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6 unusual facts about Hanover, Maryland


25367 Cicek

It is named after Kazim Cicek, an American educator in Hanover, Maryland.

Arundel Mills

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

Maryland Department of Transportation

The agency is headquartered at 7201 Corporate Center Drive, which has a Hanover, Maryland address, in unincorporated Anne Arundel County.

Maryland State Highway Administration

MSHA also maintains four research labs located throughout the State, as well as the Office of Traffic and Safety (OOTS) located in Hanover -- which houses several additional divisions.

Muvico Theaters

In 2000, Muvico opened four more megaplexes in Florida and one in Arundel Mills in Hanover, Maryland, totaling 104 screens.

Towson Town Center

It was the largest indoor shopping mall in Maryland prior to the completion of Arundel Mills in late 2000 in Hanover and the 2007 expansion of the Annapolis Mall.


2010–11 Boston College Eagles men's ice hockey season

% = 2010 Ledyard National Bank Classic in Hanover, NH

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.

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.

Chicken shack

Jimmie's Chicken Shack, an American alternative rock band from Annapolis, Maryland

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.

Duingen

It is situated approximately 25 km southwest of Hildesheim, and 40 km south of Hanover.

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.

Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart

Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart was born in Osnabrück, Germany and studied architecture, interior design and sculpture at Hanover School of Art and the Technical College, Hanover.

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.

Isaac McKim

McKim was elected as a Democrat to the Seventeenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Samuel Smith.

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.

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.

Kennedyville, Maryland

Wayne Gilchrest Former Congressman from the first district of Maryland.

Kirsty McCabe

McCabe studied Geophysics at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with a first class honours degree before going on to spend three months as an intern at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, where she used satellite magnetic data to interpret the underlying crustal structure of parts of Australasia.

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.

Louis B. Butler

NPR commented on the Senate's reluctance to confirm Butler in an August 4, 2011 article, stating that "Some of the longest waiting nominees, Louis Butler of Wisconsin, Charles Bernard Day of Maryland and Edward Dumont of Washington happen to be black or openly gay".

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.

Michael Slive

Early in his life, he practiced law in New Hampshire, serving as judge of the Hanover District Court from 1972 to 1977, and was a partner in a Chicago law firm.

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.

Nancy Jacobs

During the 2007 session of the Maryland General Assembly, Senator Jacobs sponsored Maryland's version of Jessica's Law.

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.

Osadia

Tollwood Festival, Munich / Sydney Mardi Gras, Australia / Trafalgar Square Festival, London, UK / Juste pour rire/Just for laughs, Montreal, Canada / The Esplanade Festival, Singapore / NZ International Festival, Wellington, New Zealand / Kleines Fest im Grossen Garten, Hanover / Daidogei World Cup, Shizuoka, Japan / Hogmanay, Edinburgh, Scotland / Festes de la Mercè, Barcelona

Patricia Hughes

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

Phil Greatwich

In 2007 he went to the United States to begin a course in Sports Management at Towson University, Maryland, where he played for the Towson Tigers soccer team.

Preakness

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

Prince Ernest Augustus, 3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale

However, since he still claimed to be the legitimate King of Hanover as well, the German Reichsrat declared that he would disturb the peace of the empire if he ascended the ducal throne.

Although he was a British peer and a prince of Great Britain and Ireland, he continued to consider himself an exiled monarch of a German realm and refused to disclaim his succession rights to Hanover, making his home in Gmunden, Upper Austria.

Principality of Calenberg

Today the term Calenberg Land is usually only used for the region between Hanover and the Deister.

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.

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.

St. Michael, Minnesota

It also borders Monticello Township, Buffalo Township, Rockford Township, and the cities of Otsego and Albertville, all in Wright County, as well as the city of Hanover, which is located within both Wright and Hennepin counties.

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.

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.

William Frederick Chambers

Ernest, the new king of Hanover, on 8 August 1837 created him KCH; but at his urgent request allowed him to decline the assumption of the ordinary prefix of knighthood.

WPRS

WPRS-FM, a radio station (104.1 FM) licensed to Waldorf, Maryland, United States


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