#Annapolis Confederate Statue Of Supreme Court Justice Robert Taney TAKEN DOWN In #Maryland [VIDEO]
#Annapolis Confederate Statue Of Supreme Court Justice Robert Taney TAKEN DOWN In #Maryland [VIDEO]
Work crew begins removing Taney statue from Maryland State House grounds. Workers began dismantling a 145-year-old statue of Supreme Court Justice Roger B. Taney outside the Maryland State House just after midnight Friday, the latest ripple effect from last weekend’s deadly violence at a rally of white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va.
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) said his revulsion at what happened in Charlottesville — at a demonstration purportedly in defense of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee — prompted him to change his mind about the Taney statute and push for its removal, an act long sought by civil rights groups.
The State House Trust board voted Wednesday to remove the memorial to Taney, a former chief justice who defended slavery in the 1857 Dred Scott decision. Taney’s ruling said blacks, whether slaves or not, could never be U.S. citizens.
Police closed off the streets around the state house complex on Thursday evening. A little after midnight Friday, a crane and two flatbed trucks arrived. Workers soon began the process of removing the memorial from its base. A different statue of Taney, along with three Confederate memorials, was taken down under cover of darkness in Baltimore early Wednesday.
President Trump, who has made conflicting statements about who is to blame for the violence in Charlottesville, on Thursday decried the removal of monuments, saying the “history and culture of our great country” was “being ripped apart.”
The removal of the Taney statue in Annapolis came just hours after Maryland Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. (D-Calvert) lashed out at Hogan (R) for not holding a public hearing on the issue before the State House Trust board vote.
In a letter to the governor, Miller, defended Taney’s legacy and long record of government service, and said the memorial should stay put to help educate people about the past. He also criticized Hogan for pushing a vote on the matter “outside the public eye.”
Hogan is chair of the State House Trust board, which voted by email — its traditional method — to remove the Taney statue and make plans for storing or relocating it. Miller, House Speaker Michael E. Busch (D-Anne Arundel) and Maryland Historical Trust chair Charles L. Edson are also members of the panel. Hogan spokesman Doug Mayer said Thursday that Miller is “completely within his right to continue defending Roger Taney,” but added that Hogan and the Senate president would have to “agree to disagree.” Busch called for removal of the statue on Monday, saying that “the time has come for Taney to come down.” A spokeswoman for his office said the speaker’s decision was influenced by Saturday’s deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville and the racially motivated 2015 mass shooting at an African American church in Charleston, S.C.
Hogan announced on Tuesday that he would take action to remove the monument, saying it’s “the right thing to do.”
Busch, Edson and Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford (R), who serves as Hogan’s designee on the board, voted in favor of taking down the monument. Miller did not vote.
The Senate president said in his letter that voting by email was “just plain wrong” and that the matter was “of such consequence that the transparency of a public meeting and public conversation should have occurred.”Miller, who is known to be an avid reader of history, credited the former chief justice for “anti-slavery words and actions,” saying that “unlike George Washington who freed his slaves upon his death, Taney freed his slaves early in his life.”
The state placed the statue of Taney on the State House lawn in 1872. Since then, it has added interpretive plaques explaining the controversy over his divisive Dred Scott opinion and erected a statue of Thurgood Marshall, a Baltimore native who was the first African American U.S. Supreme Court justice, on the opposite side of the capital building. The trust also agreed last year to erect statues in the State House honoring abolitionists Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass.
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Driving through Maryland and West Virginia, USA
Driving through Maryland and a small part of West Virginia: Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI)/Baltimore (Interstate Highway 195, 95, 695); Baltimore/Monocacy National Battlefield (Interstate Highway 270); Monocacy/Harper's Ferry West Virginia (U.S. Highway 340); Harper's Ferry/Hagerstown (U.S. Highway 340, Interstate Highway 70); Hagerstown/Antietam National battlefield (U.S. Highway ALT 40, State/Provincial Highway 34); Antietam/Gettysburg National Military Park (Interstate 70, U.S. Highway 15, ) (September 2015).
