Garrett County is the westernmost county of the U. S. state of Maryland.

Garrett County contains over of parks, lakes, and publicly accessible forestland.

The National Register of Historic Places listings in Garrett County, Maryland has 20 National Register of Historic Places properties and districts, including Casselman Bridge, National Road a National Historic Landmark.

Garrett County is part of Maryland's 6th congressional district and Oakland is the county seat.

Education matters that affect Garrett County come under the control of the Board of Education.

The Superintendent of Schools administers the Garrett County Public School System, and serves as executive officer, secretary, and treasurer of the Board of Education.

The Ruth Enlow Library of Garrett County is the public library for Garrett County.

Garrett County is part of the Pittsburgh DMA, a regional media market centered in neighboring Pennsylvania.

* USS Garrett County ( LST-786 )

* National Register of Historic Places listings in Garrett County, Maryland

* Garrett County Online

* Maryland State Archives ▬ Maryland Manual, Garrett County

* Garrett County Economic Development Online

* Garrett County Historical Society Museum ▬ History of Garrett County

* Ruth Enlow Library of Garrett County

* AirNav. com ▬ Garrett County Airport ( 2G4 )

* Garrett County Arts Council

* Deep Creek Times, Deep Creek Lake and Garrett County area information

To the east lies greater Silver Spring, to the west both Garrett Park and Bethesda, and to the south lie the Beltway, Rock Creek Park, and the villages of Chevy Chase.

Thornfield, the house of Thomas Garrett a famed abolitionist and Quaker, lies on Garrett Road ( named for his family, who were among the earliest settlers of that part of the Township ) and Maple Avenue in Drexel Hill.

Located in the Forbes State Forest in Elk Lick Township, Somerset County, it lies on a gentle crest of a ridge line extending from central Somerset County southward into Garrett County, Maryland known as Negro Mountain.

Elizabeth Garrett then applied to several medical schools, including Oxford, Cambridge, Glasgow, Edinburgh and the Royal College of Surgeons, all of which refused her admittance.

In 1873 she gained membership of the British Medical Association and remained the only woman member for 19 years, due to the Association's vote against the admission of further women – " one of several instances where Garrett, uniquely, was able to enter a hitherto all male medical institution which subsequently moved formally to exclude any women who might seek to follow her.

There is a secondary school in Islington, London which is named after her: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Language College For Girls.

The town is named after the river, which is presumed to be named after Margaret Whicher, cousin of John Garrett Bussell ( founder of Busselton ) in 1831.

" The joke was sometimes combined with another running gag in which, rather than having a sign language interpreter visually presenting the news to aid the deaf, the show would provide assistance from Garrett Morris, " head of the New York School for the Hard of Hearing ", whose " aid " involved cupping his hands around his mouth and shouting the news as Chase read it.

George Garrett, which U. S. Navy intelligence characterized as capable of " dangerous and eccentric movements.

Bound for Glory was the first motion picture in which inventor / operator Garrett Brown used his new Steadicam for filming moving scenes.

His height —, about taller than Gleason — created logistical problems on the sets, which were designed so Garrett did not tower over everyone else.

The Russia trip was later memorialized in a bizarre science fiction novella, The Foreign Hand Tie by Randall Garrett, a tale of telepathic spies which is full of references to the Marx Brothers and their films.

A markedly different theory, in which Garrett and his posse set a trap for McCarty, has also been suggested.

In June 2004, Labor leader Mark Latham announced that Garrett would become an Australian Labor Party candidate for the House of Representatives at the 2004 federal election, in the safe New South Wales seat of Kingsford Smith which was being vacated by the former Cabinet minister Laurie Brereton.

In November 2007, Garrett released the album Three Sides of ..., which constituted songs he recorded with his current band F8 and his 1990s band Godspeed as well as some new songs.

In 2008 the producers of TruTV's The Smoking Gun Presents: World's Dumbest ... added Garrett to their cast, which features comedic commentary from celebrities like Garrett who have had brushes with the law.

Garrett was a cast member in the fourth season of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, which documented Garrett's struggle with addiction to heroin.

Garrett Hardin in a famous article called tragedy of the commons argued that any instance in which society appeals to an individual exploiting a commons to restrain himself or herself for the general good-by means of his or her conscience-merely sets up a system which, by selectively diverting societal power and physical resources to those lacking in conscience, while fostering guilt ( including anxiety about his or her individual contribution to over-population ) in people acting upon it, actually works toward the elimination of conscience from the race.

A challenge to world conscience was provided by an influential 1968 article by Garrett Hardin that critically analyzed the dilemma in which multiple individuals, acting independently after rationally consulting self-interest ( and, he claimed, the apparently low ' survival-of-the-fittest ' value of conscience-led actions ) ultimately destroy a shared limited resource, even though each acknowledges such an outcome is not in anyone's long term interest.

Personal stabilizing platforms came into being in the late 1970s through the invention of Garrett Brown, which became known as the Steadicam.

According to Dialogue a Proposal Factor, Garrett, this kind of dialogue should not be confused with discussion or debate, both of which, says Bohm, suggest working towards a goal or reaching a decision, rather than simply exploring and learning.

In a 1964 short fantasy story " A case of Identity " by Randall Garrett, one of the characters, a homicidal psychopath by nature, is mentally restrained by a spell called geas " which forces him to limit his activities to those which are not dangerous to his fellow man ".

He has a large House, and he has a moveable Partition in his Garrett, which he takes down and the whole Clubb meets in one Room.

It subsequently led to the publication of an academic anthology, Archaeological Fantasies: How Pseudoarchaeology Misinterprets the Past and Misleads the Public ( 2006 ), which was edited by Garrett G. Fagan.