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unusual facts about Maryland, USA



2007 UCF Knights football team

With their Conference USA championship, UCF got an automatic berth at the AutoZone Liberty Bowl in Memphis, Tennessee on December 29, 2007.

All Hands Together

Recorded in Tennessee, USA, it was a gospel-inflected, adult contemporary-styled charity single and her tribute to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, with the proceeds of the single going to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Allegra McEvedy

During a spell in the USA, facilitated by being awarded a special visa as ‘an alien with extraordinary ability in the culinary arts’, McEvedy worked at Rubicon and Jardinière in San Francisco, and ran the kitchen at Robert De Niro’s New York restaurant Tribeca Grill (regularly doing 500 covers a night).

Arthur Frederick Dicks

This new direction saw him working as a set and costume designer in England, USA and Africa, spending some time in Nairobi.

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.

Casco Bay High School

Casco Bay High School is a public Expeditionary Learning school in Portland, Maine, USA.

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.

Devils Rope Barbed Wire Museum

The Devils Rope Barbed Wire Museum is a museum located in McLean, Texas, USA.

DSPACE GmbH

The company has Project Centers in Pfaffenhofen (near Munich) and Böblingen (near Stuttgart) and subsidiaries in the USA, UK, France, Japan and China.

Eaton Canyon

Eaton Canyon is a major canyon beginning at the Eaton Saddle near Mount Markham and San Gabriel Peak in the San Gabriel Mountains in the Angeles National Forest, USA.

El Prado

El Prado, New Mexico, an unincorporated suburb of Taos, Taos County, New Mexico, USA

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District

The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District is a public school district based in Fairbanks, Alaska (USA).

Giacomo Bulgarelli

He finished his career with a brief spell in 1975 with the Hartford Bicentennials in the USA.

Harold M. Westergaard

Harold Malcolm Westergaard (9 October 1888 Copenhagen, Denmark – 22 June 1950 Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA).

Henk van den Breemen

The “Gang of five”, as they were called when the pamphlet was presented in Washington DC (January 2008), consisted of General (ret.) John Shalikashvili (USA), General (ret.) Dr. Klaus Naumann (Germany), Admiral (ret.) Jacques Lanxade and Field Marshal the Lord Inge (UK).

Hugo Peretti

In 1957, they bought into Roulette Records where they both wrote songs for various artists such as Valerie Carr and produced major hits for Jimmie Rodgers including "Honeycomb" (Billboard # 1) and "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine" (Billboard # 3), and "Oh-Oh, I'm Falling in Love Again" and "Secretly".

Igor Klyuchnikov

He gained his 50th cap in Russia's World Cup opener against USA on 15 September 2011.

James Baker House

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

James Robinson Johnston

In 1908, Johnston suggested creating a preparatory agricultural and industrial school, along the lines of the Tuskegee School in the USA for young blacks.

Jean-Philippe Lamoureux

His sisters Jocelyne and Monique, both born 1989 (twins), both won silver medals with Team USA at the 2010 Winter Olympics, and are currently both forwards with the women's NCAA team at the University of North Dakota.

Jessica Schultz

For the 2006 U.S. World Team Trials in March, Schultz was named skip, or captain, of Team USA (the team's regular skip, Cassie Johnson, did not play in the tournament), and the team finished fourth under her direction.

Jorge Arteaga

Jorge begun racing in the USA in 2010, acting as an ambassador for NASCAR's D4D (Drive for Diversity Program) and working in Revolution Racing alongside with drivers such as Mackena Bell and Sergio Peña.

King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences

KSAU-HS has a number of licensing agreements to develop its academic programs with prestigious universities worldwide: University of Sydney (Australia); University of Liverpool (UK); South Alabama University (USA); Flinders University (Australia); Arkansas University (USA), Thomas Jefferson University (USA) University of Maryland (USA), Maastricht University (Netherlands), The University of Oklahoma (USA) and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (USA).

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.

Live: Bad Kitty Board Mix

Live: Bad Kitty Board Mix is a 2006 live album by Sophie B. Hawkins recorded at The Triple Door (Seattle, USA) and The Basement (Sydney, Australia).

Matthew Zook

His work as an economic geographer contributed to a greater understanding of the expansion and impact of WalMart in USA (History of Walmart.

Maury Povich

In 1998 the show was taken over by Studios USA (then a division of USA Networks, later renamed Universal Television after being sold to Vivendi Universal; and NBC Universal Television after VU Entertainment was sold to NBC owner General Electric).

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.

Mecca2Medina

They have worked with many new artists including with The Blind Alphabets and Mohammed Yahya, Missundastood of the USA, Poetic Pilgrimage, Pearls of Islam, Masika Feesibillah and Muslim Bilal.

