Editing The AMERICAN GODS (section)

===Maryland===
* '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annapolis%2C_Maryland Annapolis]''': Home to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Naval_Academy U.S. Naval Academy], which hosts not only a shipyards and naval base, but also some of the country's most extensive RADAR and detection equipment.  It is the site where Brian Jaffe safely brought down a Navy pilot who had lost control of his plane.
* '''[http://www.jhu.edu/ John Hopkins University]''': One of the leading academic and research universities in the United States, if not the world.  Brian claimed, once, to have applied to their law school, but been turned down.  The administration recently offered to award Brian an honorary doctorate (in an unknown field - presumably law or international relations) if he'll serve as commencement speaker.
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johns_Hopkins_Hospital John Hopkins Hospital]: One of the nation's leading research and teaching hospitals, it's so-far been the medical center of choice for the main cast.  They brought Jack here after he was shot, Carrie here to recover from her burns and Arthur here after Carrie stabbed him.  An unknown Survivor works in the hospital as a Physical Therapist.
* '''[http://www.oaklandmd.com/home.asp Oakland]''': A town in the far west of Maryland, this is the home of [[Thomas Reagan]] and the site of his [[Legal_Matters#State_vs._Reagan|unfortunate accident]].
* '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockville%2C_Maryland Rockville]''': The third largest city in Maryland, located almost at the state's geographic center.
** [http://www.celera.com/ CELERA] campus: This is the site where all of the Survivors first landed on the East Coast.  This is also where the main cast discovered the four cloned corpses of Bryce, the [Unborn Child of Mary Beth Manly].
** [[King Farm]]: An enclosed, 430 acre neo-traditional planned community founded in 1997 within the Rockville city limits.  [[Milos Wiazowski]] recently announced that due to funding from the [http://www.gatesfoundation.org/default.htm Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation], among others, King Farm has now become an enclosed community specifically for the benefit of the Godlike.