigns of the American Revolutionary War, for which he was absolved of blame.
Early years
Paul Revere was born in the North End of Boston on December 21, 1734, according to the Old Style calendar then in use, or January 1, 1735, in the modern calendar. His father, a French Huguenot born Apollos Rivoire, came to Boston at the age of 13 and was apprenticed to the silversmith John Coney. By the time he married Deborah Hitchborn, a member of a long-standing Boston family that owned a small shipping wharf, in 1729, Rivoire had anglicized his name to Paul Revere. Their son, Paul Revere, was the third of 12 children and eventually the eldest surviving son. Revere grew up in the environment of the extended Hitchborn family, and never learned his father's native language. At 13 he left school and became an apprentice to his father. The silversmith trade afforded him connections with a cross-section of Boston society, which would serve him well when he became active in the American Revolution. As for religion, although his father attended Puritan services, Revere was drawn to the Church of England. Revere eventually began attending the services of the political and provocative Jonathan Mayhew at the West Church. His father did not approve, and as a result father and son came to blows on one occasion. Revere relented and returned to his father's church, although he did become friends with Mayhew.His father died in 1754, and Paul was legally too young to officially be the master of the family silver shop. In February 1756, during the French and Indian War (the North American theater of the Seven Years' War), he enlisted in the provincial army. Possibly he made this decision because of the weak economy, since army service promised consistent pay. Commissioned a second lieutenant in a provincial artillery regiment, he spent the summer at Fort William Henry at the southern end of Lake George in New York as part of an abortive plan for the capture of Fort St. Frédéric. He did not stay long in the army, but returned to Boston and assumed control of the silver shop in his own name. On August 4, 1757, he married Sarah Orne (1736–1773); their first child was born eight months later. He and Sarah had eight children, but three died young, and only one survived, Paul. Revere would later remarry.
Business and political connections
Over the next few years Revere provided for not only his growing family, but his mother and unmarried older sister. One of the skills that distinguished him from other silversmiths was that he was also a skilled engraver, so he could decorate his own pieces. Revere's silver work quickly gained attention in Boston. Surviving documents show that among more than 5,000 products crafted by his shop during his lifetime there were many small and affordable items such as buckles, buttons, rings and beads.In 1760 Revere became one of the founding members of the Masonic Lodge of Boston. Possibly introduced to freemasonry by Richard Gridley, his commanding officer during the 1756 expedition, he may have been further exposed to it during evenings in which he frequented Boston's public houses. The lodge provided an environment where social classes mixed, which was beneficial to Revere's business. The lodge would later be seen by some royal governors of Massachusetts as a principal source of resistance to British authority.
1765–1774: the gathering storm of revolution
Revere's business began to suffer when the British economy entered a recession in the years following the Seven Years' War, and declined further when the Stamp Act of 1765 resulted in a further downturn in the Massachusetts economy. Business was so poor that an attempt was made to attach his property in late 1765. To help make ends meet he even took up dentistry, a skill set he was taught by a practicing surgeon who lodged at a friend's house.Although Revere was not one of the "Loyal Nine"—organizers of the earliest protests against the Stamp Act—he was well connected with its members, who were laborers and artisans. Revere did not participate in some of the more raucous protests, such as the attack on the home of Lieutenant Governor Thomas Hutchinson. In 1765, a group of militants who would become known as the "Sons of Liberty" formed. Revere was one of them. From 1765 on, in support of the dissident cause, he produced engravings with political themes and other artifacts. Among these engravings are a depiction of the arrival of British troops in 1768 (which he termed "an insolent parade") and a famous depiction of the March 1770 Boston Massacre (see illustration). Although the latter was engraved by Revere and he included the inscription, "Engraved, Printed, & Sold by Paul Revere Boston", it was modeled on a drawing by Henry Pelham, and Revere's engraving of the drawing was colored by a third man and printed by a fourth. Revere also produced a bowl commemorating the Massachusetts assembly's refusal to retract the Massachusetts Circular Letter. (This letter, adopted in response to the 1767 Townshend Acts, called for united colonial action against the acts. King George III had issued a demand for its retraction.)
