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Baltimore is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland. With a population of 585,708 at the 2020 census, it is the 30th-most populous city in the United States. Baltimore was designated an independent city by the Constitution of Maryland in 1851, and is currently the most populous independent city in the nation. As of the 2020 census, the population of the Baltimore metropolitan area was 2,838,327, the 20th-largest metropolitan area in the country. When combined with the larger Washington metropolitan area, the Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area (CSA) has a 2020 U.S. census population of 9,973,383, the third-largest in the country.

The land that is present-day Baltimore was used as hunting ground by Paleo-Indians. In the early 1600s, the Susquehannock began to hunt there. People from the Province of Maryland established the Port of Baltimore in 1706 to support the tobacco trade with Europe, and established the Town of Baltimore in 1729. (Full article...)

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The 1973 Preakness Stakes was the 98th running of the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland held on May 19, 1973. Six horses entered, and Secretariat won by 2+1⁄2 lengths ahead of Sham in front of a record crowd of 61,657 spectators. The race was viewed on television and broadcast over the radio.

In the period leading up to the Preakness, Kentucky Derby winner Secretariat was pegged as the favorite to win the race. Aside from Secretariat, Sham was named as the only other horse that could win the race or even challenge Secretariat. Initially seven horses officially enrolled to race in the event, but the field reduced to six after an owner scratched his horse. The entrants in the Preakness featured three horses that did not compete in the Derby. At the start, Secretariat broke last, but then made a huge, last-to-first move on the first turn. After reaching the lead with 51⁄2 furlongs to go, he was never challenged, and won by 21⁄2 lengths, Sham finishing second and Our Native third. The victory led to the stallion being featured on several magazine covers. Secretariat would go on to win the Belmont Stakes in the succeeding weeks, becoming the ninth horse to complete the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing and the first in 25 years. (Full article...)

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John Early SJ (July 1, 1814 – May 23, 1873) was an Irish-American Catholic priest and Jesuit educator who was the president of the College of the Holy Cross and Georgetown University, as well as the founder and first president of Loyola College in Maryland. Born in Ireland, he emigrated to the United States at the age of nineteen. Upon his arrival, he enrolled at Mount St. Mary's Seminary in Maryland and entered the Society of Jesus, completing his education at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

Early became president of the College of the Holy Cross in 1848, where he unsuccessfully petitioned the Massachusetts legislature to charter the school. Four years later, he was charged with establishing Loyola College in Maryland, which was intended to educate the lay students who attended St. Mary's Seminary and College, which the Sulpicians sought to keep as a seminary only. While also serving as the first pastor of St. Ignatius Church, he oversaw the early years of Loyola College. He also established its high school division, which later became Loyola Blakefield. In 1858, Early left to become president of Georgetown University. During the Civil War, instruction continued uninterrupted, despite intermittent occupation by the Union Army and dwindling enrollment. (Full article...)

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... that Richard Worley played in minor baseball leagues and is now the commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department?
... that a Baltimore TV station aspired to be "the Cadillac of independents"?
... that one Baltimore Orioles player compared the 2024 Major League Baseball jerseys to knockoffs from TJ Maxx?
... that in the 1930s two hoards of gold coins were found in a cellar in Baltimore, Maryland?
... that the Harlem Park Three were awarded US$48 million, the largest sum in Baltimore history, after being falsely imprisoned for murder?
... that a great-grandfather and a grandfather of a commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department also served in the department?

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Image 1Baltimore & Ohio Railroad engine and passenger car from the 1830s. (from History of Baltimore)
Image 2An illustration of the aftermath of the Great Baltimore Fire in February 1904 (from Great Baltimore Fire)
Image 3Great Baltimore Fire of 1904, looking West from East Pratt and North Gay Streets (from Great Baltimore Fire)
Image 4East Midway (from List of Baltimore neighborhoods)
Image 5Francis Kenrick, the sixth Archbishop of Baltimore (1851–1863). (from History of Baltimore)
Image 6View of Baltimore from Chapel Hill, by Francis Guy, 1802-03 (Brooklyn Museum) (from History of Baltimore)
Image 7Marble steps, East Fort Avenue, Locust Point, August 2014 (from Culture of Baltimore)
Image 8Mount Clare Mansion, known today as the Mount Clare Museum House, is the oldest Colonial-era structure in Baltimore. (from History of Baltimore)
Image 9Baltimore railroad strike of 1877 (from History of Baltimore)
Image 10Sharp Street Church was established 1787, the existing building having been erected in 1898 (from History of Baltimore)
Image 11Simple row houses like these in Locust Point make up much of Baltimore's housing stock. (from Culture of Baltimore)
Image 12John E. Hurst Building, site of the fire's outbreak (from Great Baltimore Fire)
Image 13Worker assembling an aircraft at the Glenn L. Martin plant in Baltimore (from History of Baltimore)
Image 14Same view in 1906, 2 years after the fire (from Great Baltimore Fire)
Image 15Blue crabs (from Culture of Baltimore)
Image 16Map of Chesapeake Bay area by John Senex, 1719, with Baltimore County labeled near Maryland's border with Pennsylvania. (from History of Baltimore)
Image 17Baltimore Street Map, 1892 (from History of Baltimore)
Image 18View of Baltimore by William Henry Bartlett (1809–1854) (from History of Baltimore)
Image 19An 1864 map of Baltimore (from History of Baltimore)
Image 20West Baltimore (from List of Baltimore neighborhoods)
Image 21Child labor at J.S. Farrand Packing Company in Baltimore, 1909. Photo by Lewis Hine. (from History of Baltimore)
Image 22South Baltimore (from List of Baltimore neighborhoods)
Image 23Storefront of establishment selling Lake Trout in Baltimore (from Culture of Baltimore)
Image 24Marylanders steam blue crabs, usually in water, beer and Old Bay Seasoning. (from Culture of Baltimore)
Image 25Baltimore Street Map, 1838 (from History of Baltimore)
Image 26The Baltimore riot of 1861 (from History of Baltimore)
Image 27Some of the more upscale rowhouses in Baltimore, like these brightly painted homes in Charles Village, have complete porches instead of stoops (from Culture of Baltimore)

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May 20, 2024 – Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse: The container ship Dali is freed from bridge debris since its initial collision on March 26 and is escorted by tugboats back to the port of Baltimore. (AP)
May 13, 2024 – Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse: The final remains of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, which killed six workers, are demolished with explosives. (East Bay Times)
March 26, 2024 – Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse: The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, collapses after the container ship Dali strikes a bridge column, causing multiple vehicles to fall into the water below. (CBS News)
January 28, 2024 – 2023 NFL season: In American football, the Kansas City Chiefs defeat the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers defeat the Detroit Lions to advance to Super Bowl LVIII. (USA Today)

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