Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

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Cambridge is a city located in the county of Middlesex in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Its population at the 2010 census was 105,162 and a population density of 5,710 people per km². After 10 years in 2020 city had an estimated population of 119,192 inhabitants.

The city was created 393 years ago in 1629.

Cambridge is a city in Massachusetts, across the Charles River from Boston. It’s home to Harvard University, which has been a fixture in the area since 1636, when Puritan minister John Harvard left his library and half of his estate to start a new school.

At the heart of campus, grassy Harvard Yard is anchored by the neoclassical Widener Library. Harvard Square has cafes, bars and bookstores. The Harvard Art Museums comprise the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger and Arthur M. Sackler collections. Southeast is the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Cambridge was founded in 1630 as "Newtowne," but was rechristened after King Charles II granted it a charter in 1685. The city's population grew steadily throughout the 19th century until it peaked at 100,000 in 1950; since then, it has shrunk by about 20 percent due to suburbanization and other factors leading to urban decline like crime rates.

Cambridge has about 117,822 people living there as of 2020.

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Geography

Cambridge is located at 42°22'30"N 71°6'20"W (42.3751000, -71.1056100).

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People born in Cambridge, including dog musher, noteworthy as the second woman to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in 1986, the second four-time winner in 1990, and the first to win four out of five sequential years Susan Butcher, author Paul Lutus, psychologist James McClelland, .

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• Eddy Duchin (American musician) he was born in 01/04/1909
• Thomas J. J. Altizer (a U.S.A. theologian) he was born in 28/05/1927
• Percy Williams Bridgman (American physicist) he was born in 21/04/1882
• Matt Damon (American actor, screenwriter, and producer) he was born in 08/10/1970
• Jon Beckwith (American biochemist) he was born in 25/12/1935
• Anne McCaffrey (American-Irish novelist) she was born in 01/04/1926
• Jane Curtin (American comedian and actor) she was born in 06/09/1947
• Douglass North (American economist) he was born in 05/11/1920
• Lloyd Shapley (American economist and mathematician) he was born in 02/06/1923
• Susanna Kaysen (American writer) she was born in 11/11/1948
• Margaret Fuller (American writer and women's activist (1810–1850)) she was born in 23/05/1810
• Traci Bingham (American actress) she was born in 13/01/1968
• Russi Taylor (American voice actress (1944-2019)) she was born in 04/05/1944
• Helen B. Taussig (American cardiologist) she was born in 24/05/1898
• Sam Waterston (American actor, producer and director) he was born in 15/11/1940
• Rebecca Pidgeon (British actor and singer-songwriter) she was born in 10/10/1965
• Debra Granik (American film director, screenwriter and cinematographer) she was born in 06/02/1963
• E. E. Cummings (American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright (1894-1962)) he was born in 14/10/1894

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