Previously, Baltimore County was more known as a geographical entity than a political one, with its territorial limits consisting of the present day Baltimore City, Cecil and Harford Counties, as well as parts of Carroll, Anne Arundel, Frederick, Howard and Kent Counties.

In 1674, a portion of Baltimore County, as well as a portion of Kent County, was split off to form Cecil County.

Cecil County is a county located in the U. S. state of Maryland.

Cecil County is governed by county commissioners, the traditional form of county government in Maryland.

Cecil County was created in 1674 by proclamation of the Governor.

Cecil County is in the northeast corner of Maryland, bounded on the north and east by the Mason-Dixon Line with Pennsylvania and Delaware.

Topographically, Cecil County straddles the border between the rolling hills of the Piedmont Plateau north of Route 40 and the flatlands of the Atlantic Coastal Plain to the south.

Cecil County is primarily rural, with denser development around the county seat of Elkton and along Route 40.

For purposes of the 2010 census, the federal government has designated Cecil County as part of the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington metropolitan area.

* Cecil County ( east )

* Cecil County ( north )

Of the 23 counties in Maryland, nine are on the Eastern Shore: Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot, Caroline, Dorchester, Wicomico, Somerset, and Worcester, as well as a portion of Cecil County.

* Warwick, Cecil County, Maryland

King James raised him to the peerage on 20 August 1603 as Baron Cecil, of Essendon in the County of Rutland, before creating him Viscount Cranborne in 1604 and then Earl of Salisbury in 1605.

* Cecil County, Maryland ( south )

* Providence, Cecil County, Maryland

The Chester County Council is a Boy Scouts of America council that serves Chester County, Pennsylvania and part of Cecil County, Maryland in that state's northeast corner.

* Cecil, Alabama, an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Alabama, United States

* Cecil County, Maryland, United States

Cecil is a town in Cook County, Georgia, United States.

The " puzzle " approach was carried even further into ingenious and seemingly impossible plots by John Dickson Carr — also writing as Carter Dickson — who is regarded as the master of the " locked room mystery ", and Cecil Street, who also wrote as John Rhode, whose detective, Dr. Priestley, specialised in elaborate technical devices, while in the US the whodunnit was adopted and extended by Rex Stout and Ellery Queen, among others.

Cecil coached the impatient James to humour Elizabeth and " secure the heart of the highest, to whose sex and quality nothing is so improper as either needless expostulations or over much curiosity in her own actions ".

There is no evidence that Cecil ever replied to her request.

Cross-cutting was also used to get new effects of contrast, such as the cross-cut sequence in Cecil B. DeMille's The Whispering Chorus, in which a supposedly dead husband is having a liaison with a Chinese prostitute in an opium den, while simultaneously his unknowing wife is being remarried in church.

Hatfield House is the seat of the Cecil family, the Marquesses of Salisbury.

Robert Cecil is said to have summed up the feeling of the gathering during a speech to the final assembly when he said:

This dependence, though most closely associated with Andrew Cecil Bradley, is clear as early as the time of Mary Cowden Clarke, who offered precise, if fanciful, accounts of the predramatic lives of Shakespeare's female leads.

Moses appears as the central character in the 1956 Cecil B. DeMille movie, also called The Ten Commandments, in which he is portrayed by Charlton Heston.

In creating the Rhodes Scholarships for outstanding students from the United States, Germany and much of the British Empire, Cecil Rhodes wrote in 1901 that ' the object is that an understanding between the three great powers will render war impossible and educational relations make the strongest tie '.

Sir Thomas Sean Connery ( born 25 August 1930 ) is a Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards ( one of them being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award ) and three Golden Globes ( including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award ).

The surrender is accepted by the Royal Navy Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt.

* Kitty ( 1945 ) is a notable fictional film about Gainsborough, portrayed by Cecil Kellaway.

The discovery of copper is owed partly to Frederick Russell Burnham, the famous American scout who worked for Cecil Rhodes.

* William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, chief adviser of Queen Elizabeth I of England, is taken seriously ill.

The feat is depicted in various movies, including the 1939 film Union Pacific, starring Joel McCrea and Barbara Stanwyck and directed by Cecil B. DeMille, which depicts the fictional Central Pacific investor Asa Barrows obstructing attempts by the Union Pacific from reaching Ogden, Utah.

" The term " human capital " was not used due to its negative undertones until it was first discussed by Arthur Cecil Pigou: " There is such a thing as investment in human capital as well as investment in material capital.

Sitsylt is the original Welsh spelling of the anglicised Cecil.

There is no doubt that Cecil saw which way the wind was blowing, and disliked Northumberland's scheme ; but he had not the courage to resist the duke to his face.

Probably the Queen had more to do with this rumour than Cecil, though he is said to have opposed, in the parliament of 1555 ( in which he represented Lincolnshire ), a bill for the confiscation of the estates of the Protestant refugees.

The most prolonged of Cecil's surviving personal correspondences is with an Irish judge, Nicholas White, lasting from 1566 until 1590 ; it is contained in the State Papers Ireland 63 and Lansdowne MS. 102, but receives hardly a mention in the literature on Cecil.

White's most remarked-upon service for Cecil is his report on his visit with Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1569, during the early years of her imprisonment by Queen Elizabeth.

Proponents of this view claim that the character of Polonius in Hamlet is a parody of Cecil, an interpretation which a minority of mainstream scholars have agreed with.

Cecil, portrayed by David Thewlis, is in Roland Emmerich's Anonymous, which supports the idea that the works of William Shakespeare were written by Edward de Vere.