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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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The last time the General Assembly terminated its session early it was not a pandemic but rather the Civil War that was beginning to engulf the nation. The inevitable drumbeat toward war came Dec. 20, 1860, when South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union.
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As we grapple with the newly confirmed coronavirus pandemic, let's look back at how and where patients may have been treated decades in Baltimore.
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The Lafayettes were a clean-cut band from Towson that made the rounds, won acclaim and, against the odds, waxed a disc for RCA that charted on the Billboard Hot 100.
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The United Mutual Brotherhood of Liberty helped establish Baltimore's reputation as a hub of civil rights activity.
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The origins of the Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital stretch back to 1890, when a group of Jewish immigrants opened the Hebrew Friendly Inn and Aged Home on Aisquith Street in East Baltimore. The city’s established Jews wanted to help newly arrived immigrants get started with new lives in Baltimore.
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Dru Hill discuss their candid new documentary and plans for the future as they mark 25 years in the music business.
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A portrait of activist Gloria Richardson Dandridge, also known as “Glorious Gloria,” for her steadfast determination as head of the Cambridge Non-Violent Action Committee to bring civil rights to Cambridge in the 1960s, was unveiled last week at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture in Baltimore.
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Here's a look back at the Baltimore sports news that made headlines during the week of Feb. 16-22 over the years.
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In late 19th and early 20th century Baltimore, there was a worse fate than not receiving a Valentine’s Day card from your beloved.
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It sits in a Fells Point antique shop, a kitschy keepsake from a classic Baltimore restaurant. Haussner’s may be gone, but its jumbo ball of string rolls on. And it’s for sale — though, at 825 pounds, it might take a modern-day Sisyphus to move it.
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Think you know your Baltimore? Try answering our weekly trivia question.
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Recalling the 1970 Democratic primary for the 7th District congressional seat, when Parren Mitchell beat incumbent Samuel Friedel by 38 votes.
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East Mt. Vernon Place is generally a low volume street between Charles Street and St. Paul Street. This was not the case one day in 1937.
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John Bessler, a University of Baltimore law professor, and his wife, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, spoke in a TV interview Tuesday night with NBC Nightly News after his battle with the coronavirus that landed him in the hospital.
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Baltimore-based culture and lifestyle photographer Isaiah Robert Winters' photo essay on the emptiness of a usually vibrant city.
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Timonium-based chocolatier served customers for more than 20 years.
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John Bessler, a University of Baltimore law professor, and his wife, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, spoke in a TV interview Tuesday night with NBC Nightly News after his battle with the coronavirus that landed him in the hospital.
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With Easter and Passover fast approaching, Baltimore-area ministers and rabbis are drawing on every resource they can to provide services for their flocks as coronavirus-related lockdowns expand across the region.
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Members of Baltimore's culinary, literary and musical communities discuss their strategies for coping with the anxiety and uncertainty of this moment.
