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unusual facts about Baltimore, Maryland



A Postcard from the Day

The Psychedelly, Bethesda, Maryland ("Goin' All the Way/Glendora", "Stepping Stone", "Mean Screen", "Reverse Psychiatry", "When We Were Kids")

Adrienne A. Jones

Adrienne A. Jones (born November 20, 1954) is the current Speaker Pro Tem of the Maryland House of Delegates, the first African-American female to serve in that position in Maryland.

Ballou High School

Kevin Richardson (1982), Journalist and videographer for The Baltimore Sun newspaper and website.

Baltimore, County Cork

The local GAA club is Ilen Rovers, which was formed in 1973 and consists of the surrounding parish and that of Lisheen and Kilcoe.

Benjamin Howard

Benjamin Chew Howard (1791–1872), American congressman from Maryland and fifth reporter of decisions of the United States Supreme Court

Benjamin Tasker

Benjamin Tasker, Sr. (1690–1768), Provincial Governor of Maryland (1752–1753)

Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

The majority of poems printed were obtained from the University of Maryland Library Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven Papers, as well as the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Library's The Little Review Records.

CSX Transportation

Another style of unit train is a local trash train, D765, runs between Derwood and Dickerson, both in Maryland.

Cumberland Subdivision

At its east end, the Cumberland Subdivision becomes the Metropolitan Subdivision; at its west end (at Mexico, Maryland) it becomes the Cumberland Terminal Subdivision.

Eugene J. Martin

As a child, Eugene ran away on several occasions, was placed in reform school at six years of age, and eventually spent the remainder of his childhood on a farm in Clarksburg, Maryland where his foster parents were Franie and Madessa Snowdon.

Greater Baltimore Urban League

Baltimore business executive Raymond V. Haysbert was chairman of the board of directors at the time of his death on May 24, 2010.

Harry Crandall

At the height of his career, Crandall owned eighteen theaters in Washington D.C., Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia.

Hattie Lawton

She was part of the team that participated in the detection of the alleged 1861 Baltimore assassination plot against President-elect Abraham Lincoln and, according to Pinkerton's account, in the early part of 1861 Hattie was stationed in Perrymansville, Maryland with Timothy Webster, another Pinkerton agent.

Henry Andrews Bumstead

After receiving his BA degree in 1891, he remained in Baltimore for two years as an assistant in the physics laboratory, taking as much graduate work as time would allow.

James Baker House

James B. Baker House, Aberdeen, Maryland, listed on the NRHP in Maryland

James Hubbard

James W. Hubbard (born 1948), American politician in the Maryland House of Delegates

Jane Frazier

On October 1, 1755, while returning to her home from the Fort Cumberland Trading Post several miles away, Jane was captured by Indians and taken to the Miami River in Ohio.

Johnston Square, Baltimore

It is located in a crime prone region of East Baltimore and has been used as a filming location on the HBO drama The Wire.

Jonathan Leo Fairbanks

Some of Fairbanks’ artwork is owned by institutions such as the National Portrait Gallery, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, The Boston Public Library, the Wye House and Myrtle Grove on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and the Alhambra in southern Spain.

Joseph M. Finotti

His last literary effort, which he did not live to see published, entitled "The Mystery of the Wizard Clip" (Baltimore, 1879), is a story of preternatural occurrences at Smithfield, West Virginia, involving Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin.

Kennedyville, Maryland

Wayne Gilchrest Former Congressman from the first district of Maryland.

Kim Taylor

Taylor recently starred in director Matthew Porterfield's forthcoming independent film, I Used to Be Darker, about a pregnant Northern Irish runaway who seeks refuge with family in Baltimore, MD, only to find her aunt on the verge of divorce.

Laurel Airport

Suburban Airport, an airport serving Laurel, Maryland, United States (FAA: W18)

Leonardtown, Maryland

Nearly 20 years later, Seymour Town was renamed again to Leonard Town in honor of Benedict Leonard Calvert, who was Maryland's Governor during this period.

Maryland Route 158

The two-lane state highway curves east and closely parallels the northbound lanes of I-695 (Baltimore Beltway); the two highways are separated by a Jersey barrier.

