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Baltimore's Inner Harbor is one of the city's most identifiable areas. The revitalization effort there that began in the 1950s has become a model for other waterfront areas across the United States. Millions of dollars of government funds have been put into developing the area into one of the region's premiere tourist destinations. Today the Inner Harbor is home to the Baltimore Convention Center, National Aquarium, Maryland Science Center, World Trade Center and its observation deck, Top of the World, Fort McHenry, the Baltimore Maritime Museum and the USS Constellation. The harbor is a short distance from Camden Yards, where the Baltimore Orioles play, and M&T Bank Stadium, home of the Bal...
Baltimore's Inner Harbor is one of the city's most identifiable areas. The revitalization effort there that began in the 1950s has become a model for other waterfront areas across the United States. Millions of dollars of government funds have been put into developing the area into one of the region's premiere tourist destinations. Today the Inner Harbor is home to the Baltimore Convention Center, National Aquarium, Maryland Science Center, World Trade Center and its observation deck, Top of the World, Fort McHenry, the Baltimore Maritime Museum and the USS Constellation. The harbor is a short distance from Camden Yards, where the Baltimore Orioles play, and M&T Bank Stadium, home of the Baltimore Ravens. Water taxis are available to shuttle passengers to various Inner Harbor destinations. Hotels, restaurants and luxury condominiums also dot the harbor area.
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Holiday travelers under watchful eyes
From a starkly utilitarian building lodged between the coal heaps and salt piles of industrial Canton, Rebecca Pindell will have the best seat in town today to view the traffic mess on Maryland's highways on the busiest travel day of the year.
Pindell...Tags: Holidays, Canton (Baltimore, Maryland), Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Tourism and Leisure Industry, Fort McHenry
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Holiday to go
From a starkly utilitarian building lodged between the coal heaps and salt piles of industrial Canton, Rebecca Pindell will have the best seat in town Wednesday to view the traffic mess on Maryland's highways on the busiest travel day of the year....Tags: Holidays, Canton (Baltimore, Maryland), Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Tourism and Leisure Industry, Fort McHenry
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Day on the bay is educational
Special to The Baltimore SunBundled in warm clothes, 13 Edgewood High School ninth-graders recently spent their school day on a boat on the Chesapeake Bay. For five hours, the students learned about how they affect the bay. "We want the kids to make the connection, not just...Tags: Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Schools, Chesapeake (Chesapeake, Virginia), Ecosystems, Anchovies
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Check trucks' height before they reach tunnel
Having read the report about the truck violating the Harbor Tunnel's height restrictions, scraping ceiling tiles and tying up traffic ("Baltimore Harbor Tunnel ceiling damaged by truck," Nov. 12), I have to ask: If tunnel vehicles have to pass through the...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Transportation, Harbor, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Road Transportation
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Pie in the sky: Cook on Deen's show
Looks like another one of Baltimore's creative cooks is getting national face time. Dangerously Delicious Pies' Rodney Henry just returned from Atlanta, where he was a guest on Paula Deen's show. "She's a super-nice lady. Fun," he says. The episode...Tags: Illnesses, Obesity, Wine, Beer, and Spirits
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Baltimore Harbor Tunnel ceiling damaged by truck
Two hours after a tractor-trailer entered the northbound Baltimore Harbor Tunnel early this afternoon and scraped the tunnel's roof, causing numerous tiles to loosen or fall to the roadway, traffic that was backed-up for miles returned to normal, said a...Tags: Maryland
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Edward F. Wojnowski
Edward F. "Slim" Wojnowski, who had been a local duckpin bowling champion during the 1950s and 1960s and was an active member of the Polish-American community, died Monday of cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care. He was 89. Mr. Wojnowski was born in...Tags: Holidays, Bowling, Religious Festivals, National Government, Death and Dying
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Lighthouse auctions draw bidders like moths to a flame
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterA construction worker, a nanny and a clothing designer walk into a lighthouse. It sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but the government couldn't be happier with the punch line. The lighthouse, you see, is surplus federal property -- and if these...Tags: Local Authority, Colorado, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Mount Hope, Painting
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October social calendar
Thursday, Oct. 2 "Sister ACT Gala 2008" Benefits Marian House Cocktail attire Radisson Plaza Lord Baltimore Hotel, 20 W. Baltimore St. 7 p.m. Tickets $90 Call 410-467-4246 Thursday, Oct. 2 "Autumn Wine Tasting in the Barn" Benefits Hopewell Cancer...Tags: Christian Siriano, Viniculture, Project Runway (tv program), Hopewell (Hopewell, Virginia), Walters Art Museum
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A hero's welcome, a new life in fame
When Michael Phelps left his mother's house in Rodgers Forge four years ago, he was - despite his six gold medals and his 19 years on Earth - still a boy in almost every sense. Soon he'll return to Baltimore a 23-year-old man. He'll return not to his...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Casino and Gambling, National Football League, Casino and Gambling Industry, Jim Palmer
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Made in Maryland
Absolute Power (1997)
Clint Eastwood stars as the sensitive thief who can save the entire American political system from complete corruption. Too bad he wasn't around during the Reagan administration. Eastwood discovers presidential corruption during...Tags: Literature, James Morrison, Cameron Diaz, Ice Cube, Judges
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Lady D's survivors rely on faith, work
Sun ReporterTwo years and a day after the water taxi Lady D flipped over in the frigid waters of Baltimore Harbor, the National Transportation Safety Board will meet in Washington on Tuesday to provide some long-awaited answers about what happened and why. But...Tags: Defense, Awards and Prizes, Society, Bible, Arbitration
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