NEW ORLEANS WHAT: A one-bedroom Greek Revival town house and a two-bedroom guesthouse HOW MUCH: $890,000 SIZE: 2,100 square feet PRICE PER SQUARE FOOT: $423.81 SETTING: The town house is in the French Quarter, the oldest and best-known neighborhood in New Orleans. The architecture is defined by two- and three-story row houses with ornate iron...
The other American elevated to cardinal by the Vatican on Friday is a Bronx boy who exercises regularly on a treadmill, roots ardently for the Yankees and, according to friends, is so devoted to the idea of doing what he asks others to do that he learned how to parachute before serving as a military chaplain in Vietnam. The newly named cardinal,...
BALTIMORE -- As operators of coal-fired power plants around the country welcome a court-ordered delay on tighter pollution rules, the owner of a retrofitted plant here says that the rules cannot come too soon. The company, Constellation Energy, says it is an issue of fairness. A little more than two years ago, it completed an $885 million...
Baltimore er den største by i den amerikanske delstat Maryland med 638.614 indbyggere i 2002.
Byen blev grundlagt 30. juli 1729. I Baltimores havn ligger Fort McHenry, der kom under angreb af britiske styrker i 1812-krigen, og hvis forsvar inspirerede Francis Scott Key til at skrive digtet The Star-Spangled Banner, der er teksten til USA's nationalmelodi.
Baltimore er hjemsted for det amerikanske fodboldhold Baltimore Ravens.