The Random Wikipedia Article Game

[LilyMarie]

I know this game from a different forum I used to visited, it's pretty cool!
You go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random (or go to en.wikipedia.org and click "Random article" on the side) and whatever article you end up on, copy and paste everything above the "Contents" box.
Let's say I got the the MFC wikipedia article, I'd paste this:


MyFreeCams.com

MyFreeCams.com (MFC) is a website providing live webcam performances by female models, typically featuring nudity and sexual activity often ranging from striptease and dirty talk to masturbation with sex toys.


You can actually learn some interesting stuff this way.
(Of course if your random article is really lame, feel free to click the button again til you find something a bit more interesting )

 

[AwesomeKate]

Dumbwaiters are small freight elevators (or lifts) intended to carry objects rather than people.

I never knew what they were called, but I always wanted one in my haunted mansion for hide-and-seek purposes.

 

[LilianaXO]

Isle of the Dead (1945) is one of producer Val Lewton's horror films made for RKO Radio Pictures. The movie had a script inspired by the painting Isle of the Dead by Arnold Böcklin, which appears behind the title credits, though the film was originally titled "Camilla" during production. (Another of Lewton's films, I Walked With a Zombie, has the painting hung in the main room of the movie.) It was written by frequent Lewton collaborator Ardel Wray; directed by Mark Robson, the fourth of five pictures he directed for Lewton; and starred Boris Karloff, the first of three pictures he made with Lewton (although the second released).

 

[Mirra]

Bastille Peak is a mountain located 74 km (46 mi) north of Pangnirtung, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. It is associated with the Baffin Mountains which in tirn form part of the Arctic Cordillera mountain system.[1]



In tirn? Either I don't know wtf tirn means or turn is misspelled and every revision since the original (9 versions total) has included the mistake.

 

[RedHerby]

An apeirohedron is a polyhedron having infinitely many faces. Like an ordinary polyhedron it forms a surface with no border. But where an ordinary polyhedral surface has no border because it folds round to close back on itself, an apeirohedron has no border because its surface is unbounded.

 

[LilyMarie]

Solar eclipse of April 19, 2004

A partial solar eclipse took place on Monday, 19 April 2004. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partially obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth.
It was largely visible over the south Atlantic Ocean and north shores of Antarctica, most prominently the Antarctic Peninsula. The eclipse was deep enough to be seen from a large portion of southern Africa, with over 50% totality at Cape Town, South Africa approximately 4:10 PM. However, the eclipse remained visible to cities such as Harare, Maseru, Durban, and Bloemfontein, although to a much lesser extent.
The greatest eclipse of the Sun took place over a nigh inaccessible strip of ocean off the Antarctic coast; the maximum point displayed 73.5% totality, as compared to Cape Town's 51% totality.

 

[pg240]

Midtown Madness
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the video game series, see Midtown Madness (series).
Midtown Madness

Developer(s) Angel Studios
Publisher(s) Microsoft
Series Midtown Madness
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows
Release date(s) February 27, 1999 (Demo released on February 1, 1999)
Genre(s) Racing
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer
Distribution CD-ROM
Midtown Madness is a racing game developed for Windows by Angel Studios (now Rockstar San Diego) and published by Microsoft. A demo version was released via download on February 1, 1999, and the entire game was released on February 27, 1999. A sequel, Midtown Madness 2, was released in April 2000, and the final addition to the series, Midtown Madness 3 was released in June 2002 for the Xbox. Set in Chicago, the goal of Midtown Madness is to win street races and obtain new cars.

Unlike some racing games, which restrict the player to a race track, Midtown Madness offers an open world recreation of Chicago. This setting was developed by Microsoft and described as offering "an unprecedented degree of freedom to drive around in a virtual city".[1] Players can explore the city via one of several modes, and can determine the weather and traffic conditions for each race. The game supports multiplayer races over a local area network or the Internet. Overall, the game received positive reviews from gaming websites;[2][3]

 

[AllisonWilder]

Taxi zum Klo is a 1981 film written by, directed by, and starring Frank Ripploh. The story of a schoolteacher and the contrasts between his public and private lives, the film documents gay culture in West Berlin in the period in which it was made. Ripploh has stated that much of the film was autobiographical. The name literally means Taxi to the Toilet (or "Taxi to the John", etc.)

