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Five Things to Know Today: December 16

Anyone for tea?

1. Weather: Mostly sunny today with a high near 48 degrees. Enjoy it, though, because the National Weather Service forecast for our area indicates north winds will bring cooler temps in the days to come.

2. In Case You Missed It: What the heck is a ?

3. Don't Miss It: The Orchestra presents its tonight!

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4. Coming Up: Don't miss Kelly-Anne Suarez's at 11 a.m.

5. Today in History: On this day in 1773, in Boston Harbor, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians boarded three British tea ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor. The midnight raid, popularly known as the "Boston Tea Party," was in protest of the British Parliament's Tea Act of 1773, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax and granting it a virtual monopoly on the American tea trade. The low tax allowed the East India Company to undercut even tea smuggled into America by Dutch traders, and many colonists viewed the act as another example of taxation tyranny.

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