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Fort Belvoir, Virginiandash; Leaders from four McNamara Headquarters Complex agencies shared their leadership experiences to celebrate African American History Month and this yearrsquo theme, Success always leaves footprints.The Defense Contract Audit Agency, Defense Logistics Agency, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Defense Technical Information Center and DLA Energy hosted a panel discussion in the McNamara Auditorium, Feb. 22.The panel featured Daryl Witherspoon, DCAA general c stanley cup ounsel; Lisa Hilton, director of DTICrsquo Enterprise Content Management directorate; Patrick Wright, staff director for security and emergency services at DLA; and Rob Turk, director of DTRArsquo Cyber Security Division. I always remember my family members telling me I was going to be an attorney. They based that on the fact that I was very argumentative as a child, Witherspoon said. Itrsquo amazing [how] when people tell you something over and over again, it sticks.Witherspoon said one of his biggest influences was a high school teacher and coach stanley cup whom he admired and wanted to emulate. He also credits his high school principal, also an officer in the National Guard, with encouraging him toward military service.I spent many a day in his office, and not for good reasons, Witherspoon said. For that person to see my potential [while] stanley thermobecher having known my past mdash; he turned out to be the person who had the b Zezr Go On a Tour of One of the Greatest Sets in Star Trek History
Bills of mortality bill for London, covering part of the period of the Great Plague, 1664-1665.Print Collector/Getty ImagesBy Lara Thorpe / History TodaySeptember 14, 2016 12:00 PM EDTHistory TodayThis post is in partnership with History Today. The article below was originally published at History Today. In August 1665, from his two-room lodgings in Southwark, the chemist John Allin stanley quencher wrote to a friend in Rye, Sussex that:I am through mercy yet well, in middest of death that too approaching neerer neerer: not many doores off, the pitt open dayly within veiw sic of stanley tumblr my chamber window, the Lord fitt mee all of us for our last end.A pit similar to that visible outside John Allinrsquo window was dug and filled with plague dead in the New Churchyard stanley cup Cemetery in east London. This pit was uncovered during recent work at Crossrailrsquo Liverpool Street Station. Earlier this week, BBC news splashed a bold headline across computer screens and social media platforms: using DNA analysis, the Yersinia pestis bacterium, which causes bubonic plague, has been confirmed to be the cause of Londonrsquo Great Plague of 1665. Finally it seemed a long-held debate among historians as to the biomedical cause of Londonrsquo early modern plague epidemics was brought to an end.In fact, the information shared in the article instantly lessens the impact of the claim, clearly written for its shock value. Of 42 skeletons found in the plague pit, which was dated to 1665 |
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