Clara Barton
Clarissa Harlowe Barton(December 25,182 1-jun l 12,191 2) was a pioneer American teacher, nurse, and humanitarian. she has been described as having a "strong and independent spirit" and is best remembered for organizing the American Red Cross.
Key Words
- Geneva Convention
Geneva Convention
- Treaty
N.
Treaty
They signed a treaty to settle all border disputes by arbitration.
They signed a treaty through arbitration to resolve all border disputes.
Agreement, Negotiation
The house was sold by private treaty.
The house was sold through private agreements.
- Barn
N.
Warehouse
That big building is a barn for keeping the grain.
The big house is a grain storage barn.
Livestock shed
Another barn has been built there.
Another farm was built there.
- Wounds
N.
Trauma; wound; SCAR
Apply some medicine to his wound.
Add some medicine to his wound.
Vt.
Injury
The thief wounded her in the arm with his knife.
The thief stabbed her arm with a knife.
- Honorable regression sion
- Infected
Adj.
(Wound) infected
- The International Red Cross
- American chapter of the Red Cross
Red Cross American Branch
- Victim
N.
Victims, victims, victims
Most of the victims were shot in the back while trying to run away.
Most of the victims were shot from the back when they managed to escape.
- The disease yellow fever
Yellow Fever
Yellow Jack: caused by a flavivirus transmitted by a mosquito
- Armenia
Armenia
A landlocked republic in southwestern Asia; formerly an Asian Soviet; modern Armenia is but a fragment of specified ent Armenia which was one of the world's oldest civilizations; throughout 2500 years the Armenian people have been invaded and oppressed by their neighbors
"You must never so much as think if you like it or not, if it is bearable or not. You must never think of anything before t the need --- and how to meet it ."
-- Clara Barton
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