 

[Mirra]

Männiku training area is one of the six military training fields used by the Estonian Defence Forces. It is located just outside the capital of Estonia, Tallinn, in Kiili and Saku municipalities. Its area is 1,246 ha (3,080 acres).

 

[krukstyle]

Heimatfilm (German pronunciation: [ˈhaɪmatˌfɪlm], German for "homeland-film"; German plural: Heimatfilme) is the name given to a film genre that was popular in Germany, Switzerland and Austria from the late 1940s to the early 1970s. They were usually shot in the Alps, the Black Forest or the Lüneburg Heath and always involved the outdoors. Heimatfilms were noted for their rural settings, sentimental tone and simplistic morality, and centered around love, friendship, family and non-urban life. Also, the polarity between old and young, tradition and progress, rural and urban life was articulated. The typical plot structure involved both a "good" and "bad" guy wanting a girl, conflict ensuing, and the "good" guy ultimately triumphing to win the girl to the happiness of everyone and the children.

"Heimat" is a German word that can be translated as home, homeland, home soil or fatherland (each having a different emphasis and connotation).

English-language features that could qualify as Heimatfilme include Lassie Come Home, Spencer's Mountain, and Where the Red Fern Grows.[citation needed] In a broader sense, it is possible to view the Western-genre as the American counterpart to the German Heimatfilm.[citation needed]

The genre originally came to life following the devastation of Germany in World War II, suggesting a whole, romantic world untouched by the hazards of real life (i.e. war damage and subsequent rebuilding); this remained popular from the mid-1940s to the 1960s. The Berlin-based studio Berolina Film was the driving force behind the cycle of Heimatfilm.[1]

The trilogy of films called Heimat by the German director Edgar Reitz (1984, 1992, and 2004) are partly an ironic reference to this type of sentimental film.

 

[GingerOwnsChris]

Masdevallia triangularis is a species of orchid found from Venezuela into Ecuador. It grows to approximately 10 cm tall, and bears flat, solitary flowers above the leaves. It is more warmth tolerant than many other species in subsection Caudatae, and can be cultivated successfully in intermediate conditions.

Just like any other orchid, it looks like a vulva.

:geek: What?

 

[TashaDutch]

South Park Let's Go Tower Defense Play!
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

South Park Let's Go Tower Defense Play! (abbreviated as SPLGTDP) is a 2009 video game based on the American animated television series South Park, released on the Xbox Live Arcade service for the Xbox 360 video game console. The game was developed by Doublesix, in collaboration with South Park Digital Studios and Xbox Live Productions. Let's Go Tower Defense Play is a tower defense game, with the added element of being a fast-paced action game as well. Thus, players do not only build towers to eliminate destructive forces, but they also have to control multiple characters in order to successfully protect the town of South Park. South Park Let's Go Tower Defense Play! is the first South Park video game released after three early titles released between 1998 and 2000. The game costs 800 Microsoft Points.


haha i love this thread! and my result made me giggle... i love south park

 

[Kokoro]

Arctosomus is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Early Triassic epoch.

 

[Just Me]

An ocean-bottom seismometer (OBS) is a seismometer that is designed to record the earth motion under oceans and lakes from man-made sources and natural sources.

Sensors at the sea floor are used to observe acoustic and seismic events. Seismic and acoustic signals may be caused by different sources, by earth quakes and tremors as well as by artificial sources. Computing and analyzing the data yields information about the kind of source and, in case of natural seismic events, the geophysics and geology of the sea floor and the deeper crust. The deployment of OBS along a profile will give information about the deep structure of the Earth's crust and upper mantle in offshore areas. OBS may be equipped with a maximum of a three-component geophone in addition to a hydrophone, and thus it needs a capacity of more than 144 Mbytes, which would be the minimum for an adequate MCS profiling. In a typical survey, the instruments should be operational for several days, which requires a data storage capacity of more than 500 Mbyte. Other experiments, such as tomographic investigations within a 3D-survey or seismological monitoring, demand even larger capacities.

