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Baltimore is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland. With a population of 585,708 at the 2020 census and estimated at 568,271 in 2024, it is the 30th-most populous U.S. city. The Baltimore metropolitan area is the 20th-largest metropolitan area in the country at 2.84 million residents. The city is also part of the Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area, which had a population of 9.97 million in 2020. Baltimore was designated as an independent city by the Constitution of Maryland in 1851. Though not located under the 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 to the Henry Fite House 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. 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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Goucher College (/ˈɡaʊtʃər/ ^ⓘ GOW-chər) is a private liberal arts college in Towson, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1885 as a nonsecterian women's college in Baltimore's central district, the college is named for pastor and missionary John F. Goucher, who enlisted local leaders of the Methodist Episcopal Church to establish the school's charter. Goucher relocated to its Towson campus in 1953, and became coeducational in 1986, after its long tradition as a women's college .

Goucher grants BA and BS degrees in a range of disciplines across 31 majors and 39 minors. Goucher is one of only two colleges in the United States to integrate a study abroad experience into its undergraduate curriculum requirements and the only one to provide options for students to fulfill that requirement through either a three-week faculty-led Intensive Course Abroad (ICA) during a winter or summer session, or a traditional semester or year-long study abroad program at one of the over 80 different institutions around the world with whom the college has reciprocal student exchange programs with. Goucher is a member of the Landmark Conference and competes in the NCAA's Division III in lacrosse, tennis, soccer, volleyball, basketball, and horseback riding. Goucher partners with nearby Johns Hopkins University, Loyola University Maryland, and the University of Baltimore to allow students to earn accelerated post-graduate or combined undergraduate degrees. Goucher also offers a postbaccalaureate premedical program, master's programs in the arts and humanities, and professional development courses in writing and education. As of 2023^[update], Goucher enrolls approximately 1,100 undergraduates and 900 post-graduates. Loren Pope profiled Goucher among forty institutions of higher learning in his 1996 book Colleges That Change Lives. (Full article...)

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Fort McHenry, which served as the inspiration for The Star-Spangled Banner

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Pinkett Smith in 2014

Jada Koren Pinkett Smith (née Pinkett; born September 18, 1971) is an American actress, businesswoman, and talk show host. She is co-host of the Facebook Watch talk show Red Table Talk, for which she has won a Daytime Emmy Award. Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2021.

Pinkett Smith landed her big break on the sitcom A Different World in 1991. She then starred in films such as Menace II Society (1993), The Nutty Professor (1996), Set It Off (1996), and Scream 2 (1997) before her prominent contributions to The Matrix Reloaded (2003), The Matrix Revolutions (2003), and the animated Madagascar films. She returned to television with starring roles on Hawthorne (2009–2011) and Gotham (2014–2017). Her other acting roles include Magic Mike XXL (2015), Bad Moms (2016), Girls Trip (2017), and The Matrix Resurrections (2021). (Full article...)

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... that Baltimore County Police Department leader Carroll E. Stansbury assigned officers to combat chicken theft?
... 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 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?
... that the writer of "Crabs for Christmas" joked that it contributed to Baltimore's population decline?

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

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