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Baltimore
(bôl′tə môr′)
Baltimore,
Lord 1st Baron Baltimore (George Calvert) 1580?-1632; Eng. statesman: founder of Maryland
seaport in N Md., on an arm of Chesapeake Bay on its western shore: pop. 651,000
Origin: after Lord Baltimore
See Baltimore in American Heritage Dictionary 4
A city of northern Maryland on an arm of Chesapeake Bay northeast of Washington, D.C. It has been a busy port since the 18th century. Population: 631,000.
Related Forms:
- Balˌti·morˈe·an noun
, Lord
See Calvert.
, David Born 1938.
American microbiologist. He shared a 1975 Nobel Prize for research on the interaction of tumor viruses and genetic material.
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