Before The Beatles were selling records in the U.S., a 15-year-old girl from Maryland named Marsha Albert called a radio station in Washington D.C. and asked, “Why can’t we have music like that here in America?” after seeing a news segment about the British band. The DJ tracked down a copy of the single "I Want To Hold Your Hand," and after the station began playing the song, demand skyrocketed in the U.S. as other stations finally followed suit. A DJ named Dick Biondi had earlier tried to play The Beatles (which was misspelled as B-E-A-T-T-L-E-S) both on Chicago and Los Angeles based radio stations the previous year, but both attempts flopped.
Dredging and tonging are methods for harvesting oysters.
Fort Meade near Laurel became a base because a train engineer delivering soldiers to Meade knew only one Meade, the one in Maryland. He was not aware of Fort Meade, Florida. The confusion happened so often a second base was built in Maryland in an attempt to avoid the confusion.
King Williams School opened in 1696 it was the first school in the United States.