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For Annapolis consignment shop owner, secondhand is first love
Perky sunflowers, fragrant lavender and vibrant greenery surround a creaky wooden porch full of oddities on an Annapolis side street. A well-used plow, a porcelain wash basin and a cast-iron stove hardly seem germane to a consignment shop filled with high...
Tags: Annapolis, Anne Arundel Community College, Severna Park
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Unmourned: The Queen's English Society
The Baltimore SunSuddenly, in Britain, of attenuated interest, the Queen's English Society. The organization of crotchet collectors was forty. After the failure of the society's much-ridiculed project for an Academy of English, will waned quickly. The Independent...Tags: United Kingdom
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'Game of Thrones' Q&A: Alfie Allen talks Season 2 finale
The Baltimore SunIn the course of a year, English actor Alfie Allen, 25, has gone from being best known as pop singerLily Allen's little brother to one of the main actors on the HBO hit show,"Game of Thrones." Playing the hero-turned-villain Theon Greyjoy, Allen has...Tags: Game of Thrones (tv program), Peter Dinklage, Celebrities, Car Safety Tips and Advice, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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For a time, Fort McHenry stood empty as its strategic importance was diminished
The quickly constructed, earthen star-shaped Fort Whetstone, built in 1776, was the first fortification to occupy the site where Fort McHenry now stands. The city's vulnerability to a waterborne attack was exposed in the spring of 1776 when the British...Tags: Heavy Engineering, National Parks, Wars and Interventions, Francis Scott Key, Armed Forces
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Bermuda by boat: an itinerary for 48 hours in port
It's an island that measures only 21 square miles, about the size of Manhattan.
But instead of skyscrapers packed in like sardines, imagine miles and miles of sparkling cerulean water and pink-glittered sand.
Replace the honking yellow cabs with...Tags: Oceans, Restaurants, UNESCO, Trips and Vacations, Apple iPhone
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MICROS Systems reports profit, acquisition
Columbia-based MICROS Systems Inc., a provider of technology solutions for the hospitality industry, announced on Thursday that it had a $43.2 million profit in the third quarter and planned to buy a company in England. MICROS' net income rose $4.7...Tags: MICROS Systems Incorporated, Companies and Corporations
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The London bureau: A queen and a correspondent
It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent. Before she turned up, my newspaper career had consisted of listening to Baltimore policemen reminisce about great hangings and covering bush-league statesmen deploring the state of the world. I...
Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Newspapers, Billy Graham, Christianity, Elizabeth II
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At Laurel Mill Playhouse, 'Brides' wedded to comedy
"Brides of March," which opened at Laurel Mill Playhouse last weekend, has nothing to do with the free spirits who began parading the streets of San Francisco wearing variations of the traditional Western white wedding dress some 13 years ago — an...
Tags: Ides of March, Concerts, Theater, Music, Weddings
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'Going to St. Ives' at Colonial Players has many layers
In "Going to St. Ives," Colonial Players offers a powerful story about two women becoming acquainted over tea — a discussion that touches on dictatorships in post-colonial Africa while offering insights into the plight of two grieving mothers...Tags: Annapolis, Glaucoma, Africa, Opera (genre), China
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Former Islamic jihadist teaches Middle Eastern politics at Washington College
Shiraz Maher went to the mosque in search of answers.
Why, he wanted to know, had 15 young men from Saudi Arabia, the country where he spent most of his childhood, just crashed jetliners into prominent U.S. buildings?
The men who gave him clarity wore...Tags: Students, BBC, University of Maryland, College Park, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Chestertown
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Peers select Elkridge man to carry Olympic torch in England
The 2012 summer Olympics is still two months away, but Elkridge resident Frank Collins is getting an early dose of the Olympic spirit to share with residents of Gloucester in England. Collins, 43, was selected as one of the 8,000 torchbearers who will...
Tags: The Salvation Army, 2012 Summer Olympics, London (England), Special Olympics, American Heart Association
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English cottage revival in Homeland
John and Leila Juracek's British friends tell them their 1929 Tudor Revival house in Baltimore's Homeland neighborhood is more like an English cottage than the country cottages in England.
The L-shaped exterior is of 18-inch-thick stone dressed in ivy...Tags: Architecture, Frederick Law Olmsted, Agatha Christie, Central Park, Building Material
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