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President Biden? History says no
I read with interest Jules Witcover's recent column regarding Vice President Joe Biden ("Could Biden benefit from Clinton's handling of Benghazi?" May 14). He infers that the Benghzai scandal could cost Hillary Clinton the Democratic presidential...
Tags: George H.W. Bush, Elections, Jules Witcover
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How are you celebrating William Henry Harrison's birthday?
The Baltimore SunOld Tippecanoe, the ninth president of the United States, was born 240 years ago today. He remains the president with the shortest term in office, having died a month after his inauguration. An elderly gentleman, he insisted on making a prolonged and...Tags: William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, Republican Party, Zachary Taylor
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President Biden? Not such a long shot at all
Martin Van Buren was not the only sitting vice president elected president during the 19th century ("President Biden? History says no," Feb. 2). Thomas Jefferson achieved the same distinction when, as vice president at the start of the century, he...
Tags: Elections, John Adams, George Washington, U.S. House of Representatives
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In its 175th year, deep roots for Ellicott City's Emory United Methodist
On Nov. 27, 1837, eight months after Martin Van Buren, the 8th President of the United States, was sworn into office, a group of citizens gathered in the Union Meeting House adjacent to the mill in Oella. The citizens assembled to elect the first nine...
Tags: William Shakespeare, American Red Cross, Ellicott City, Methodist, Christianity
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Artscape attractions include Robert Marbury, his 7-foot Yeti
When Robert Marbury was 19 years old, he necked with Ricki Lake on camera. At age 29, he spent a year sailing in Indonesia, where he says his ship was attacked by pirates. Four years later, he was one of the three co-founders of the Minnesota Association...
Tags: William Shatner, Charles Theatre, Movies, John Waters, Indonesia
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Baltimore was site of pivotal political conventions in 1800s
In "The First American Political Conventions: Transforming Presidential Nominations, 1832-1872," Stan M. Haynes writes that the modern presidential nominating convention evolved during the campaign of 1832.
Between the fall of 1831 and the spring of...Tags: Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Parties and Movements, Democratic Party, Republican Party, Slavery
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Sun vignette has been greeting readers since 1837
No, Dear Reader, you are not caught in a time warp or a victim of a delayed April Fool's prank. You are not in "The Twilight Zone" and your eyes are not deceiving you.
What you're looking at is The Baltimore Sun's vignette, or nameplate, as it appeared...Tags: Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Newspapers, Johns Hopkins University, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Star Sailing
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The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review A Page of Books column
The Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewThe gun-control controversy brings Glenn Beck back to bookshelves among new and upcoming titles about U.S. foreign policy, an unforgettable electoral battle settled in court, Europe and the world over the past 500-plus years, and how some less familiar...Tags: Jimmy Carter, Literature, Nazi Party, Judges, George W. Bush
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Presidential alumni an elite (and small) club
At the dedication Thursday of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, President Barack Obama appeared with all four living ex-presidents — George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter. That raised a question: What is the record...Tags: Jimmy Carter, Government, Theodore Roosevelt, George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan
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Art Callaham: Some more fun facts about our presidents
Early after the first of this year, I wrote a column concerning interesting facts about our presidents, and I promised to write more. That column and this one — and possibly some future ones — are based on a book by Cormac O’Brien titled...Tags: Parties and Movements, Franklin Pierce, John Quincy Adams, Government, Grover Cleveland
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War of 1812 Bicentennial: Kentucky enters the war
Editor's note: This is the unabridged version of the condensed article that appeared in the Jan. 17 Interior Journal. This article is the first in a series to commemorate the War of 1812 Bicentennial. The Congress of the United States has...
Tags: American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), Massacres, Government, Prisons, U.S. Congress
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Factbox: Facts about advice columnist 'Dear Abby'
Reuters(Reuters) - Facts about Pauline Phillips, better known as Abigail Van Buren, the Dear Abby advice columnist: * Phillips and her identical twin, Esther, who wrote the rival Ann Landers advice column, married their husbands in a joint ceremony in 1939 at...Tags: Jeanne Phillips, Pauline Friedman Phillips, Periodicals, Ann Landers, Mayo Clinic
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