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Generals at the brink of disaster
The Baltimore SunSome people read military history for the technical details--why General X failed to match Hanibal's pincer movement at Cannae. Others, like me, dip into it to see how individuals and societies respond to circumstances of immense stress. Victor Davis...Tags: Harry S. Truman, Sociology, David Petraeus, Culture, United Nations
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Security vs. privacy
The latest open debate over security and privacy is a welcome pivot from the irksome father-knows-best attitude that has prevailed too long regarding the government's contention of superior judgment in the realm of national security. As with most...
Tags: Government, Civil Rights, John Adams, National Government, Jules Witcover
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Back Story: Restoring historic stretch of railroad
For quite some time now, enthusiastic volunteers have been whacking brush, clearing debris and replacing ties and rails on the old Pennsylvania Railroad's Northern Central Division, one of the nation's most historic stretches of railroad, which courses 10...
Tags: Railway Transportation, York (York, Pennsylvania), York County (Virginia), Transportation, Elgin
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Wave your flag and smile at HdG farmers market [Havre de Grace]
Wave it proudly, dear readers, today (Friday) is Flag Day. "Flag Birthday" was originally observed June 14, 1885, by school teacher B. J. Cigrand and the pupils in the Fredonia, Wisc., Public School District 6. The year 1885 was the 108th anniversary of...Tags: Christianity, Slavery, Juneteenth, Anglicanism, Flag Day (United States)
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How to spell success
The annual ritual known as the Scripps National Spelling Bee came and went last week, with kids spelling words that, I suspect, many with graduate degrees couldn't spell. The winner was Arvind Mahankali, a 13-year-old eighth-grader from Bayside Hills,...
Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Bayside (Queens, New York), Cal Thomas, Elections, Keke Palmer
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Edward Weiss
Edward Henry Weiss, a retired marketing executive who put the name Wacky Noodle on a children's flotation device used in swimming pools, died of a stroke Monday at the University of Maryland Medical Center. The Timonium resident was 74. Born in Brooklyn,...
Tags: Essex (Baltimore, Maryland), University of Maryland Medical Center, Music Industry, Marketing, Community College of Baltimore County
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2013 Welcome to Harford County
Harford County, situated 25 miles north of Baltimore and nestled against the northwestern shores of the Chesapeake Bay, boasts a blend of history and modern living. Spanning 440 square miles of the Baltimore/Washington Metro area, it has a population of...
Tags: State Parks, Hobbies, Culture, Arts, Cal Ripken, Jr.
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In Ellicott City, 'The War Came by Train' arrives for Civil War weekend
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was, without doubt, the most important rail system in the Civil War's Eastern theater. There's hardly a pivotal battle or event during the four-year conflict in which the B&O didn't play at least some role. Civil War...Tags: Authors, Railway Transportation, Howard County, Pratt Street, Museums
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Slaying of Baltimore civil rights protester still unsolved
Everyone begged William Lewis Moore not to go to Mississippi. His pastor told him he would get killed walking around in a sandwich board sign protesting segregation. His family worried about where he would sleep and eat. Even fellow civil rights...
Tags: Murder, Government, Shootings, Prosecution, Civil Rights
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Logan Cavey and Pa. Gov. Tom Corbett
New Covenant Christian School kindergartner Logan Cavey, 6, recites a portion of the Gettysburg Address to Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett on Memorial Day at the monument on the Gettysburg Battlefield, commemorating the delivery in November 1863 of...
Tags: Memorial Day, Government, Executive Branch, Armed Conflicts, Tom Corbett
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In a word: obsequies
The Baltimore SunEach week The Sun's John McIntyre presents a relatively obscure but evocative word with which you may not be familiar, another brick to add to the wall of your working vocabulary. This week's word: OBSEQUIES Among the documents purloined from the... -
Stolen documents return to the Maryland Historical Society
They left the Maryland Historical Society tucked inside the coat pockets and notebooks of Barry Landau and his assistant, but the historical documents returned in manila envelopes, neatly packed inside a gray cardboard file box. Authorities continue...
Tags: Theft, 2012 Democratic National Convention, Punishment, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Museums
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