May I also suggest posting a link to the wiki page you got to, that way if anyone wants to know more about a subject they can get to it easier? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean-bottom_seismometer

 

[MemberEd]

Alfa Pendular is the name of the Pendolino high-speed tilting train of Portuguese state railway company CP.[1] It connects the cities of Braga, Porto, Aveiro, Coimbra, Santarém, Lisbon, Albufeira and Faro, among others at speeds of up to 220 kilometres per hour (137 mph).

 

[Aella]

Robert Stirling Newall

Robert Stirling Newall FRS (27 May 1812 – 21 April 1889) was a Scottish engineer and astronomer. Married to Mary, daughter of Hugh Lee Pattinson, FRS; father of Hugh Newall, FRS, astronomer. Born in Dundee, he was befriended by civil engineer L.D.B. Gordon. In 1838, whilst studying at the Freiburg School of Mines, Germany, Gordon visited the mines at Clausthal, and met Wilhelm Albert. Impressed by what he saw, he wrote to Newall, urging him to "Invent a machine for making wire ropes". On receipt of Gordon's letter, Newall designed a wire rope machine, consisting of four strands and four wires to a strand. On Gordon's return to the UK in 1839, he formed a partnership with Newall and Charles Liddell, registering R.S. Newall and Company in Dundee. On 17 August 1840, Newall took out a patent for "certain improvements in wire rope and the machinery for making such rope."[1]

 

[JerryBoBerry]

Bacterial vaginosis

Bacterial vaginosis (BV) or very uncommonly vaginal bacteriosis is a disease of the vagina caused by bacteria. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), risk factors for BV include douching and having new or multiple sex partners, although it is unclear what role sexual activity plays in the development of BV. BV is caused by an imbalance of naturally occurring bacterial flora and is often confused with yeast infection (candidiasis) or infection with Trichomonas vaginalis (trichomoniasis), which are not caused by bacteria.

The most common symptom of BV is an abnormal homogeneous off-white vaginal discharge (especially after vaginal intercourse) that may be accompanied by an unpleasant (usually fishy) smell. This malodorous discharge coats the walls of the vagina, and is usually without significant irritation, pain, or erythema (redness), although mild itching can sometimes occur. By contrast, the normal vaginal discharge will vary in consistency and amount throughout the menstrual cycle and is at its clearest at ovulation - about 2 weeks before the period starts. Some practitioners claim that BV can be asymptomatic in almost half of affected women, though others argue that this is often a misdiagnosis.

 

[Aella]

Bacterial vaginosis

Bacterial vaginosis (BV) or very uncommonly vaginal bacteriosis is a disease of the vagina caused by bacteria. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), risk factors for BV include douching and having new or multiple sex partners, although it is unclear what role sexual activity plays in the development of BV. BV is caused by an imbalance of naturally occurring bacterial flora and is often confused with yeast infection (candidiasis) or infection with Trichomonas vaginalis (trichomoniasis), which are not caused by bacteria.

The most common symptom of BV is an abnormal homogeneous off-white vaginal discharge (especially after vaginal intercourse) that may be accompanied by an unpleasant (usually fishy) smell. This malodorous discharge coats the walls of the vagina, and is usually without significant irritation, pain, or erythema (redness), although mild itching can sometimes occur. By contrast, the normal vaginal discharge will vary in consistency and amount throughout the menstrual cycle and is at its clearest at ovulation - about 2 weeks before the period starts. Some practitioners claim that BV can be asymptomatic in almost half of affected women, though others argue that this is often a misdiagnosis.

FUCK THAT. FUCK THAT SHIT. FUCK IT.
im sorry im breaking the stream ignore me.

 

[Jupiter551]

Wow mine was especially boring

Gran (island)
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Gran is an island in Nordanstig Municipality, Gävleborg County, Sweden.

