8. What You Need to Know About Boston and Paul Revere!

What You Need to Know About Boston and Paul Revere! The John Hancock Tower is officially named 200 Clarendon, but everyone still calls it the John Hancock Tower. The building is sixty stories tall and contains thirteen acres of glass!

关于波士顿和保罗·里维尔你需要知道的事!约翰·汉考克塔的正式名称是200克拉伦登，但大家仍然称它为约翰·汉考克塔。 这座建筑有60层楼高，有13英亩的玻璃!

There are colored lights on the top of the John Hancock Tower that show the weather: "Steady blue, clear view. Flashing blue, clouds due. Steady red, rain ahead. Flashing red, snow instead." The oldest public park in the United States is the Boston Common. It dates back to 1634. Fenway Park is the oldest original Major League Baseball stadium still in use. It opened in 1912. The Green Monster of Fenway Park is the thirty-seven-foot-high wall located beyond left field. It's named after the green paint color that covers the wall. Boston is the home of North America's first college, Harvard University, which was founded in 1636. In 1716, the first American lighthouse was built on a small island in Boston Harbor.

在约翰汉考克大厦的顶部有彩色的灯显示天气:“蓝色稳定，视野清晰。 闪烁着蓝色，乌云袭来。 红色稳定，前方有雨。闪烁着红色，取而代之的是雪花。” 美国最古老的公园是波士顿公园。 它可以追溯到1634年。芬威公园是仍在使用的最古老的原美国职业棒球大联盟体育场。 它于1912年开业。芬威球场的绿怪物是位于左外场外的37英尺高的墙。 它是以覆盖墙壁的绿色油漆命名的。 波士顿是北美第一所大学哈佛大学的所在地，哈佛大学成立于1636年。 1716年，美国第一座灯塔在波士顿港的一个小岛上建成。

On March 18, 1990, the largest art theft in the history of the United States happened in Boston. The stolen paintings have never been recovered. Originally, the town of Boston was named Shawmut. But on September 17, 1630, colonists renamed it Boston, after a town in England called Boston. The Red Sox were named in 1907 by their owner at the time, John I. Taylor. Before that, they had many different names, including the Americans, the Pilgrims, the Somersets, the Puritans, and the Plymouth Rocks. On top of the gold dome of the State House in Boston sits a golden pinecone. Paul Revere's ride to warn the colonists of the British became famous because of an 1861 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem. But the poem got several facts wrong!

1990年3月18日，美国历史上最大的艺术品盗窃案发生在波士顿。 被盗的画作一直没有找到。 最初，波士顿镇被命名为肖穆特。 但在1630年9月17日，殖民者将其重新命名为波士顿，以英国一个叫波士顿的小镇命名。 1907年，红袜队由当时的老板约翰一世命名。 泰勒。在此之前，他们有许多不同的名字，包括美国人、清教徒、萨默塞特人、清教徒和普利茅斯岩石。 在波士顿州议会大厦的金色圆顶上，有一个金色的松果。 保罗·里维尔骑马警告殖民者当心英国人的故事因1861年亨利·沃兹沃斯·朗费罗的一首诗而出名。 但是这首诗弄错了几个事实!

The horse that Paul Revere rode on the night of April 18, 1775, was borrowed from a merchant named John Larkin. The horse was a mare named Brown Beauty. Many people say that as he rode to warn the colonists, Paul Revere shouted out "the British are coming!" But he never actually said this! In addition to being a silversmith and artist, Paul Revere was also the leader of a group of colonists that spied on British soldiers. Boston Duck tours have been around since October 4th, 1994, when they had four duck boats. Now, they have twenty-eight boats! A bronze statue in Boston's Public Garden commemorates a famous children's book called Make Way for Ducklings. The story is about a pair of mallards who decide to raise their ducklings on an island in the garden.

保罗·里维尔在1775年4月18日晚上骑的那匹马是从一个名叫约翰·拉金的商人那里借来的。 这匹马是一匹名叫布朗美人的母马。 许多人说，当保罗·里维尔骑马去警告殖民者时，他大声喊道:“英国人来了!”但他从来没有说过这些!除了银匠和艺术家，保罗·里维尔还是一群监视英国士兵的殖民者的领导人。 波士顿鸭子之旅始于1994年10月4日，当时他们有四艘鸭子船。 现在，他们有28艘船!波士顿公共花园的一座铜像是为了纪念一本著名的儿童读物《给小鸭让路》。 这个故事讲的是一对绿头鸭决定在花园的一个岛上养他们的小鸭子。

Since 1742, Faneuil Hall has been both a marketplace and a meeting hall. It was destroyed by fire in 1761, and only the brick walls survived. In 1762 the colonists had it rebuilt, and in 1775, when the British were occupying Boston, it was used as a theater. The Ted Williams Tunnel is ninety feet below the surface of Boston Harbor, making it the deepest tunnel in North America. The Boston Cream Pie is the official state dessert of Massachusetts. It was invented at the Omni Parker House.

自1742年以来，法尼尔大厅既是一个市场，也是一个会议厅。 它在1761年被一场大火烧毁，只剩下砖墙。 1762年，殖民者重建了它，1775年，当英国人占领波士顿时，它被用作剧院。 泰德·威廉姆斯隧道位于波士顿港地下90英尺处，是北美最深的隧道。 波士顿奶油派是马萨诸塞州的官方甜点。 它是在Omni Parker House发明的。