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    Cobb Island is a small island located at the confluence of the Potomac and Wicomico rivers in southern Charles County, Maryland, United States. It is...
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    Maryland Route 254 (MD 254) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known as Cobb Island Road, the state highway runs 1.25 miles (2.01 km) from...
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    frequency 10 kHz interrupter, over a distance of one mile (1.6 km) at Cobb Island, Maryland, US. His first transmitted words were, "Hello. One, two, three,...
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  • transmitter. While working for the United States Weather Bureau on Cobb Island, Maryland, Fessenden researched using this setup for audio transmissions via...
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  • L. Higdon Elementary, both serving the entire Cobb Neck peninsula (i.e. all along MD 257 to Cobb Island). Newburg also is the northbound terminus of the...
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    doing developmental work for the United States Weather Service on Cobb Island, Maryland. Because he did not yet have a continuous-wave transmitter, initially...
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    Caleb W. Jones, Cobb Island, Maryland. Built in 1953 in Reedville, Virginia. Dredge #51. City of Crisfield, Deal Island, Maryland. Built in Reedville...
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  • speech over a distance of about 1.6 kilometers (one mile), from Cobb Island, Maryland, which appears to have been the first audio radio transmission....
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  • Maryland has 281 named islands within its many waters and waterways, including the Atlantic Ocean; the Chesapeake Bay and its many tributary tidal rivers...
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    vacuum-tube. Fessenden's initial Weather Bureau work took place at Cobb Island, Maryland, located in the Potomac River about 80 kilometers (50 mi) downstream...
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    The Cobb Point Bar Light (also called Cobb Island Bar Light) was a screw-pile lighthouse located in the Potomac River. A light at Cobb Point was first...
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  • 1908. Cobb died on February 13, 1957, as Peninsula General Hospital in Salisbury, Maryland. "George R. Cobb". The Daily Times. Salisbury, Maryland. February...
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    257 serves the Cobb Neck of southern Charles County between the Potomac River and Wicomico River, connecting the communities of Cobb Island, Issue, Tompkinsville...
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  • Description Frank M. Deering  United States The schooner came ashore on Cobb Island, Maryland and was wrecked. Goodwin  United Kingdom The cargo ship collided...
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    USCGC George Cobb (WLM-564) is a Keeper-class coastal buoy tender of the United States Coast Guard. Launched in 1999, she is home-ported in San Pedro,...
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    this island. Cobb Island - Once also inhabited with a resort hotel, church, and small town, until the 1896 hurricane. Coast Guard Station Cobb Island was...
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  • Chevy Chase View Chevy Chase Village Chewsville Church Hill Clear Spring Cobb Island Colmar Manor Coral Hills Cottage City Croom Crownsville Dargan Darlington...
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  • This is a list of the Maryland state historical markers in Charles County. This is intended to be a complete list of the official state historical markers...
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    born in London, immigrated around 1635; Member, Maryland Council; founded Wollaston Manor & Cobb Island Leonard Neale (1746-1817) born Port Tobacco; Jesuit...
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    Virginia is composed of a mixture of 95 counties and 38 independent cities. Maryland, Missouri and Nevada are each composed entirely of counties, except that...
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  • the highway. To the north is Port Tobacco and to the southeast, the Cobb Island peninsula. Popes Creek is home to the Loyola Roman Catholic retreat center...
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  • list of islands on the Potomac River and its North and South branches. Because the Potomac belongs to Maryland, the majority of its islands lie within...
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    Herman Daly (category University of Maryland, College Park faculty)
    Steady-State Economics (2nd ed.). Washington, DC: Island Press. ISBN 978-1-55963-071-9. Daly, Herman E.; Cobb, John B. Jr (1994) [1989]. For the Common Good:...
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    cob Fried green tomatoes fried okra Green salad, including Caesar salad, Cobb salad, Green Goddess salad, Kale Salad, Waldorf salad and Chef salad Roasted...
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    than Georgia, Carter also carried Maryland, Minnesota, Hawaii, West Virginia, the District of Columbia and Rhode Island). As of the 2020 presidential election[update]...
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    Fort Carroll Light (category 1854 establishments in Maryland)
    Lighthouse Society website "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Maryland" (PDF). United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. de Gast, Robert (1973)...
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    Robert Crain (category People from Charles County, Maryland)
    1855 Wyoming Avenue in Washington, D.C. Crain bought Cobb Island and organized the Cobb Island Development Company. In 1922 and 1923, the company constructed...
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  • smaller but fast-growing Puerto Rican populations including Rhode Island, Delaware, and Maryland in the Northeast, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, and Texas...
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  • George W. Cobb, ASGCA (July 2, 1914 – January 15, 1986) is a notable and prolific golf course designer who created the Par-3 course at Augusta National...
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  • Ashland (Amtrak station) Bowling Green 55 Parker Avenue Paducah 2719 Irvin Cobb Drive Louisville 720 West Muhammad Ali Boulevard Lexington 477 NorthWest...
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