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The road back
Times Staff WriterOne of the great ironies of the war in Iraq is that, despite the continuing human carnage, Baghdad's physical structures were preserved relatively intact. Reminders that this is a city under siege — razor wire, military checkpoints, barricaded...Tags: Saddam Hussein, Politics, Censorship, Central Park, Science and Technology
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Morton 'Jerry' Baum, education fund director
Morton "Jerry" Baum, founder and executive director of the Fund for Educational Excellence and a retired clothing manufacturing executive who was a tireless champion of city public schools, died May 5 from complications of Parkinson's disease at his...
Tags: PTA, Economy, Business and Finance, Teachers, Public Schools, Parkinson's Disease
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Spirit of 'deliverance' propels McIntyre's bid for change on Buffalo School Board
The Buffalo NewsBryon J. McIntyre sees himself as an agent for change in the Buffalo Public Schools. The lifelong city resident credits education with helping him pull his life together after he admittedly spent his late teenage and early adult years in a destructive...Tags: Condoleezza Rice, Teachers, Career and Workplace, Teaching and Learning, Labor Legislation
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Guilford neighborhood marks 100th anniversary
On sparkling spring days, Ann Goldman Giroux enjoys tending her garden, planting vegetables and nurturing the lush roses and rare azaleas that adorn her family's home in Guilford. Giroux, who typically plants 800 white tulips along the front walkway and...
Tags: War of 1812, Architecture, Artscape, Artists, Roland Park
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New Haven man collects Elm City's past through 375 years of artifacts
New Haven Register, Conn.Ultimately, the story of a city isn't told in the artifacts that are left behind. But those pieces of history tell the stories of a city and how it changed over time. In New Haven's case, that's 375 years' worth of generations who built, rebuilt and...Tags: Agriculture, Colleges and Universities, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Science and Technology, Consumer Goods Industries
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Tour of Wardour neighborhood kicks off annual House & Garden Pilgrimage
From the dentils that punctuate the roofline to the wide staircase leading upstairs, the home of Gretchen and A. Denis Clift is a classic. And it's in an Annapolis community where architecture is distinctive, gardens are gracious and century-old trees...
Tags: Architecture, Arts and Culture, Shingles, United States Naval Academy, Henry Cooper
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Runners' top 12 trails
Special to The Baltimore SunDo you feel the nip in the air? Runners do. For them, the advent of fall means more than changing leaves and back to school. Cooler weather and coming races (the Baltimore Running Festival is October 13) make autumn the ideal time to run in the great...Tags: Charles Street, Animals, Gardens and Parks, Travel, Roland Park
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Exploring Hartford's Famous Burial Grounds
Since its founding by English settlers, Hartford has been one of New England's most populous cities. Over the nearly four centuries of Hartford's existence, millions of people have lived and died here and, in most cases, their earthly remains were...
Tags: Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Regional Authority, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Central Park
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Touring the Biltmore, on horseback and foot
ASHEVILLE, N.C. - From the back, the Biltmore House appears sleeker and taller than it does from the front. Built into a hillside, the back side is six stories tall, rising majestically from its stone facing to its French Gothic spires, while the front is...Tags: Theme Park Vacations, Forests, Central Park, Travel, Equestrian
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English cottage revival in Homeland
John and Leila Juracek's British friends tell them their 1929 Tudor Revival house in Baltimore's Homeland neighborhood is more like an English cottage than the country cottages in England.
The L-shaped exterior is of 18-inch-thick stone dressed in ivy...Tags: Agatha Christie, Land Price, England, Architecture, Lifestyle and Leisure
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August 17: Author - Justin Martin, Genius of Place
WGN NewsJustin Martin To purchase a copy of the book: Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted Most people have heard of Central Park and Prospect Park in New York, Stanford University in California, the Back Bay Fens and Franklin Park in Boston,...Tags: Human Interest, Central Park, WGN
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Group ranks Baltimore's parks 15th in nation
Baltimore's historic park system ranks 15th among the nation's 40 largest cities in a new rating released Wednesday, which credits the city's foresight in carving out public spaces over the past two centuries but faults its more recent leadership for...
Tags: Finance, Economy, Business and Finance, William Donald Schaefer, Tampa, Travel
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Original site for Frederick Law Olmsted topic gallery.
