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(NYTimes) When people talk about “the whole nine yards,” just what are they talking about? For decades the answer to that question has bee...

  (Towson Times) Samuel Bloom saloon on Frederick road at Paradise was raided Sunday night at 7 o'clock by Patrolmen Hutson and Phe...

(Part 1 of 2) The American Gangsters, Outlaws and Lawmen live auction will take place on Sunday, September 30, 2012, beginning at 10am. F...

(NYTimes) ... Ostensibly the new series is about a former boxer and Civil War veteran turned police detective, Kevin Corcoran (played by ...

(boingboing)  UC Santa Cruz launched the Grateful Dead Archive Online last Friday with tens of thousands of items. But it wouldn'...

(Aegis) ... The Lamm Brothers Inc., owners of the Bel Air Manufacturing Company, broke ground at the site of the company's new manufac...

(Wikipedia) February 29, known as a leap day in the Gregorian calendar , is a date that occurs in most years that are evenly divisible by 4,...

(Mental Floss) ... It’s hard to say when the day after Thanksgiving turned into a retail behemoth, but it probably dates back to the late 19...

(Today) Beating out 50 other contestants, an auburn-haired beauty from California who was a favorite among Vegas odds-markers was crowned Mi...

(Wikipedia) Elm Farm Ollie (known as "Nellie Jay" and post-flight as "Sky Queen") was the first cow to fly in an airplan...

(Baltimore Sun) Civil War sketchings, historical maps, and photographs of the Great Fire of 1904 are among a trove of Baltimore memorabilia ...

(Jacques Kelly) Monica Marcum sat in the office of the Baltimore City Historical Society and held a document she discovered among her late f...

(Errol Morris) ... Wheeler had walked into two Pittsburgh banks and attempted to rob them in broad daylight. What made the case peculiar is ...

(LoC) June 21 marks the beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere. Children and adults look forward to the beginning of the season and ...

(NYTimes) ... They had come to this drab area near downtown Las Vegas because the Gold and Silver is the setting of “Pawn Stars,” a hit show...

(WoCCP) The Cecil County Potter’s Field, the final resting place for paupers who couldn’t afford a burial, is located across from Mt. Aviat ...

(NYTBR) ... Of course, ideas of what’s worth knowing, and even what’s interesting, are constantly changing: The fascination with trigonometr...

(Baltimore Sun) Brian Witte, an Associated Press writer, recently revived an old debate that's been going on since Palm Sunday, April 9,...

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