At this time of crisis in our Nation's commuter railroads, a new threat to the continued operations of the New York Central has appeared in the form of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad's proposal for control of the Baltimore & Ohio railroads.

`` The financial situation of the Baltimore & Ohio, has become precarious -- much worse than at any time since the depression of the 1930s '', he told the hearing.

:* Baltimore has a large Bastille Day celebration each year at Petit Louis in the Roland Park area of Baltimore City.

The name has a rich history in Baltimore, having been used by Baltimore baseball teams since the late 19th century.

The station has previously carried the team from their arrival in Baltimore in 1954 through 1978 ; in the first four seasons, WJZ-TV shared coverage with WMAR-TV and WBAL-TV.

" The Star-Spangled Banner " has special meaning to Baltimore historically, as it was written during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812 by Francis Scott Key, a Baltimorean.

On October 7, 1849, at age 40, Poe died in Baltimore ; the cause of his death is unknown and has been variously attributed to alcohol, brain congestion, cholera, drugs, heart disease, rabies, suicide, tuberculosis, and other agents.

* an excerpt from President Lincoln's " Reply to Loyal Colored People of Baltimore upon Presentation of a Bible ," which reads, " The Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man "

The Music Center at Strathmore, an arts and theater center, opened in February 2005 in the latter of these two areas and is presently the second home of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and the Fitzgerald Theatre in Rockville Civic Center Park has provided diverse entertainment since 1960.

Baltimore County has had a charter government since 1956.

Due to the proximity of Howard County's population centers to Baltimore, the county has traditionally been considered a part of the Baltimore Metropolitan Area.

This move falls in line with Maryland's more populated counties who have such a dual system of law enforcement ( Montgomery, Anne Arundel, Prince George's, Howard and Baltimore Counties ), as Carroll County has begun to have a population increase.

The NFL's Houston Texans revived the name of the WFL's franchise for that city ; " Texans " has also been used by an NFL Dallas team in 1952 – the remnants of which became the Baltimore / Indianapolis Colts, by an AFL Dallas team in the early 1960s – who became the Kansas City Chiefs, by an arena football team in Dallas in the early 1990s, and by a CFL San Antonio team for one year in the 1990s.

Teaming up with Steez Promo, a promotions company based in Baltimore, MD, AK1200 has latched on to the uproar of the Dubstep movement, booking such acts as Borgore, Excision, Datsik, Skrillex, Emalkay, and more to come in 2011 via a monthly series at Roxy Night Club called " It Gets Hot.

Karzai has six brothers, including Mahmood Karzai and Quayum Karzai, who are both Afghan American restaurant owners in the Baltimore – Washington Metropolitan Area of the United States, as well as Ahmed Wali Karzai, deceased, who was the representative for the southern Afghanistan region.

No player has had a longer career with only one team, 23 seasons, a record which he shares with Brooks Robinson of the Baltimore Orioles.

There has been a resurgence of quilting in the Baltimore style, with many of the modern quilts experimenting with bending some of the old rules.

It has operated as a Scout camp since 1948 and is one of the five largest blocks of contiguous forest in the traditional ( western shore ) Baltimore metropolitan area, and the largest such private forested area.

The Unclaimed Baggage Center has been featured several times in the media, including in The Wall Street Journal, Vogue Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, Good Morning America, The Washington Post, The Dallas Morning News, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Baltimore Sun, The Seattle Times and the travel / adventure television series Globe Trekker.

He has had NFL experience with the Baltimore Ravens and the Jacksonville Jaguars.

The Carl J. Murphy Fine Arts Center has also become a much used venue for plays and concerts that come to Baltimore, as well the home of a museum of African-American art.

Conceding that several cities to the north were in worse shape than Baltimore after the last storm, Mr. Schaefer listed several improvements he said should be made in the snow plan here.

This was especially impressive since two of the teams swept by the Bengals ( the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Baltimore Ravens ) had both made it to the AFC Championship Game the previous season.

