Maryland

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On the banks of the Severn River, two miles from the Chesapeake Bay, is the city of Annapolis, the capital of the state of Maryland, the home of the United States Naval Academy, and a host of historical buildings, many...

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Annapolis, an outstanding colonial city, is the capital of Maryland, the home of the U.S. Naval Academy, and host to two of the largest boat shows in the country. It offers a veritable architectural feast to the masses of visitors,...

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Aubrey Bodine, pictorialist, modernist, and documentarian, was a Baltimore Sunday Sun feature photographer from 1924 to 1970. This book contains his vintage Annapolis, US Naval Academy, and Chesapeake Bay photographs, chronicling the mid-20th century in and around Maryland’s state capital....

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On September 26, 1981, millions of viewers watched on NBC television as Nolan Ryan pitched his fifth no-hitter. Late in the game, commentator Tony Kubek asked Joe Garagiola, “Did you ever see anybody throw faster than Nolan Ryan?” Without hesitating,...

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Step into the locker rooms, the playing fields, and the owners’ offices with sportswriter John F. Steadman as he relates the fascinating tale of football in Baltimore. In scores of animated first-person accounts, the author tells it like it was:...

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From eighteenth-century mansions to urban high-rise buildings, A Guide to Baltimore Architecture chronicles two hundred years of architectural history through an exploration of the city’s most beautiful and significant structures. Grouped by neighborhood in fifteen walking and driving tours, more...

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Baltimore was an innovator in the development of cast-iron architecture, but the city's heritage of buildings in this genre, once numbering more than a hundred, has dwindled to only a handful today. The Baltimore region also had a long tradition...

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Come closer to the flames as you read the contemporary campfire haunts of spooky, creepy Baltimore County, Maryland. Learn how a love spell goes terribly wrong for a Parkville woman—or maybe it worked too well… Cringe as you hear about...

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Called the "Charm City" and "The Best City in America" Baltimore is a city that has a great deal to offer visitors. The port of call for a dozen steamer lines and the starting point of one of the oldest...

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Since its discovery by Captain John Smith in 1608, the Nanticoke has never been particularly hospitable to the outsider. Flowing thirty-six miles from its source above Seaford, Delaware, to the Chesapeake Bay below Salisbury on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, it is...

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Before the Bay Bridge made access to the Atlantic easier, the Chesapeake Bay was dotted with beach-type resorts. Located in Calvert County, Maryland, Chesapeake Beach and neighboring North Beach were two of the most popular. Chesapeake Beach, the resort, officially...

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While a Tree Grew takes young readers on a journey through time with Maryland’s most famous tree, the great Wye Oak, by tracing the tree’s history from when it was a seedling to its fall during a storm in 2002....

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Maryland Loyalists in the American Revolution tells the story of Marylanders who could not engage in the passionate rebellion that was breaking out all around them. Although most were nearly as disillusioned with England as their rebel counterparts, the loyalists...

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Leonard Calvert was a quiet boy who grew up in England. When he was grown, Leonard went to Newfoundland with his father, George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore, and fought French privateers. When his father died, Cecil became the second...

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This fourth book in a series about Maryland’s counties includes Somerset, Dorchester, Worcester, and Wicomico Counties on the Eastern Shore. Written for children in elementary school, the book acquaints readers with the basic facts about the area’s history, geography, climate,...

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Travel back in time to the early twentieth century as the magical Sand Lady takes a young girl on vacation to Ocean City, Maryland, as she remembers it. See the Atlantic and Plimhimmon hotels, have ice cream at the Sugar...