BALTIMORE (WJZ) --During a social media campaign to derail HBO's planned modern-day Southern slavery drama, one Twitter user's posts about the history of the Maryland flag got a lot of attention.

“Look for the house with the Maryland flag door” is a pretty surefire way to give directions. …OK, I guess those directions wouldn’t quite work if you lived on the same block as this gu ...

The gaudy reds and golds of the Maryland state flag have leapt in recent years from the flagpole to T-shirts, koozies, swimsuits and a host of other products that Lord Baltimore himself never ...