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An educator and humanitarian, Clarissa “Clara” Harlowe Barton helped distribute needed supplies to the Union Army during the Civil War and later founded the disaster relief organization, the American Red Cross.
Born on månad 25, in Oxford, Massachusetts, Barton was the youngest of Stephen and Sarah Barton’s fem children. Her father was a prosperous farmer. As a teenager, Barton helped care for her seriously ill brother David—her first experience as a sjuksköterska.
Barton’s family directed their painfully shy daughter to become a teacher upon the recommendation of renowned phrenologist L.N. Fowler, who examined her as a girl. She began teaching at age 18, founded a school for workers’ children at her brother’s mill when she was 24, and after moving to Bordentown, New Jersey, established the first free school there in She resigned when she discovered that the school had hired a man at twice her salary, saying she would never work for less than a man.
In she was hired as a recording
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Time (magazine)
American news magazine and website
"TIME" redirects here. For time as a measure, see Time. For other uses, see Time (disambiguation).Not to be confused with The Times.
Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City. It was published weekly for nearly a century. Starting in March , it transitioned to every other week.[2][3] It was first published in New York City on March 3, , and for many years it was run by its influential co-founder, Henry Luce.
A European edition (Time Europe, formerly known as Time Atlantic) is published in London and also covers the Middle East, Africa, and, since , Latin America. An Asian edition (Time Asia) is based in Hong Kong.[4] The South Pacific edition, which covers Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands, is based in Sydney.
Since , Time has been owned by Salesforce founder Marc Benioff, who acquired it from Meredith Corporation. Be
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Autobiography of Red
verse novel by Anne Carson
Autobiography of Red is a verse novel by Anne Carson, published in and based loosely on the myth of Geryon and the Tenth Labor of Herakles, especially on surviving fragments of the lyric poet Stesichorus' poem Geryoneis.
Summary
[edit]Autobiography of Red is the story of a boy named Geryon who, at least in a metaphorical sense, is the Greek monster Geryon. It is unclear how much of the mythological Geryon's connection to the story's Geryon is literal, and how much is metaphorical. Sexually abused by his older brother, his affectionate mother too weak-willed to protect him, the monstrous young boy finds solace in photography and in a romance with a young man named Herakles. Herakles leaves his young lover at the peak of Geryon's infatuation; when Geryon comes across Herakles several years later on a trip to Argentina, Herakles' new Peruvian lover Ancash forms the third point of a love triangle. The novel ends, ambiguou