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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
city (1990 pop. 736,014), N central Md., surrounded by but politically independent of Baltimore co., on the Patapsco River estuary, an arm of Chesapeake Bay; inc. 1745. The largest city in the state, it is a commercial and industrial center, a major railhead, and a seaport with extensive anchorages and dock and storage facilities. Coal, grain, and iron, steel, and copper products are exported. Among Baltimore's leading industries are shipbuilding, sugar and food processing, oil refining, biotechnology, and the manufacture of chemicals, steel, copper, clothing, and aerospace equipment. A cultural and educational center, Baltimore is the seat of The Johns Hopkins Univ. with its famous medical center, the Univ. of Baltimore, Morgan State Univ., Loyola College in Maryland, the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Coppin State Univ., and the Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore, with schools of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, law, and social work. The National Association for the Advancement…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
city (1990 pop. 736,014), N central Md., surrounded by but politically independent of Baltimore co., on the Patapsco River estuary, an arm of Chesapeake Bay; inc. 1745. The largest city in the state, it is a commercial and industrial center, a major railhead, and a seaport with extensive anchorages…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Industrial port and largest city in Maryland, on the western shore of Chesapeake Bay, 50 km/31 mi northeast of Washington, DC; population (2000 est) 651,200. Industries include shipbuilding, oil refining, food processing, and the manufacture of steel, chemicals, and aerospace equipment. The city was…
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From Brewer's Britain and Ireland
‘town of the big house’, Irish baile ‘town’ ( see BAL-, BALL-, BALLY- ) + no ‘of the’ + tighe ‘house’ + mór ‘big’; the current Irish name is different. A pretty fishing village on the southwest coast of County Cork, 10 km (6 miles) southwest of Skibbereen. Its modern Irish name is Dún na Séad (‘fort…
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From Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary
County in N Maryland. See table at maryland . City, Maryland, on Patapsco River at upper end of Chesapeake Bay ab. 40 mi. (64 km.) NE of Washington, D.C.; pop. (2000c) 651,154; geographically in S Baltimore co. but administratively independent (see table at maryland ); important seaport; site of…
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Full text Article BALTIMORE, MARYLAND

From The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment
In 1706, Baltimore was established as a port for English tobacco and Indian corn on a peninsula of locust trees, bounded by the Patapsco River which flowed into Chesapeake Bay. The settlement was named for George Calvert, First Lord of Baltimore, who hoped to create a New World colony where…
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Full text Article Baltimore Catechism

From Encyclopedia of World Religions: Encyclopedia of Catholicism
The “Baltimore Catechism” was the chief instrument for teaching Catholic doctrine to millions of lay people in the United States for more than 100 years. Published in 1885 under the title A General Catechism of Christian Doctrine, Prepared and Enjoined by the Order of the Third Plenary Council of…
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Full text Article Baltimore, David

From American Biographies: American Scientists
(b. 1938–) virologist David Baltimore codiscovered retroviruses, cancer-causing viruses that replicate themselves by reversing the normal transmission of genetic coding. For this discovery, he was awarded a share of the 1975 Nobel Prize in physiology or Medicine. Baltimore was born on March 7, 1938, …
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(bôl'tĭmôr), 1938–, American microbiologist, b. New York City, Ph.D. Rockefeller Univ., 1964. He conducted (1965–68) virology research at the Salk Institute before becoming a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972. In 1970 he and his wife Alice Huang discovered reverse…
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
(born March 7, 1938, New York, N.Y., U.S.) U.S. virologist. He received his doctorate from the Rockefeller Institute. He and Howard Temin (1934–94), working independently, discovered an enzyme that synthesizes DNA from RNA, the reverse of the usual process. This enzyme, reverse transcriptase, has…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
US virologist who was awarded a Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1975 for his work with Renato Dulbecco and Howard Temin in discovering that certain viruses contain an enzyme, called reverse transcriptase, that makes deoxyribonucleic acid ( DNA ) from ribonucleic acid ( RNA ). Retroviruses…
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