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Parent topics
- United States of America [r]: A country of North America, north of Mexico, south of Canada. [e]
Subtopics
Principal cities
- Annapolis, Maryland [r]: The seaport capital of the US state of Maryland, and the home of the United States Naval Academy; an unqualified "Annapolis" often refers to the Academy [e]
- Baltimore, Maryland [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Frederick, Maryland [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hagerstown, Maryland [r]: Add brief definition or description
Politics and government
- Michael O'Malley [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Barbara Mikulski [r]: U.S. Senator (D-Maryland); Senate Select Committee on Intelligence; social worker before entering politics [e]
- Benjamin Cardin [r]: U.S. Senator (D-Maryland), elected 2006 after serving in the House of Representatives; serves on Senate Committees on the Judiciary, Foreign Relations, Environment and Public Works, Budget Small Business Committee; attorney with interest in human rights and has been a member of the Helsinki Commission since 1993 [e]
Social, cultural, and educational
- Johns Hopkins University [r]: A major U.S. undergraduate, graduate and research university, headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland; especially known for the School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, in Washington, DC [e]
- School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University [r]: A prestigious medical education and research center, headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland; often considered the first modern medical school to meet the full goals of the Flexner Report [e]
- William Osler [r]: physician, educator, medical philosopher, and historian from Canada, often called the Father of Modern Medicine. [e]
- Howard Kelly [r]: First Chief of Gynecology at the School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University and one of the key four founding professors [e]
- William Welch [r]: First Chief of Pathology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and one of the key four founding professors. [e]
- Flexner Report [r]: Influential report on medical school curricula in the USA (1910), which transformed it to one based on scientific preparation and formal education. [e]
- School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University [r]: A prestigious medical education and research center, headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland; often considered the first modern medical school to meet the full goals of the Flexner Report [e]
- University of Maryland [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Goucher College [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Lacrosse [r]: Team sport played outdoors by ten players (men) or twelve players (women), each of whom uses a netted stick (the crosse) in order to pass and catch a very hard rubber ball with the aim of scoring goals by propelling the ball into the opponent's goal. [e]
Industry and agriculture
- Biotechnology [r]: The application of biological principles in industrial production [e]
Geographical and geological features
- Chesapeake Bay [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Potomac River [r]: Add brief definition or description
Noteworthy places
- Examples: Hoover Dam
People
- Barbara Mikulski [r]: U.S. Senator (D-Maryland); Senate Select Committee on Intelligence; social worker before entering politics [e]
Federal
- Andrews Air Force Base [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fort Detrick [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services [r]: Add brief definition or description
- David Taylor Model Basin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Goddard Space Flight Center [r]: Located in the Washington, DC suburb of Greenbelt, Maryland, a National Aeronautics and Space Administration facility primarily concerned with unmanned space science satellites; it is also the operations center for NASA's network, and the primary repository for stored telemetry [e]
- National Agricultural Library [r]: Add brief definition or description
- National Institutes of Health [r]: "The steward of medical and behavioral research for the Nation." (National Institutes of Health) [e]
- National Institutes of Standards and Technology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- National Library of Medicine [r]: The world's largest medical library. [e]
- National Naval Medical Center [r]: Add brief definition or description
- National Security Agency [r]: An organization within the United States Department of Defense, with the dual roles of the principal signals intelligence agency in the United States intelligence community, but also having the responsibility for information assurance of military, diplomatic, and other critical communications. [e]
- Naval Ordnance Laboratory, White Oak [r]: Add brief definition or description
- United States Naval Academy [r]: Located in Annapolis, Maryland, the degree-granting undergraduate professional college of the United States Navy, a major source of officers for the Navy and United States Marine Corps, imbuing them with four years of service tradition [e]
Maryland state history
- Whiskey Rebellion [r]: A rural uprising in the western counties of Pennsylvania in 1794 in response to a federally imposed excise tax placed on liquor. [e]
- Mason-Dixon line [r]: Add brief definition or description
Other related topics
Associated U.S. states
- Washington, D.C. [r]: The urban area, part of no state, which contains the major government offices of the United States, as well as being an active city [e]
- Delaware [r]: A State of the Eastern USA. [e]
- Pennsylvania [r]: One of the fifty states in the United States [e]
- Virginia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- West Virginia [r]: 35th state of the USA [e]
Native American
- Tribes, reservations, etc
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- Air Resources Laboratory [r]: A group within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that develops climate models, air quality models and models for dispersion, transformation and removal of atmospheric pollutants. [e]
- Albert Ritchie [r]: Add brief definition or description}
- Anti-Saloon League [r]: The leading American Prohibitionist organization. [e]
- Antoine equation [r]: A mathematical expression (derived from the Clausius-Clapeyron equation) of the relation between the vapor pressure and the temperature of pure substances. [e]
- Atlantic Coast Conference [r]: A sports conference, with 12 universities, in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). [e]
- Atlantic Ocean [r]: Second largest ocean in the world; separates the Americas from Europe and Africa. [e]
- Bicameral legislature [r]: A legislature divided into two deliberative bodies. [e]
- Caesar Rodney [r]: This article is a summary description of Caesar Rodney, emphazing the career, political, location and family factors involved in the his career. [e]
- Christopher Dodd [r]: U.S. Senator (D-Connecticut}; chair, Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; Senate Committee on Foreign Relations [e]
- Declaration of Independence [r]: Document formally declaring the independence of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain, July 4, 1776. [e]
- Delaware [r]: A State of the Eastern USA. [e]
- Diamond Jim Brady [r]: Late 19th-century American railroad equipment salesman and bon vivant, famous for his enormous appetite. [e]
- Federalist Party [r]: An American political party during the First Party System, in the period 1791 to 1816, with remnants lasting into the 1820s. [e]
- George Read (senator) [r]: This article is a summary description of George Read, emphazing the career, political, location and family factors involved in the his career. [e]
- Jehu Davis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John M. Clayton [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Joshua Clayton [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Leser v. Garnett [r]: A case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution had been constitutionally established. [e]
- Library [r]: Collection of books and periodicals. [e]
- Michael Steele [r]: Add brief definition or description
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [r]: A scientific agency within the United States Department of Commerce focused on the conditions of the oceans and the atmosphere. [e]
- Thirteen Colonies [r]: The historical region ranging from the present-day Canadian province of Quebec to the present-day state of Georgia which
comprised the thirteen British colonies in North America. [e]
- U.S. Constitution [r]: Document that states the fundamental constitutional law of the United States of America. [e]
- U.S. Demographic History [r]: Historic trends in population growth, geographical distribution by states and urban-rural, internal migration, and components of change (births, deaths, immigration), as well as race and ethnicity, and population policy as they relate to the United States. [e]
- U.S. Economic history [r]: Add brief definition or description
- United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit [r]: Located in Richmond, Virginia, the intermediate Federal appellate court for the mid-Atlantic area of the United States [e]
- Wade-Davis Bill [r]: Add brief definition or description