Maya Keyes

Marcel-Keyes was born in New Jersey and raised in suburban Maryland by Alan Keyes, and wife Jocelyn Marcel-Keyes who is a native of India.

Metro Maryland Youth For Christ

Metro Maryland Youth For Christ is a religious organization for young people in Maryland, United States.

Mike Devereaux

In December 2009, it was announced that Devereaux would serve as field coach for the Delmarva Shorebirds (Baltimore Orioles Class-A Affiliate, South Atlantic League) in 2010, replacing former third baseman Ryan Minor, who had been promoted to team manager.

Monro Muffler Brake

In 2004, Monro purchased the 25 stores and 10 kiosks of Mr. Tire, a Baltimore, Maryland chain which trademarked “On the Rim and Out the Door” pricing.

National Capital Parks-East

National Capital Parks-East (NCPE) is an administrative grouping of a number of National Park Service sites generally east of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., but also nearby in Maryland.

New Carrollton, Maryland

Carrollton was named after early Maryland settler Charles Carroll of Carrollton, a delegate to the Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Oldfields School

The school's campus is situated in a section of the northern suburbs of Baltimore City and is located within walking distance of the Gunpowder River and the Northern Central Railroad Trail.

Patricia Hughes

:For the former First Lady of Maryland, see Patricia Donoho Hughes

Preakness

Preakness Stakes, an American flat thoroughbred horse race held in Baltimore, Maryland, named for the above horse

Question P

The effort to gather signatures to put Question P on the ballot, in the first place, was spearheaded by a grassroots political action coalition that included Community and Labor United for Baltimore (CLUB), the Baltimore Green Party, the Baltimore office of ACORN and state delegates Curt Anderson and Jill P. Carter.

Rachel Carson Greenway

The Rachel Carson Conservation Park is a 650-acres park located near Laytonsville, in Montgomery County, Maryland.

Raymond V. Haysbert

During the time of civil rights activism beginning in the early 1960s, Haysbert worked to elect black politicians, including Harry Cole as Maryland's first African-American state senator.

Robert Levi

In 1972, along with the leaders of four other major banks in Baltimore, Levi co-founded the Baltimore Community Foundation.

Sarbanes

John Sarbanes (born 1962), Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maryland's 3rd district and son of Paul Sarbanes

SeaPerch

Currently, 112 schools in seven states are participating across the United States in Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Connecticut.

Sergiu Comissiona

Comissiona and his wife became American citizens on July 4, 1976, at a special Bicentennial ceremony at Fort McHenry on Baltimore Harbor.

Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act

The Act was introduced in the House of Representatives on June 17, 2009, by Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Maryland) and has been cosponsored by 169 of the 257 House Democrats.

The Airs of Palestine

The poem titled The Airs of Palestine was first published by John Pierpont (1785–1866) in 1816 (Baltimore: B. Edes; various reprints).

The Antelope

John Smith was first mate on the Columbia, later renamed Arraganta, when it sailed from Baltimore, Maryland under a letter of marque issued by the Uruguayan revolutionary José Gervasio Artigas.

The Get Em Mamis

Baltimore Magazine and City Paper listed the Get Em Mami's TerAwesome as one of the best local releases in recent memory.

Turkey Point

Turkey Point Park, a park located in the eastern suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland

USAMU

United States Army Medical Unit (1956-69), a now defunct medical research unit for biodefense at Fort Detrick, Maryland.

Volker Ignaz Schmidt

Since 1995 he has studied composition privately with Franklin Cox (University of Maryland, USA), Bernd Asmus (Freiburg, Germany), Jan Kopp (Stuttgart, Germany) and John Palmer (composer) (University of Hertfordshire, England).

WDCO

WDCO-LP, a television station (channel 6) licensed to Salisbury, Maryland, which simulcasts WDCN-LP Washington, D.C.

WOLX-FM

(Moore and Elliott were previously teamed with longtime WOLX station personality Fletcher Keyes Fletch, who left the station in August 2010.) National voices include midday personality Ken Merson (voicetracked from Baltimore, MD), afternoon drive host Willie B (voicetracked from Entercom's Memphis cluster), and nationally-syndicated host Tom Kent at night.


