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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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Ralph Moore recalls what it was like growing up in Baltimore after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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In Maryland, the fuel crisis peaked in February 1974, when the shortage froze traffic around Baltimore. Seething drivers waited in queues, some five miles long, for hours in what The Baltimore Sun called “bread lines on wheels,” hoping to fill up; too often, stations ran out of gas. Fights broke out, station owners were threatened and some began toting guns.
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While you’re homebound and waiting out the coronavirus pandemic, here’s a quiz to test your knowledge of Baltimore and Maryland — a little history, a little trivia, some sports, a dash of politics — and, don’t worry, we made them all multiple choice.
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When Maryland’s Bay Bridge opened July 30, 1952, a motorist could have reached the Eastern Shore faster by driving around the Chesapeake Bay and stopping for lunch. The speeches droned on for hours.
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There are no cracks of the bat or slaps of the leather this season, but there's always Brooks Robinson to reminisce about. Here are five quick takes about the Orioles legend who celebrated a birthday this week.
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Theirs were stories of death and miraculous survival.
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While you’re homebound and waiting out the coronavirus pandemic, here’s a quiz to test your knowledge of Baltimore and Maryland — a little history, a little trivia, some sports, a dash of politics — and, don’t worry, we made them all multiple choice.
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A day after World War II ended on May 8, 1945, Lee McCardell, a seasoned Baltimore Sun war correspondent, speculated in a front page piece: "How Long After the Shooting Stops Does A War Really End?"
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A century ago, Americans fancied fame. World records were their goals, risks be damned. In 1913, an Illinois man made news by eating 61 eggs at one sitting. Three years later, a fellow in California held his breath for more than 10 minutes. And in 1914, a Baltimore socialite grabbed headlines by rolling three miles down Charles Street, egged on by family and friends.
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While you’re homebound and waiting out the coronavirus pandemic, here’s a quiz to test your knowledge of Baltimore and Maryland — a little history, a little trivia, some sports, a dash of politics — and, don’t worry, we made them all multiple choice.
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Calloway, whose family home on Druid Hill Avenue has been threatened by demolition, burst out as a Baltimore star while still a Douglass student.
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The Asian flu that swept into Maryland in the fall of 1957, which was the second major influenza outbreak of the 20th century, after the 1918-1919 pandemic, killed an estimated one to two million worldwide, but only 65 in Baltimore.
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A rope tied into a noose was found at a construction site in an off-campus building owned by Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore on Thursday, university officials announced late Friday night.
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Baltimore visual artist Jessy DeSantis finds time for art and homeschool.
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Ciao Bella, a Little Italy fixture for 29 years ago, has announced it is closing for good, despite financial backing from Ravens great Ray Lewis.
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On a day when the potential for gatherings celebrating the Fourth of July has prompted concern among state officials about the further spread of the coronavirus, Maryland reported 380 new confirmed cases of COVID-19.
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Garden Q&A with the University of Maryland Extension's Ellen Nibali on planting native connected beds to keep America beautiful and getting rid of squash bugs.
