Portal:Maryland/Did you know

...that the Seal of Maryland is one of the few state seals to be two-sided?
...that the current governor of Maryland, Robert Ehrlich, is Maryland's first Republican governor elected in 30 years?
...that the Baltimore riot of 1861 was an incident that took place on April 19, 1861 in Baltimore, Maryland between Confederate sympathizers and infantrymen of the United States Army, and is regarded by historians as the first bloodshed of the American Civil War?