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2010 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship

Baltimore, Maryland was selected as the host for the final and semifinals, which were held at M&T Bank Stadium, the home field of the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League.

2011 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship

The championship game took place on May 30, 2011 at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland, where Virginia won its fifth NCAA lacrosse championship and seventh college title overall, defeating Maryland 9-7 in the title game.

Adrian Lee Kellard

Since his death his work continues to be shown in such exhibitions as "All Faiths Beautiful" and "Race, Class, Gender ≠ Character" at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore Maryland, "Precious" and "From Media to Metaphor" at the Grey Art Gallery and Study Center at New York University.

American Morse code

American Morse Code was first used on the Baltimore-Washington telegraph line, a telegraph line constructed between Baltimore, Maryland, and the old Supreme Court chamber in the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. The first public message "What hath God wrought" was sent on May 24, 1844, by Morse in Washington to Alfred Vail at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) "outer depot" (now the B&O Railroad Museum) in Baltimore.

Bernard Baker

Bernard N. Baker (1854–1918), shipping magnate from Baltimore, Maryland

Caustic Casanova

As of September 2010, the band is currently in the studio recording a follow up record to Imminent Eminence with record producer/indie rock musician J. Robbins at his Magpie Cage Studios in Baltimore, Maryland.

Charles Christian Plitt

Charles Christian Plitt (born 6 May 1869 in Baltimore, Maryland, died there 13 October 1933) was a botanist and lichenologist.

Christopher Fratin

Today, Fratin's sculpture is on permanent display in the Louvre, the city museums of Metz, Lyon, and Nîmes; the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, Maryland; and the Georg Eisler archive in Vienna.

Constitution Plaza

It shares its design "brotherhood" of multiple-style buildings connected by large, above-grade pedestrian spaces with two similar, but much larger renewal projects, Charles Center in downtown Baltimore, Maryland, and the Prudential Center complex in Boston, Massachusetts, although these two developments have been significantly altered and have also experienced varying degrees of economic and planning success.

Daily American Times

The Daily American Times was a newspaper published in Baltimore, Maryland, from 1853–1854.

Delanco Township, New Jersey

When the regiment arrived in Baltimore, Maryland, it was attacked during the Baltimore riot of 1861.

Dutch Lacrosse Association

STX (based out of Baltimore, Maryland) provided the team with equipment while Riddell supplied the team with helmets.

East Broadway

Broadway East, Baltimore, neighborhood in the Eastern district of Baltimore, Maryland

Eloise Lewis

For the next two years, until 1945, she served as an instructor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

Federal Hill Historic District

Federal Hill, Baltimore, a Baltimore, Maryland neighborhood which includes NRHP-listed Federal Hill Historic District and Federal Hill South Historic District

Graceland Park, Baltimore

Graceland Park is a neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland, located adjacent O'Donnell Heights neighborhood.

Hart Benton Holton

Holton died in Woodlawn in 1907, and is interred in Loudon Park Cemetery of Baltimore, Maryland.

Irene Morgan

In 1944, the 27-year-old Irene Morgan was traveling to Baltimore, Maryland when she was arrested and jailed in Virginia for refusing to sit in a segregated section on an interstate Greyhound bus.

Jack Scarbath

John Carl "Jack" Scarbath (born August 12, 1930 in Baltimore, Maryland) is a former professional American football quarterback in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins and Pittsburgh Steelers.

James Devereux

Devereux also attended the Army and Navy Preparatory School in Washington, D.C., the Tome School at Port Deposit, Maryland, LaVilla in Lausanne, Switzerland (when his parents lived in Vienna, Austria), and Loyola College of Baltimore, Maryland.

Brigadier General Devereux died at age 85 in Stella Maris Hospice in Baltimore, Maryland on August 5, 1988 from pneumonia.

Just a Friend 2002

The video was directed by Diane Martel, which was shot on location in Mario’s hometown of Baltimore, Maryland.

Kenneth Jackson

Kenneth A. Jackson, businessman in Baltimore, Maryland, with past connections to the illegal drug trade

M. V. Mathur

In his final years, Mathur resided in the United States, where he died in Baltimore, Maryland, on January 21, 2004.

