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They arrive in predawn hoursand the middle of the afternoonunaware of an overflowingwaiting room or his need for a fewhours of uninterrupted sleep. The police recognize his car,escort him to the hospitalfor those middle of the night calls. Surgery, lunch in the hospital cafeteria,then office hours where the babies,bundled in mother’s arms,check in for a six- week visitpeaceful and slumbering, as if making upfor the sleep he missed. At career’s end, twin granddaughtersborn on his birthday. Memories streak across the mind’s sky. We need their bright, yet fleeting comfort. His life of births, his solitary death.
This night Venus tremblesbelow the crescent moonlike a glistening tear. Reprinted with permission. Rousseau was a mediocre student, but excelled at drawing and music. He worked for a lawyer, served in the army for four years, and eventually went to work for the government as a tax collector. He married twice and had six children, only one of whom survived. He didn't start painting until he was in his early 4.
He often painted primitive- style jungle scenes, and his work was misunderstood and ridiculed in his lifetime, although he had an admirer in Picasso. In the fall of 1. Picasso was strolling down the rue de Martyrs in Montmartre when he noticed a portrait of a woman among a stack of canvases for sale outside a junk shop. The proprietor told Picasso that the canvas could be painted over and reused. But Picasso knew the work was a Rousseau and purchased it.
He told a friend that the portrait of a woman . It is one of the most psychologically truthful of all French portraits. At first, he seemed fine, but the next day he developed a headache and fever.
The doctor diagnosed . Clara took over as her brother's nurse and spent two years at his bedside applying leeches (though David did not get any better until he tried an innovative . The phrenologist said that she was shy and retiring and that the solution to her problem was to become a schoolteacher.
Barton did not want to teach but she began teaching in 1. She overcame her shyness, became a sought- after teacher, and believed in the value of her work. She worked hard, got promoted, and within a year was making a salary equal to the men in the office (which angered the men). She left Washington for three years when the administration changed, but she returned in the early 1.
Patent Office. By 1. Confederacy attacked Union soldiers in Washington, D. C., Clara helped nurse wounded soldiers in the same way she had nursed her brother when they were young. During one of the first major engagements of the war, the Battle of Bull Run, the Union suffered a staggering defeat and as Clara read reports of the battle she realized that the Union Army had not seriously considered or provided for wounded soldiers.
She began to ride along in ambulances, providing supplies and comfort to wounded soldiers on the frontlines. After the war, she traveled to Geneva, Switzerland, where she learned about the International Red Cross and its mission to be a neutral organization that helped wounded soldiers. When Barton returned to the United States, she pressed for the creation of a national branch of the Red Cross. But many people thought there would never again be a war as monumental and devastating as the Civil War and didn't see the need for the Red Cross. Barton finally convinced the Arthur administration that the Red Cross could be used in other crises. The American Red Cross was officially incorporated on this day, with Barton as its president. Clara Barton said.
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