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Ross Winans, the Glossary

Ross Winans (1796–1877) was an American inventor, mechanic, and builder of locomotives and railroad machinery.^[1]

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American expatriates in Russia
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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.

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The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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Annapolis, Maryland

Annapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North and Central European Plain.

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Baltimore

Baltimore is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States.

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Baltimore City Public Schools

Baltimore City Public Schools (BCPS), also referred to as Baltimore City Public School System (BCPSS) or City Schools, is a public school district in the city of Baltimore, state of Maryland, United States. It serves the youth of Baltimore City (in distinction to the separate and "younger" public school system (district) for the surrounding separate county of Baltimore, known as the Baltimore County Public Schools).

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Baltimore County, Maryland

Baltimore County (locally: or) is the third-most populous county in the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Baltimore Orioles

The Baltimore Orioles (also known as the O's) are an American professional baseball team based in Baltimore.

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Baltimore riot of 1861

The Baltimore riot of 1861 (also called the "Pratt Street Riots" and the "Pratt Street Massacre") was a civil conflict on Friday, April 19, 1861, on Pratt Street, Baltimore, Maryland.

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Bartlett-Hayward Company

Bartlett-Hayward Company was an American metalworking company with large foundry, fabrication, and construction business lines, located in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Battle of Baltimore

The Battle of Baltimore (September 12–15, 1814) took place between British and American forces in the War of 1812.

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Benjamin Butler

Benjamin Franklin Butler (November 5, 1818 – January 11, 1893) was an American major general of the Union Army, politician, lawyer, and businessman from Massachusetts.

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Bogie

A bogie (or truck in North American English) is a chassis or framework that carries a wheelset, attached to a vehicle—a modular subassembly of wheels and axles.

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Camelback locomotive

A camelback locomotive (also known as a Mother Hubbard or a center-cab locomotive) is a type of steam locomotive with the driving cab placed in the middle, astride the boiler.

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Captain Nemo

Captain Nemo (also known as Prince Dakkar) is a character created by the French novelist Jules Verne (1828–1905).

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Carrie Murray Nature Center

Carrie Murray Nature Center (CMNC) is operated by.

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Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad

The Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad (C&P) was an American railroad which operated in Western Maryland.

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East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Company

The East Broad Top Railroad (EBT) is a narrow gauge historic and heritage railroad headquartered in Rockhill Furnace, Pennsylvania.

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Eddie Murray

Eddie Clarence Murray (born February 24, 1956), nicknamed "Steady Eddie", is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) first baseman, designated hitter, and coach.

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Ellicott City, Maryland

Ellicott City is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in, and the county seat of, Howard County, Maryland, United States.

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English Channel

The English Channel, also known as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Southern England from northern France.

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Enoch Pratt

Enoch Pratt (September 10, 1808 – September 17, 1896) was an American businessman in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Ex parte Merryman

Ex parte Merryman, 17 F. Cas. 144 (C.C.D. Md. 1861) (No. 9487), was a controversial U.S. federal court case that arose out of the American Civil War.

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Fort Covington, New York

Fort Covington is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States.

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Fort McHenry

Fort McHenry is a historical American coastal pentagonal bastion fort on Locust Point, now a neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland.

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Frederick, Maryland

Frederick is a city in, and the county seat of, Frederick County, Maryland, United States.

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George Gillingham

George Gillingham DD (d. 16 December 1668) was a Canon of Windsor from 1639 - 1668.

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George William Brown (mayor)

George William Brown (October 13, 1812 – September 5, 1890) was an American politician, judge and academic. Ross Winans and George William Brown (mayor) are People of Maryland in the American Civil War.

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Gothic architecture

Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas.

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Gwynns Falls

Gwynns Falls is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park

Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park is a park in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Habeas corpus

Habeas corpus (from Medieval Latin) is a recourse in law by which a report can be made to a court in the events of unlawful detention or imprisonment, requesting that the court order the person's custodian (usually a prison official) to bring the prisoner to court, to determine whether their detention is lawful.

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Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Harrisburg (Harrisbarrig) is the capital city of the U.S. commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the seat of Dauphin County.

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Inner Harbor

The Inner Harbor is a historic seaport, tourist attraction, and landmark in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Invention

An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition, idea or process.

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Italianate architecture

The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture.

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James McNeill Whistler

James Abbott McNeill Whistler (July 10, 1834July 17, 1903) was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom.

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Jules Verne

Jules Gabriel Verne (Longman Pronunciation Dictionary.; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.

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List of Russian monarchs

This is a list of all reigning monarchs in the history of Russia.

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Locomotive

A locomotive or engine is a rail transport vehicle that provides the motive power for a train.

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Maryland Center for History and Culture

The Maryland Center for History and Culture (MCHC), formerly the Maryland Historical Society (MdHS), founded on March 1, 1844, is the oldest cultural institution in the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Maryland General Assembly

The Maryland General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maryland that convenes within the State House in Annapolis.

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Maryland House of Delegates

The Maryland House of Delegates is the lower house of the legislature of the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Mechanic

A mechanic is a skilled tradesperson who uses tools to build, maintain, or repair machinery, especially cars.

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Moscow

Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia.

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Mount Clare Shops

The Mount Clare Shops is the oldest railroad manufacturing complex in the United States, located in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Mount Vernon, Baltimore

Mount Vernon is a neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, located immediately north of the city's downtown.

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Mount Winans, Baltimore

"Mount Winans" ("Mt. Winans") is a mixed-use residential, commercial and industrial neighborhood in the southwestern area of the City of Baltimore in Maryland.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Northern Central Railway

The Northern Central Railway (NCRY) was a Class I Railroad in the United States connecting Baltimore, Maryland, with Sunbury, Pennsylvania, along the Susquehanna River.

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Patapsco River

The Patapsco River mainstem is a river in central Maryland that flows into the Chesapeake Bay.

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Peter Cooper

Peter Cooper (February 12, 1791April 4, 1883) was an American industrialist, inventor, philanthropist, and politician. Ross Winans and Peter Cooper are American railroad pioneers.

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Phineas Davis

Phineas Davis (January 27, 1792 – September 27, 1835) was a well-known clockmaker and inventor who designed and built the first practical American coal-burning railroad locomotive. Ross Winans and Phineas Davis are American railroad mechanical engineers and American railroad pioneers.

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Rail transport in Russia

Rail transport in Russia runs on one of the biggest railway networks in the world.

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Reading Company

The Reading Company was a Philadelphia-headquartered railroad that provided passenger and freight transport in eastern Pennsylvania and neighboring states from 1924 until its acquisition by Conrail in 1976.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.

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Secession

Secession is the formal withdrawal of a group from a political entity.

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Southampton

Southampton is a port city in Hampshire, England.

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State Line, Bedford County, Pennsylvania

State Line is an unincorporated community in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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States' rights

In American political discourse, states' rights are political powers held for the state governments rather than the federal government according to the United States Constitution, reflecting especially the enumerated powers of Congress and the Tenth Amendment.

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The Solent

The Solent is a strait between the Isle of Wight and mainland Great Britain; the major historic ports of Southampton and Portsmouth lie inland of its shores.

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Thomas Holliday Hicks

Thomas Holliday Hicks (September 2, 1798February 14, 1865) was a politician in the divided border-state of Maryland during the American Civil War. Ross Winans and Thomas Holliday Hicks are Members of the Maryland House of Delegates and People of Maryland in the American Civil War.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Winans

Also known as Ross Winan.

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American expatriates in Russia

American railroad mechanical engineers

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad people

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