Medina Valley

For example, the California Fan Palm, Washingtonia filifera occurs only in the western USA west of the Medina Valley and Balcones Fault.

Metro Maryland Youth For Christ

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

Mindy Duncan

Two other Miss Oregon Teen USA titleholders, Bridgette Wilson (1990) and Tami Farrell (2003), have since also won the Miss Teen USA crown.

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.

Oksana Antonenko

Antonenko holds degrees from Moscow State University in Political Economy and Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government (USA) MPP in International Affairs and Security.

Post Regiment

Their final album, Tragiedia wg Post Regiment ("Tragedy According To Post Regiment") was released in 1998 on Profane Existence records in the USA and Skuld releases in Europe.

Rachel Carson Greenway

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

Raymond L. Brett

He held a number of Visiting Professorships: University of Rochester, USA, 1958–1959; Kiel University, University of Osnabrück, 1977; University of Baroda, Jadavpur University, 1978; University of Ottawa, 1981.

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.

Richmond–San Rafael Bridge

The Richmond–San Rafael Bridge (officially, the John F. McCarthy Memorial Bridge) is the northernmost of the east–west crossings of the San Francisco Bay in California, USA, connecting Richmond on the east to San Rafael on the west end.

Sandtown

Sandtown, New Jersey, an unincorporated community in Southampton Township, New Jersey, USA

SeaPerch

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

Srilekha Parthasarathy

She also has a fan club "No One Noticed Srilekha" in Portland, Oregon, USA, the first for a Tamil singer in Oregon.

Stippled studfish

The Stippled studfish (Fundulus bifax) is a small freshwater fish which is endemic to the Tallapoosa River system in Georgia and Alabama, USA; and Sofkahatchee Creek (lower Coosa River system) in Alabama.

Sylvia Hatchell

Despite having four players averaging double-digit scoring, including Wendy Palmer at almost 19 points per game, the USA had some close matches.

Talat Ahmad

Talat Ahmad was recommended for the position by a search committee headed by former member of Planning Commission, Prof. Abid Hussain, former Indian Ambassador to USA, and comprising Professor G. K. Chadha, CEO, South Asian University and former Vice Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Prof. Seyed E. Hasnain, an eminent Scientist and former Vice Chancellor of University of Hyderabad.

Telco

Telco Systems, a telecommunications systems manufacturer based in Mansfield, Massachusetts, USA

The Real Wedding Crashers

The series was produced by Ashton Kutcher, Karey Burke, Rich Meehan, Jon Kroll, Jim Rosenthal, and Jason Goldberg with RDF USA, the production company of shows like Wife Swap, in association with New Line Television, part of the studio that produced the film.

Turkey Point

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

USA Women's World University Games Team

The fourth game, against Hungary was closer, but led by Carol Blazejowski's 31 points, the USA won by ten points.

WDCO

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


see also

231st

231st Combat Communications Squadron, a tenant unit of the 113th Wing based at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, USA

Buddleja davidii 'Carroll Deep Lavender'

Buddleja davidii 'Carroll Deep Lavender' is a selection made by the Carroll Gardens Inc., (ceased trading 2009) Westminster, Maryland, USA.

Buddleja davidii 'Raspberry Wine'

Buddleja davidii 'Raspberry Wine' is a cultivar raised by Carroll Gardens Inc. (ceased trading 2009), Westminster, Maryland, USA, in 1994.

D765

A CSX Transportation trash train running between Derwood and Dickerson, Maryland, USA

Des Keogh

In April 2010, Keogh appeared in the title role in the play Da by Hugh Leonard at the Olney Theatre Center for the Arts in Olney, Maryland, USA.

Emergent

Emergent BioSolutions, a multinational biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA

John Clark Monks

He is entombed at Perryman Cemetery, Maryland, USA, along with both his wives (first wife Mary and second wife Sarah Rebecca Lewis).

London Town

London Town Publik House, a 1745 landmark in Woodland Beach, Maryland, USA.

McShane

McShane Bell Foundry, church bell manufacturer, located in Glen Burnie, Maryland, USA

Montpelier, Maryland

Montpelier, Prince George's County, Maryland, USA, (zip codes 20708, 20709) is a Levitt community outside of the corporate boundaries of Laurel.

Random Hearts

Patuxent Research Refuge, Laurel, Maryland, USA (Dutch's Cabin near "Annapolis")

Somerset Academy

Somerset Academy Archaeological Site, in Princess Anne, Somerset county, Maryland, USA

Spin wave

Inelastic neutron scattering measurements can determine the dispersion curve for magnons just as they can for phonons. Important inelastic neutron scattering facilities are present at the ISIS neutron source in Oxfordshire, UK, the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France, the High Flux Isotope Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, USA, and at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Maryland, USA.

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).