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September 10, 2009
FRIDAY STAR-SPANGLED BANNER WEEKEND: Defenders' Day is celebrated with a parade, War of 1812 living history re-enactors, a patriotic band concert, musket firing and fireworks. The weekend-long festivities start with the parade from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. from the Star-Spangled Banner Museum, 844 E. Pratt St., to Locust Point. Saturday and Sunday events take place at Fort McHenry, 2400 E. Fort Ave. Park admission is $7 for adults, free for children. Saturday evening activities are free.
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By PETER HERMANN | September 19, 2008
This is not how you want a judge to begin your court hearing: "You have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13 previous convictions." Circuit Judge Wanda K. Heard pronounced each number slowly and sternly, like a mother scolding a child who had repeatedly misbehaved. Found guilty time after time after time on minor theft and drug charges, Lennette Priscilla Johnson adamantly refused to get help. The judge pleaded. Johnson shook her head no. She's 36, the mother of two, including a 3-year-old boy. She chose three years' probation over treatment, and she faces the possibility of nine years in prison if she messes up again.
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By Valerie J. Nelson | July 26, 2008
Randy Pausch, a terminally ill professor whose earnest farewell lecture at Carnegie Mellon University became an Internet phenomenon and best-selling book that turned him into a symbol for living and dying well, died yesterday. He was 47. Mr. Pausch, who was a computer science professor and virtual-reality pioneer, died at his home in Chesapeake, Va., of complications from pancreatic cancer, officials at the Pittsburgh university announced. When Mr. Pausch agreed to give a theoretical "last lecture," he was participating in a long-standing academic tradition.
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By Jill Rosen | May 6, 2008
Shakespeare, a guy who knew a thing or two about reeling in an audience, wrote, "The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony." Four hundred years later, last words are apparently no less compelling. Millions of people tuned into a dying professor's last lecture on YouTube, and millions more bought the book based on it. Tuesdays With Morrie, similarly stocked with deathbed life lessons, became a publishing phenomenon a few years back. And dozens of anthologies, both online and in print, compile final utterances of the famous and infamous.
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April 21, 2008
Baltimore : Northeast Man blown into air with manhole cover A man was blown off the ground and injured last night when the manhole cover he was standing on at a Northeast Baltimore intersection flew into the air, a city Fire Department spokesman said. The 18-year-old man, whose name was not available, suffered head and elbow injuries, said Chief Kevin Cartwright, the spokesman. The man was taken by ambulance to Maryland Shock Trauma Center. The incident also caused a power outage in the area, and Baltimore Gas and Electric crews were on the scene restoring power to homes and businesses, he said.
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March 31, 2008
The College of Notre Dame's 2008 Baldwin Lecture in the Humanities is set to be delivered at 7 p.m. tomorrow by Marjane Satrapi, the best-selling author of Persepolis. The book tells the story of her youth in Iran in the 1970s and '80s, including the Islamic Revolution and war with Iraq. The book was published as four volumes in France and two volumes in the United States. A film based on the book - also titled Persepolis - received the Jury Prize Award at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award in the animated feature film category.
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By JEFF ZREBIEC | March 25, 2008
Orioles manager Dave Trembley has strict rules about being on time and they apply to everybody, including his 17-year-old son. Kevin Trembley has been serving as an Orioles bat boy and helping his father by performing various other duties over the past couple of days. But he arrived at the back fields yesterday long after the workout began and quickly received a lecture from his father about punctuality. It couldn't have helped that the lecture, which was administered in a playful tone, came in front of Nick Markakis, who is Kevin's favorite player.
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October 31, 2007
Dance lecture -- The Anne Arundel Community College Cultural Events Committee will present "Dancing on Air" at 12:30 p.m. tomorrow in Room 112 of the Humanities Building, 101 College Parkway, Arnold. Part-time faculty member Megan Morse Jans will lead the lecture and a DVD demonstration of aerial dance. Free. 410-777-7021.
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April 12, 2007
Fire forces evacuation of residents from city high-rise A single-alarm fire yesterday evening at a high-rise apartment building overlooking Druid Lake forced the evacuation of at least 50 residents, some of them in wheelchairs, said a Fire Department official at the scene. Reported shortly after 7 p.m. at the Lakeview Tower Apartments in the 700 block of Druid Park Lake Drive, the fire was confined to a seventh-floor apartment. The occupant was not home at the time, said Battalion No. 3 Cmdr.
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February 21, 2007
History lecture -- St. John's College will present "History of the Negro Spirituals" at 8:15 p.m. Friday in the Francis Scott Key auditorium at 60 College Ave., Annapolis. James Weldon Norris will give a presentation, "The Negro Spiritual: A Choral Art Form," and will be accompanied by a members of the Howard University Choir (above), who will perform Negro spirituals. Free. 410-625-2539.