I have a big soft spot for Baltimore.  I lived there for a time ... moving there the day Harbor Place opened in 1980.  I lived there for much of its revitalization and restoration.  I wasn't too excited when I realized I would be moving to the city that I had only ever seen driving south on the Beltway en route to destinations South.  It ultimately became the city that I really didn't want to...

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As a footnote to my previous post, Patriotic Teaching Moments, Part 1, and in honor of the 200th anniversary of Francis Scott Key's penning of The Star Spangled Banner, I thought I'd give a bit of the history of our National Anthem and provide the "lost verses" ... as information and for reflection. Francis Scott Key actually penned the poem that would become our National Anthem on September 13, 1814.  It was the War of...

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