Maximilian Godefroy

Later, as an anti-Bonaparte activist, he was imprisoned in the fortress of Bellegarde, then released about 1805 and allowed to come to the United States, settling in Baltimore, Maryland, where he became an instructor in art and architecture at St. Mary's College, the Sulpician Seminary.

MV San Demetrio

On 14 March 1942 San Demetrio sailed unescorted from Baltimore, Maryland bound for the UK via Halifax, Nova Scotia with a cargo of 4,000 tons of alcohol and 7,000 tons of aviation spirit.

Neil Fallon

Fallon's younger sister Mary Alice Fallon-Yeskey appears on the Food Network show Ace of Cakes as office manager of Charm City Cakes in Baltimore, Maryland.

Oblate Sisters of Providence

The Oblate Sisters continue in Baltimore, Maryland, Miami, Florida, Buffalo, New York, Alajuela and Siquirres, Costa Rica.

Otis T. Carr

Otis T. Carr (December 7, 1904 - September 20, 1982) first emerged into the 1950s flying saucer scene in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1955 when he founded OTC Enterprises, a company which was supposed to advance and apply technology originally suggested by Nikola Tesla.

Robert E. Smith

Smith was born in Baltimore, Maryland and grew up in Washington, DC; in 1938 he entered The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina.

Rowland House

Henry August Rowland House, Baltimore, Maryland, listed on the NRHP in Maryland

Sally Jessy Raphael

The show was eventually picked up by WVIE, Baltimore, Maryland, as the parent station, and is being syndicated among other AM stations in New England, the Mid-Atlantic and the Midwest, in addition to at least one station in Arizona.

Shocktrauma

The screenplay by Stephen Kandel is based on the book by Jon Franklin and Alan Doelp, which details the true story of the first trauma center in America, founded in Baltimore, Maryland.

St Paul's School for Girls

:For the school near Baltimore, Maryland with the same name, see St. Paul's School for Girls.

Steve Wayne

He lived on Payson Street in Baltimore, Maryland and grew up in the same neighborhood as professional boxer Jack Portnoy and World War II army hero Hank Bergman.

Steven J. DeBoy, Sr.

He is a second cousin of actors PJ DeBoy and Paul DeBoy, both of whom (like Delegate DeBoy) hail from the Farrell-DeBoy family of Baltimore, Maryland (PJ and Paul are grandsons of the late James J. DeBoy, Sr., a brother of Ferdinand DeBoy.).

Thomas D'Alesandro Stadium

The stadium was built with help from the Jewish community of Baltimore, Maryland and named for the mayor of Baltimore, Thomas D'Alesandro.

Timothy Shay Arthur

Born just outside Newburgh, New York, Arthur lived as a child in nearby Fort Montgomery, New York By 1820, Arthur's father, a miller, had relocated to Baltimore, Maryland, where Arthur briefly attended local schools.

Titles of Nobility Amendment

There is speculation that the Congress proposed the amendment in response to the 1803 marriage of Napoleon Bonaparte's younger brother, Jerome, and Betsy Patterson of Baltimore, Maryland, who gave birth to a boy for whom she wanted aristocratic recognition from France.

WBAL

WBAL-TV, a television station (channel 11 digital) licensed to Baltimore, Maryland, United States

WBGR

WFSI, a radio station (860 AM) licensed to Baltimore, Maryland, United States, which used the call sign WBGR until 2011

Wheelabrator

Wheelabrator Incinerator, a waste-to-energy plant in Baltimore, Maryland, probably best recognized by its tall white smokestack on nearby Interstate 95.

William Colgate

Robert Colgate (1758–1826) was an 18th-century English farmer, politician and sympathiser with the American War of Independence and French Revolution, whose republican ideals impelled him to leave their farm in Shoreham, Kent in March 1798 and emigrate to Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States of America, after which the family settled on a farm in Harford County, Maryland.

WITH

WZFT, a radio station (104.3 FM) licensed to Baltimore, Maryland, United States, which used the call sign WITH-FM from 1949 until 1974

WJZ

WJZ-TV, a television station (channel 13 analog/digital) licensed to Baltimore, Maryland, United States