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Word's Getting Around: Big Gunpowder Is Big Time
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It came as a shock to unenlightened fly fishermen when the Big
Gunpowder River here was named one of the top 100 trout streams in
the nation in Trout magazine's winter 1989 survey.
The comparison with revered mountain waters of the Wild West
seemed heady for a little suburban creek five miles from the
Baltimore Beltway and less than 20 from the city's murky Inner
Harbor.
But there it was, big as life, and no one has come along since to
blow the Gunpowder off its lofty perch. If anything, word is
spreading and the notoriety is doing the little trout stream good.
"As a fisherman, I'd love to ...
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Tracks in the Sea: Matthew Fontaine Maury and the Mapping of the Oceans.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Science News
; ...surface currents and winds. Matthew Fontaine Maury made sailing safer and far more...weaves the compelling story of how Maury took a bunch of neglected logbooks...navigation. The story begins at Maury's modest roots on a Virginia...
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Maury the scientist of safer seas.(TRAVEL)(THE CIVIL WAR)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...WASHINGTON TIMES This year marks the bicentennial of Matthew Fontaine Maury's birth. Maury, who was born on Jan. 14, 1806...place on the world's oceans, led by pathfinder Matthew Maury. The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency...
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The quiet record of a gentleman raider; Maury cruise little-known but dignified.(ARTS & CULTURE)(THE CIVIL WAR)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...men who shared a venerable Virginia name. One, Matthew Fontaine Maury, was the most distinguished oceanographer of his...s neutrality in the American Civil War. * * * Matthew Maury was not deterred. In early 1863, he identified...
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CLASS OF 1950 CELEBRATES MAURY LEGACY WITH FAMILY MAN WHO HELPED DEVELOP NAVAL ACADEMY WAS EDUCATION BOOSTER, GREAT-GRANDSON SAYS.(LOCAL)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot
; ***** CORRECTION: Matthew Fontaine Maury, Maury High School's namesake...page A2. ***** When Matthew Fontaine Maury Werth and James Maury Werth...Werths are two of Cmdr. Matthew Fontaine Maury's great-grandchildren...
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MAURY HIGH'S NAMESAKE TRULY THE PATHFINDER OF THE SEAS.(LOCAL)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot
; ...older alumni of Norfolk's historic Maury High School have every reason to be proud of Matthew Fontaine Maury, the renowned 19th-century Virginia...death in 1873. CAPTION(S): Photo Matthew Fontaine Maury
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MAURY PORTRAIT DECKS SCHOOL'S HALLS AGAIN.(NORFOLK COMPASS)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot
; ...of a mysterious disappearance: that of Matthew Fontaine Maury. After searching high and low, calling...CAPTION(S): PHOTO A new portrait of Maury High School's namesake, Matthew Fontaine Maury, was painted by former art teacher Keith...
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MAURY NOT HARD TO IDENTIFY.(FRONT)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot
; ...say the least. Of course, ``Maury High School'' does appear on...noticed them during my three Maury years, and it has been the same...the great oceanographer Commodore Matthew Fontaine Maury) just has not had a visible label...
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The Maury Project: An educational partnership for oceanography
Magazine article from: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
; ...focuses on the partnership aspect of the Maury Project. The combination of a variety of...Foundation. This partnership is called the Maury Project, named after navy lieutenant Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806-1873), generally recognized as...
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MAURY STUDENTS TO SING OUT ON ``TODAY''.(LOCAL)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot
; ...NORFOLK -- The orange-and-blue Maury Commodores sign is complete and...minutes of fame. Thirty-three Maury singers are ready for their Saturday...school's namesake, Commodore Matthew Fontaine Maury. ``I'm excited. I really...
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New Navy ship to be christened Saturday at Bethlehem's Sparrows Point shipyard. (USNS Maury, Bethlehem Steel Corp.) (NEWS ADVISORY)
PR Newswire
; ...policy, will christen the USNS Maury at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan...Sparrows Point, Md., shipyard. The Maury, a 500-foot-long oceanographic...will carry the name of Commander Matthew Fontaine Maury, USN, this country's pioneer...
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