How a corner of Scituate helped win WWII and almost became the capital of the world
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How a corner of Scituate helped win WWII and almost became the capital of the world
as it began the search for a place to build a city that would be capital of the world. In January 1946, the committee led by Stoyan Gavrilovic toured two locations in Rhode Island as it looked for ...