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A stone marker, placed in 1919, denotes the Baltimore city limits at the corner of Hanover Street and Jack Street in Brooklyn.
Readers: Think you know your Baltimore? Try answering our weekly trivia question. Some weeks will be ridiculously easy, some weeks a bit more challenging. Here’s last week’s trivia: QUESTION: For whom is Coppin State University named? ANSWER: Fanny Jackson Coppin, a teacher and missionary, who...
He was fractious, with tender feet and shoes that sometimes came off while racing. A classic thoroughbred, Sir Barton was not. Yet 100 years ago, the Maryland-trained horse was the first winner of what would become known in 1923 as racing’s Triple Crown. A chestnut colt prone to nips and kicks,...
Baltimore and the surrounding area sure has changed a lot in its centuries-long history. But many traditions and landmarks from decades ago are still around today, give or take a few variations.More
Seventy-five years ago today, hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers, sailors and airmen conducted the largest amphibious assault in history when they liberated the coast of Normandy from Nazi occupiers in what is now known as D-Day. The Sunpapers were there — Thomas O’Neill reported from Allied...
Thousands of American soldiers died during the assault on a five-mile stretch of beach in northern France 75 years ago, but for Steve Melnikoff, the invasion known as D-Day was just the beginning. The young private from Baltimore spent June 6, 1944, in a transport ship just off Omaha Beach, .50-caliber...
A judge has put Baltimore's Harborplace into receivership, meaning it's out of its owners' control. But the waterfront marketplace hasn't always been struggling. Here's a look at it through the years.
Readers: Think you know your Baltimore? Try answering our weekly trivia question. Some weeks will be ridiculously easy, some weeks a bit more challenging. Here’s last week’s trivia: QUESTION: What Baltimore public school was initially known as simply "The High School," when it opened in 1839 with...
The song starts off with some churning string sounds, then launches into a propulsive disco beat as the singer exults, “Something’s got me upside down/And I’ve never been like this before.” Forty years ago, on June 9, 1979, Alton McClain & Destiny’s “It Must Be Love” reached its highest position...
Readers: Think you know your Baltimore? Try answering our weekly trivia question. Some weeks will be ridiculously easy, some weeks a bit more challenging. Here’s last week’s trivia: QUESTION: Orioles Magic began when Doug DeCinces hit a two-run homer with two outs in the bottom of the ninth on...
Memorial Day weekend marks the arrival of the Baltimore summer season. The markets are full of tiny sweet peas, strawberries and rhubarb. Families start organizing crab feasts. And on a warm night, snowball stands attract lines for a cup of ice flavored with chocolate and marshmallow or any other...
Readers: Think you know your Baltimore? Try answering our weekly trivia question. Some weeks will be ridiculously easy, some weeks a bit more challenging. Here’s last week’s trivia: QUESTION: What Baltimore actor, who once starred in “The Tracey Ullman Show” in an episode set in a Baltimore row...
Sunday Silence. Easy Goer. Benign names, both. But 30 years ago, in the Preakness, those two colts staged a race for the ages, thundering down the stretch, head to head, in a white-knuckled finish that still stirs the blood of race fans. Stride for stride they ran — Sunday Silence, the Kentucky...
It was a cool, cloudy afternoon on Oct. 17, 1914, as George Herman Ruth and his bride-to-be stepped off the train in Ellicott City, climbed the steep hill to St. Paul’s Catholic Church and tied the knot. “Babe” Ruth was 19, a brash big-league rookie and budding superstar; Helen Woodford was 17,...
The moment this year’s Kentucky Derby results became official, Clinton Pitts Jr.’s phone rang. And rang. And rang. For two days, the onetime Maryland racing steward fielded calls from folks asking for Pitts’ take on the first Derby in which the apparent winner was disqualified for a bump-and-run....
Readers: Think you know your Baltimore? Try answering our weekly trivia question. Some weeks will be ridiculously easy, some weeks a bit more challenging. Here’s last week’s trivia: QUESTION: What do Eager Street and Howard Street in Baltimore City have in common with Howard County, Maryland? ANSWER:...
On May 10, 1869, the ceremonial golden spike that was driven into a polished cypress crosstie at windswept Promontory Point, Utah, marked the completion of the transcontinental railroad — or what was then called the Pacific Railroad or Overland Route. The railroad, linking Omaha, Neb., to Sacramento,...
Mayor Catherine Pugh, who announced Thursday that she was resigning, is not the first Baltimore mayor to take that path. Or even the second. Or the third. Actually, 11 others have pulled the plug on their mayoral careers and for a variety of reasons — including to become governor. James Calhoun...
There was a popular joke in the ’70s. “Did you know Mickey Mouse wears a Spiro Agnew watch?” Perhaps 50 years have killed the punch line. See, Vice President Agnew, who began his career as a Baltimore County executive, was considered to be somewhat dim. So dim that even a cartoon mouse would wear...