- ... that Ninigret Pond is the largest of Rhode Island's nine salt ponds?
- ...that the anti-smuggling activities of the British frigate HMS Rose in 1775 provoked the Rhode Island government to commission the Sloop of War Providence, the first warship in what became the United States Navy?
- ...that Charles R. Brayton, as political boss of Rhode Island, pushed through legislation called the Brayton Act that limited the state's governor to appointing little more than his own private secretary?
