| March 21, 2007 | -
Al Gore returned to Capitol Hill to testify that global warming is a planetary emergency. Rep. Ed Markey of Massachusetts called Gore a prophet, and Rep. John Dingell of Michigan addressed him as “Mr. President.” Joe Barton of Texas, the leading Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, told Gore he was “totally wrong” and that, if need be, Republican lawmakers would stay late for an “all-out cat fight” with Democrats. Ralph Hall, also of Texas, speculated that Gore's attack on the energy industry could result in war “when and if OPEC nations abandon the U.S.A.,” and Roscoe Bartlett (R., Md.) said that he thought it was “probably possible to be a conservative without appearing to be an idiot.”
| Source 1:
AP vie Breitbart
Source 2:
Huffington Post
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| January 4, 2007 | - The 110th Congress convened on Capitol Hill, and Representative Nancy Pelosi of California kicked off her tenure as America's first female speaker of the House with four days of parties dubbed “Pelosi-Palooza.” The festivities included a performance by singer Tony Bennett and an honorary street-naming in Pelosi's hometown of Baltimore. Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia disrupted the Congress's opening prayer with shouts of “Yes, Lord!” and “Mmmhmmm!” and Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts mimed tipping a bottle to his mouth. Congress's first Muslim member took his oath on a Koran once owned by Thomas Jefferson, and a Buddhist representative swore in on no book at all.
| Source 1:
Washington Post
Source 2:
Washington Post
Source 3:
CBS News
Source 4:
AZ Central
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| November 16, 2006 | - Despite the best efforts of Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi, Representative Steny Hoyer of Maryland was elected House Majority Leader over Representative
John Murtha.
| Source:
Reuters
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| October 18, 2006 | - Furry crabs were found in Chesapeake Bay.
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Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo
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| September 21, 2006 | - In Maryland, the National Black
Republican Association ran radio ads claiming that Martin Luther King was a Republican and that Democrats founded the Ku Klux Klan.
| Source:
nbc4.com via google news
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| August 3, 2006 | -
Lance Corporal Mark Beyers, an Iraq war veteran and double amputee, was attacked and robbed outside a restaurant in Bethesda, Maryland.
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Local6.com
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| July 25, 2006 | - In Maryland one U.S. Senate candidate said he did not knowingly pay for 20 heroin addicts to come to his campaign rally, while another was arrested for raping his 19-year-old mail-order bride.
| Source:
Washington Times
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| July 10, 2006 | -
Scientists in Maryland found that two thirds of people who consumed the hallucinogenic drug
psilocybin had extremely meaningful experiences.
| Source:
The Wall Street Journal
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| February 17, 2006 | - Two Homeland Security guards in Bethesda, Maryland, were in trouble after they accused a man of using an Internet terminal in a public library to view pornography. An official said the guards had “overstepped their authority” and had subsequently been given other duties.
| Source:
The Washington Post
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| January 11, 2006 | - A Maryland
school superintendent decided to lift a ban on the book The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things in high-school libraries; the ban remained in effect for middle-school libraries.
| Source:
WGAL.com
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| December 25, 2005 | - Montgomery County, Maryland, bought the original Uncle Tom's cabin.
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Lexington Herald-Leader
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| November 30, 2005 | - At the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, President George W. Bush gave a speech on the Iraq war. “As Iraqi forces grow more capable,” he said, “they're increasingly taking the lead in the fight against the terrorists.”
| Source:
CNN.com
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| November 23, 2005 | - Violent shopping incidents occurred in Hamilton Township, New Jersey; Elkton, Maryland; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Orlando, Florida; and Sunrise, Florida, where a 72-year-old woman was trampled.
| Source 1:
WTOPNews.com
Source 2:
NBC10.com
Source 3:
The Miami Herald
Source 4:
Reuters
Source 5:
KYW.com
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| November 4, 2005 | - Forty-seven schoolchildren were stung by beesin Maryland.
| Source:
Reuters
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| November 3, 2005 | - In Maryland, $75,000 worth of bull semen was stolen from a farm.
| Source:
The Washington Post
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| October 25, 2005 | - In Maryland the first kill of bear season was credited to Sierra Stiles, an eight-year-old girl, who shot a 211-pound bear twice in the chest with a .243-caliber rifle. “They won't eat now,” Sierra said of bears. “They won't eat a thing.”
| Source:
The Washington Post
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| June 11, 2005 | - A dead goat's head was found in the Maryland woods.
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Sentinel and Enterprise
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| February 28, 2005 | - A Maryland woman died after being locked in her bedroom for six years.
| Source:
The WBAL Channel
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| August 4, 2004 | - Autism was up in Maryland, and
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Undernews
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| April 2, 2004 | - A brawl broke out at an anger-management seminar at a high school in Maryland.
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Baltimore Sun
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| February 16, 2004 | - Several farms in Delaware and Maryland were under quarantine because of a bird-flu outbreak.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| July 2, 2002 | -
Federal officers searched the home of a biologist in Maryland as part of the ongoing investigation into last year's anthrax attacks but said they had found no evidence of wrongdoing.
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| April 17, 2001 | -
Maryland failed to pass a moratorium on executions, but did ban the release of genetically modified fish.
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| April 3, 2001 | -
Maryland's House of Delegates voted to impose a two-year moratorium on executions.
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