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- Israel Strikes Iran: Israel launched a series of retaliatory strikes against military targets in Iran, according to a spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces, which was announced amid reports of explosions heard near the Iranian capital, Tehran.
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CCP Hack: Hackers linked to the Chinese Communist Party have breached America’s commercial telecommunications sector, according to federal agencies, which are “aggressively” working to mitigate the harm, while unconfirmed reports suggest that former President Donald Trump and his running mate are among those targeted.
- Bezos Blocks Harris Endorsement: The Washington Post’s decision to forgo endorsing a presidential candidate, for only the second time since 1976, was made by its owner, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, according to the newspaper.
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The Trump-Rogan Experience: Joe Rogan released his three-hour interview with former President Donald Trump on Friday night.
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Child Prodigy: Vinnie Ream sculpted the bust of President Abraham Linconln when she was just 17 years old, making her the youngest artist to receive a federal commission. Story below.
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"Vinnie Ream," circa 1870, by George Peter Alexander Healy. |
Unrest: Lavinia “Vinnie” Ellen Ream (1847–1914) moved to Washington with her poor family at the age of 14. The country had recently elected Abraham Lincoln and the nation would soon break out into civil war.
Met with Providence: After a series of events, Ream and her mother were invited to the studio of Clark Mills in the Capitol. Mills had become one of the nation’s most prominent sculptors. |
- “As soon as I saw the sculptor handle the clay,” she recalled, “I felt at once that I, too, could model and, taking the clay, in a few hours I produced a medallion of an Indian chief’s head, which so pleased the major that he carried it away and placed it on his desk in the House of Representatives.”
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Rise to Fame: From that point on, she began working for Mills as his assistant. Military and political leaders quickly formed a proverbial line to have their busts sculpted by Ream. Her greatest subject, however, was President Abraham Lincoln. |
Vinnie Ream's portrait with the Lincoln bust. |
Almost Rejected: Lincoln was not simply weary from the war and the recent death of his young son Willie, but he was also weary of being subject to various forms of artistry—until he learned of Ream’s poverty. |
- “She is poor, is she? Well, that’s nothing against her,” Lincoln responded. “Why don’t you bring that girl up here? I'll sit to her for my bust.”
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A Great Man: Starting in December of 1864, the young 17-year-old sculptress visited Lincoln in the White House. |
- Ream remembered the “look of anxiety and pain” on Lincoln’s face, which came
“to one accustomed to grief.” - At other times he possessed a “far-away, dreamy look, which seemed to presage the tragic fate awaiting him.”
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That assassination in April 1865 would find Lincoln shortly before Ream had completed the bust. She finished all the same. “The whole face would be illuminated with the impulse of some Divine purpose,” she recalled of her time spent with the president.
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