Guidando attraverso il Maryland ed una piccola parte del West Virginia: Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI)/Baltimore (Interstate Highway 195, 95, 695); Baltimore/Monocacy National Battlefield (Interstate Highway 270); Monocacy/Harper's Ferry West Virginia (U.S. Highway 340); Harper's Ferry/Hagerstown (U.S. Highway 340, Interstate Highway 70); Hagerstown/Antietam National battlefield (U.S. Highway ALT 40, State/Provincial Highway 34); Antietam/Gettysburg National Military Park (Interstate 70, U.S. Highway 15, ) (Settembre 2015).
The Westin Baltimore Washington Airport - Linthicum Hotels, Maryland
The Westin Baltimore Washington Airport 4 Stars Hotel in Linthicum, Maryland Within US Travel Directory Located just 6.
4 km from Baltimore Washington International Airport, this hotel boasts free airport shuttle service and an indoor pool.
An on-site restaurant and lounge are also featured.
A flat-screen cable TV and coffee making facilities are provided in every room at the Westin Baltimore Washington Airport - BWI.
They are decorated in bright colours, dark wood furnishings, and floor-to-ceiling windows. Guests can enjoy American cuisine for breakfast, lunch, and dinner at Luminous Restaurant and Lounge.
Full bar service is available in the lounge area.
After working out in the hotel's fitness centre, relax in the hot tub at the Westin Baltimore Washington Airport - BWI.
A 24-hour business centre and a snack shop are also available for guests to use.Baltimore’s Inner Harbor is 14.5 km from the hotel. Fort McHenry National Monument is 16.1 km away.
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My Trip to Baltimore & Washington, D.C., Maryland! | READ DESCRIPTION
This is a summary of the sights present when I was on my trip to Maryland! I visited Inner Harbor in Baltimore and Washington, D.C. both in Maryland. This was during an overnight school trip, meaning I was there for two days and had two days to view whatever we could.
This video includes two XD40 buses running service on the 54 route of the Maryland Transit Administration (MTA Maryland) and another on some highway where I couldn't identify the route, and two XN40 buses running service on the 16C and 36 routes of the Washington, D.C. WMATA Metrobus as transit sights.
This video also includes monument and memorial sights such as the Washington Monument, the White House, the Jefferson Memorial, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) Memorial, and the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stone memorial.
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Lawyer's Square, Thurgood Marshall Memorial, Annapolis, brought voters from all over Maryland to call on elected leaders for stronger laws regulating the sale and ownership of guns, ammunition, and high capacity magazines in this state
Southwest 737 landing in Baltimore
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 lands in Baltimore after a flight from Boston. This flight, as usual for BOS-BWI flights, was scheduled at just about an hour, but flight time that afternoon was 1:47 because of a reroute via Richmond due to thunderstorms. Still, the weather was nice in Baltimore, and the video starts over Annapolis with a view of the United States Naval Academy and Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. On landing, AirTran's Baltimore Raven's logojet can be seen taxiing by.
Baltimore-Washington Expressway (Interstate 95 Exits 49 to 43) southbound
In central and southern Maryland, Interstate 95 connects the metro areas and beltways of Baltimore and Washington, D.C., making this stretch of highway among the most important in the Mid-Atlantic U.S.
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Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials | Wikipedia audio article
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Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials
00:01:59 1 Background
00:03:35 2 Academic commentary
00:09:03 3 History of removals
00:10:10 4 Organizations encouraging monument removal
00:10:48 5 Destruction of monuments
00:12:00 6 Laws hindering removals
00:14:20 7 Public opinion
00:15:04 8 What to do with the plinths (pedestals)
00:16:59 9 Removed monuments and memorials
00:17:09 9.1 National
00:17:29 9.2 Alabama
00:19:13 9.3 Alaska
00:19:39 9.4 Arizona
00:20:12 9.5 Arkansas
00:20:50 9.6 California
00:22:55 9.7 Colorado
00:23:13 9.8 District of Columbia
00:24:18 9.9 Florida
00:31:38 9.10 Georgia
00:33:25 9.11 Kansas
00:34:12 9.12 Kentucky
00:35:31 9.13 Louisiana
00:41:48 9.14 Maine
00:42:06 9.15 Maryland
00:44:50 9.16 Massachusetts
00:45:12 9.17 Mississippi
00:45:46 9.18 Missouri
00:46:42 9.19 Montana
00:47:14 9.20 Nevada
00:47:41 9.21 New Mexico
00:47:56 9.22 New York
00:48:47 9.23 North Carolina
00:54:18 9.24 Ohio
00:55:19 9.25 Oklahoma
00:55:49 9.26 South Carolina
00:56:27 9.27 Tennessee
00:59:55 9.28 Texas
01:08:04 9.29 Utah
01:08:20 9.30 Vermont
01:09:14 9.31 Virginia
01:15:51 9.32 Washington (state)
01:18:29 9.33 Wisconsin
01:19:40 9.34 Canada
01:20:08 10 See also
01:20:51 11 Further reading
01:23:37 11.1 Video
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For decades in the U.S., there have been isolated incidents of removal of Confederate monuments and memorials, although generally opposed in public opinion polls, and several U.S. States have passed laws over 115 years to hinder or prohibit further removals.
