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The Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula) is a small icterid blackbird common in eastern North America as a migratory breeding bird. It received its name from the resemblance of the male's colors to those on the coat-of-arms of 17th-century Lord Baltimore .
In 1919, he bought 5845 acres of land outside Arvin in California's San Joaquin Valley. A year later, Di Giorgio founded Di Giorgio Fruit Co. His success came when he obtained water for the arid California land by drilling wells hundreds of feet deep. By 1929, just ten years after his original land purchase, Di Giorgio's company was the largest ...
The Baltimore oriole was not named after the city - though it certainly can be seen in Maryland. The orange and black plumage bore the same colors as the heraldic crest of England’s Baltimore ...
Jerold Charles Hoffberger (April 7, 1919 – April 9, 1999) was an American businessman. He was president of the National Brewing Company from 1946 to 1973. He was also part-owner of the Baltimore Orioles of the American League from 1954 to 1965, and majority owner from 1965 to 1979.
Peter George Angelos (born George Angelos; [2] July 4, 1929 – March 23, 2024) was an American trial lawyer and baseball executive from Baltimore, Maryland.Angelos was the majority owner of the Baltimore Orioles, a team in the American League of Major League Baseball, from 1993 until his death in 2024.
The Baltimore Orioles sale to Carlyle co-founder David Rubenstein for $1.725 billion is just about done and dusted.A source with direct knowledge of the proceedings told Yahoo Finance that ...
Billionaire businessman and Baltimore native David Rubenstein was approved as the new owner of the Orioles on Wednesday, finalizing the sale of the team for a reported $1.725 billion.
The northern oriole (Icterus galbula), considered a species of North American bird from 1973 to 1995, brought together the eastern Baltimore oriole, Icterus galbula, and the western Bullock's oriole, Icterus bullockii. Observations of interbreeding between the Baltimore and the Bullock's oriole led to this classification as a single species.