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    Shot Towers

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    Is it some sort of munitions testing facility? Why build it in downtown Baltimore? There’s a reason for everything, and then I found out there were lots of them, and some are still around, almost 200 years and several technological revolutions later.

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Alan Upton
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Jeep. Does it sound like the noise a bird makes? Well, it’s not. The origin of “Jeep” is a mystery, but a popular theory is that “Jeep” is an anagram or abbreviation of the military term “General Purpose” or “GP.”

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