In the wake of the Charleston church shooting in June 2015, several municipalities in the United States removed monuments and memorials on public property dedicated to the Confederate States of America. The momentum accelerated in August 2017 after the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The removals were driven by the belief that the monuments glorify white supremacy and memorialize a treasonous government whose founding principle was the perpetuation and expansion of slavery. Many of those who object to the removals, like President Trump, believe that the artifacts are part of the cultural heritage of the United States.The vast majority of these Confederate monuments were built during the era of Jim Crow laws (1877–1954) and the Civil Rights Movement (1954–1968). Detractors claim that they were not built as memorials but as a means of intimidating African Americans and reaffirming white supremacy. The monuments have thus become highly politicized; according to Eleanor Harvey, a senior curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and a scholar of Civil War history: If white nationalists and neo-Nazis are now claiming this as part of their heritage, they have essentially co-opted those images and those statues beyond any capacity to neutralize them again.In some Southern states, state law restricts or prohibits altogether the removal or alteration of public Confederate monuments. According to Stan Deaton, senior historian at the Georgia Historical Society, These laws are the Old South imposing its moral and its political views on us forever more. This is what led to the Civil War, and it still divides us as a country. We have competing visions not only about the future but about the past.
Annapolis, Maryland | Wikipedia audio article
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Annapolis, Maryland
00:01:27 1 History
00:01:36 1.1 Colonial and early United States (1649–1808)
00:06:38 1.2 Civil War era (1849 – late 1800s)
00:07:10 1.3 Contemporary era (1900s–present)
00:09:29 1.3.1 2007 Annapolis Conference
00:10:03 1.4 Railway
00:11:13 2 Notable institutions
00:11:23 2.1 The State House
00:12:15 2.2 United States Naval Academy
00:12:36 2.3 St. John's College
00:13:15 2.4 Theater
00:15:20 2.5 Museums, historical sites, and monuments
00:17:32 2.6 Other
00:17:58 3 Geography and climate
00:19:10 4 Demographics
00:19:19 4.1 2010 census
00:21:31 4.2 2000 census
00:24:36 5 Economy
00:24:54 6 Transportation
00:25:03 6.1 Bus
00:25:41 7 Government
00:25:49 7.1 City government
00:26:23 7.2 State government
00:26:46 8 Education
00:28:00 9 Sports
00:28:25 10 Parks and recreation
00:28:50 11 Publications
00:29:09 12 Notable people
00:33:51 13 Neighborhoods and suburbs
00:34:01 14 Sister cities
00:34:39 15 See also
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Annapolis () is the capital of the U.S. state of Maryland, as well as the county seat of Anne Arundel County. Situated on the Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Severn River, 25 miles (40 km) south of Baltimore and about 30 miles (50 km) east of Washington, D.C., Annapolis is part of the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area. Its population was measured at 38,394 by the 2010 census.
This city served as the seat of the Confederation Congress (former Second Continental Congress) and temporary national capital of the United States in 1783–1784. At that time, General George Washington came before the body convened in the new Maryland State House and resigned his commission as commander of the Continental Army. A month later, the Congress ratified the Treaty of Paris of 1783, ending the American Revolutionary War, with Great Britain recognizing the independence of the United States.
The city and state capitol was also the site of the 1786 Annapolis Convention, which issued a call to the states to send delegates for the Constitutional Convention to be held the following year in Philadelphia. Over 220 years later, the Annapolis Peace Conference, was held in 2007. Annapolis is the home of St. John's College, founded 1696; the United States Naval Academy, established 1845, is adjacent to the city limits.
