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    Kings Contrivance is a village in the planned community of Columbia, Maryland, United States and is home to approximately 11,000 residents. It is Columbia's...
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    state of Maryland. The location is named after the Guilford Mill. Guilford is near Kings Contrivance, one of the nine "villages" of Columbia. For United...
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    Columbia is a census-designated place in Howard County, Maryland, United States. It is a planned community consisting of 10 self-contained villages. The...
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    located in Columbia, Maryland, United States. It is part of the Howard County Public School System. It is located near the Kings Contrivance Village Center...
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  • Arlington is a historic slave plantation located in Columbia, Howard County, Maryland, now part of the Fairway Hills Golf Course. The estate occupied...
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  • William Hand Browne, Louis Henry Dielman Maryland Historical Society (1956). Maryland Historical Magazine. p. 213. "Town Center", towncenter.columbiavillages...
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    between Columbia and the airport. A new route between Columbia and Elkridge is proposed, eliminating the need to transfer from 501 to 409 at Maryland Food...
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    first store in Maryland opened in Darnestown on October 31, 2006; the second opened in May 2008 in Columbia's Village of Kings Contrivance, replacing the...
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    Guilford Quarry Pratt Through Truss Bridge (category Bridges in Howard County, Maryland)
    demolished or displaced by development of the Columbia, Maryland project village of Kings Contrivance, leaving only the bridge and quarry remnants for...
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    Guilford Quartz Monzonite (category Columbia, Maryland)
    account of Edward B. Mathews of the Maryland Geological Survey of the quarry at Guilford (now within the town of Columbia) is as follows: The quarries at...
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    Arthur P. Gorman (category Democratic Party members of the Maryland House of Delegates)
    1943. In 2000, a proposed neighborhood within the Kings Contrivance section of Columbia, Maryland was to be named "Gorman's Promise," but the naming...
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  • few days passed before the craftsman, to whom the construction of this contrivance had been described, brought in the pen, fashioned from gold. He then...
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  • Jennifer R. Terrasa (category Democratic Party members of the Maryland House of Delegates)
    attorney for the Women's Law Center of Maryland. In 1994, Terrasa moved to the Kings Contrivance neighborhood of Columbia. She was appointed to the neighborhood's...
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    Guy Guzzone (category People from Columbia, Maryland)
    Pendergrass from 1991 to 1995. In 1994, Guzzone was appointed to the Kings Contrivance village board of directors, serving as its chair from 1995 to 1998...
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    by a flick of a button, pressure on the handle, or other mechanical contrivance. Simmons, Tommy, Here's What You Should Know About Colorado's New Switchblade...
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    small net, by the interweaving of twigs, and by this rude and simple contrivance we were able to take them in thousands. In less than two days each family...
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