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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: Laurence Fishburne, Colleges and Universities, Lawyers, Columbia University, Judges
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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: Graduation, College Baseball, White House, Entertainment Events, Earl Weaver
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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: Book, Transportation, New Year's Day, Wars and Interventions, Abraham Lincoln
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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: Engineering, Fraud, Technology, Colleges and Universities, Lawyers
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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: Television Industry, The New York Times, Authors, Paul Harvey, Language
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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: Fine Artists, Bucks County, Lobbying, Artists, Conservation
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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: Charles Dickens, New York Public Library, Awards and Prizes, Authors, Romance (genre)
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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: Colleges and Universities, Marlborough, Charlotte Bronte, U.S. Army, Pakistan
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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: International Military Interventions, Holidays, Wars and Interventions, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Memorial Day
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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: American Airlines, Inc., Students, Food Network (tv network), Rachael Ray, Medical Specialization
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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: Westminster (Carroll, Maryland), Colleges and Universities, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Accounting and Auditing, Local Elections
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Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson discusses the late, iconic Apple leader
Few nonfiction writers think bigger than Walter Isaacson, who has taken on subjects like Henry Kissinger, Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein. But when Apple founder Steve Jobs invited him in 2004 to write a complete and frank biography, Isaacson held...
Tags: Computing and Information Technology Industry, Pixar Animation, Henry Kissinger, Microsoft Corporation, Entertainment Events
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