Degenerative disc disease in the neck (the cervical spine) causes: 1  Decreased flexibility. 2  Neck pain. 3  Stiffness. 4  Pain radiating to the back of the shoulder or into the arms. 5  Numbness and tingling in the arms and hands. 6  Weakness. 7  Lower back and leg pain and weakness.
People & Events: Boston Brahmins. The term Boston Brahmins refers to a class of wealthy, educated, elite members of Boston society in the nineteenth century. Oliver Wendell Holmes coined the term in a novel in 1861, calling Boston's elite families the Brahmin Caste of New England..
The Boston accent is a regional accent of the American English dialect spoken in northeastern New England âparticularly the city of Boston and much of eastern Massachusetts.oston shares this system with the accents of the southern part of the Midwest and the major cities of the West, though the raising of this vowel in Boston tends to be more noticeable and extreme than elsewhere.