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Two years later, Charles Benedict Calvert (1808–1864), a future U.S. Representative (Congressman) and descendant of the first Lord Baltimore, purchased 420 acres (1.7 km 2) of the Riversdale Mansion estate nearby today's College Park, Maryland. [22] Later that year, Calvert founded the school and was the acting president from 1859 to 1860. [23]
In 2000, 454 Life Sciences was founded as a subsidiary of CuraGen; Rothberg was the CEO of CuraGen at the time. [8] The idea for 454 Life Sciences came when Noah, his second child, was born in 1999, and had to be sent to the neonatal intensive care unit because of breathing troubles. [3]
In February 2017, Today Show Producer and Executive Noah Oppenheim was named President of NBC News. [60] Rebecca Blumenstein was named President of NBC News on January 10, 2023. [ 61 ]
Elaine J. Coates (b. 1937), BA 1959, first African American to graduate from University of Maryland, College Park [340] H. David Kotz (b. 1966), attorney. Ronni Karpen Moffitt, political activist murdered along with Orlando Letelier by Chilean agents.
Noah’s Ark is said to have come to rest on the mountains of Ararat following a 150-day flood about 5,000 years ago. ... USA TODAY. Tropical storm warning issued for Carolinas as potential ...
YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform headquartered in San Bruno, California, founded by three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion, since which it operates as one of Google's subsidiaries.
St. Mary's City was the largest settlement in Maryland and the seat of colonial government until 1695. Because Anglicanism had become the official religion in Virginia, a band of Puritans in 1649 left for Maryland; they founded Providence (now called Annapolis). [25] In 1650 the Puritans revolted against the proprietary government.
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google. Accessible worldwide, [note 1] YouTube was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States, it is the second-most visited website in the world, after Google Search.