The Phillies made the playoffs twice more in the 1980s after their Series win, in 1981 and 1983, where they lost to the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series, but they would soon follow these near-misses with a rapid drop back into the basement of the National League.

Nicholson took the poem to a printer in Baltimore, who anonymously made the first known broadside printing on September 17 ; of these, two known copies survive.

Notable athletes are Whitehorse born hockey players Bryon Baltimore, who made it to the Los Angeles Kings in 1974, and Peter Sturgeon who played for the Colorado Rockies in 1974, Whitehorse born olympic cyclist Zachary Bell, Whitehorse raised olympic weightlifter Jeane Lassen who won medals in several world competitions, Whitehorse born basketball players Aaron Olson, and 1984 Olympics centre for Team Canada Greg Wiltjer.

Snider made his proposal to the league, which chose the Philadelphia group — including Snider, Bill Putnam, Jerome Schiff, and Eagles owner Jerry Wolman — over the Baltimore group.

In conjunction with the two new settlements, Baltimore set up a three-man commission for the Eastern Shore territory, made up of two Marylanders and one Virginian.

By 1852, regular rail transportation from Columbia to Baltimore, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Harrisburg made the town the commercial center for the area halfway between the county seats of Lancaster and York.

He made his Major League debut on September 8 of that season, as a late inning defensive replacement against the Baltimore Orioles.

Stops were made in Boston, New York, Baltimore, Washington D. C., Philadelphia, Miami Beach, New Orleans, and St. Louis.

* Leo Mazzone, the well-known former pitching coach of the Baltimore Orioles who made his reputation in the same role with the Atlanta Braves, lived his entire childhood in Westernport.

When a severe hurricane in 1786 opened up the Locust Point Channel to Baltimore and made Havre de Grace an accessible, deep-water port, Charlestown ’ s prosperity began to falter.

In 2001 in Baltimore, Maryland, scientists using federal grants spread fertilizer made from human and industrial wastes on yards in poor, black neighborhoods to test whether it might protect children from lead poisoning in the soil.

In October 2005, Baltimore resigned the office of the president, saying, " This is not a decision that I have made easily, but I am convinced that the interests of the Institute will be best served by a presidential transition at this particular time in its history ..." Former Georgia Tech Provost Jean-Lou Chameau succeeded Baltimore as president of Caltech.

On 24 May 1844, Morse made the first public demonstration of his telegraph by sending a message from the Supreme Court Chamber in the US Capitol in Washington, DC to the B & O Railroad outer depot ( now the B & O Railroad Museum ) in Baltimore.

Having some money saved and keeping his idea alive of being an inventor as opposed to a " medicine man ", Colt made arrangements to begin building guns using proper gunsmiths from Baltimore, Maryland.

On January 17, 1971, the Cowboys finally made the Super Bowl, against the Baltimore Colts, only to lose the game, 16-13, on a field goal in the final nine seconds.

After being delayed several times due to friction between Baltimore and the label, Cold as Ice was eventually released promotionally in 1999 ( it was not actually made available to the general public until 2009, for digital download ).

The bulk of Hopkins ' fortune however was made by his judicious investments in a myriad of ventures, most notably the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ( B & O ), of which he became a Director in 1847 and Chairman of the Finance Committee in 1855.

Living his entire adult life in Baltimore, Hopkins made many friends among the city's social elite, many of them Quakers.

Hunter was selected as the Twins ' first-round pick in 1993 out of high school, and made his first appearance with the Twins as a pinch runner in Baltimore on August 22, 1997.

The Kansas City franchise had been declared bankrupt and taken over by the league office after the close of the regular season, and the Baltimore owners rejected the offer made to them.

Among the members of the unit is Martin O ' Malley, the former mayor of Baltimore, and current Governor of Maryland, who was made the unit's honorary colonel in 2003.