Baltimore Wikipedia. Baltimore, Maryland. Independent city. City of Baltimore. Nicknames Charm City,1 Bmore,2Motto The Greatest City in America,1 Get in on it. Believe3Location in the state of Maryland. Location in the contiguous United States. Coordinates 3. 91. N7. 63. 7W 3. N 7. W 3. Coordinates 3. Omsi Solaris Urbino 12 Iii Free here. N7. 63. 7W 3. N 7. W 3. Country United States of America. State Maryland. City Baltimore. Historic colony. Province of Maryland. County. None Independent cityFounded. Incorporated. 17. Independent city. Named for. Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore 1. Government  Type. New Business License Listings Atlanta Ga Aquarium' title='New Business License Listings Atlanta Ga Aquarium' />Mayorcouncil  Body. Baltimore City Council  Mayor. Catherine Pugh D  City Council  Houses of Delegates  State Senate  U. S. House. Area4  Independent city. Land. 80. 9 sq mi 2. Water. 11. 1 sq mi 2. Elevation504. 80 ft 01. Population 2. 01. Independent city. Estimate 2. 01. 676. Density. 7,5. 98sq mi 2,9. Urban. 2,2. 03,6. US 1. 9th  Metro. US 2. 1st  CSA9,6. Jbypp4kQhcpPtZWyLS2devq1qpU/3J-674x446/v1/c700x420.jpg' alt='New Business License Listings Atlanta Ga Aquarium' title='New Business License Listings Atlanta Ga Aquarium' />US 4th  Demonym. Baltimorean. Time zone. EST UTC 5  Summer DSTEDT UTC 4ZIP Codes. Downtown Baltimore, Emerson BromoSeltzer Tower, Pennsylvania Station, MT Bank Stadium, Inner Harbor and the National Aquarium in Baltimore, Baltimore City Hall. Oct. 10, 2017 Saporta Report Longtime Atlanta business leader John Rice to retire as GEs vice chairman Maria Saporta reports that GEs new CEO John Flannery has. Area codes4. 10, 4. FIPS code. 24 0. GNIS feature ID0. Website. City of Baltimore. Baltimore, locally b. U. S. state of Maryland, and the 2. Baltimore was established by the Constitution of Maryland9 and is not part of any county. With a population of 6. Baltimore is the largest independent city in the United States. As of 2. 01. 6, the population of the Baltimore metropolitan area was estimated to be just under 2. Baltimore is also part of the Washington Baltimore combined statistical area CSA, the fourth largest CSA in the nation with a calculated 2. Founded in 1. 72. Baltimore is the second largest seaport in the Mid Atlantic. The citys Inner Harbor was once the second leading port of entry for immigrants to the United States and a major manufacturing center. After a decline in major manufacturing, industrialization, and rail transportation, Baltimore shifted to a service oriented economy, with Johns Hopkins Hospital founded 1. Johns Hopkins University founded 1. With hundreds of identified districts, Baltimore has been dubbed a city of neighborhoods. Famous residents have included writers Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Hamilton, Frederick Douglass, and H. L. Mencken jazz musician James Eubie Blake singer Billie Holiday actor and filmmaker John Waters and baseball player Babe Ruth. In the War of 1. 81. Francis Scott Key wrote The Star Spangled Banner, which later became the American national anthem, in Baltimore. Baltimore has more public statues and monuments per capita than any other city in the country,1. National Register Historic Districts in the nation, including Fells Point, Federal Hill, and Mount Vernon, which were added to the National Register between 1. Close to a third of the citys buildings over 6. National Register, which is more than any other U. S. city. 1. 71. HistoryeditThe city has 6. National Register Historic Districts and 3. Over 6. 5,0. 00 properties are designated historic buildings in the National Register of Historic Places listings in Baltimore, more than any other U. S. city. 1. 7The historical records of the government of Baltimore are located at the Baltimore City Archives. EtymologyeditThe city is named after Cecil Calvert, second Lord Baltimore,1. Irish House of Lords and founding proprietor of the Province of Maryland. Baltimore Manor was the name of the estate in County Longford on which the Calvert family lived in Ireland. Baltimore is an anglicization of the Irish name Baile an T Mhir, meaning town of the big house. Before European settlementeditThe Baltimore area had been inhabited by Native Americans since at least the 1. BC, when Paleo Indians first settled in the region. One Paleo Indian site and several Archaic period and Woodland period archaeological sites have been identified in Baltimore, including four from the Late Woodland period. During the Late Woodland period, the archaeological culture that is called the Potomac Creek complex resided in the area from Baltimore to the Rappahannock River in Virginia. In the early 1. 