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The National Aquarium in Baltimore is located at the city's Inner Harbor. The idea for the aquarium was first seriously considered in the mid-1970s when city officials fought for an aquarium to be a main component of Inner Harbor redevelopment. Ground was broken in 1978, and the aquarium opened its doors in 1981. Since the Baltimore National Aquarium's opening, it has become a destination for visitors to the Inner Harbor. About 1.6 million people annually visit the aquarium, with 70 percent of them from out-of-state. The aquarium says it is Maryland's largest paid tourist attraction. The aquarium houses more than 10,500 specimens of at least 560 species. In 2005 the aquarium opened an expans...
The National Aquarium in Baltimore is located at the city's Inner Harbor. The idea for the aquarium was first seriously considered in the mid-1970s when city officials fought for an aquarium to be a main component of Inner Harbor redevelopment. Ground was broken in 1978, and the aquarium opened its doors in 1981. Since the Baltimore National Aquarium's opening, it has become a destination for visitors to the Inner Harbor. About 1.6 million people annually visit the aquarium, with 70 percent of them from out-of-state. The aquarium says it is Maryland's largest paid tourist attraction. The aquarium houses more than 10,500 specimens of at least 560 species. In 2005 the aquarium opened an expansion, Animal Planet Australia: Wild Extremes, which is dedicated to animals that inhabit Australia, including crocodiles, turtles, birds and fish. One of the best-known and most attended attractions at the National Aquarium is the dolphin show, which features the aquarium's Atlantic Bottlenose dolphins, along with their trainers, performing tricks and educating spectators about the mammals. The aquarium also has a new 4-D Immersion Theater that combines 3D film with sensory effects including mist and wind.
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Baseball: 50 years an Oriole usher and a lifetime of memories
For the past five decades, Gordon Huggins has enjoyed one of the best views in the house. As an usher for the Baltimore Orioles at Memorial Stadium and Oriole Park at Camden Yards, he has witnessed six World Series,Cal Ripken Jr.'s record-setting 2,131st...Tags: Oriole Park at Camden Yards, American League, Texas Rangers, Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Yankees
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Protecting terrapins from recreational crab pots
Those trying to celebrate what is traditionally considered an annual rite of summer — catching crabs to feast on — are reminded that those tasty critters typically can be found in the same waters as the state's reptile, the diamondback...Tags: John Griffin
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Memorial Day schedule and closings
This schedule will be in effect Monday:
Government offices, courts and libraries
Closed in Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Harford, Howard and Frederick counties, and in Baltimore City and Annapolis.
Public schools
Closed in all jurisdictions....Tags: Baltimore County, Port Discovery Children's Museum, Howard County, Walters Art Museum, Maryland Zoo Baltimore
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John F. Guidera, Jesuit missionary
The Rev. John F. Guidera, a Jesuit missionary who lived in India for six decades while retaining close ties with his Maryland benefactors, died of septicemia May 16 in Jamshedpur. He was 86.
Born in Baltimore and raised in Govans, he was a 1943 Loyola...Tags: Pune (India), Auction Service, Sepsis, Colleges and Universities, University of Maryland, College Park
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Captive dolphins have less toxic mercury than wild animals
People aren't the only ones at risk from eating mercury-contaminated fish, since coal-burning power plants have liberally sprinkled the toxic metal across the earth's waters. But it appears that captive dolphins have a little less to worry about in...
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What downtown needs: More cops, fewer knuckleheads
During a stroll Thursday night from Little Italy to Harborplace, I bought jelly beans in The Best of Luck candy store, listened to a sidewalk trumpeter play the blues, noted several dead lights that left unappealing darkness along Pratt Street, and...
Tags: Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Inner Harbor, Business, Downtown (Baltimore, Maryland), Little Italy (Baltimore, Maryland)
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A neighborhood that few leave
The other evening, I sat at Doris Poling's dining room table and we discussed Overlea. A lifelong resident of the Northeast Baltimore neighborhood, she asked what angle I would take in writing about it.
After all, it is a quiet, livable residential...Tags: Baltimore County, Overlea, Pigtown, Harborplace, Kent County
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Columnist: Why is Baltimore always portrayed as a hellhole?
The Baltimore SunJoe Queenan is nobody's Mr. Nice Guy. But the deliciously cutting columnist has a soft side for, of all things, Baltimore. In fact in the Wall Street Journal, Queenan rides like a white knight to the city's defense after what he sees as slight after...Tags: Twelve Monkeys (movie), The Raven (movie), Maryland Zoo Baltimore, Fort McHenry, Periodicals
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'Mahogany tide' of algae turning harbor murky
Record-high water temperatures and a March sewage leak are contributing to a large algae bloom in the Baltimore harbor, bringing what is known as a "mahogany tide" of reddish-brown algae to the Middle Branch of the Patapsco River.
The bloom is somewhat...Tags: Baltimore County, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Inner Harbor, Fertilizer, Hurricane Irene (2011)
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Letter: Bobcats' post prom party a success
The Bel Air High School After Prom Party committee would like to thank the following area businesses and/or individuals for their generous donations, which helped to make our after prom party, held at the Bel Air Athletic Club April 28– 29 a...Tags: Bel Air (Allegany, Maryland), Foods and Beverages, Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), Car Safety Tips and Advice, Best Buy Company Inc.
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Harford Christian wins Envirothon once again
Harford County high school students got the opportunity to play in the dirt, walk through the woods and look at animals at the 4-H camp at the Rocks Thursday morning. Far from a day away from school work, the kids were there as part of the annual...
Tags: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forests, Agricultural Research and Technology, Aberdeen Proving Ground, High Schools
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Good morning, Baltimore: Need to know for Friday
WEATHER
Today's forecast calls for clouds early, gradually becoming sunny and a high temperature near 83 degrees. Friday night is expected to be mostly cloudy, with a low temperature around 68 degrees.
TRAFFIC
Check our traffic updates for this...Tags: Frederick H. Bealefeld, III, Christianity, Murder, Executive Branch, Juvenile Delinquency
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