Tonight we are very pleased to welcome back mark wilkinson. He has also been the director at the atwood house museum. Mr. Wilkins is a published auth author. He has a masters from Harvard University and he is currently working on several books related to world war one aviation. Mr. Will kins is also conservativing as producer of aerial effects documentary film. His new book, aeroneurosis. Due to unforeseen complications, we dont have any copies you can have signed tonight. The speaker graciously agreed to personalize some as well. Please join us in welcoming mark wilkins. Thank you for that very nice introduction, crystal. Im very happy to be here tonight. Thank you all for coming. I hope you find this topic as fascinating as i do. Basically the to give you a little background, the book was something i did for air and space magazine. Anyway, the research for that article sort of opened my eyes to the amount of material about how greatly about a a lot of these First World War pilots suf
Wilkins author mark wilkins exd the psychological impact of world war i Aerial Combat and the disorder known as aeroneurosis, a nervous condition brought on by flying. He also talked about diary entries from pilots who experienced this condition and explores their lives after the war. This event was hosted by the smithsonian associates. Pleasedht, we are very to welcome back to this smithsonian mark wilkins. He is the current curator of maritime history at the calvert marine museum. He is also director and he has also been richer and curator of the Maritime Museum and the atlas house museum. Mr. Wilkins is a published author of books and articles. Degree fromters Harvard University and is currently working on several books related to world war i aviation. He is adjunct faculty at the college of st. Marys in maryland. Also the producer of a documentary film. Aeroneurosis will be published. We will not have signing tonight. Signed ande already the speaker has graciously agreed to persona
Speaking at the Brookings Institution in washington about minority Voting Rights, Voter Suppression and a little power. Discussion. Good morning everyone. Welcome to the black History Month celebration at brookings, and this is a packed house. I love it. Its so packed in fact, i think we have people in our spillover space so greetings to the people in the spillover space as well. They dont get enough love usually around here. Im going to assert humbly that youre not all here for the introductory speaker, and thats totally okay but that makes me motivated to keep the speech short. My name is ted gayer, and were here for the marquis event and the brookings celebration of black History Month. Before we begin im looking through the crowd. I wanted to give a special welcome, we have a number of artists from the Richard Wright school of media and arts. They created the videos we saw earlier. And if you havent yet if you go straight down the hall after the event we have a fantastic cafeteria,
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Welcome to florida, the sinkhole capital of the world. Its an issue that many people never think about until its too late. But if youre buying or selling property, well, you cant afford to overlook it. Natural sinkholes happen when acidic rainwater seeps down through surface soil and gets to Something Like sandstone or limestone, which dissolves over time. And eventually, the land cant support its own weight and collapses. And its not just florida. Last year, eight corvettes were damaged after being devoured by a 30footdeep sinkhole at the National Corvette museum in kentucky. Imagine coming in to find that damage. Sinkholes have wreaked havoc across the country texas, tennessee, alabama, pennsylvania. Now, sinkholes dont get as much attention as natural disasters like earthquakes or hurricanes because many of them are localized. But they can cause just as much damage. Florida has more sinkholes than any other state. There have been more than 15,000 verified sinkholes across the state.