In 1770 Revere purchased a house on North Square in Boston's North End. Now a museum, the house provided space for his growing family while he continued to maintain his shop at nearby Clark's Wharf. Sarah died in 1773, and on October 10 of that year Revere married Rachel Walker (1745–1813). They had eight children, three of whom died young.
In November 1773 the merchant ship, ''Dartmouth'' arrived in Boston harbor carrying the first shipment of tea that would be subject to the taxes of the Tea Act. Revere and Warren, as members of the informal "North End Caucus", organized a watch over the ''Dartmouth'' to prevent the unloading of the tea. Revere took his turns on guard duty, and was one of the ringleaders in the Boston Tea Party of December 16, when colonists disguised as Indians dumped tea from the ''Dartmouth'' and two other ships into the harbor.
From December 1773 to November 1775, Revere served as a courier for the Boston Committee of Public Safety, traveling to New York and Philadelphia to report on the political unrest in Boston. Research has documented 18 such rides. Notice of some of them was published in Massachusetts newspapers, and British authorities received further intelligence of them from Loyalist Americans. In 1774, his cousin John on the island of Guernsey wrote to Paul that John had seen reports of Paul's role as an "express" (courier) in London newspapers.
In 1774, the military governor of Massachusetts, General Thomas Gage, dissolved the provincial assembly on orders from Britain. Governor Gage also closed the port of Boston and all over the city forced private citizens to quarter (provide lodging for) soldiers in their homes.
During this time, Revere and a group of 30 "mechanics" began meeting in secret at his favorite haunt, the ''Green Dragon'', to coordinate the gathering and dissemination of intelligence by "watching the Movements of British Soldiers", as he would write in an account of his April 18, 1775 ride. Around this time Revere contributed engravings to the patriot monthly, ''Royal American Magazine''.
He rode to Portsmouth, New Hampshire in December 1774 upon rumors of an impending landing of British troops there, a journey known in history as the Portsmouth Alarm. Although the rumors were false, his ride sparked a rebel success by provoking locals to raid Fort William and Mary, defended by just six soldiers, for its gunpowder supply.
=="Midnight Ride"== When British Army activity on April 7, 1775, suggested the possibility of troop movements, Joseph Warren sent Revere to warn the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, then sitting in Concord, the site of one of the larger caches of Patriot military supplies. After delivering the warning, Concord residents began moving the military supplies away from the town.
One week later, General Gage received instructions from Secretary of State William Legge, Earl of Dartmouth, to disarm the rebels, who were known to have hidden weapons in Concord, among other locations, and to imprison the rebellion's leaders, especially Samuel Adams and John Hancock. Dartmouth gave Gage considerable discretion in his commands. Gage issued orders to Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith to proceed from Boston "with utmost expedition and secrecy to Concord, where you will seize and destroy... all Military stores.... But you will take care that the soldiers do not plunder the inhabitants or hurt private property." Gage did not issue written orders for the arrest of rebel leaders, as he feared doing so might spark an uprising.
Between 9 and 10 p.m. on the night of April 18, 1775, Joseph Warren told Revere and William Dawes that the king's troops were about to embark in boats from Boston bound for Cambridge and the road to Lexington and Concord. Warren's intelligence suggested that the most likely objectives of the regulars' movements later that night would be the capture of Adams and Hancock. They did not worry about the possibility of regulars marching to Concord, since the supplies at Concord were safe, but they did think their leaders in Lexington were unaware of the potential danger that night. Revere and Dawes were sent out to warn them and to alert colonial militias in nearby towns.