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Maryland | Wikipedia audio article
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Maryland (US: (listen) MERR-əl-ənd) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east. The state's largest city is Baltimore, and its capital is Annapolis. Among its occasional nicknames are Old Line State, the Free State, and the Chesapeake Bay State. It is named after the English queen Henrietta Maria, known in England as Queen Mary.Sixteen of Maryland's twenty-three counties border the tidal waters of the Chesapeake Bay estuary and its many tributaries, which combined total more than 4,000 miles of shoreline. Although one of the smallest states in the U.S., it features a variety of climates and typographical features that have earned it the moniker of America in Miniature. In a similar vein, Maryland's geography, culture, and history combines elements of the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, and South Atlantic regions of the country.
One of the original Thirteen Colonies of Great Britain, Maryland was founded by George Calvert, a Catholic convert who sought to provide a religious haven for Catholics persecuted in England. In 1632, Charles I of England granted Calvert a colonial charter, naming the colony after his wife, Queen Mary. Unlike the Pilgrims and Puritans, who enforced religious conformity in their settlements, Calvert envisioned a colony where people of different religious sects would coexist under the principle of toleration. Accordingly, in 1649 the Maryland General Assembly passed an Act Concerning Religion, which enshrined this principle by penalizing anyone who reproached a fellow Marylander based on religious affiliation. Nevertheless, religious strife was common in the early years, and Catholics remained a minority, albeit in greater numbers than in any other English colony.
Maryland's early settlements and population centers clustered around rivers and other waterways that empty into the Chesapeake Bay. Its economy was heavily plantation based, centered mostly on the cultivation of tobacco. The need for cheap labor led to a rapid expansion of indentured servants, penal labor, and African slaves. In 1760, Maryland's current boundaries took form following the settlement of a long-running border dispute with Pennsylvania. Maryland was an active participant in the events leading up to the American Revolution, and by 1776 its delegates signed the Declaration of Independence. Many of its citizens subsequently played key political and military roles in the war. In 1790, the state ceded land for the establishment of the U.S. capital of Washington, D.C.
Although a slave state, Maryland remained in the Union during the U.S. Civil War, its strategic location giving it a significant role in the conflict. After the war, Maryland took part in the Industrial Revolution, driven by its seaports, railroad networks, and mass immigration from Europe. Since the Second World War, the state's population has grown rapidly, to approximately six million residents, and it is among the most densely populated states in the nation. As of 2015, Maryland had the highest median household income of any state, owing in large part to its close proximity to Washington, D.C. and a highly diversified economy spanning manufacturing, services, higher education, and biotechnology. Maryland has been ranked as one of the best governed states in the country. The state's central role in American history is reflected by its hosting of some of the highest numbers of historic landmarks per capita.
Roger B. Taney | Wikipedia audio article
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Roger B. Taney
00:03:02 1 Early life and career
00:03:58 2 Marriage and family
00:04:38 3 Early political career
00:06:21 4 Jackson administration
00:06:30 4.1 Cabinet member
00:08:40 4.2 Supreme Court nominations
00:09:36 5 The Taney Court
00:10:34 5.1 1836–1844
00:16:56 5.2 1845–1856
00:21:58 5.3 Dred Scott decision
00:26:07 5.4 American Civil War
00:28:54 5.5 Death
00:30:01 6 Legacy
00:30:10 6.1 Historical reputation
00:34:12 6.2 Memorials
00:35:25 7 See also
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Roger Brooke Taney ( TAW-nee; March 17, 1777 – October 12, 1864) was the fifth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, holding that office from 1836 until his death in 1864. He delivered the majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), ruling that African Americans could not be considered citizens and that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories of the United States. Prior to joining the Supreme Court, Taney served as the United States Attorney General and United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Andrew Jackson.
Taney was born into a wealthy, slave-owning family in Calvert County, Maryland. He won election to the Maryland House of Delegates as a member of the Federalist Party, but later broke with the party over the War of 1812. After switching to the Democratic-Republican Party, Taney was elected to the Maryland Senate in 1816. He emerged as one of the most prominent attorneys in the state and was appointed as the Attorney General of Maryland in 1827. Taney supported Andrew Jackson's presidential campaigns in 1824 and 1828, and he became a member of Jackson's Democratic Party. After a cabinet shake-up in 1831, President Jackson appointed Taney as his attorney general. Taney became one of the most important members of Jackson's cabinet and played a major role in the Bank War. Beginning in 1833, Taney served as secretary of the treasury under a recess appointment, but his nomination to that position was rejected by the United States Senate.
