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Death in Afghanistan and an apology at home
Memorial Day is still several months away, but it would be nice to think that all Americans still hold some place in their hearts for those who have gave what Abraham Lincoln called the "last full measure of devotion" for their country. The conflicts in...Tags: White House, Kabul (Afghanistan), Islam, Barack Obama, Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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Man accused of stealing documents wants to sell own valuables
The FBI raided Barry H. Landau's Manhattan apartment twice, hauling out thousands of documents that authorities say link him to a theft scheme involving historical artifacts pilfered from libraries and museums in Baltimore, elsewhere in the United...Tags: The New York Times, Salvador Dali, Judges, Fine Arts, Elvis Presley
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History Matters
100 Years Ago War related This social note was in the Dorsey section of the paper: "Mr. Thomas A. Kingsbury accompanied by Prof. F. H. Spieker and son Edmond of Baltimore, spent Sunday at the Old Historic Fort McHenry." Next year will be the...Tags: Francis Scott Key, Hospitals and Clinics, Germany, Berlin (Germany), Hurricane Irene (2011)
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In a word: Pellucid
Each week The Sun's John McIntyre presents a moderately 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: PELLUCID The light shines through this word...Tags: H.L. Mencken
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Congregants to celebrate 'Old Brick' church
The centuries-old church affectionately known as "Old Brick" is far from imposing. It more closely resembles a one-room schoolhouse than it does the newer, larger building that has housed its congregation since the 1990s.
Yet Old Brick's historic role as...Tags: Anglicanism, Annapolis, Walt Whitman, History, Preservation Maryland
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Dinah K. Faber
Baltimore Sun reporterDinah K. Faber, a writer, photographer and historian who was known as "the Booth Lady" for her preservation work on Tudor Hall, the Harford County home of the famous Booth family, died Sunday of colon cancer at her Colby, Kan., home. She was 62. The...Tags: Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Harford County, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, History, Bel Air (Harford, Maryland)
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National Archives employee pleads guilty to stealing recordings
A National Archives and Records Administration employee pleaded guilty Tuesday to embezzling government property — including a recording of Babe Ruth's voice — and selling it on eBay, the Maryland U.S. attorney's office announced. Leslie...Tags: National Government, Theft, Government, Employees, Justice System
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Palin trailer
xxxABC anchorman Charles Gibson came across as a stern, no-nonsense senior professor putting a graduate student through a tough exam in the first part of his interview with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. It was round one of a three-part interview that will...Tags: ABC (tv network), George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, Elections, Charles Gibson
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Tom Benjamin adds a new 'Brick' to his reputation
The Old Brick Church has earned that name during its 200-year history. That anniversary is being observed by Christ Episcopal Church in Columbia, whose present building was constructed in 1993 and hence qualifies as an architectural newcomer. Such an...Tags: Anglicanism, Walt Whitman, Music Industry, History, Thomas Jefferson
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A musical take on the war between the states
Tidewater Players opens a musical production Dec. 2 that sees the War Between the States through the eyes of Union and Confederate soldiers who fought, slaves whose freedom was at stake, loved ones left behind and a nurse who cared for the wounded.
"The...Tags: Frederick Douglass, Theater, Walt Whitman, Havre de Grace, Music
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'Living history' is making a comeback at some Maryland museums
In the shadow of Abraham Lincoln memorabilia, John Wilkes Booth will tell anyone who'll listen just why that tyrant had to be assassinated.
Supporting himself on a wooden crutch, a decidedly agitated Booth, his voice rising to match the fierceness in his...Tags: Celebrities, Tour Operations Industry, Harriet Tubman, Colonial Williamsburg, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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147 years ago, a neighbor saved Westminster from ransom … or destruction
On July 10, 1864, a large contingent of Confederate cavalry was moving out of Westminster. A day earlier, it had arrived at dusk with a ominous mission: Hold the town for ransom … or burn it to the ground. What unfolded in Westminster in July 1864...Tags: Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Westminster (Carroll, Maryland), Unions, American Civil War (1861-1865), Towson
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