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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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Historians who’ve studied the deadliest wave of disease in recorded human history sometimes refer to it as the “forgotten pandemic.” But as COVID-19 unsettles the world a century later, we have much to learn from terrors inflicted by influenza in 1918 and 1919.
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The former Columbia resident rose to fame — or infamy — after recording conversations with Monica Lewinsky about her affair with then president Bill Clinton.
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The debates surrounding current coronavirus pandemic were heard in the early 1900s when Baltimore's Woodberry neighborhood was stricken with typhoid.
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A century ago, Baltimore had baseball fever. In 1920, the Orioles won 110 games – including the final 25 – to capture the International League pennant. The team’s success buoyed the spirits of a city struggling through the third and final year of the flu pandemic that killed 675,000 Americans.
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Police announced the reward money for help in bringing Antonio Oliver Janifer, who has been sought since Tuesday night when police said he shot Officer Joshua Jackson in Federal Hill.
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How two Maryland geriatric nursing assistants are providing home health care for clients during stay-at-home orders.
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The moves come the day after Republican Gov. Larry Hogan lifted more coronavirus-related restrictions statewide, including on outdoor dining.
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Now that Maryland is permitting outdoor dining with some limitations, Westminster officials are considering ways that city resources could be used to help restaurants expand their outdoor options.
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Frequently asked questions about submitting an event to our calendar.
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Garden Q&A with the university of Maryland Extension's Ellen Nibali on transplanting oak trees and what kind of hornet that probably is.