In 1835, after Democrats took control of the Senate, Jackson appointed Taney to succeed John Marshall as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Taney would preside over a jurisprudential shift toward states' rights, but the Taney Court did not reject federal authority to the degree that many of Taney's critics had feared. By the early 1850s, he was widely respected, and some elected officials looked to the Supreme Court to settle the national debate over slavery. Though he did not own slaves himself, Taney was outraged by Northern attacks on slavery, and he sought to use the Dred Scott decision to permanently remove slavery as a subject of national debate. His broad ruling deeply angered many Northerners and strengthened the anti-slavery Republican Party, and Republican Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election.
After Lincoln's election, Taney sympathized with the seceding Southern states, but he did not resign from the Supreme Court. He strongly disagreed with President Abraham Lincoln's more broad interpretation of executive power in the American Civil War. In Ex parte Merryman, Taney held that the president could not suspend the writ of habeas corpus. At the time of Taney's death in 1864, he was widely reviled in the North, and he continues to have a controversial historical reputation. Although the Dred Scott ruling is widely considered to be one of the worst Supreme Court decisions ever made, some scholars hold other aspects of Taney's tenure in high regard.
Maryland | Wikipedia audio article
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Maryland
00:03:32 1 Geography
00:04:29 1.1 Description
00:07:24 1.2 Geology
00:08:10 1.3 Flora
00:09:53 1.4 Fauna
00:11:40 1.5 Environment
00:12:50 1.6 Climate
00:15:22 2 History
00:15:31 2.1 17th century
00:15:40 2.1.1 Maryland's first colonial settlement
00:17:31 2.1.2 Persecution of Catholics
00:20:29 2.2 Border disputes (1681–1760)
00:22:34 2.3 18th century
00:24:56 2.4 19th century
00:25:59 2.4.1 Civil War
00:27:32 2.4.2 After the war
00:29:50 2.5 20th and 21st centuries
00:30:00 2.5.1 Early 20th century
00:33:06 2.5.2 1950–present
00:34:43 3 Demographics
00:36:33 3.1 Birth data
00:37:06 3.2 Language
00:37:41 3.3 Settlements
00:39:14 3.4 Ancestry
00:45:16 3.5 Religion
00:47:21 4 Economy
00:50:36 4.1 Baltimore port
00:52:07 4.2 Agriculture and fishing
00:53:36 4.3 Biotechnology
00:54:48 4.4 Tourism
00:55:54 5 Transportation
00:56:18 5.1 Roads
00:59:35 5.2 Airports
01:00:25 5.3 Rail
01:02:46 6 Law and government
01:04:29 6.1 Taxation
01:05:49 6.2 Elections
01:09:38 7 Media
01:09:51 8 Education
01:10:00 8.1 Primary and secondary education
01:12:05 8.2 Colleges and universities
01:14:11 8.3 Public libraries
01:15:04 9 Sports
01:17:18 10 See also
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Maryland (US: (listen) MERR-əl-ənd) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east. The state's largest city is Baltimore, and its capital is Annapolis. Among its occasional nicknames are Old Line State, the Free State, and the Chesapeake Bay State. It is named after the English queen Henrietta Maria, known in England as Queen Mary.Sixteen of Maryland's twenty-three counties border the tidal waters of the Chesapeake Bay estuary and its many tributaries, which combined total more than 4,000 miles of shoreline. Although one of the smallest states in the U.S., it features a variety of climates and typographical features that have earned it the moniker of America in Miniature. In a similar vein, Maryland's geography, culture, and history combines elements of the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, and South Atlantic regions of the country.
One of the original Thirteen Colonies of Great Britain, Maryland was founded by George Calvert, a Catholic convert who sought to provide a religious haven for Catholics persecuted in England. In 1632, Charles I of England granted Calvert a colonial charter, naming the colony after his wife, Queen Mary. Unlike the Pilgrims and Puritans, who enforced religious conformity in their settlements, Calvert envisioned a colony where people of different religious sects would coexist under the principle of toleration. Accordingly, in 1649 the Maryland General Assembly passed an Act Concerning Religion, which enshrined this principle by penalizing anyone who reproached a fellow Marylander based on religious affiliation. Nevertheless, religious strife was common in the early years, and Catholics remained a minority, albeit in greater numbers than in any other English colony.
