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Area woman has ties to famous congressman, Lincoln
Daily American Sunday EditorMonica Morrill didn't know she was the descendent of an influential friend and ally to Abraham Lincoln until she was 16 years old. In a high school report on the American Dream, she wrote that it contained three major planks: freedom of religion,...Tags: U.S. Congress, The Pennsylvania State University, Somerset County (Pennsylvania), Abraham Lincoln, University of California, Berkeley
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Baltimore sculptor aims to rescue marble steps
Sebastian Martorana is a stoop storyteller in the finest tradition of Baltimore's stoop storytellers. The sculptor, a transplant to the city who recognized immediately the cultural meaning of rowhouse marble steps, tells the story of trying to rescue...
Tags: Druid Hill, Syracuse University, Baltimore County, Sculpture, Theft
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Baltimore has been site of many national political conventions
With the presidential convention season upon us, political and campaign junkies will most likely find Stan Haynes' recently published book, "The First American Political Conventions: Transforming Presidential Nominations, 1832-1872," a fascinating and...Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Human Interest, George Washington, Woodrow Wilson, Ellicott City
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William Boulton 'Bo' Kelly Jr., architect and preservationist
![William Boulton "Bo" Kelly Jr., a Baltimore architect, preservationist and civic leader who founded Baltimore Heritage and helped establish the Baltimore's Commission for Historical & Architectural Preservation, died Wednesday at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson of complications from an infection.](http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-08/71656665-06151800.jpg "William Boulton "Bo\" Kelly Jr., a Baltimore architect, preservationist and civic leader who founded Baltimore Heritage and helped establish the Baltimore's Commission for Historical & Architectural Preservation, died Wednesday at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson of complications from an infection.")
William Boulton "Bo" Kelly Jr., a Baltimore architect, preservationist and civic leader who founded Baltimore Heritage and helped establish the Baltimore's Commission for Historical & Architectural Preservation, died Wednesday at Gilchrist Hospice in...Tags: Rash Field, Bolton Hill, Architecture, Babe Ruth, Towson University
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Public Weighs In on Pebble Mine at EPA Hearing
The Environmental Protection Agency convened a three-day peer review hearing Tuesday concerning its watershed assessment of the proposed Pebble Mine, which is also the public's last chance to testify before an EPA scientific panel took up the document for...
Tags: Frontline Limited, Science and Technology, Mining, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Metal and Mineral
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Scientists Discuss Pebble Watershed Risks in Public Session
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today (Wednesday) wrapped-up the public portion of its scientific "Peer Review" of the proposed Pebble Mine. Twelve scientists will spend the next few months -- in closed-door sessions -- gathering information...
Tags: Mining, Natural Resources, Environmental Politics, Fishing, Genes and Chromosomes
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Baltimore police searching for killers of former Smithsburg man
dan.dearth@herald-mail.comBaltimore police said they are asking for the public’s help to find the killers of a former Smithsburg man who was shot Friday morning as he talked to friends on the steps of a house. Donny Moses, a spokesman for the Baltimore Police Department,...Tags: Religion and Belief, Mount Vernon, Roman Catholicism, Christianity
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Hundreds hold vigil for Mount Vernon shooting victims
Many of the hundreds gathered Tuesday at Mount Vernon's Washington Monument had their perceptions of safety shaken last week, after a double shooting that critically wounded a gregarious neighborhood ambassador and claimed the life of a recent...
Tags: Carl Stokes, Mount Vernon, Injuries and Wounds, Shootings, Theft
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Earthquake damage could keep Washington Monument closed until 2014
Repairs to the Washington Monument will require massive scaffolding to be built around the 555-foot obelisk and may keep it closed until 2014 after it was damaged by an earthquake last year. National Park Service spokeswoman Carol Johnson said Monday a...
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Baltimore's marble lady stepping down from Calvert Street
Lady Baltimore has withstood much in 189 years perched overlooking Courthouse Square.
She has lost both of her arms over the decades — one of them, holding high a wreath that signifies service to the republic, was sheared off by a gust of wind in...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Sculpture, Mount Vernon, Walters Art Museum, Zachary Taylor
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Maryland will feature prominently in Smithsonian's latest museum
When the country's largest museum devoted to African-American history and culture opens in Washington, Maryland people and places will get a healthy share of the limelight.
A two-story log house built by freed slaves from Montgomery County, dubbed the...Tags: Anne Arundel County, Thurgood Marshall, Museums, Arts, Montgomery County (Maryland)
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The Dream Began Here
![<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>The Dream Began Here </strong></span>](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-02/67978110-20153827.jpg "<span style="text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Dream Began Here </strong></span>")
The Dream Began Here
Sunday, February 10, 7PM
Untold Stories of Washington DC’s Early African American Community Examined in “The Dream Began Here” WDCW-TV
Local Black History Month Special on February 10
The White House, the...Tags: Black History, Washington, DC, War of 1812, Daniel Webster, White House
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