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Baltimore (/ˈbɔːltɪˌmɔːr/ BAWL-tih-mor, locally /ˌbɔːldɪˈmɔːr/ BAWL-dih-MOR or /ˈbɔːlmər/ BAWL-mər), also known as Baltimore City, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland. It is the 30th-most populous U.S. city with a population of 585,708 at the 2020 census and estimated at 569,997 in 2025, while the Baltimore metropolitan area at 2.86 million residents is the 22nd-largest metropolitan area in the nation. The city is also part of the Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area, which had a population of 9.97 million in 2020. Baltimore was designated as an independent city by the Constitution of Maryland in 1851. Though not located under the jurisdiction of any county in the state, it forms part of the Central Maryland region together with the surrounding county that shares its name.
The land that is present-day Baltimore was once 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. During the American Revolutionary War, the Second Continental Congress briefly moved its deliberations to the Henry Fite House from December 1776 to February 1777 prior to the capture of Philadelphia to British troops, which permitted Baltimore to serve briefly as the nation's capital before it returned to Philadelphia. The Battle of Baltimore was pivotal during the War of 1812, culminating in the British bombardment of Fort McHenry, during which Francis Scott Key wrote a poem that became "The Star-Spangled Banner", which was designated as the national anthem in 1931. During the Pratt Street Riot of 1861, the city was the site of some of the earliest violence associated with the American Civil War. (Full article...)
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Brown Memorial Park Avenue Presbyterian Church of Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., is a large, Gothic Revival-style church built in 1870 and located at Park Avenue and Lafayette Avenue in the city's Bolton Hill neighborhood. Named in memory of a 19th-century Baltimore financier, the ornate church is noted for its exquisite stained glass windows by artist Louis Comfort Tiffany, soaring vaulted ceiling, and the people associated with its history. Maltbie Babcock, who was the church's pastor 1887–1900, wrote the hymn This is My Father's World. Concert performer Virgil Fox was organist at Brown Memorial early in his career (1936–1946).
Called "one of the most significant buildings in this city, a treasure of art and architecture" by Baltimore Magazine, the church underwent a $1.8 million restoration between 2001 and 2003. It is part of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) denomination. (Full article...)
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Fort McHenry, which served as the inspiration for The Star-Spangled Banner
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Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, songwriter, guitarist, conductor, actor, satirist, filmmaker, and activist. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, pop, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral and musique concrète works; he additionally produced nearly all the 60-plus albums he released with his band the Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist. His discography is characterized by nonconformity, improvisation, sonic experimentation, musical virtuosity and satire of American culture. Zappa also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. He is considered one of the most innovative and stylistically diverse musicians of his generation.
As a mostly self-taught composer and performer, Zappa had diverse musical influences that led him to create music that was sometimes difficult to categorize. While in his teens, he acquired a taste for 20th-century classical modernism, African-American rhythm and blues, and doo-wop music. He began writing classical music in high school, while simultaneously playing drums in rhythm-and-blues bands, later switching to electric guitar. His debut studio album with the Mothers of Invention, Freak Out! (1966), combined satirical but seemingly conventional rock-and-roll songs with extended sound collages. He continued this eclectic and experimental approach throughout his career. (Full article...)
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- ... that viruses can be catalogued into seven groups in the Baltimore classification?
- ... that Johns Hopkins University and the City of Baltimore agreed to demolish the city's former U.S. Marine Hospital in 1987, and then changed their minds in 2019?
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An illustration of the aftermath of the Great Baltimore Fire in February 1904 (from Great Baltimore Fire)
Some 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)
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad engine and passenger car from the 1830s. (from History of Baltimore)
South Baltimore (from List of Baltimore neighborhoods)
Marble steps in need of a scrubbing with Bon Ami powder and a pumice stone. East Fort Avenue, Locust Point, August 2014 (from Culture of Baltimore)
Mount Clare Mansion, known today as the Mount Clare Museum House, is the oldest Colonial-era structure in Baltimore. (from History of Baltimore)
Baltimore Street Map, 1892 (from History of Baltimore)
Blue crabs (from Culture of Baltimore)
West Baltimore (from List of Baltimore neighborhoods)
Sharp Street Church was established 1787, the existing building having been erected in 1898 (from History of Baltimore)
View of Baltimore by William Henry Bartlett (1809–1854) (from History of Baltimore)
Great Baltimore Fire of 1904, looking West from East Pratt and North Gay Streets (from Great Baltimore Fire)
Marylanders steam blue crabs, usually in water, beer, and Old Bay Seasoning. (from Culture of Baltimore)
Same view in 1906, 2 years after the fire (from Great Baltimore Fire)
Map of Chesapeake Bay area by John Senex, 1719, with Baltimore County labeled near Maryland's border with Pennsylvania. (from History of Baltimore)
Row houses like these in Locust Point historically comprised much of Baltimore's housing. (from Culture of Baltimore)
John E. Hurst Building, site of the fire's outbreak (from Great Baltimore Fire)
The Baltimore riot of 1861 (from History of Baltimore)
An 1864 map of Baltimore (from History of Baltimore)
Worker assembling an aircraft at the Glenn L. Martin plant in Baltimore (from History of Baltimore)
Baltimore Street Map, 1838 (from History of Baltimore)
Storefront of establishment selling Lake Trout in Baltimore (from Culture of Baltimore)
Child labor at J.S. Farrand Packing Company in Baltimore, 1909. Photo by Lewis Hine. (from History of Baltimore)
View of Baltimore from Chapel Hill, by Francis Guy, 1802-03 (Brooklyn Museum) (from History of Baltimore)
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