Maryland's early settlements and population centers clustered around rivers and other waterways that empty into the Chesapeake Bay. Its economy was heavily plantation based, centered mostly on the cultivation of tobacco. The need for cheap labor led to a rapid expansion of indentured servants, penal labor, and African slaves. In 1760, Maryland's current boundaries took form following the settlement of a long-running border dispute with Pennsylvania. Maryland was an active participant in the events leading up to the American Revolution, and by 1776 its delegates signed the Declaration of Independence. Many of its citizens subsequently played key political and military roles in the war. In 1790, the state ceded land for the establishment of the U.S. capital of Washington, D.C.
Although a slave state, Maryland remained in the Union during the U.S. Civil War, its strategic location giving it a s ...
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Maryland
00:03:32 1 Geography
00:04:28 1.1 Description
00:07:22 1.2 Geology
00:08:08 1.3 Flora
00:09:51 1.4 Fauna
00:11:38 1.5 Environment
00:12:48 1.6 Climate
00:15:19 2 History
00:15:28 2.1 17th century
00:15:37 2.1.1 Maryland's first colonial settlement
00:17:28 2.1.2 Persecution of Catholics
00:20:27 2.2 Border disputes (1681–1760)
00:22:32 2.3 18th century
00:24:53 2.4 19th century
00:25:56 2.4.1 Civil War
00:27:28 2.4.2 After the war
00:29:47 2.5 20th and 21st centuries
00:29:57 2.5.1 Early 20th century
00:33:03 2.5.2 1950–present
00:34:40 3 Demographics
00:36:29 3.1 Birth data
00:37:02 3.2 Language
00:37:37 3.3 Settlements
00:39:09 3.4 Ancestry
00:45:10 3.5 Religion
00:47:14 4 Economy
00:50:28 4.1 Baltimore port
00:51:59 4.2 Agriculture and fishing
00:53:28 4.3 Biotechnology
00:54:40 4.4 Tourism
00:55:46 5 Transportation
00:56:10 5.1 Roads
00:59:27 5.2 Airports
01:00:16 5.3 Rail
01:02:37 6 Law and government
01:04:19 6.1 Taxation
01:05:39 6.2 Elections
01:09:28 7 Media
01:09:40 8 Education
01:09:49 8.1 Primary and secondary education
01:11:54 8.2 Colleges and universities
01:14:00 8.3 Public libraries
01:14:53 9 Sports
01:17:08 10 See also
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Maryland (US: (listen) MERR-əl-ənd) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east. The state's largest city is Baltimore, and its capital is Annapolis. Among its occasional nicknames are Old Line State, the Free State, and the Chesapeake Bay State. It is named after the English queen Henrietta Maria, known in England as Queen Mary.Sixteen of Maryland's twenty-three counties border the tidal waters of the Chesapeake Bay estuary and its many tributaries, which combined total more than 4,000 miles of shoreline. Although one of the smallest states in the U.S., it features a variety of climates and typographical features that have earned it the moniker of America in Miniature. In a similar vein, Maryland's geography, culture, and history combines elements of the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, and South Atlantic regions of the country.
One of the original Thirteen Colonies of Great Britain, Maryland was founded by George Calvert, a Catholic convert who sought to provide a religious haven for Catholics persecuted in England. In 1632, Charles I of England granted Calvert a colonial charter, naming the colony after his wife, Queen Mary. Unlike the Pilgrims and Puritans, who enforced religious conformity in their settlements, Calvert envisioned a colony where people of different religious sects would coexist under the principle of toleration. Accordingly, in 1649 the Maryland General Assembly passed an Act Concerning Religion, which enshrined this principle by penalizing anyone who reproached a fellow Marylander based on religious affiliation. Nevertheless, religious strife was common in the early years, and Catholics remained a minority, albeit in greater numbers than in any other English colony.
