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“The Bachelorette” returns to ABC next week on June 7 and Maryland fans should get excited an Ellicott City native is one of the contestant’s vying for Katie Thurston’s love.
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As one of the first women accepted into the US Coast Guard Academy in the late 1970s, Sandra L. Stosz would rise through the ranks of the predominantly male armed forces to eventually become a vice admiral and then earn the distinction of becoming the first woman superintendent of the service academy where she got her start.Â
Admiral Stosz, now retired from the Coast Guard, was raised in the small town of Ellicott City, Maryland, but spent summers at her maternal grandparents home on Great Bay in Falmouth. It was in her grandfatherâs wooden rowboat, paddling off the shores of Falmouth, that she first learned to navigate the open water and cultivated a lifelong passion for a life at sea. Although no one in the family prior to Admiral Stosz spent time serving in the military, she attributes her maternal grandfather s âinfluence to waterâ and a lifelong desire to sail as significant factors in her decision to join the Coast Guard.
He was locked up for supporting Islamist terrorism before turning his life around
Ashley Powers, The Washington Post
Feb. 9, 2021
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2of6Mohammed Khalid s Koran.Photo for The Washington Post by Andre ChungShow MoreShow Less
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4of6Mohammed Khalid is pictured in Ellicott City, Md., near where he grew up.Photo for The Washington Post by Andre ChungShow MoreShow Less
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6of6 Terrorist. That s what the boys whispered after he stood up and introduced himself to his ninth-grade class. Terrorist. Soft enough that the teacher couldn t hear, loud enough to sting. The boys smirked, turned back to whatever was happening in English class. Mohammed Khalid didn t respond. He simmered inside. Mohammed was 13 and had arrived in suburban Baltimore from Pakistan just a few weeks before. He was a wisp of a kid in a collared shirt, with neatly trimmed black hair and oval-shaped glasses that