In the days before April 18, Revere had instructed Robert Newman, the sexton of the North Church, to send a signal by lantern to alert colonists in Charlestown as to the movements of the troops when the information became known. In what is well known today by the phrase "one if by land, two if by sea", one lantern in the steeple would signal the army's choice of the land route while two lanterns would signal the route "by water" across the Charles River. Revere first gave instructions to send the signal to Charlestown. He then crossed the Charles River by rowboat, slipping past the British warship HMS ''Somerset'' at anchor. Crossings were banned at that hour, but Revere safely landed in Charlestown and rode to Lexington, avoiding a British patrol and later warning almost every house along the route. The Charlestown colonists dispatched additional riders to the north.
Riding through present-day Somerville, Medford, and Arlington, Revere warned patriots along his route, many of whom set out on horseback to deliver warnings of their own. By the end of the night there were probably as many as 40 riders throughout Middlesex County carrying the news of the army's advance. Revere did not shout the phrase later attributed to him ("The British are coming!"): His mission depended on secrecy, the countryside was filled with British army patrols, and most of the Massachusetts colonists (who were predominantly English in ethnic origin) still considered themselves British. Revere's warning, according to eyewitness accounts of the ride and Revere's own descriptions, was "The Regulars are coming out." Revere arrived in Lexington around midnight, with Dawes arriving about a half hour later. They met with Samuel Adams and John Hancock, who were spending the night with Hancock's relatives (in what is now called the Hancock-Clarke House), and they spent a great deal of time discussing plans of action upon receiving the news. They believed that the forces leaving the city were too large for the sole task of arresting two men and that Concord was the main target. The Lexington men dispatched riders to the surrounding towns, and Revere and Dawes continued along the road to Concord accompanied by Samuel Prescott, a doctor who happened to be in Lexington "returning from a lady friend's house at the awkward hour of 1 a.m."
Revere, Dawes, and Prescott were detained by a British Army patrol in Lincoln at a roadblock on the way to Concord. Prescott jumped his horse over a wall and escaped into the woods; he eventually reached Concord. Dawes also escaped, though he fell off his horse not long after and did not complete the ride.
Revere was captured and questioned by the British soldiers at gunpoint. He told them of the army's movement from Boston, and that British army troops would be in some danger if they approached Lexington, because of the large number of hostile militia gathered there. He and other captives taken by the patrol were still escorted east toward Lexington, until about a half mile from Lexington they heard a gunshot. The British major demanded Revere explain the gunfire, and Revere replied it was a signal to "alarm the country". As the group drew closer to Lexington, the town bell began to clang rapidly, upon which one of the captives proclaimed to the British soldiers "The bell's a'ringing! The town's alarmed, and you're all dead men!" The British soldiers gathered and decided not to press further towards Lexington but instead to free the prisoners and head back to warn their commanders. The British confiscated Revere's horse and rode off to warn the approaching army column. Revere walked to Rev. Jonas Clarke's house, where Hancock and Adams were staying. As the battle on Lexington Green unfolded, Revere assisted John Hancock and his family in their escape from Lexington, helping to carry a trunk of Hancock's papers.
The ride of the three men triggered a flexible system of "alarm and muster" that had been carefully developed months before, in reaction to the colonists' impotent response to the Powder Alarm of September 1774. This system was an improved version of an old network of widespread notification and fast deployment of local militia forces in times of emergency. The colonists had periodically used this system all the way back to the early years of Indian wars in the colony, before it fell into disuse in the French and Indian War. In addition to other express riders delivering messages, bells, drums, alarm guns, bonfires, and a trumpet were used for rapid communication from town to town, notifying the rebels in dozens of eastern Massachusetts villages that they should muster their militias because the regulars in numbers greater than 500 were leaving Boston with possible hostile intentions. This system was so effective that people in towns from Boston were aware of the army's movements while they were still unloading boats in Cambridge. Unlike in the Powder Alarm, the alarm raised by the three riders successfully allowed the militia to repel the British troops in Concord, after which the British were harried by the growing colonial militia all the way back to Boston.
