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Baltimore is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland. With a total population of 568,271 according to the 2024 census estimate, it is the 30th-most populous U.S. city. Baltimore was designated as an independent city by the Constitution of Maryland in 1851. Baltimore is the most populous independent city in the United States. As of 2020^[update], the population of the Baltimore metropolitan area was 2.84 million, the 20th-largest metropolitan area in the country. The city is also part of the Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area, which had a 2020 population of 9.97 million, the third-largest in the country. Though Baltimore is not located within or under the administrative jurisdiction of any county in the state, it forms part of the central Maryland region, together with the surrounding county that shares its name.

The land that is present-day Baltimore was used as hunting ground by Paleo-Indians. In the early 1600s, the Susquehannock began to hunt there. People from the Province of Maryland established the Port of Baltimore in 1706 to support the tobacco trade with Europe and established the Town of Baltimore in 1729. During the American Revolutionary War, the Second Continental Congress briefly moved its deliberations from present-day Independence Hall in Philadelphia to Henry Fite House on West Baltimore Street from December 1776 to February 1777 prior to the capture of Philadelphia to British troops, which permitted Baltimore to serve briefly as the nation's capital before it returned to Philadelphia in March 1777. The Battle of Baltimore was pivotal during the War of 1812, culminating in the British bombardment of Fort McHenry, during which Francis Scott Key wrote a poem that became "The Star-Spangled Banner" and was designated as the national anthem in 1931. During the Pratt Street Riot of 1861, the city was the site of some of the earliest violence associated with the American Civil War. (Full article...)

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The 1973 Preakness Stakes was the 98th running of the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland held on May 19, 1973. Six horses entered, and Secretariat won by 2+1⁄2 lengths ahead of Sham in front of a record crowd of 61,657 spectators. The race was viewed on television and broadcast over the radio.

In the period leading up to the Preakness, Kentucky Derby winner Secretariat was pegged as the favorite to win the race. Aside from Secretariat, Sham was named as the only other horse that could win the race or even challenge Secretariat. Initially seven horses officially enrolled to race in the event, but the field reduced to six after an owner scratched his horse. The entrants in the Preakness featured three horses that did not compete in the Derby. At the start, Secretariat broke last, but then made a huge, last-to-first move on the first turn. After reaching the lead with 5+1⁄2 furlongs to go, he was never challenged, and won by 2+1⁄2 lengths, Sham finishing second and Our Native third. The victory led to the stallion being featured on several magazine covers. Secretariat would go on to win the Belmont Stakes in the succeeding weeks, becoming the ninth horse to complete the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing and the first in 25 years. (Full article...)

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John Early SJ (July 1, 1814 – May 23, 1873) was an Irish-American Catholic priest and Jesuit educator who was the president of the College of the Holy Cross and Georgetown University, as well as the founder and first president of Loyola College in Maryland. Born in Ireland, he emigrated to the United States at the age of nineteen. Upon his arrival, he enrolled at Mount St. Mary's Seminary in Maryland and entered the Society of Jesus, completing his education at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

Early became president of the College of the Holy Cross in 1848, where he unsuccessfully petitioned the Massachusetts legislature to charter the school. Four years later, he was charged with establishing Loyola College in Maryland, which was intended to educate the lay students who attended St. Mary's Seminary and College, which the Sulpicians sought to keep as a seminary only. While also serving as the first pastor of St. Ignatius Church, he oversaw the early years of Loyola College. He also established its high school division, which later became Loyola Blakefield. In 1858, Early left to become president of Georgetown University. During the Civil War, instruction continued uninterrupted, despite intermittent occupation by the Union Army and dwindling enrollment. (Full article...)

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... that Charles J. M. Gwinn was the first state's attorney of Baltimore elected under the Maryland Constitution of 1851, which he had helped to draft?
... that Baltimore County Police Department leader Carroll E. Stansbury assigned officers to combat chicken theft?
... that the writer of "Crabs for Christmas" joked that it contributed to Baltimore's population decline?
... that Darryl De Sousa created a Baltimore Police Department unit to give lie detector tests to other units?
... that one of the items on display at the Baltimore Museum and Gallery of Fine Arts was George Washington's shaving brush?

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Image 1Map of Chesapeake Bay area by John Senex, 1719, with Baltimore County labeled near Maryland's border with Pennsylvania. (from History of Baltimore)
Image 2An 1864 map of Baltimore (from History of Baltimore)
Image 3Mount Clare Mansion, known today as the Mount Clare Museum House, is the oldest Colonial-era structure in Baltimore. (from History of Baltimore)
Image 4East Midway (from List of Baltimore neighborhoods)
Image 5Francis Kenrick, the sixth Archbishop of Baltimore (1851–1863). (from History of Baltimore)
Image 6Baltimore railroad strike of 1877 (from History of Baltimore)
Image 7The Baltimore riot of 1861 (from History of Baltimore)
Image 8Baltimore Street Map, 1892 (from History of Baltimore)
Image 9Baltimore & Ohio Railroad engine and passenger car from the 1830s. (from History of Baltimore)
Image 10Same view in 1906, 2 years after the fire (from Great Baltimore Fire)
Image 11Some of the more upscale rowhouses in Baltimore, like these brightly painted homes in Charles Village, have complete porches instead of stoops (from Culture of Baltimore)
Image 12West Baltimore (from List of Baltimore neighborhoods)
Image 13John E. Hurst Building, site of the fire's outbreak (from Great Baltimore Fire)
Image 14Baltimore Street Map, 1838 (from History of Baltimore)
Image 15An illustration of the aftermath of the Great Baltimore Fire in February 1904 (from Great Baltimore Fire)
Image 16Child labor at J.S. Farrand Packing Company in Baltimore, 1909. Photo by Lewis Hine. (from History of Baltimore)
Image 17Marylanders steam blue crabs, usually in water, beer and Old Bay Seasoning. (from Culture of Baltimore)
Image 18Marble steps, East Fort Avenue, Locust Point, August 2014 (from Culture of Baltimore)
Image 19Worker assembling an aircraft at the Glenn L. Martin plant in Baltimore (from History of Baltimore)
Image 20View of Baltimore from Chapel Hill, by Francis Guy, 1802-03 (Brooklyn Museum) (from History of Baltimore)
Image 21Simple row houses like these in Locust Point make up much of Baltimore's housing stock. (from Culture of Baltimore)
Image 22Great Baltimore Fire of 1904, looking West from East Pratt and North Gay Streets (from Great Baltimore Fire)
Image 23View of Baltimore by William Henry Bartlett (1809–1854) (from History of Baltimore)
Image 24Blue crabs (from Culture of Baltimore)
Image 25Sharp Street Church was established 1787, the existing building having been erected in 1898 (from History of Baltimore)
Image 26South Baltimore (from List of Baltimore neighborhoods)
Image 27Storefront of establishment selling Lake Trout in Baltimore (from Culture of Baltimore)

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