Gran has a area of about 0.63 km2. It is about 10 km from the mainland. There are remains of an old fishing village. The island is included in a nature reserve established in 1988.[1]

 

[VeronicaChaos]

Dick Offer
Richard Frederick Offer (1909 - 6 February 2007) was an English rower who won Silver Goblets at Henley Royal Regatta and a silver medal at the 1938 British Empire Games.
Offer was born at Hampton Wick, the son of Henry John Offer and his wife Vera Jennie Burgoine. His maternal grandfather, Alfred Burgoine, was a boat designer who built one of Queen Victoria’s Royal Barges and a motor launch that held the world water speed record. He was educated at Tiffin School where he began rowing. He joined Kingston Rowing Club in 1929, where his brothers Tom and Jack Offer were already members.[1]
Offer excelled at sculling, in particular partnering his brother Jack in the double sculls. They also took part in skiffing, being members of The Skiff Club. They won the Gentlemen's Double Sculls at the Skiff Championships Regatta in 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933 and 1935. In 1936 the pair won Silver Goblets at Henley Royal Regatta.[2] Two years later they were selected to compete in the 1938 British Empire Games. Offer worked in an insurance company in the City of London and had to take unpaid leave to be able to compete. In spite of the difficulties in maintaining training during the six-week sea voyage to Australia they won the silver medal in the double sculls event.[3]
Offer was also a sailor with a boat on the south coast, and later at the Thames Sailing Club at Surbiton where he owned a Thames Rater which was designed and built by his grandfather. He also played rugby for the Old Tiffinians and at County level in the winter months.[1]
At the start of World War II, Offer was a volunteer fire-watcher on the River Thames until he gained his Commission in the Royal Navy and was employed on convoy escorts. At the D-Day Normandy landings he was a commander of tank landing craft LCT708,[4] and lead the landings on Gold Beach.
After the war, Offer returned to rowing at Kingston RC, where he competed until the 1950s. He then began coaching at Kingston and at Tiffin School, where he inspired successes in regattas including Henley and coached future international rowers. He played a major part in developing Kingston RC's headquarters at Canbury Gardens, Kingston and helped in the running of Kingston Regatta. He became president of Kingston Rowing Club in 1993.[5]

I like his name.

 

[LilyMarie]

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (マリオ&ソニック AT バンクーバーオリンピック Mario to Sonikku atto Bankūbā Orinpikku?, lit. "Mario & Sonic at the Vancouver Olympics")[3] is a 2009 sports video game developed by Sega. It was published by Nintendo for Japan and by Sega for North America and Europe. The game is officially licensed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) through exclusive license International Sports Multimedia. The game is the third official crossover title to feature characters from both Mario and Sonic's respective universes, the first and second being the game's predecessor Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games and Super Smash Bros. Brawl respectively. It was released on the Wii and the Nintendo DS handheld in October 2009, and is the first official video game of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.[1]
Mario & Sonic on the Wii and DS is a collection of events based on the Olympic Winter Games. Players can assume the role of a Mario or Sonic character while competing against the others in these events. The game features all of the playable characters that were present in its predecessor, as well as four new characters.[1][4]
A third installment, named Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games, was released for the Wii on November 13, 2011 in Europe, and it was developed for the Nintendo 3DS. The 3DS counterpart was released in February 2012.[5]

 

[krukstyle]

The Fuld-Gilad-Herring Academy of Competitive Intelligence is a first of its kind global educational organization solely dedicated to bringing professional training to the then fledgling field of competitive intelligence (CI).[1] Established in 1996, the Academy has expanded its training to thousands of managers from 58 countries and six continents at its campuses in Cambridge, MA and Brussels, Belgium. The Academy is the only CI-dedicated institution to be externally accredited by the International Association of Continuing Education and Training (IACET).[2] It grants the Competitive Intelligence Professional (CIP) certification based on a 9-course program, including a course in ethics and a pioneering course in business war gaming.[3][4] To be certified, managers must complete the required coursework and pass a certification exam. To accommodate managers whose main interest is in using CI tools and managers working as CI professionals, the Academy offers two levels of certification: a basic CIP-I, and an advanced CIP-II. The Academy is currently the largest training institute in its field.[5]

Competitive whaaaaa????

