When Douglas McFern Scott was born on 15 July 1931, in Scott, Virginia, United States, his father, Bronson Livingston Scott, was 26 and his mother, Maxie Jane Cox, was 26. He lived in Johnson District, Scott, Virginia, United States in 1940. He died on 17 February 1985, in Dungannon, Scott, Virginia, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Weber City, Scott, Virginia, United States.
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The Pentagon was developed as the Department of Defense had outgrown the other buildings were it was previous located.The groundbreaking for the Pentagon was on September 11, 1941. When the Pentagon was being built, it was determined that it could be no taller than four stories high. Colonel Leslie R. Groves was the supervisor of the project, he would later become known for helping on the Manhattan Project.
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English, Scottish, and Irish (Down): habitational and ethnic name from Middle English Scot ‘man from Scotland’. There is no evidence that the surname denoted either of the earlier senses of Scot as ‘(Gaelic-speaking) Irishman’ or ‘man from Alba’, the Gaelic-speaking region of Scotland north of the river Forth. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
English and Scottish: from the rare Middle English personal name Scot (Old English Scott, possibly also Old Norse Skotr), only certainly attested in northern England.
English: variant of Scutt .
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