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These are MVLS’ two signature special events.
What is Celebrate Pro Bono and A Taste for Pro Bono?
The Baltimore Ravens take the name of their mascot from this famous Baltimore-connected poet.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
This planet is closest to the Sun.
What is Mercury?
This Baltimore museum preserves and celebrates the history, culture, and contributions of Black Marylanders.
What is the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture?
This is the largest living animal on Earth.
What is the blue whale?
MVLS was founded in this year.
What is 1981?
Founded in Baltimore in 1840 as the world’s first dental college, this institution is known as the birthplace of modern dentistry.
What is the University of Maryland School of Dentistry?
Known as the “Red Planet,” this world gets its reddish color from iron oxide on its surface.
What is Mars?
This legendary jazz singer spent part of her childhood in Baltimore and is honored with a statue on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Who is Billie Holiday?
Known for its wrinkled face, stocky build, and distinctive underbite, this dog breed originated in England.
What is an English Bulldog?
This is MVLS’ mission.
What is removing barriers to justice through free civil legal help, community engagement, and advocacy for equitable laws.
These are the five Baltimore Public Markets operated as part of the city’s public market system.
What is Avenue Market, Broadway Market, Hollins Market, Lexington Market, and Northeast Market?
This is the largest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
Harriet Tubman was born in this Maryland county on the Eastern Shore.
What is Dorchester County?
Also known as the killer whale, this highly intelligent marine mammal is actually the largest member of the dolphin family.
What is an orca?
These are MVLS’ seven current legal service areas.
What is Housing, Consumer, Tax, Criminal Record Relief/Expungement, Estate Planning and Administration, Special Education, and Family Law?
First commercially produced in Baltimore in 1890, this supposedly supernatural talking-board game has some sinister associations.
What is the Ouija Board?
Famous for its large, visible ring system, this planet is the sixth planet from the Sun.
What is Saturn?
Baltimore became the first U.S. city to pass a racial zoning ordinance in this year.
What is 1910?
A group of these animals is commonly called a “clowder.”
What are cats?
These six principles make up MVLS’ core values.
What is Teamwork; Passion for Mission; Commitment to Eliminating Systemic Barriers to Justice Based on Race and Economic Disparities; Commitment to Clients, Volunteers, and Community Partners; Initiative; and Promise to Our Donors?
Founded in 1827, this Baltimore-based company became America’s first common-carrier railroad.
What is the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad?
This planet rotates on its side, with an axial tilt of about 98 degrees.
What is Uranus?
Beginning in the 1930s, this civil rights leader served as president of the Baltimore branch of the NAACP for approximately 35 years.
Who is Lillie Carroll Jackson?
Unlike most mammals, this egg-laying animal has a duck-like bill and is native to Australia.
What is a platypus?