- ...that the Seal of Maryland (both sides pictured) is one of the few state seals to be two-sided?
- ...that the former governor of Maryland, Robert Ehrlich, was Maryland's first Republican governor elected in 30 years?
- ...that the Baltimore riot of 1861 was an incident that took place on April 19, 1861 in Baltimore, Maryland between Confederate sympathizers and infantrymen of the United States Army, and is regarded by historians as the first bloodshed of the American Civil War?
