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.

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The Baltimore Ravens are a professional football franchise based in Baltimore, Maryland and a member of the AFC North Division in the National Football League.

The Baltimore Ravens are officially a quasi-expansion franchise, having originated in 1996 with the Cleveland Browns relocation controversy after Art Modell, then owner of the Cleveland Browns, announced his intention to relocate the team to Baltimore.

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

Art Modell moved the Browns to Baltimore and remained the owner of the Ravens through 2003.

The chosen name, " Ravens ," alludes to the famous poem The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, who spent the early part of his career in Baltimore, and is also buried there .< ref >

The tradition is often carried out at other sporting events, both professional or amateur, and even sometimes at non-sporting events where the anthem is played, throughout the Baltimore / Washington area and beyond, notably at Baltimore Ravens, Washington Capitals, Georgetown Hoyas, Maryland Terrapins, Virginia Cavaliers, Virginia Tech Hokies, West Virginia Mountaineers, Penn State Nittany Lions and Aberdeen Ironbirds games.

The outrage and controversy that erupted, as well as the NFL's desire to keep a team in Cleveland, led to an agreement whereby Modell was cleared to move his team ( which became the Baltimore Ravens ) but relinquished ownership of the Browns ' name, colors, logos and history.

Their chief rivals are the Baltimore Ravens, Cleveland Browns and Pittsburgh Steelers.

Andy Dalton ( American football ) | Andy Dalton take a snap in a game against the Baltimore Ravens on January 1, 2012.

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 Cowboys lost their final game at Texas Stadium to the Baltimore Ravens, 33 – 24, on December 20, 2008.

The following weekend they were defeated 20-13 by the Baltimore Ravens, in Baltimore, in the Divisional Round.

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 ).

However, the NFL officially recognizes his achievements and records as the history of the Colts organization and as such are attributed to the current Colts organization and not the Baltimore Ravens organization.

The Colts won their first two playoff games against the Kansas City Chiefs and the Baltimore Ravens to return to the AFC Championship Game for the first time since the 2003 game, and they would face the same opponent in the New England Patriots.

The Colts managed victories over the Baltimore Ravens and New York Jets to advance to Super Bowl XLIV against the New Orleans Saints.

The team's other two wins came in a season sweep of the Cleveland Browns including a Week 17 24 – 21 victory sealed by a Mike Hollis 34-yard field goal in the Browns ' final game before the team relocated to Baltimore and was renamed the Ravens.

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.

Clippers, running the British blockade of Baltimore, came to be recognized for speed rather than cargo space.

At the Maryland Institute he led a group of painters who came to be known as the Baltimore Realists, including the outstanding painters Earl Hofmann, Thomas Rowe, Joseph Sheppard, Ann Didusch Schuler, Frank Redelius, John Bannon, Evan Keehn, and Melvin Miller.

Famously vituperative attacks came from journalist H. L. Mencken, whose syndicated columns from Dayton for The Baltimore Sun drew vivid caricatures of the " backward " local populace, referring to the people of Rhea County as " Babbits ," " morons ," " peasants ," " hill-billies ," " yaps ," and " yokels.

He did so well that a senior VP of Merrill Lynch, Joe Muller, came to Baltimore to have dinner with him, with the objective of inviting him to the New York City headquarters.

Three days later, the 22nd, in the first game of a doubleheader at Oriole Park at Camden Yards, the Rangers ' bats came alive with a modern record for runs by one team, defeating the Baltimore Orioles 30 – 3.

Barnes came to Baltimore in 1953 for a one-month job as consultant traffic engineer, but Mayor Thomas D ' Alesandro, Jr. ( father of Nancy Pelosi ) was so impressed he hired Barnes as traffic commissioner.

* Carrollton, Maryland, a former town now in the City of Baltimore, from which came the signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

His mother's family came from Baltimore and his maternal grandfather had a successful freight-hauling business, but squandered his wealth in failed mining and real estate ventures in Nevada.

Its greatest accomplishment came on September 8, 1963, when Baltimore County Executive Spiro Agnew and other officials dedicated the new Perry Hall library on Belair Road.

York Sulphur Springs, the first summer resort in Adams County, was patronized by persons from Philadelphia and Baltimore who came to the resort by stage coach.

In 1871 the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad first came through the town going from Cumberland, Maryland, to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the Bedford and Bridgeport Railroad was built from Mt.

He did start two games in 1973 ( April 21 versus the California Angels at Oakland and May 7 against the Orioles at Baltimore ; His May 7, 1973 start was the last of his career ), other than that he came in to the game no earlier than the sixth on three more occasions.

The American victory at Plattsburgh and the British failure at the Siege of Baltimore, which came a few days later, denied the British any advantage they could use to make demands for territorial gains in the Treaty of Ghent.

