Female of the Species the Species", which has as its refrain: "The female of the species is more deadly than the male". In one instance Kipling uses the word "deadlier"; the song replaces that word with the phrase "more deadly". Female of the Species "Female of the Species" is a song by the English rock band Space, released as their fourth single, and second single proper from their debut album "Spiders" on 27 May 1996, reaching #14 in the UK charts. It was the band's only entry on any music chart in the U.S. when it peaked at #15 on the Hot Modern Rock
Washington, D.C., in the American Civil War The following hospitals were located in the District of Columbia: More than 20,000 injured or ill soldiers received treatment in an array of permanent and temporary hospitals in the capital, including the U.S. Patent Office, and, for a time, the Capitol itself. Among the notables who served in nursing were American Red Cross founder Clara Barton, and Dorothea Dix, who served as superintendent of female nurses in Washington. Novelist Louisa May Alcott served at the Union Hospital in Georgetown. Poet Walt Whitman served as a hospital volunteer, and in 1865 would publish his famous poem "The Wound-Dresser." The United States