After 27 years in prison Nelson Mandela was freed in 1990 and negotiated the end of apartheid in South Africa bringing peace to a racially divided country and leading the fight for human rights around the world. 1  Contents.
Most expensive house (we could get into) in Boston. It doesn't get much more Boston than this: a historic mansion on Beacon Street on the flat section of Beacon Hill. Known as the Benjamin Mansion, you get 8,450 square feet, a rooftop pool, and Boston Public Garden as your front yard.
On the extreme end of the spectrum, Boston is home to the most expensive road in United States history, which had an extraordinary cost of over $1 billion per mile (Simon [NPR], 1996).aradoxically, another New England road was criticized as wasteful because it cost $19 million per mile (Frandsen, 1996), a pittance by comparison. Elevated multi-lane highways through cities can be costly because of the displacement of current infrastructure.