Potomac calls to Chesapeake
（切萨皮克［美国弗吉尼亚州东南部城市］），
Maryland！My Maryland！
Thou wilt not yield the vandal toll，
Maryland，My Maryland！
Thou wilt not crook to his control，
Maryland，My Maryland！
Better the fire upon thee roll，
Better the blade，the shot，the bowl，
Than crucifixion（刑罚）of the soul，
Maryland！My Maryland！
I hear the distant thunder－hum，
Maryland，My Maryland！
The Old Line’s bugle（喇叭），fife（横笛），and drum，
Maryland，My Maryland！
She is not dead，nor deaf，nor dumb
Huzza（表示大喜，赞许，欢呼等的声音）！
she spurns（弃绝）the Northern scum！
She breathes！she burns！she’ll come！she’ll come！
Maryland！My Maryland！
Facts and Trivia相关资料
1．The United States Naval Academy was founded on October 10，1845at Annapolis．
2．In 1830the Baltimore &Ohio Railroad Company built the first railroad station in Baltimore．
3．During revolutionary times Rockville was known as Hungerford’s Tavern the name of its most familiar landmark．One of the first calls to freedom from British rule was heard at the tavern（酒馆）in 1774．
4．The Basilica（长方形基督教堂）of the Assumption（圣母升天）of the Blessed Virgin Mary is considered a masterpiece and one of the finest 19th century buildings in the world．The basilica is the first cathedral（大教堂）in the United States．Baltimore represents the first Roman Catholic diocese（主教教区）．
5．Fort Meade near Laurel became a base because a train engineer delivering soldiers to Meade knew only one Meade，the one in Maryland．He was not aware of Fort Meade，Florida．The confusion happened so often a second base was built in Maryland in an attempt to avoid the confusion．
6．King Williams School opened in 1696it was the first school in the United States．
7．The first dental（牙科的）school in the United States opened at the University of Maryland．
8．Babe Ruth，the Sultan of Swat，was born in Baltimore and attended Saint Mary’s Industrial School．
9．Other Major League Ball player besides “The Babe”born in Maryland include Cal Ripken，Jr．，Billy Ripken，Lefty Grove，Frank（Home Run）Baker，Harold Baines，Al Kaline，Denny Neagle，and Jimmie Foxx．
10．Tilghman Island is home to the Skipjacks（飞鱼），the only commercial sailing fleet in North America．
11．America’s national anthem（圣歌）was written by Francis Scott Key a Maryland lawyer．It is believed Key wrote the anthem on September 14，1818while watching the bombardment（炮击，轰击）of Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor．
12．Since May 30th，1949the United States flag has flown continuously over the monument marking the site of Francis Scott Key’s birthplace．The flag flies at Terra Rubra Farm，Carroll County，Keymar，Maryland as mandated by a Joint Resolution of Congress．
13．The National Aquarium is located in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor．
14．The 1，200foot Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore is the second longest continuous truss bridge（［建］桁架桥）in the nation．
15．The 4．03mile William Preston Lane Memorial（纪念馆）（The Bay Bridge），joins the western part of Maryland to the eastern shore and crosses the Chesapeake Bay．
16．Annapolis is known as the sailing capital of the world．
17．Located in the Chesapeake Bay，Smith Island is Maryland’s only inhabited off－shore island．
18．The highest point in Maryland is 3，360feet above sea level on Backbone Mountain in Garrett County．The absolute lowest point in Maryland is a depression，often called Bloody Point Hole，174feet below sea level．The area is located approximately 1mile west－southwest of the southern tip of Kent Island in Queen Anne’s County．
19．The Maryland State House is the oldest state capitol still in continuous legislative use．
20．Chincoteague’s are famous ponies from Assateague Island．
21．Dredging（捕捞）and tonging are methods for harvesting oysters．
22．On June 24，1784，in Baltimore，13－year old Edward Warren went airborne in the first successful manned balloon launch in the United States．
23．Maryland forests cover approximately 2．7million acres，or 43％of the states land surface．Oak（［植］橡树）and hickory（山胡桃树）are the dominant hardwood or deciduous forest type，making up 60％of forested areas．Loblolly pine is the most prevalent softwood and is the predominant forest wood on the Eastern Shore．
24．Constructed circa（大约）1850an acorn－shaped gazebo（眺望台）can be found in Acorn Park in Silver Spring．The park is all that remains of Francis Preston Blair’s estate．
25．On September 14，1975，Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton of Emmitsburg was canonized（推崇），becoming the first native－born American to be so honored．Saint Elizabeth Ann formed the religious community the Sisters of Charity．
26．The National Institute of Standards and Technology gave Gaithersburg the designation Science Capital of the United States when the Bureau moved to the area in 1961．
27．Samuel F．B．Morse reportedly（据传说，据传闻）received the first telegraph message in Bladensburg，in 1844，before his famous “What Hath God Wrought”message between Baltimore and Washington．His telegraph wire had been strung along the railroad right of way．Ezra Cornell，founder of Cornell University，lived in Bladensburg and is said to have invented the telegraph pole．
28．The town of Garrett Park declared the first nuclear（原子能的）free zone in the United States in 1982，thus affirming a tradition of peacefulness that began back in 1898when it became illegal to harm any tree or songbird within the town limits．
29．Maryland was first to enact Workmen’s compensation laws in 1902．
30．Friendship International Airport—now Baltimore／Washington International Airport began operations on June 24．1950．
31．Channel 67broadcast the state’s first public television programs on October 5，1969．
32．Greenbelt was the first community in the United States built as a planned city．Greenbelt was an experiment in both the physical and social planning．
33．The Concord Point Lighthouse in Havre de Grace is the oldest continuously operated lighthouse（灯塔）in the State of Maryland．
34．Havre de Grace is known as the decoy（圈套）capitol of the world．
35．The Methodist Church of America was formally organized in 1784at Perry Hall．
36．Mount Airy is unique because two counties，Carroll and Frederick，divide it．