Maryland's early settlements and population centers clustered around rivers and other waterways that empty into the Chesapeake Bay. Its economy was heavily plantation based, centered mostly on the cultivation of tobacco. The need for cheap labor led to a rapid expansion of indentured servants, penal labor, and African slaves. In 1760, Maryland's current boundaries took form following the settlement of a long-running border dispute with Pennsylvania. Maryland was an active participant in the events leading up to the American Revolution, and by 1776 its delegates signed the Declaration of Independence. Many of its citizens subsequently played key political and military roles in the war. In 1790, the state ceded land for the establishment of the U.S. capital of Washington, D.C.
Although a slave state, Maryland remained in the Union during the U.S. Civil War, its strategic location giving it a s ...
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00:01:27 1 History
00:01:36 1.1 Colonial and early United States (1649–1808)
00:06:39 1.2 Civil War era (1849 – late 1800s)
00:07:12 1.3 Contemporary era (1900s–present)
00:09:30 1.3.1 2007 Annapolis Conference
00:10:04 1.4 Railway
00:11:14 2 Notable institutions
00:11:24 2.1 The State House
00:12:16 2.2 United States Naval Academy
00:12:37 2.3 St. John's College
00:13:16 2.4 Theater
00:15:20 2.5 Museums, historical sites, and monuments
00:17:32 2.6 Other
00:17:58 3 Geography and climate
00:19:09 4 Demographics
00:19:18 4.1 2010 census
00:21:30 4.2 2000 census
00:24:35 5 Economy
00:24:53 6 Transportation
00:25:02 6.1 Bus
00:25:40 7 Government
00:25:48 7.1 City government
00:26:22 7.2 State government
00:26:45 8 Education
00:27:59 9 Sports
00:28:24 10 Parks and recreation
00:28:49 11 Publications
00:29:08 12 Notable people
00:33:50 13 Neighborhoods and suburbs
00:33:59 14 Sister cities
00:34:37 15 See also
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Annapolis () is the capital of the U.S. state of Maryland, as well as the county seat of Anne Arundel County. Situated on the Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Severn River, 25 miles (40 km) south of Baltimore and about 30 miles (50 km) east of Washington, D.C., Annapolis is part of the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area. Its population was measured at 38,394 by the 2010 census.
This city served as the seat of the Confederation Congress (former Second Continental Congress) and temporary national capital of the United States in 1783–1784. At that time, General George Washington came before the body convened in the new Maryland State House and resigned his commission as commander of the Continental Army. A month later, the Congress ratified the Treaty of Paris of 1783, ending the American Revolutionary War, with Great Britain recognizing the independence of the United States.
The city and state capitol was also the site of the 1786 Annapolis Convention, which issued a call to the states to send delegates for the Constitutional Convention to be held the following year in Philadelphia. Over 220 years later, the Annapolis Peace Conference, was held in 2007. Annapolis is the home of St. John's College, founded 1696; the United States Naval Academy, established 1845, is adjacent to the city limits.
Prince George's County, Maryland
Prince George’s County is a county in the U.S. state of Maryland, bordering the eastern portion of Washington, D.C. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the population was 863,420, making it the second-most populous county in Maryland. Its county seat is Upper Marlboro.
Prince George’s County is included in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county is home to hundreds of churches. The county also hosts Joint Base Andrews, a U.S. military airbase, as well as the headquarters of the United States Census Bureau.
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Maryland (US: (listen) MERR-əl-ənd) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east. The state's largest city is Baltimore, and its capital is Annapolis. Among its occasional nicknames are Old Line State, the Free State, and the Chesapeake Bay State. It is named after the English queen Henrietta Maria, known in England as Queen Mary.Sixteen of Maryland's twenty-three counties border the tidal waters of the Chesapeake Bay estuary and its many tributaries, which combined total more than 4,000 miles of shoreline. Although one of the smallest states in the U.S., it features a variety of climates and typographical features that have earned it the moniker of America in Miniature. In a similar vein, Maryland's geography, culture, and history combines elements of the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, and South Atlantic regions of the country.
One of the original Thirteen Colonies of Great Britain, Maryland was founded by George Calvert, a Catholic convert who sought to provide a religious haven for Catholics persecuted in England. In 1632, Charles I of England granted Calvert a colonial charter, naming the colony after his wife, Queen Mary. Unlike the Pilgrims and Puritans, who enforced religious conformity in their settlements, Calvert envisioned a colony where people of different religious sects would coexist under the principle of toleration. Accordingly, in 1649 the Maryland General Assembly passed an Act Concerning Religion, which enshrined this principle by penalizing anyone who reproached a fellow Marylander based on religious affiliation. Nevertheless, religious strife was common in the early years, and Catholics remained a minority, albeit in greater numbers than in any other English colony.
