The imprisonment of John Merryman at Fort McHenry at the start of the Civil War becomes the foundation for rules of habeus corpus in the United States. 

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At the dawn of the 20th century, nothing so captured the human imagination as the idea of conquering the mysteries of flight. Hubert Latham was one of them. 

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In 1794, 16 year old Rosalie Stier Calvert sailed to America with her family, leaving behind her aristocratic European world for a decidedly dreary life in provincial Annapolis.

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In the spring of 1914, a young boy named George "Babe" Ruth from St. Mary's Industrial School in Baltimore gets his big league start playing for the Baltimore Orioles.

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Life could be difficult for indentured servants like Mary Clocker in the Maryland colony during the 17th century for a variety of reasons. This is her story. 

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In 1907, Ernest Wardwell wrote his account of the Pratt Street Riot, and how he, though not yet 16 years old, joined the ranks of the 6th Massachusetts Volunteer Militia and went off to war. 

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On April 10, 1912, a group of prominent Baltimoreans boarded RMS Titanic of the White Star Line in Southampton, bound for New York on her maiden voyage. 

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The story of the founding of the Maryland colony in 1632 by Cecil Calvert, which followed a failed attempt by his father, George Calvert, to start another colony in 1620 called Avalon. 

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On February 19,1951, Joseph "Tunnel Joe" Holmes escaped from the Maryland State Penitentiary via a 70 foot long tunnel under the jail. 

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In September of 1946, Albert Einstein spent some time relaxing, sailing his little boat, and contemplating peace on a visit to Deep Creek Lake in Western Maryland.

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