May 9, 2026
Tag: red cross
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Red Cross Postcards
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The Red Cross was founded by Henri Dunant, who was present at the Battle of Solferino in 1859, at which 40,000 men were killed or wounded. Dunant spent the next five years trying to get support for his plan and succeeded in convoking a convention of interested persons in Geneva, Switzerland in 1864. After the
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July 16, 2020 5 Comments
Josephine Baker was a beauty, an actress, a singer, a spy, a savior of abused animals and orphaned children, a civil rights activist, and a celebrity on two continents. In all these roles she made headlines. Tony Crumbley tells her complex and heroic story.