It came into being mostly because the city of Baltimore wanted to compete with the newly constructed Erie Canal ( which served New York City ) and another canal being proposed by Pennsylvania, which would have connected Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

Baltimore had the upper hand against the Lions, leading 17 – 10 at halftime and silencing the Lions ' faithful ; however, the Lions came back in the second half, winning by a score of 26 – 23 on a last-second Lui Passaglia field goal.

The biggest home game of the season came against the Baltimore Stallions.

It appeared that the Birmingham Barracudas would move to Shreveport, but that proposal came to nothing when the CFL's American teams either moved ( Baltimore to Montreal ) or folded.

In 1969, he led the " Miracle Mets " to the World Series championship, defeating the heavily favored Baltimore Orioles ; after losing Game 1, they came back for four straight victories, including two by 2-1 scores.

Both born to Jewish families, Leiber came from Baltimore, Stoller from Long Island, but they met in Los Angeles in 1950, where Stoller was a freshman at Los Angeles City College while Leiber was a senior at Fairfax High.

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra was the first permanent orchestra in the city since 1895, when the Peabody Orchestra dissolved ; it opened in 1916 with conductor Gustav Strube ; this came only three year's after the formation of the short-lived Baltimore Opera Society, which was eventually replaced by the Baltimore Opera in 1927.

The Baltimore Suns Linda White recalled, " I followed the adventures of Winnie Winkle, Moon Mullins and Dondi, and waited each fall to see how Lucy would manage to trick Charlie Brown into trying to kick that football.

In describing an unusual miniature fifth-century Greek bronze in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, that takes the form of a man on all fours with the foreparts of a pig, Dorothy Kent Hill expressed the artist's dilemma: how could an artist depict a man bewitched into a pig other than as a man with a pig's head?

In 1912, Dewey sent out students of his philosophy to found The Park School of Buffalo and The Park School of Baltimore to put it into practice.

They crossed into Portugal and subsequently traveled to the United States in two groups: on the USS Trenton from Lisbon to Baltimore in July 1940, and on the Pan American airliner Yankee Clipper in October 1940.

On 21 February 2008 Philips had completed its acquisition of VISICU Baltimore, Maryland through the merger of its indirect wholly owned subsidiary into VISICU.

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.

Animal RNA viruses are classified into three distinct groups depending on their genome and mode of replication ( and the numerical groups based on the older Baltimore classification ):

The university is organized into two undergraduate divisions and five graduate divisions on two main campuses — the Homewood campus and the Medical Institutions campus — both located in Baltimore.

In 1982, Frank Robinson was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame as a Baltimore Oriole.

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.

In 1901, Wallis's aunt Bessie Merryman was widowed, and the following year Alice and Wallis moved into her four-bedroom house at 9 West Chase Street, Baltimore, where they lived for at least a year until they settled in an apartment, and then a house, of their own.

Some unused backstage shots filmed at Baltimore and at Pittsburgh later found their way into the promotional video for " Travelling Riverside Blues ", released in 1990.

Both Somerset and Worcester Counties were early on divided into hundreds, from south to north: Mattapony, Pocomoke, Boquetenorton, Wicomico, and Baltimore Hundreds.

This bypass extends around Oxford and Kennett Square, merging into the four-lane divided Baltimore Pike just beyond the latter.

But later, Lord Baltimore claimed that the document he had signed did not contain the terms he had agreed to, and refused to put the agreement into effect.

But Lord Baltimore later claimed that the document he signed did not contain the terms he had agreed to, and refused to put the agreement into effect.

Currently there are two main schemes used for the classification of viruses: the ICTV system and Baltimore classification system, which places viruses into one of seven groups.

Baltimore classification ( first defined in 1971 ) is a classification system that places viruses into one of seven groups depending on a combination of their nucleic acid ( DNA or RNA ), strandedness ( single-stranded or double-stranded ), Sense, and method of replication.

The Tigers became a winning club almost immediately, finishing above. 500 in each of Sparky's first three full seasons, but did not get into contention until, when they won 92 games and finished second to the Baltimore Orioles in the American League East.

Once a quiet bedroom community outside Baltimore, Catonsville is undergoing a renaissance, thanks in large part to UMBC, which has transformed itself from a commuter school into a dynamic research center.

Confederate soldiers pushed into the Baltimore area, intending to cut off the city and Washington from the north.

David Cooney, told the Baltimore Sun, " We entered into this with Shelter, believing this is a good use for the land — that this is a good company and a needed service ".

At the 2010 census the area was split into two separate CDPs, the unincorporated communities of Lansdowne and Baltimore Highlands.