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The dual-span Bay Bridge across Chesapeake Bay is 4.3 miles (or 7 kilometers) long from shore to shore, including causeways, with the eastbound bridge being the longest by a small margin. The bridge connects Maryland’s Eastern Shore and Western Shore. Officially named the William Preston Lane Jr. Memorial Bridge, it opened as a single-span bridge 1952, and the second span, Read more...
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Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore is named after its first benefactor, the 19th-century Maryland entrepreneur and philanthropist, Johns Hopkins. Hopkins was born in 1795 into a family of tobacco-farming Quakers and made his fortune as a businessman and investor, most notably in the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company (B&O), where he was also a director. In his senior years, Hopkins Read more...