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Gray Mineral Ash Kills Potato Bugs, Pumpkin Bugs, Cabbage Worms


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Signs of Baltimore

Check out a cool gallery of old Baltimore signage over at Spencer Stewart’s Diner Hunter.


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There Is No City More Divine Than Baltimore

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Overweight Essex Man with Minimum Wage Job Seeks Honest Lady


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Babe Ruth Injected Sheep’s Testicles and Shilled for Tobacco

Excerpt from “Welcome to the Terrordome” by Dave Zirin “Scientists have attempted to use testosterone to build muscle going back more than 1,000 years, but the modern era of steroids starts in 1889 when prominent French scientist Charles Edouard Brown-Sequard … Continue reading


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Pressed for Time (Globe Poster)

Baltimore’s Globe Poster Company holds decades of music and printing history–and it’s on the verge of being lost By Lee Gardner (Baltimore City Paper, 1/26/2011) Bob Cicero has the air of a man carrying a heavy load, despite the fact … Continue reading


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Edgar Allan Poe Cryptography-Themed Concert Poster

Poe was a fan of cryptography and a fan cracked the code on the poster: “…based on the story The Gold Bug by Poe. That is what I used to figure out what the symbols represented. The text/symbols are based … Continue reading


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Essex Roller Rink

New Essex Roller Rink paper decal


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A-1 Crab Haven


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Give Her The Shaver Plus For Christmas

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Ray Lewis and That Flying Raven. Again.

Because your life isn’t complete without a photo of Ray Lewis flying that Raven. Download your own “Rayven” desktop at OldSpice.com.


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Mr Ray’s Hair Weave

Hi, I’m Mr. Ray: He’s a television legend in Maryland, DC, and Northern Virginia. Yes, it’s Mr. Ray of Mr. Ray’s Hair Weave, the Bawlmerese-accented pitchman who famously rebuffed John Waters’ entreaty to narrate Pink Flamingos (forcing Waters to instead … Continue reading


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