War years
Because Boston was besieged after the battles at Lexington and Concord, Revere could not return to the city, which was now firmly in British hands. He boarded in Watertown, where he was eventually joined by Rachel and most of his children (Paul Jr., then 15, remained in Boston to mind the family properties). After he was denied a commission in the Continental Army, he tried to find other ways to be useful to the rebel cause. He was retained by the provincial congress as a courier, and to print local currency, which the congress used to pay the troops around Boston.Since there was a desperate shortage of gunpowder, the provincial congress decided in November 1775 to send him to Philadelphia to study the working of the only powder mill in the colonies, in the hopes that he might be able to build a second one in Massachusetts. Revere called on the mill's owner, Oswald Eve, armed with a letter from Continental Congressmen Robert Morris and John Dickinson asking Eve to "Chearfully & from Public Spirited Motives give Mr. Revere such information as will inable him to Conduct the business on his return home." Eve showed Revere around the mill, but refused to give him detailed drawings unless he was first paid a substantial bribe. Despite this chilly reception, Revere was able to discern useful information from the visit. He also acquired, through the work of Samuel Adams, plans for another powder mill. This information enabled Revere to set up a powder mill at Stoughton (present-day Canton). The mill produced tons of gunpowder for the Patriot cause.
Revere's friend and compatriot Joseph Warren was killed during the Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775. Because soldiers killed in battle were often buried in mass graves without ceremony, Warren's grave was unmarked. On March 21, 1776, several days after the British army left Boston, Revere, Warren's brothers, and a few friends went to the battlefield and found a grave containing two bodies. After being buried for 10 months, Warren's face was unrecognizable, but Revere was able to identify Warren's body because he had placed a false tooth in Warren's mouth, and recognized the wire he had used for fastening it. Warren was given a proper funeral and reburied in a marked grave.
Militia service
Upon returning to Boston in 1776, Revere was commissioned a major of infantry in the Massachusetts militia in that April, and transferred to the artillery a month later. In November he was promoted to lieutenant colonel, and was stationed at Castle William, defending Boston harbor. He was generally second or third in the chain of command, and on several occasions he was given command of the fort. He applied his engineering skills to maintaining the fort's armaments, even designing and building a caliper to accurately measure cannon balls and cannon bore holes. The service at Castle William was relatively isolated, and personality friction prompted some men to file complaints against Revere. The boredom was alleviated in late August 1777 when Revere was sent with a troop of soldiers to escort prisoners taken in the Battle of Bennington to Boston, where they were confined on board prison ships, and again in September when he was briefly deployed to Rhode Island.In August 1778 Revere's regiment served in a combined Franco-American expedition whose objective was to capture the British base at Newport, Rhode Island. His regiment was responsible for erecting and maintaining artillery batteries on Aquidneck Island. The attempt was abandoned by the French when their fleet was scattered in a storm, and Revere's regiment returned to Boston before the British sortied from Newport to force the Battle of Rhode Island.
Penobscot disaster
The British in June 1779 established a new base on Penobscot Bay in present-day Maine (which was then part of Massachusetts). Massachusetts authorities called out the militia, pressed into service available shipping, and organized a major expedition to dislodge the British. The expedition was a complete fiasco: its land and naval commanders could not agree on strategy or tactics, and the arrival of British reinforcements led to the destruction of the entire Massachusetts fleet. Revere commanded the artillery units for the expedition, and was responsible for organizing the artillery train. He participated in the taking of Bank's Island, from which artillery batteries could reach the British ships anchored before Fort George. He next oversaw the transport of the guns from Bank's Island to a new position on the heights of the Bagaduce Peninsula that commanded the fort. Although Revere was in favor of storming the fort, Brigadier General Solomon Lovell opted for a siege instead. After further inconsequential exchanges, and disagreements on how to proceed between Lovell and fleet commander Dudley Saltonstall, Lovell, a decision supported by Revere, decided to return to the transports on August 12.Late the next day British sails were spotted. A mad scramble ensued, and on the 14th the fleet was in retreat heading up the Penobscot River. Revere and his men were put ashore with their stores, and their transports destroyed. At one point Brigadier General Peleg Wadsworth ordered Revere to send his barge in an attempt to recover a ship drifting toward the enemy position. Revere at first resisted, but eventually complied, and Wadsworth told him to expect formal charges over the affair. The incident separated Revere from his men. Moving overland, he eventually managed to regroup most of his troops, and returned to Boston on August 26. A variety of charges were made against Revere, some of which were exaggerated assignments of blame made by enemies he had made in his command at Castle William. The initial hearings on the matter in September 1779 were inconclusive, but he was asked to resign his post. He repeatedly sought a full court martial to clear his name, but it was not until February 1782 that a court martial heard the issue, exonerating him.