60. Baltimore vicinity was sparsely populated, if at all, by Native Americans. The Baltimore County area northward was used as hunting grounds by the Susquehannocks living in the lower Susquehanna River valley who controlled all of the upper tributaries of the Chesapeake but refrained from much contact with Powhatan in the Potomac region. Pressured by the Susquehannocks, the Piscataway tribe of Algonquians stayed well south of the Baltimore area and inhabited primarily the north bank of the Potomac River in what is now Charles County and southern Prince Georges County south of the Fall Line. Colonial periodeditEuropean colonization of Maryland began with the arrival of an English ship at St. Clements Island in the Potomac River. Europeans began to settle the area further north, beginning to populate the area of Baltimore County,3. Old Baltimore, located on Bush River within the present day Aberdeen Proving Ground. The colonists engaged in sporadic warfare with the Susquhanna natives, whose numbers dwindled from casualties and smallpox. In 1. 66. 1 David Jones claimed the area known today as Jonestown on the east bank of the Jones Falls stream. The colonial General Assembly of Maryland created the Port of Baltimore at old Whetstone Point now Locust Point in 1. The Town of Baltimore, on the west side of the Jones Falls, was founded and laid out on July 3. Jonestown and Fells Point preexisting to the east. The three settlements, covering 6. Baltimore Town in 1. The BasinBaltimore grew swiftly in the 1. Caribbean. The profit from sugar encouraged the cultivation of cane and the importation of food. Baltimore established its public market system in 1. Lexington Market, founded in 1. United States today. Lexington Market was also known to be a place for slave trading, which occurred all over the downtown area and was advertised in the Baltimore Sun. Baltimore had the first Post Office System in the United States inaugurated in 1. United States Baltimore Water Company, 1. Baltimore played a key part in events leading to and including the American Revolution. City leaders such as Jonathan Plowman Jr. British taxes, and merchants signed agreements to not trade with Britain. The Second Continental Congress met in the Henry Fite House from December 1. February 1. 77. 7, effectively making the city the capital of the United States during this period. Antebellum periodeditThe Town of Baltimore, Jonestown, and Fells Point were incorporated as the City of Baltimore in 1. The city remained a part of surrounding Baltimore County and continued to serve as its county seat from 1. Bombardment of Fort Mc. Henry by the British. Engraved by John Bower 4. The Battle of Baltimore against the British in 1. USAs national anthem, The Star Spangled Banner, and the construction of the Battle Monument which became the citys official emblem. A distinctive local culture started to take shape, and a unique skyline peppered with churches and monuments developed. Baltimore acquired its moniker The Monumental City after an 1. Baltimore by President John Quincy Adams. At an evening function Adams gave the following toast Baltimore the Monumental CityMay the days of her safety be as prosperous and happy, as the days of her dangers have been trying and triumphant. Baltimore pioneered the use of gas lighting in 1. The construction of the federally funded National Road which later became part of U. S. Route 4. 0 and the private Baltimore and Ohio Railroad B. O. made Baltimore a major shipping and manufacturing center by linking the city with major markets in the Midwest. By 1. 82. 0 its population had reached 6. These industries benefited from war but successfully shifted into infrastructure development during peacetime. Baltimore suffered one of the worst riots of the antebellum South in 1. Behind The Scenes On A Game Pitch. Tendril is a studio that was hired three years ago by Ubisoft Toronto to help sell a game idea to Ubisofts HQ in Paris. That game is Starlink, and their pitch involved all kinds of work, from preliminary vision through to concept development, ship design, environments and even a trailer. Ubisoft just showed off the brand new Starlink Battle for Atlas, a vehicle combat game that usesRead more Read. You can see both the trailer and some other associated artwork below. The trailer we created had to demonstrate core gameplay explore, navigate, collect, rescue while also demonstrating the range of fantastical and gorgeous environments the game would host, Tendril say. For the trailer, we developed the story beats, built the universes from scratch, developed the Skimmers significantly based off low poly models from Ubisoft, and brought it all together into an exciting one minute trailer. An interesting aside is that the project was originally called Onward. I kinda like that name more than Starlink, which sounds like something Id pay 5 for on Steam. Note that the trailer isnt the same as was seen at E3. This was a trailer made purely for internal purposes, so that one part of Ubisoft could convince another that this was a game worth making which, hey, successTo see the images in their native resolution, click on the expand button in the top left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video game artists, showcasing the best of both their professional and personal portfolios.