The Environmental Justice Foundation elaborates more on the world wide negative effects of pesticide use in cotton. Cotton (83%) is one of the top four GMO crops produced in the world which includes soy (89%), canola (75%) and corn (61%). GMO cotton production ranks ninth in global crop production. On an average, 90 percent of U.S. cotton in 2010 was genetically engineered, according to a USDA survey.
Virginia. Cecil Calvert, 2nd Lord of Baltimore, founded Maryland in 1632. Cecilâs father, George Calvert had received a royal charter for the land from King Charles I. The new colony was named after Henrietta Maria, the wife the king. In November of 1633, about 200 Catholic settlers led by Cecilâs younger brother boarded the ships ARK and DOVE, and set sail for Marieâs Land (later Maryland).
Maryland and Virginia Steam Boat Company offered regular Baltimore to Norfolk service. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum, 901 West Pratt St. (at Poppleton St.), Baltimore, Maryland, May 2013. Photo by Adam N. Wexler.e established the first charitable foundations in America and England, and founded the Peabody Institute at Baltimore in 1857. 1802. Property qualifications for voting in local and State elections removed by constitutional amendment, granting suffrage to adult white males (Chapter 90, Acts of 1801, ratified 1802).