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On Sept. 13, 1964, as part of their first official North American tour, the Beatles played Baltimore.
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"She was not the largest vessel to claim to be a tugboat, but she was specially built to serve the city as an all-around inspection troubleshooter for the port.”
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An 1864 headline in The Baltimore American, proclaimed the event “the great election fraud.” The story played out in the early fall weeks that year as the Civil War was in a critical stage and the country faced a critical election.
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Here's the history of the site where Vice President Mike Pence spoke and President Donald J. Trump made a surprise appearance during the Republican National Convention.
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Lake Clifton had long been considered one of the city’s most troubled, but it started out with promise.
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He didn’t look like a slugger. At 5 feet 11 and 175 pounds, Joe Hauser cut a modest figure as he strode to the plate. But his quick wrists and sweet swing made him a terror at bat in 1930, when he hit 63 home runs for the minor league Orioles.
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7-year-old Anette Barber and three other family members died in a gas explosion in the winter of 1971 that leveled rowhouses on Roberts Place, a small street near Pulaski Highway and the Hebrew Friendship Cemetery.
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The arrival earlier this week of Tropical Storm Isaias recalls the two meteorological occurrences that Marylanders fear most: hurricanes and snow.
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It’s worth taking a look at the causes and consequences of that long-ago clash between citizens and Guardsmen in the streets of downtown Baltimore, a melee that set off a chain reaction of strikes along the railroad line.
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Leonard “Max” Schroeder would have been 102 this month. The Linthicum native passed away at age 90 — remarkable, given the dicey role he played in World War II. Because on D-Day, 1944, Capt. Schroeder became the first American soldier to hit the sand at Normandy.
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Baltimore City pools have long faced closures for all sorts of reasons: lifeguards on strike, maintenance issues, attendance woes and even clashes over integration in the 1960s.
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The death last week of writer-director Carl Reiner recalled the collaboration of actor Steve Martin and George Gipe, a well-known and prolific Baltimore writer, that comprised the creative team that wrote the 1982 noir spoof, “Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid.”
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Ocean City was long closed off to Black beachgoers. Here's how segregation and discrimination shaped Maryland's most popular beach town.
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After six non-winning seasons in the majors, the team is in first place in the American League despite a lineup laced with youngsters. Three-fourths of the infield is rookies, and five starting pitchers are 22 years old or younger.
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A recently published book celebrates the 250th anniversary of the founding of Ellicott City.
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Former mayors Kurt Schmoke, Martin O’Malley, Sheila Dixon and Stephanie Rawlings-Blake joined the Greater Baltimore Committee for a virtual panel on what they learned during their tenures.
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Lifelong Baltimore County resident Rob Lynch mostly photographs landscapes and stadiums, but humbler subjects form some of his favorite captures.
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Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan issued an order Friday allowing restaurants to offer expanded indoor dining starting Monday, but not all local governments in the Baltimore region intend to go along with it.
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An unofficial event that is expected to bring thousands of car enthusiasts to Ocean City is set to begin Tuesday and the town’s mayor has a message: Don’t travel to the area if you don’t have to.
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COVID-19 is significantly altering the way costume creators do their jobs for the foreseeable future.
