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Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It is bordered by Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia to the south and west, Pennsylvania to the north and Delaware to the east. The state's largest city is Baltimore, and its capital is Annapolis. Among its occasional nicknames are Old Line State, the Free State and the Chesapeake Bay State. It is named after the English queen Henrietta Maria, consort of Charles I, known in England as Queen Mary.

Geographical type: Territory

Latitude: 39° N — Longitude: 76.7° W

Area: 32,133 km²

ISO 3166-2 code: US-MD

Birthplace of

Frederick Douglass, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, in Talbot County, on Feb 1818
John T. Flynn, John Thomas Flynn, in Bladensburg, on 25 Oct 1882
Josiah Henson, in Charles County, on 15 Jun 1789
H. L. Mencken, Henry Louis Mencken, in Baltimore, on 12 Sep 1880
Jim Rogers, James Beeland Rogers Jr., in Baltimore, on 19 Oct 1942
Neal Stephenson, in Fort Meade, on 31 Oct 1959

Home To

Libertarian Party of Maryland, Abingdon

Deathplace of

H. L. Mencken, in Baltimore, on 29 Jan 1956
Felix Morley, in Gibson Island, on 13 Mar 1982
Earl Ravenal, in Trappe, on 31 Aug 2019
Julian Simon, in Chevy Chase, on 8 Feb 1998

Measures of Freedom

Freedom in the 50 States 2015-2016 | Maryland | Cato Institute
2014: Overall rank: 46, fiscal policy rank: 34, regulatory policy rank: 49, personal freedom rank: 26, economic freedom rank: 46
LP State-by-State Membership Numbers [PDF], Libertarian Party News, Apr 2006
31 Dec 2005: Number of Members: 374

Articles

Drug War Dementia, by James Bovard, Freedom Daily, Nov 1996
Details various police, military and school actions and legislation in the government's war on users of certain banned substances, and the generally unrecognized side effects of these policies
In 1991, Maryland cracked down on oregano profiteering, mandating a $500 fine and/or a one-year jail sentence for the sale of oregano or parsley if it were packaged to look like illegal drugs. Representative Kweisi Mfume of Maryland proposed the Beeper Abuse Prevention Act in 1991 to ban teenagers from owning electronic beepers and to require a seven-day waiting period and a criminal check for beeper purchasers with violators subject to up to three years in prison.
Ending America's Domestic Quagmire, by Paul Armentano, Freedom Daily, Dec 2007
Compares the War on Drugs to the U.S. military actions in Iraq and Afghanistan and counsels reassessment of the domestic "war"
Americans are also dying in greater numbers a result of drug-war enforcement. For example, members of Georgia's narcotics task force shot and killed 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston ... A similar fate befell 44-year-old housewife Cheryl Noel of Baltimore, who was shot and killed by police in 2005 during a 5 o'clock a.m. "flash-bang" raid of her home. Noel's husband and 19-year-old son were later charged with possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
Related Topics: War on Drugs, Georgia
The NFL is Not for Libertarians, by S. M. Oliva, 26 Apr 2012
Examines various statist aspects of the National Football League
Most [stadiums] are financed primarily through taxes or government-backed bonds ... [T]hen-Browns owner Art Modell, after financially mismanaging the team for years, needed a government bailout, which he received from the state-run Maryland Stadium Authority in the form of M&T Bank Stadium. And to get one step further back, the Maryland Stadium Authority came into existence only after Baltimore's previous NFL team, the Colts, moved to Indianapolis when the latter city—through the Marion County Capital Improvement Board—offered the club's owners a brand new stadium.

The introductory paragraph uses material from the Wikipedia article "Maryland" as of 31 Oct 2018, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.