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Larry S. Gibson's book on Thurgood Marshall examines the forces in Baltimore that shaped young judge
Forty-three years of letters, photographs, campaign buttons, itineraries and the occasional miniature flag are crammed into 2,000 fat binders lining three walls — floor to ceiling — of a storage room in the University of Maryland School of...
Tags: Elections, Justice System, Johns Hopkins University, Guilford (Baltimore, Maryland), Enoch Pratt Free Library
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Richard Ben Cramer, Pulitzer Prize winner, dies at 62
Richard Ben Cramer, a former Baltimore Sun reporter who later became a Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for The Philadelphia Inquirer and an acclaimed author chronicling the lives of politicians and legendary sports figures, died Monday of...
Tags: Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Pulitzer Prize Awards, Periodicals, The New York Times, Maryland General Assembly
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New biography of legendary railroader John Work Garrett
The optimistic incorporators and builders of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, the nation's first common carrier railroad, which was founded in Baltimore in 1827 and began building westward the next year, envisioned it would take 10 years and $10 million...Tags: New Year's Day, Book, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Brunswick (Frederick, Maryland)
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Morgan State professor indicted in fraud scheme
A full-time engineering professor at Morgan State University was indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday in an alleged scheme to defraud the National Science Foundation of hundreds of thousands of dollars in grant funding. Manoj Kumar Jha, 45, who...Tags: Prosecution, Justice System, Financial Aid, Research, Colleges and Universities
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Ain't Webster's Third grand
The Baltimore SunFifty years ago, people in the United States had very real fears of the possibility of nuclear annihilation in an exchange of nuclear missiles with the Soviet Union. The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 brought that fear very close. But the year before,...Tags: Language, Television Industry, Authors, The New York Times, Harvard University
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Maryland House's historic art to be preserved, but won't return
The Maryland House on I-95 near Aberdeen may be known more for its fast food and bevy of bathrooms than for fine artwork, but its murals portraying Maryland history, that have adorned the travel plaza for more than 40 years, have a significant history...
Tags: Museums, Lobbying, Artists, Arts, Library of Congress
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Newbery winner Laura Amy Schlitz publishes her magnum opus
The witch had been weeping in the boxwoods for more than half a century before Laura Amy Schlitz picked up her pen and set her free. The 57-year-old Schlitz is the librarian at Park School and a Newbery Medal-winning author whose newest novel, "Splendors...
Tags: Romance (genre), Charles Dickens, New York Public Library, Authors, David Copperfield
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Cynthia Earl Kerman, Villa Julie professor
Cynthia Earl Kerman, a retired Villa Julie College faculty member who wrote biographies of a Quaker economist and a Harlem Renaissance writer, died of pneumonia July 22 at the Glen Meadows retirement community. She was 89 and had lived in Lauraville....Tags: Pneumonia, Pakistan, Islamabad (Pakistan), Authors, Arts
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BWI airport becomes art gallery to celebrate human rights
Some of the bravest people in the world can be found at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport.
Vaclav Havel of the Czech Republic. Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa. The Dalai Lama.
These and many other figures are featured in a photo exhibit organized to...Tags: Military Equipment, Pulitzer Prize Awards, South Africa, Civil Rights, Entertainment Events
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Remembering duty, service and 'lost human potential'
There were many moving moments during Monday's annual Memorial Day Ceremony at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens, in Timonium. The program included nearly two hours of musical selections by military bands and choral groups and prayers, along with...
Tags: Memorial Day, International Military Interventions, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Holidays, Wars and Interventions
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Students' link to Pickersgill residents is written across generations
Kim Kern, a senior at Loch Raven High School and member of the school's English Honor Society, braced herself for the worse when she was told of the assignment to interview residents at Towson's Pickersgill Retirement Community and write their life...
Tags: John Wayne, Nursing, American Airlines, Inc., Rachael Ray, Students
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Richard Dixon, 74, past state treasurer and Carroll delegate and school board president, dies
State Treasurer Nancy Kopp announced on Thursday, June 7, that Carroll County native and former Maryland treasurer Richard Dixon, 74, has died. In a statement, Kopp said Dixon, who not only served as state treasurer but also was a state delegate...
Tags: U.S. House Committee on Appropriations, Colleges and Universities, Civil and Public Service, Tuskegee University, Local Elections
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