Later years
After the war, finding the silver trade difficult in the ensuing depression, Revere opened a hardware and home goods store, and later became interested in metal work beyond gold and silver. By 1788 he had opened an iron and brass foundry in Boston's North End. As a foundryman he recognized a burgeoning market for church bells in the religious revival known as the Second Great Awakening that followed the war. He became one of the best-known metal casters of that instrument, working with sons Paul Jr. and Joseph Warren Revere in the firm Paul Revere & Sons. This firm cast the first bell made in Boston and ultimately produced more than 900 bells. A substantial part of the foundry's business came from supplying shipyards with iron bolts and fittings for ship construction. In 1801, Revere became a pioneer in the production of copper plating, opening North America's first copper mill south of Boston in Canton, near the Canton Viaduct. Copper from the Revere Copper Company was used to cover the original wooden dome of the Massachusetts State House in 1802.His business plans in the late 1780s were stymied by a shortage of adequate money in circulation. His plans rested on his entrepreneurial role as a manufacturer of cast iron, brass, and copper products. Alexander Hamilton's national policies regarding banks and industrialization exactly matched his dreams, and he became an ardent Federalist committed to building a robust economy and a powerful nation. His copper and brass works eventually grew, through sale and corporate merger, into a large national corporation, Revere Copper and Brass, Inc.
Despite advancing age, Revere remained active. He continued to discuss the issues of the day, and in 1814 circulated a petition offering the government the services of Boston's artisans in protecting Boston during the War of 1812. Revere died on May 10, 1818, at the age of 83, at his home on Charter Street in Boston. He is buried in the Granary Burying Ground on Tremont Street.
Legacy
After Paul Revere's death, the family business was taken over by his oldest surviving son, Joseph Warren Revere. The copper works founded in 1801 continues today as the Revere Copper Company, with manufacturing divisions in Rome, New York and New Bedford, Massachusetts.A 25-cent 1958 U.S. postage stamp in the Liberty Series honors Paul Revere, featuring the portrait by Gilbert Stuart. He also appears on the $5,000 Series EE U.S. Savings Bond.
Revere's original silverware, engravings, and other works are highly regarded today, and can be found on display in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and other museums.
The communities of Revere, Massachusetts and Revere, Minnesota, bear his name, as do Revere Beach in Revere, Massachusetts, Revere Avenue in The Bronx, New York City, and Paul Revere Road in Arlington Heights in Arlington, Massachusetts.
Ride
In 1861, over 40 years after Revere's death, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow made the midnight ride the subject of his poem "Paul Revere's Ride," which opens:
Longfellow's poem is not historically accurate, but his "mistakes" were deliberate. He had researched the historical event, using such works as George Bancroft's ''History of the United States'', but he manipulated the facts for poetic effect. He was purposely trying to create American legends, much as he did with works like ''The Song of Hiawatha'' (1855) and ''The Courtship of Miles Standish'' (1858). Longfellow was successful in creating a legend: Revere's stature rose significantly in the years following the poem's publication.
Parts of the ride route in Massachusetts are now posted with signs marked "Revere's Ride". The route follows Main Street in Charlestown, Broadway and Main Street in Somerville, Main Street and High Street in Medford, Medford Street to Arlington center, and Massachusetts Avenue the rest of the way through Lexington and into Lincoln. Revere's ride is reenacted annually.
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