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The Orioles are also well known for their successful stadium, the trend-setting Oriole Park at Camden Yards, which opened in 1992 in downtown Baltimore.

Six former Oriole franchise radio announcers have received the Hall of Fame's Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in broadcasting: Chuck Thompson ( who was also the voice of the old NFL Baltimore Colts ); Jon Miller ( now with the San Francisco Giants ); Ernie Harwell, Herb Carneal ; Bob Murphy and Harry Caray ( as a St. Louis Browns announcer in the 1940s.

There were also five teams which the Texans had never beaten: the Baltimore Ravens ( 0-5 in regular season, 0-1 in playoffs ), Minnesota Vikings ( 0-2 ), New York Jets ( 0-5 ), Philadelphia Eagles ( 0-3 ) and San Diego Chargers ( 0-4 ).

The Colts 1977 playoff loss in double overtime against the Oakland Raiders was famous for the fact that it was the last playoff game for the Colts in Baltimore and is also known for the Ghost to the Post play.

The same year that Booth's father married Holmes ( 1851 ), he built Tudor Hall on the Harford County property as the family's summer home, while also maintaining a winter residence on Exeter Street in Baltimore in the 1840s – 1850s.

Chalker was also a Baltimore City Schools history teacher in Maryland for 12 years, retiring in 1978 to write full-time.

He also was a member of the Washington Science Fiction Association and was involved in the founding of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society.

When asked to recommend someone else, Davis suggested Robert E. Lee, then an army major in Baltimore ; López approached Lee, who also declined on the grounds of his duty.

The trial was covered by famous journalists from the South and around the world, including H. L. Mencken for The Baltimore Sun, which was also paying part of the defense's expenses.

McGraw had also managed the Highlanders in their first two seasons, when they were known as the Baltimore Orioles.

Weeb Ewbank, head coach of the Baltimore Colts in that game, was also scheduled to appear, but died November 17, 1998.

at N. Y. U. and also for the Baltimore underground newspaper Harry and the New York Ace, before joining National Lampoon in 1973, where he served as managing editor among other roles and authored articles such as " Foreigners Around the World " and " How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink.

The National Republican Party and the Democratic Party soon imitated them, also holding conventions in Baltimore, which would remain a favored venue for national political conventions for decades.

Robinson is also a charter member of the Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame ( along with Brooks Robinson ), and a member of the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame, being inducted into both in 1978.

He also had four mansions built, two in Chicago, one in Washington D. C., and one in Baltimore, Maryland.

It also served as a minor-league affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles.

# Marriottsville ( a portion is also in Howard County and Baltimore County )

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.

Engagements were also held at the Geary Theatre in San Francisco for eight months, the Hanna Theatre in Cleveland for nine weeks, the Majestic Theatre in Boston, the Apollo Theater in Chicago, and also in Philadelphia, Detroit, Buffalo, Minneapolis, Washington, D. C., and Baltimore.

Lord Baltimore also encouraged Marylanders to move east to settle the area.

Baltimore album quilts, Broderie perse, Hawaiian quilts, Amish quilts and the ralli quilts of India and Pakistan also use appliqué.

Almost all Steelers and Eagles games are available live on network television, as Mifflin County receives stations from both the Steelers and Eagles broadcasting territories, though Baltimore Ravens games are also available through Harrisburg-based stations.

Wheaton developed from Leesborough ( named in 1826 ), a business district which popped near the junction of three major roads: The first is Brookeville Pike ( also known as the " Washington-Brookeville Pike " and later as the " Union Turnpike ", now MD Route 97, Georgia Ave ) a north / south toll thoroughfare running from Washington, DC to Brookeville, Maryland and eventually to Baltimore, Maryland.

In Baltimore Baldwin started to work on " Thoughts and Things: A Study of the Development and Meaning of Thought.

In 1987, Kevin Brown, a photo-journalist from Baltimore, founded the National James Baldwin Literary Society.

The station, designed by Ephraim Francis Baldwin, was built by the Baltimore and Ohio ( B & O ) Railroad and completed in 1876.

Claire shops in Baltimore, MD, The B & O took delivery of 30 Class EM-1 Yellowstones in 1944 and 1945, the largest number and the smallest of this type built by Baldwin as well as being the most modern.

The Baltimore and Ohio ( B & O ) placed its first order for a 2-10-2 with Baldwin in 1914.

After four years of internship ( 1864 – 68 ) in the office of the Baltimore architects Niernsee & Neilson, he began his professional work in Baltimore with Ephraim Francis Baldwin as a partner.

When he came to Baltimore, he was leaving a team which was supposed to win the National League pennant, and he was joining what seemed to be a second division American League club.

Susan Hackmann, age 14, from Baltimore, Md., showing a Dachshund, was 3rd.

At any rate, Manchester did not lag far behind the first commercial system which was set up in 1844 between Baltimore and Washington.

The present edition of crystal data was written by J.D.H. Donnay, the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. ( Part 2 ) ) and Werner Nowacki, University of Berne, Switzerland ( Part 1 ) ) with the collaboration of Gabrielle Donnay, U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C..

The big, 22-year-old shortstop, the 1960 American league `` rookie-of-the-year '', flew here late this afternoon from Baltimore, signed his contract for an estimated $15,000 and was a spectator at tonight's 5-to-3 loss to Kansas City -- the winless Birds' sixth setback in a row.

Board Chairman Howard Simpson of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., testified the B & O was in its worst financial condition since the depression years and badly needed the economic lift it would get from consolidation with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad.

On January 23, Jacksonville Jaguars defensive coach and former linebackers coach for the 2000 Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens Mike Smith was named the Falcons ' new head coach.

In the top of the 10th inning, with a runner on second base, Baltimore pitcher Todd Williams was signaled to intentionally walk the Marlins ' Miguel Cabrera.

The Babe Ruth Birthplace Museum is located at 216 Emory Street, a Baltimore row house in which Ruth was born and which is three blocks west of Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

In 1985, the museum was designated by Baltimore mayor William Donald Schaefer as the official archives of the Baltimore Colts, which had moved the previous year to Indianapolis.

Modell's team was named the " Baltimore Ravens " after a fan contest and began play in the 1996 season.

The name was inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Raven, as Poe lived for a time in Baltimore, died there in 1849, and is buried there.

Marchibroda was already well known because of his work as head coach of the Baltimore Colts during the 1970s and the Indianapolis Colts during the early 1990s.

In 1901, Baltimore and McGraw were awarded an expansion franchise in the growing American League, but again the team was sacrificed in favor of a New York City franchise, as the team was transferred to New York in 1903.

After sweeping Minnesota in the American League Championship Series, Baltimore was shocked by losing to the New York Mets in a five-game World Series.

" 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.

Likely the most extreme criticism of the practice was given by Sun sports columnist John Steadman suggested that Baltimore forfeit any game where a fan shouts " O!

A powerful downdraft of cold air was suspected to be a cause in the sinking of the Pride of Baltimore on May 14, 1986.

He was present at the capture of Mauritius and Java, and at the battles of Baltimore and New Orleans.