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East Pacific red octopus, rescued from a gull near Los Osos, California. Octopus rubescens (commonly the East Pacific red octopus which is a Cephalopod, and also known as the ruby octopus, a preferred common name due to the abundance of octopus species colloquially known as red octopus [1]) is the most commonly occurring shallow-water octopus on much of the North American West Coast and a ...
Location of Frederick County in Maryland. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Frederick County, Maryland. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Frederick County, Maryland, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are ...
Prince Frederick is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Calvert County, Maryland, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of Prince Frederick was 3,226, [ 2 ] up from 2,538 in 2010.
272 slaves from across Maryland, including the Southern Maryland counties of Charles, St. Mary's, and Prince George's, were sold during the 1838 Jesuit slave sale to two planters in Louisiana. [ 35 ] A notable abolitionist from southern Maryland was Josiah Henson , a slave who was born in Charles County before escaping to Canada .
Calvert County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland.As of the 2020 census, the population was 92,783. [1] Its county seat is Prince Frederick. [2] The county's name is derived from the family name of the Barons of Baltimore, the proprietors of the English Colony of Maryland.
Port Republic is a small, rural unincorporated community located at the crossroads of MD routes 2/MD 4, MD 264, MD 509, MD 765, and Parkers Creek Road in Calvert County, Maryland, United States. It is approximately five miles south of Prince Frederick , the county seat of Calvert County.
US General George G. Meade (undated) used Prospect Hall as headquarters en route to Gettysburg (1863). The mansion was the site of General George G. Meade's takeover of command of the Army of the Potomac of the Union Army from General Joseph Hooker immediately before the Battle of Gettysburg, under last-minute orders from President Abraham Lincoln.
Abdopus horridus, the Red Sea octopus or common reef octopus, is a species of octopus in the genus Abdopus from the western Indian Ocean. [2] It occurs in the western Indian Ocean and the Red Sea . It has a small body and long arms with a complex skin sculpture and pigmentation pattern on the body which it uses to camouflage itself.