Maryland's early settlements and population centers clustered around rivers and other waterways that empty into the Chesapeake Bay. Its economy was heavily plantation based, centered mostly on the cultivation of tobacco. The need for cheap labor led to a rapid expansion of indentured servants, penal labor, and African slaves. In 1760, Maryland's current boundaries took form following the settlement of a long-running border dispute with Pennsylvania. Maryland was an active participant in the events leading up to the American Revolution, and by 1776 its delegates signed the Declaration of Independence. Many of its citizens subsequently played key political and military roles in the war. In 1790, the state ceded land for the establishment of the U.S. capital of Washington, D.C.
Although a slave state, Maryland remained in the Union during the U.S. Civil War, its strategic location giving it a significant role in the conflict. After the war, Maryland took part in the Industrial Revolution, driven by its seaports, railroad networks, and mass immigration from Europe. Since the Second World War, the state's population has grown rapidly, to approximately six million residents, and it is among the most densely populated states in the nation. As of 2015, Maryland had the highest median household income of any state, owing in large part to its close proximity to Washington, D.C. and a highly diversified economy spanning manufacturing, services, higher education, and biotechnology. Maryland has been ranked as one of the best governed states in the country. The state's central role in American history is reflected by its hosting of some of the highest numbers of historic landmarks per capita.
University of Maryland | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:36 1 History
00:02:45 1.1 Early history
00:03:53 1.2 Bankruptcy and revival
00:05:31 1.3 The Great Fire of 1912
00:06:21 1.4 Modern history
00:09:46 1.5 21st century
00:12:32 2 Academics
00:12:41 2.1 Profile
00:13:10 2.2 Programs
00:19:06 2.3 Faculty
00:21:14 2.4 Research
00:25:41 2.5 Admissions
00:27:26 2.6 Rankings
00:29:47 3 Campus
00:29:56 3.1 Description
00:34:54 3.2 Sustainability
00:43:32 4 Student life
00:43:41 4.1 Residential life
00:45:56 4.2 Dining
00:47:01 4.3 Transportation
00:51:56 4.4 iThe Diamondback/i
00:53:41 4.5 WMUC-FM
00:54:19 4.6 WMUC Sports
00:54:45 4.7 Greek life
00:56:00 5 Athletics
00:57:24 5.1 Men's basketball
00:59:03 5.2 Men's lacrosse
00:59:49 5.3 Men's soccer
01:00:46 5.4 Field hockey
01:01:46 6 Testudo
01:04:27 7 Notable alumni
01:09:13 8 Filmography
01:10:19 9 See also
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The University of Maryland, College Park (commonly referred to as the University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public research university in College Park, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of Maryland, and is the largest university in both the state and the Washington metropolitan area, with more than 41,000 students representing all fifty states and 123 countries, and a global alumni network of over 360,000. Its twelve schools and colleges together offer over 200 degree-granting programs, including 92 undergraduate majors, 107 master's programs, and 83 doctoral programs. UMD is a member of the Association of American Universities and competes in intercollegiate athletics as a member of the Big Ten Conference.
The University of Maryland's proximity to the nation's capital has resulted in many research partnerships with the federal government; faculty receive research funding and institutional support from agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Department of Homeland Security. It is classified as a first tier research university by the Carnegie Foundation, and is labeled a Public Ivy, denoting a quality of education comparable to the private Ivy League. UMD is consistently ranked among the top 100 universities both nationally and globally by several indices.In 2016, the University of Maryland, College Park and the University of Maryland, Baltimore formalized their strategic partnership after their collaboration successfully created more innovative medical, scientific, and educational programs, as well as greater research grants and joint faculty appointments than either campus has been able to accomplish on its own. As of 2017, the operating budget of the University of Maryland is approximately $2.1 billion. For the 2018 fiscal year, the university received a total of over $545 million in external research funding. In October 2017, the university received a record-breaking donation of $219.5 million from the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation, ranking among the largest philanthropic gifts to a public university in the country.