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Hays-Heighe House at HCC to host national exhibition on slavery, emancipation
The Hays-Heighe House at Harford Community College will host Emancipation and Its Legacies, a national traveling exhibition on display through Feb. 25. In conjunction with the exhibit, the Hays-Heighe House is sponsoring free programs and other events for...Tags: Harford Community College, Slavery, White House, Abraham Lincoln
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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: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Brunswick (Frederick, Maryland), Railway Transportation, Abraham Lincoln, Book
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Ravens may need inspiration from last season to get over the hump at Heinz Field
Torrey Smith's 26-yard touchdown catch from Joe Flacco more than a year ago capped the Ravens' first season sweep of the Pittsburgh Steelers since 2006. But the reverberations from that play may resonate a good deal longer. For years, Heinz Field in...
Tags: Football, New England Patriots, John Harbaugh, Peter Boulware, Terrell Suggs
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Federal grants to boost Bay pollution trading efforts
The Chesapeake Bay region's fledgling pollution "trading" programs are getting an infusion of federal funds aimed at encouraging farmers to participate. The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Friday that it's awarding five grants totaling $2.6 $2....
Tags: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Conservation, Annapolis, Environmental Pollution, Chesapeake Bay Foundation
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Dogs, guns and pies: All part of the job
Melvin G. "Mel" Trimble Sr., a colorful and loquacious character I got to know some years ago, had one of the more interesting and necessary jobs with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and with its successor company, Chessie System. It relied upon his...Tags: Catonsville, Labor Legislation, Railway Transportation, Property, Real Estate
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Enough with the 1812 revisionism
David Brandenburg's letter, published in The Sun on July 4 ("The truth about the War of 1812"), shows the danger of amateur historians who take small facts and from them draw a revisionist fallacious interpretation of the American historical narrative....Tags: France, Culture, World War II (1939-1945), Social Sciences, War of 1812
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A Super Economy (for some)
A political campaign is about the worst time to have a discussion about economic realities. The party that is out will speak of nothing but looming disaster, while the party that is in will be singing nothing but "Happy Days Are Here Again." And, since...
Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Mark Z. Barabak, Employment Opportunities, Mining, David Horsey
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Environmentalists praise assembly session
While others found much to criticize about this year's General Assembly, environmental activists hailed it Tuesday as the most significant in decades for advancing long-running efforts to restore the Chesapeake Bay. In a year when lawmakers balked at...Tags: Garrett County, Annapolis, Environmental Pollution, Martin O'Malley, Government
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Bass fever takes hold at National Harbor
Luke Clausen found a rare day in June when, on the fourth day of the FLW Tour bass fishing tournament on the Potomac River out of National Harbor, he brought in 19 pounds, 4 ounces of fish, two pounds more than any other professional fishermen had...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Sushi and Sashimi, ESPN (tv network), Fox Sports (tv network), Tourism and Leisure
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NRDC report ranks Maryland fifth for power plant pollutants
Electric power plants that burn oil or coal in Maryland sent more than 27 million pounds of toxic pollutants into the air in 2009. That was the fifth-highest total in the nation and a threat to public health, according to a new report by the Natural...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Chesapeake Bay, Mining, Physical Conditions, Maryland
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Eat or be eaten!
If you spent any time around the Susquehanna River below the Conowingo Dam over the summer, you probably noticed some of the same wanted posters that caught my eye. On those posters is the likeness of a fish, with a warning to anyone who catches one not...Tags: Interior Policy, Television, Television Industry, Aquaculture, Chesapeake Bay
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Cold continues; snow hawks eye storm next week
Maryland WeatherOfficially, despite sightings of flurries in many places around the Baltimore region Sunday, there was no snow at BWI-Marshall - not even a trace - on Dec. 5. So, for those counting the Dec. 5ths that have produced at least a......Tags: Bodies of Water, Rivers, Weather Reports, Maryland, Baltimore Weather
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