Improve public health and strengthen U.S. national security through global disease detection, response, prevention, and control strategies. The health of the U.S. population can be affected by public health threats or events across the globe.
The period during which he led Athens, roughly from 461 to 429 BC, is sometimes known as the Age of Pericles, though the period thus denoted can include times as early as the Persian Wars, or as late as the next century.
Sceptre; Scepter. A rod or mace used by a sovereign as a symbol of royal authority. The Hebrew shebheT is the ordinary word for rod or club, and is used of an ordinary rod (compare 2 Samuel 7:14), of the shepherd's crook (Psalms 23:4), scribe's baton or marshal's staff (Judges 5:14), as well as of the symbol of royalty.