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unusual facts about Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area



1978 Detroit Lions season

This season would also be the swan song for starting quarterback Greg Landry's stellar ten year career in Detroit, as in the offseason was shipped to the Baltimore Colts for or 1979 fourth round pick (#88-Ulysses Norris), 1979 fifth round pick (#131-Walt Brown), 1980 third round pick (#62-Mike Friede), in a rebuilding process begun by head coach Monte Clark.

2014 CAA Men's Basketball Tournament

The 2014 Colonial Athletic Association Men's Basketball Tournament will be held March 7–10 at the Baltimore Arena in Baltimore, MD.

41st World Science Fiction Convention

The 41st World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), also known as ConStellation, was held September 1–5, 1983, at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Arunah Shepherdson Abell

Arriving in Halifax, Nova Scotia by ship from Europe, it traveled overland by pony to Annapolis, by steamship to Portland, Maine, and then by rail to Baltimore.

Arundel Mills

Arundel Mills is a mall located in Hanover, Maryland (south of Baltimore, near BWI Airport) and is owned by Simon Property Group.

Ballou High School

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

Baltimore Convention Center

Irene E. Van Sant, then-manager of the Convention Center Hotel Project for the Baltimore Development Corporation, Baltimore's former Mayor Sheila Dixon, and Governor of Maryland Martin O'Malley—feel that a hotel adjacent to the Convention Center will make it a more appealing site for conventions.

Baltimore mayoral election, 2011

Because Baltimore's electorate is overwhelmingly Democratic, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's victory in the Democratic primary on September 13, 2011 all but assured her of victory in the general election.

Baltimore Technologies

Sarah Flannery won the European Young Scientist of the Year award for her presentation of the Cayley–Purser algorithm, which was based on work she performed with Baltimore researchers during a short internship with the company.

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.

Baltimore's Marching Ravens

When Baltimore was in the running for a National Football League franchise in the 1990s, Ziemann enlisted the band's help in convincing the Maryland General Assembly, the state legislature, to approve funding for a new football stadium.

Charles Stein

Charles F. Stein II (1900–1979), Baltimore historian and heraldist

CMTA

Central Maryland Transportation Alliance, a coalition of Baltimore area business, civic and nonprofit leaders intent on improving travel efficiency within Central Maryland.

Delanco Township, New Jersey

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

Edwin O. Reischauer

Speaking at the dedication ceremonies in Baltimore, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, one of Reischauer's former students, described Reischauer as being "what a teacher is meant to be, one who can change the life of his students."

Ephraim Francis Baldwin

Perhaps the best known are the passenger car shop in Baltimore that is now the central roundhouse at the B&O Railroad Museum, the passenger station at Point of Rocks, Maryland and the B&O Warehouse at Camden Yards in Baltimore.

Erastus B. Tyler

Erastus Tyler died at the age of 68 and was buried in Baltimore's Green Mount Cemetery.

Erin Moriarty

In 1979-1980, Moriarty worked as a reporter for a Columbus-based NBC affiliate WCMH-TV, in 1980-1982 for the Baltimore-based CBS affiliate WJZ-TV and in 1982-1983, for CBS affiliate WJKW-TV in Cleveland.

Florence MacKubin

Her life-sized portrait of Cardinal Gibbons was exhibited in 1903 in Baltimore and in 1904 at the St. Louis Exposition.

Food-a-rama

When the company was sold in 1985 to Super Rite Foods of PA, it was the second largest supermarket chain in Baltimore, MD behind Giant Food.

Garrison Forest School

Garrison Forest School (GFS) is a college preparatory school, in Owings Mills, Maryland, near Baltimore, with a nationally distinctive educational model.

Grantmakers in Film and Electronic Media

The organization has three full-time staff members who operate from offices in Baltimore, MD and Oakland, CA.

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.

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.

Innerloop Magazine

The Art Institute in Arlington, Virginia, and Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland, also subscribed to Innerloop for its design students as a resource.

James Crawford Neilson

Nielson was a founding member of the Baltimore Chapter of the American Institute of Architects at its charter in 1870.

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.

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.

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.

Le pauvre matelot

The Milhaud/Menotti double bill played later that month in Baltimore at the city's Lyric Theatre and at the New Amsterdam Theatre in New York City.

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.

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 Lacrosse League

1998 Philadelphia Wings 2–0 Baltimore Thunder (Best of 3 Games Series)

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.

Pat Borders

Borders also received the honour of catching the ceremonial first pitch from then Blue Jays manager (and fellow 1992/93 World Series alumnus) Cito Gaston before the Toronto Blue Jays played host to the Baltimore Orioles.

Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Bridge No. 1

In 1838, the PW&B built the first permanent bridge here to complete the first direct rail link from Philadelphia to Wilmington, Delaware, and Baltimore, Maryland.

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.

Robert Levi

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

Roger Brooke

He attended George School in Newton, Pennsylvania, and later entered the University of Maryland Medical School in Baltimore, where he graduated in 1900.

Sergiu Comissiona

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

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.

The National Crittenton Foundation

The foundation is affiliated with 22 member agencies operating across the country in urban and rural areas, including Baltimore; Boston; Charleston, South Carolina; Denver, Colorado; Kansas City, Missouri; Knoxville, Tennessee; Orange County, California and Los Angeles, California; Peoria, Illinois; Philadelphia; Phoenix, Arizona, San Francisco, California; Sioux City, Iowa; Washington, D.C. and Wheeling, West Virginia.

Turkey Point

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

Western Maryland Railway

A portion of the former WM roadbed in Baltimore is now used by the Baltimore Metro Subway.

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.

World Chess Championship 1907

Emanuel Lasker had virtually retired after retaining the Chess World Championship in 1897, in part due to his doctoral studies in mathematics, but defended his title against Frank J. Marshall from January 26 to April 6, 1907, in the USA, games being played in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Chicago and Memphis.


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