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10 unusual facts about The Baltimore Sun


Charles Christian Plitt

According to The Sun, a Baltimore newspaper, he made 3,153 tramps between 1899 and 1922.

Gerald W. Johnson

He worked at the Baltimore Evening Sun from 1926 to 1943, when he retired to write for magazines and to concentrate on writing books.

Irvin B. Nathan

He was initially interested in a career in journalism, serving as Editor-in-Chief of the The Johns Hopkins News-Letter, as a sportscaster on the school radio station, and as a summer intern at The Baltimore Sun.

Ivy Dickens

NY Mag and The Baltimore Sun referred to the Charlie/Ivy plot as "ridiculous".

John W. Owens

John Whitefield Owens (November 2, 1884 – April 24, 1968) was the 1937 Pulitzer Prize winner for editorial writing for his editorials on the Baltimore Sun.

Marc Leepson

His work has appeared in many magazines and newspapers, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, and Smithsonian, Preservation, and Military History magazines.

Ruth Faden

She a frequent commentator on media outlets such as The New York Times and The Baltimore Sun.

Salim Muwakkil

Other publications in which Muwakkil's work has appeared include The Washington Post, ″The New York Times Book Review″, The Chicago Reader, The Progressive, Newsday, Cineaste, The Baltimore Sun, Z Magazine, Toronto Star, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Utne Reader.

Salvador Bru

He has been regularly commissioned to illustrate for the Washingtonian magazine, corporations including Mobil, the United States Government, and newspapers such as The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, The Boston Globe and The New York Times.

ThinThread

ThinThread is the name of a project that the United States National Security Agency (NSA) pursued during the 1990s, according to a May 17, 2006 article in The Baltimore Sun.


Emily Spencer Hayden

Emily was born near Randallstown at her family’s farm, called The Martin’s Nest. Edward Spencer Mott, her father, was a writer and dramatist who wrote at times for the Baltimore Bulletin and The Baltimore Sun, and whose best known play was Kit, the Arkansas Traveler.

Letter to My Daughter

Victoria Brownworth of The Baltimore Sun, who compares Angelou to populist poets like Walt Whitman, notes that while reading Letter, "one cannot help but be struck by how much Angelou has overcome and how far she has come".

Mike Pantelides

Before selling government relations software (2012-2013) at Vocus, a Beltsville-based cloud marketing software firm, he sold advertising for The Capital and then The Baltimore Sun, for less than a year each.

Scottsboro, Alabama

The Unclaimed Baggage Center has been featured several times in the media, including in The Wall Street Journal, Vogue Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, Good Morning America, The Washington Post, The Dallas Morning News, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Baltimore Sun, The Seattle Times and the travel/adventure television series Globe Trekker.

Twice Upon a Time: The Singles

J. D. Considine of The Baltimore Sun wrote that the album "follows a more twisted path" than Once Upon a Time, chronicling "the band from cult-level acclaim to something resembling pop accessibility."