 

[pg240]

Two Brothers Roundhouse
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy Roundhouse and Locomotive Shop
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

America's Historical Roundhouse served the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad from 1856 to 1974


Location: Broadway and Spring Sts.
Aurora, Illinois
Coordinates: 41°45′39″N 88°18′30″WCoordinates: 41°45′39″N 88°18′30″W
Built: 1856
Architect: Levi Hull Waterhouse
Governing body: Private business
NRHP Reference#: 78001154[1]
Added to NRHP: February 16, 1978
The Two Brothers Roundhouse, formerly the Walter Payton Roundhouse, America's Historical Roundhouse, and Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy Roundhouse and Locomotive Shop is a historic building converted to a restaurant in Aurora, Illinois. It was originally constructed in 1856 as a roundhouse for the Chicago and Aurora Railroad (later Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad) and served in this capacity until 1974. It was abandoned until 1995, when a group of investors led by Walter Payton purchased it and converted the building to an entertainment complex. Its most recent tenant is Two Brothers Brewing. The building is the oldest limestone roundhouse in the United States and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[2]

 

[Just Me]

Bacterial vaginosis

Bacterial vaginosis (BV) or very uncommonly vaginal bacteriosis is a disease of the vagina caused by bacteria. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), risk factors for BV include douching and having new or multiple sex partners, although it is unclear what role sexual activity plays in the development of BV. BV is caused by an imbalance of naturally occurring bacterial flora and is often confused with yeast infection (candidiasis) or infection with Trichomonas vaginalis (trichomoniasis), which are not caused by bacteria.

The most common symptom of BV is an abnormal homogeneous off-white vaginal discharge (especially after vaginal intercourse) that may be accompanied by an unpleasant (usually fishy) smell. This malodorous discharge coats the walls of the vagina, and is usually without significant irritation, pain, or erythema (redness), although mild itching can sometimes occur. By contrast, the normal vaginal discharge will vary in consistency and amount throughout the menstrual cycle and is at its clearest at ovulation - about 2 weeks before the period starts. Some practitioners claim that BV can be asymptomatic in almost half of affected women, though others argue that this is often a misdiagnosis.

FUCK THAT. FUCK THAT SHIT. FUCK IT.
im sorry im breaking the stream ignore me.

It is very common. If you have a vagina you will most likely have this at one time or another in your life. It generally will clear up on its own even if untreated. The picture is just epithelial cells (skin cells) that have bacteria adhering to them. They are called clue cells at that point and they use that as a diagnostic tool when those are seen. Most times when you get your pelvic exam the doctor will collect a little sample to look at under the microscope to look for this and other possible problems. The more you know. :thumbleft:

 

[rexcode]

Poems, in Two Volumes is a collection of poetry by William Wordsworth, published in 1807.

It contains many notable poems, including:

"Resolution and Independence"
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (sometimes anthologized as "The Daffodils")
"My Heart Leaps Up"
"Ode: Intimations of Immortality"
"Ode to Duty"
"The Solitary Reaper"
"Elegiac Stanzas"
"Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802"
"London, 1802"
"The world is too much with us"

Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.

 

[God]

I know this game from a different forum I used to visited, it's pretty cool!
You go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random (or go to en.wikipedia.org and click "Random article" on the side) and whatever article you end up on, copy and paste everything above the "Contents" box.
Let's say I got the the MFC wikipedia article, I'd paste this:


MyFreeCams.com

MyFreeCams.com (MFC) is a website providing live webcam performances by female models, typically featuring nudity and sexual activity often ranging from striptease and dirty talk to masturbation with sex toys.


You can actually learn some interesting stuff this way.
(Of course if your random article is really lame, feel free to click the button again til you find something a bit more interesting )

i've seen a seemingly-innocent wikipedia link that ended up redirecting to a racial slur wikipedia link (not with your link)

 

[God]

Hitchcock (film)


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Hitchcock




Theatrical film poster



Directed by

Sacha Gervasi



Produced by

Ivan Reitman
Tom Pollock
Joe Medjuck
Alan Barnette
Tom Thayer



Written by

John J. McLaughlin



Based on

Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho
by Stephen Rebello



Starring

Anthony Hopkins
Helen Mirren
Scarlett Johansson
Toni Collette
Danny Huston
Jessica Biel
James D'Arcy
Kurtwood Smith
Michael Wincott



Music by

Danny Elfman



Cinematography

Jeff Cronenweth



Editing by

Pamela Martin



Studio

The Montecito Picture Company
Cold Spring Pictures



Distributed by

Fox Searchlight Pictures



Release date(s)


November 23, 2012 (limited)
December 14, 2012 (wide)



Running time

98 minutes[1]



Country

United States



Language

English



Box office

$22,788,114[2]


Hitchcock is a 2012 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Sacha Gervasi and based on Stephen Rebello's non-fiction book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho. The film was released in selected cities on November 23, 2012,[3] with a worldwide release on December 14, 2012.

