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Baltimore Integrity Trumps D.C. Importance

Posted on September 9, 2011 by almosthipguy

Leah L. Jones/FOR THE WASHINGTON POST – College students Maya Wells, left and Christina Pinder sit on a bench on Federal Hill Park facing the Inner Harbor. By Frances Stead Sellers (Washington Post, August 23, 2011) Forget about Washington. Ask … Continue reading →

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Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Factory Disappears During WWII — From The Air

Posted on April 27, 2011 by atomictv

By Rick Beyer, from his WWII documentary “The Ghost Army” Under the watch of the 603rd Camouflage Engineer Battalion, not yet assigned to the Ghost Army, an entire aircraft factory disappeared from the coast of Maryland – at least, from … Continue reading →

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Baltimore Balloon Aeronaut’s Deadly Final Performance (1905)

Posted on April 5, 2011 by atomictv

By George Gipe (The Baltimore Sun, 10/14/1973) An Afternoon’s Diversion in the Good Old Days John August, balloon acrobat, gives a memorable final performance Sunday, September 9, 1905: A half mile above the row houses of East Baltimore, 25-year-old John … Continue reading →

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Michael Phelps Sells Subliminal Subway Sex

Posted on April 1, 2011 by atomictv

Via Subliminal Messages in Advertising: “In this banner taken from SUBWAY restaurants official website you can see that the steam ascending from the sandwich spells SEX. The word SEX is also etched several times on the sandwich and on Phelps’ … Continue reading →

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