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Lori Sears

Lori Sears

Lori Sears is formerly an editor in the features department, overseeing events coverage, edits the Retro Baltimore blog, and edits arts and entertainment stories. She previously served as copy editor, TV book editor, arts coordinator and editorial assistant. A Baltimore native and avid Orioles fan, she is a graduate of Loyola University Maryland.

Retro Baltimore Trivia: What Baltimore hotel inspired Charles Dickens to write: ‘The most comfortable of all the hotels of which I had any experience in the United States.’

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Retro Baltimore Trivia: What famously proper American author, whose most notable book came out in 1922, when she was 50, was born in Baltimore?

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Retro Baltimore Trivia: What U.S. president toasted Baltimore as ‘The Monumental City’?

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Retro Baltimore Trivia: What major Baltimore street was originally known as Forest Street?

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Retro Baltimore Trivia: After Queen Elizabeth II attended her first American football game at the University of Maryland in 1957, what store did she visit?

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Retro Baltimore Trivia: In the 1960s, a young Nancy Pelosi interned alongside a young Steny Hoyer on what Maryland U.S. senator’s staff?

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Retro Baltimore Trivia: What former Maryland governor and Baltimore mayor founded Santa Claus Anonymous?

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Retro Baltimore Trivia: While visiting Baltimore, poet Longfellow suggested what name for the Brown family estate?

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Retro Baltimore Trivia: Hammerjacks was featured in what John Waters film?

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Retro Baltimore Trivia: What play by Loyola Blakefield ended its 11-year Thanksgiving Day winning streak in the 2000 Turkey Bowl?

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Retro Baltimore Trivia: Baltimore’s many neighborhoods are divided up into how many geographical regions?

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Retro Baltimore Trivia: What did John Waters once call ‘the polyester of brick’?

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Retro Baltimore Trivia: Harriet Tubman, born Araminta Ross in Dorchester County, earned what nickname for leading so many slaves to freedom?

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Retro Baltimore Trivia: What civil rights activist described ‘Young Tommy’ D’Alesandro III as ‘the greatest mayor in Baltimore’s modern history’?

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Retro Baltimore Trivia: What do the films ‘Sleepless in Seattle’ and ‘Liberty Heights’ and the TV series 'House of Cards’ have in common?

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