Lowell
Merrimack River city
Lowell is a city in northeastern Massachusetts, historically significant as an early center of American textile manufacturing.
The name also functions as a given name and surname, associated with several prominent American families—notably the Lowells of Boston, who produced poets, scholars, and industrialists.
James Russell Lowell, Robert Lowell, and Amy Lowell were influential American poets.
Facilities manufacturing woven goods
- mill girlsWomen in textile factories
- Industrial RevolutionEra of mechanized production
- canal systemConnected artificial water passages
- labor strikesWorkers collectively stopping work
factory · loom · spindle · cotton · workforce · immigrant workers · boardinghouses · factory girls
Northeastern colonial state
- MiddlesexHistoric English county
- New EnglandNortheast U.S. region
- downtownCentral business district
- waterfallDescending river over precipice
Red planet, war deity
- PlutoKuiper Belt dwarf world
- canalsConstructed water passages
- telescopeInstrument magnifying faraway objects
- planetsStar-orbiting celestial bodies
Flagstaff · Planet X · red planet · observatory · cosmology · nebula · asteroid · celestial
Metered poetic passage
- confessional poetryPoetry of raw personal revelation
- Pulitzer PrizeElite American letters award
- modernistAdvocate of experimental forms
- free versePoetry without fixed structure
textile mills
Facilities manufacturing woven goods
- mill girlsWomen in textile factories
- Industrial RevolutionEra of mechanized production
- canal systemConnected artificial water passages
labor strikes · factory · loom · spindle · cotton · workforce · immigrant workers · boardinghouses · factory girls · paternalism
Massachusetts
Northeastern colonial state
- MiddlesexHistoric English county
- New EnglandNortheast U.S. region
- downtownCentral business district
Mars
Red planet, war deity
- PlutoKuiper Belt dwarf world
- canalsConstructed water passages
- telescopeInstrument magnifying faraway objects
planets · Flagstaff · Planet X · red planet · observatory · cosmology · nebula · asteroid · celestial · astronomer
verse
Metered poetic passage
- confessional poetryPoetry of raw personal revelation
- Pulitzer PrizeElite American letters award
- modernistAdvocate of experimental forms
free verse · literary · abolitionism · Harvard · American poetry
- Massachusetts TownsFramingham, Wellesley, Sudbury, Weston, Ashland
- Washington CountyNashville, Marietta, Vernon, Hartford, Germantown
- US CitiesNew York City, Atlanta, Chicago, Boston, Dallas
- MassachusettsBoston, Cambridge, Cape Cod, Plymouth, Salem
- New EnglandMaine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut
- AstronomersGalileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Nicolaus Copernicus, Edwin Hubble, Carl Sagan
LowellSilicon Valley
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