Hitchcock centers on the relationship between director Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville during the making of Psycho, a controversial horror film that became one of the most acclaimed and influential works in the filmmaker's career.

 

[God]

Dick Offer
Richard Frederick Offer (1909 - 6 February 2007) was an English rower who won Silver Goblets at Henley Royal Regatta and a silver medal at the 1938 British Empire Games.
Offer was born at Hampton Wick, the son of Henry John Offer and his wife Vera Jennie Burgoine. His maternal grandfather, Alfred Burgoine, was a boat designer who built one of Queen Victoria’s Royal Barges and a motor launch that held the world water speed record. He was educated at Tiffin School where he began rowing. He joined Kingston Rowing Club in 1929, where his brothers Tom and Jack Offer were already members.[1]
Offer excelled at sculling, in particular partnering his brother Jack in the double sculls. They also took part in skiffing, being members of The Skiff Club. They won the Gentlemen's Double Sculls at the Skiff Championships Regatta in 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933 and 1935. In 1936 the pair won Silver Goblets at Henley Royal Regatta.[2] Two years later they were selected to compete in the 1938 British Empire Games. Offer worked in an insurance company in the City of London and had to take unpaid leave to be able to compete. In spite of the difficulties in maintaining training during the six-week sea voyage to Australia they won the silver medal in the double sculls event.[3]
Offer was also a sailor with a boat on the south coast, and later at the Thames Sailing Club at Surbiton where he owned a Thames Rater which was designed and built by his grandfather. He also played rugby for the Old Tiffinians and at County level in the winter months.[1]
At the start of World War II, Offer was a volunteer fire-watcher on the River Thames until he gained his Commission in the Royal Navy and was employed on convoy escorts. At the D-Day Normandy landings he was a commander of tank landing craft LCT708,[4] and lead the landings on Gold Beach.
After the war, Offer returned to rowing at Kingston RC, where he competed until the 1950s. He then began coaching at Kingston and at Tiffin School, where he inspired successes in regattas including Henley and coached future international rowers. He played a major part in developing Kingston RC's headquarters at Canbury Gardens, Kingston and helped in the running of Kingston Regatta. He became president of Kingston Rowing Club in 1993.[5]

I like his name.

look at his brother's name

 

[VenPerv2]

Mole Valley Council election, 2000
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elections to Mole Valley Council were held on 4 May 2000. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 1999. The council stayed under no overall control.


and just incase you were wondering

 

[MsAllyCat]

Area codes 240 and 301

North American area codes 240 and 301 are telephone area codes for the western half of Maryland. They serve Maryland's portion of the Greater Washington, D.C. metro area, portions of southern Maryland, and all points northwest of Washington. This includes the communities of Cumberland, Frederick, Hagerstown, and Gaithersburg.

The main area code, 301, was one of the original area codes established in 1947. It originally served the entire state, even though it is home to two very large metropolitan areas, Baltimore and the suburbs of Washington, D.C.. The North American Numbering Plan Administrator wanted to keep the number of "clicks" to a minimum for densely populated areas given the rotary dialing technology in use at the time. Though codes as short as 5 clicks were possible for area codes covering just a city or portion of a state, area codes covering an entire state always had 0 as the middle digit, for a minimum of 13 clicks. Maryland was assigned one of the shortest full-state area codes, with 14 clicks (3+10+1).

From 1947 to 1991, it was possible for telephone users on the Maryland side of the Washington metropolitan area to dial any number in the region with only seven digits. This was possible because the Maryland side of the metro shares an LATA with Northern Virginia (in area code 703) and the District itself. Every number on the Maryland and Virginia sides of the metro was also given a "hidden" number in the District's area code 202, essentially making 202 an overlay for the entire metro. This ended in 1991, since this arrangement meant no prefixes could be duplicated in the Washington metro area and exchanges on both sides of the Potomac River were running out of numbers.