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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 14, 2014 23:09:18 GMT
Apparently she died with her mental faculties intact at the age of 90. That makes it seem doubtful that it was syphilis. Maybe some kind of recurring infection? She did write books & pamphlets & get them published during that time.
It seems like whatever she could have done to get her reforms passed would have been worth it to the world.
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Post by questa on Feb 15, 2014 3:26:14 GMT
Oh yes...a brilliant woman. Did you know she invented the "pie chart" to demonstrate her statistical reports.
The hospital where I trained had a head nursing officer who trained under a nurse who was trained by one of the nurses Flo sent to Sydney to start a hospital there. I guess I am sort of a direct descendent. I agree with your comment re her age ruling out syph. I threw that in here hoping to trace the source of the story.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 15, 2014 3:44:23 GMT
She was remarkable, especially considering that she had to buck the establishment every step of the way. Here's where I got my little bit about her being bedridden: www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Nightingale.htmlPoor woman -- now that we have the internet, a highly efficient rumor mill, she is being debunked right & left. One site says she was over-rated. Another claims she suffered from bipolor disorder, citing bouts of depression and of productivity. Can't a person simply be an admirable high achiever without a search committee peeping under her skirts for feet of clay?
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Post by mossie on Feb 15, 2014 14:38:08 GMT
Interesting. Florence lived for some time with her sister Parthenope, at Claydon House in Buckinghamshire and suffered from brecellosis. Parthenope had married Sir Harry Verney, from the rich branch of my family.
Genealogy is a wonderful thing which leads one down all sorts of strange paths.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 15, 2014 21:08:15 GMT
I had to look up brucellosis, Mossie, & what an eye opener that was. Re: Florence living with Parthenope -- one of the debunking articles I read cited some unpleasantness that Parthenope wrote about her sister. Pronouncements by one sibling on another are either the most or least accurate indices of the subject's character. What an interesting genealogical link. Was it a complete surprise, or did you have suspect that relationship existed? In terms of things I learned today, that brucellosis link had an ugly fact: "In 1954, B. suis became the first agent weaponized by the United States at its Pine Bluff Arsenal near Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Brucella species survive well in aerosols and resist drying." Fortunately, that sentence was followed by this one: "Brucella and all other remaining biological weapons in the U.S. arsenal were destroyed in 1971–72 when the American offensive biological warfare (BW) program was discontinued by order of President Richard Nixon." We can but hope!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2014 19:43:58 GMT
Angkor Wat was the largest city in the world in the 11th century with a population of more than one million. (Paris boasted a population of 250,000 at that time.)
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 19, 2014 20:20:33 GMT
I found out that Proboards records you as being online on a pbds forum for 15 minutes after you've logged off.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2014 20:25:28 GMT
Cool. Does that make us older or younger?
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 19, 2014 20:28:49 GMT
I think we just get to collect the accumulated time at The End.
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Post by questa on Feb 19, 2014 21:37:46 GMT
Or it provides an alibi for us if we need it
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2014 17:39:02 GMT
More than two thirds of the children of the world speak at least two languages.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2014 18:17:21 GMT
Then there's hope for humanity.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2014 18:41:48 GMT
Yes, but most of these children are in Africa and Asia where they speak a minor local language plus the official language of the country, or perhaps the language of another nearby ethnic group. It is in the developed countries where children are unilingual more often than not.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2014 19:22:06 GMT
The five richest people in Great Britain are richer than the 20 million poorest British residents combined.
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Post by Oscar on Mar 28, 2014 18:56:04 GMT
It has been found that if you release a rat from a cage where there are other rats in cages, it will not run away. It will open the other cages to release the other rats. Are rats superior to humans?
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Post by Don Cuevas on Mar 29, 2014 18:09:13 GMT
Another gold star for Pro Boards: I just discovered, while using the full editor (not the quick reply) to post, that I can use keyboard shortcuts to format text. That means that I no longer have to mouse up to the tool bar to italicize, to underline, and to make bold. But there's an inconsistency, which I just bumped into. On a Mac, the modifier key is Command plus I or U or B. But here, for underline it's Control plus U (as it should be in Windows). I wish the LP TT would make this available to its members, even though the discrepancy is intolerable here!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2014 19:23:37 GMT
The 5 largest military budgets in the world in 2013:
1. United States (-7.8%) 2. China (+7.4%) 3. Russia 4. Saudi Arabia 5. France
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2014 19:50:33 GMT
Mississippi ranks last in internet usage in the United States. 22% of the population has never used the internet at all.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Apr 24, 2014 14:34:52 GMT
Mississippi ranks last in internet usage in the United States. 22% of the population has never used the internet at all. Does that include Internet access via smartphone?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2014 16:23:57 GMT
That includes ALL internet use. Mississippi is one of the most rural states if not THE most rural states. Some of the small towns have barely made it to the 20th century, much less the 21st. I will never forget that when I switched from Catholic school to public school in the 4th grade, two of the kids came to school barefoot every day, and I was living in the richest county in the state.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2014 12:50:06 GMT
The Middle East is obliged to import sand from Australia for its construction needs.
Why? Because desert sand is too eroded, too small, too round, too slippery. Rougher sand from beaches is required for making concrete and other such things.
You can't even use desert sand to build up eroded beaches because it washes away immediately -- it just doesn't stick to anything.
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Post by htmb on Apr 25, 2014 18:44:05 GMT
Hard to understand!!!
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Post by mossie on Apr 26, 2014 7:24:47 GMT
Sand, or stone for that matter, make stronger concrete or asphalt if they are irregularly shaped, so they can get a mechanical interlock. Crushed stone is always preferred, but sand needs to be checked for shape. The problem with desert sand is that it has been blown around and all the rough corners have been worn off. This is also a reason why sands at home vary, if over time they have been rolled down large rivers they can loose their shape.
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Post by htmb on Apr 26, 2014 22:48:33 GMT
This is quite interesting. Kerouac, thank you for the initial post, and Mossie, thanks for the great explanation.
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Post by questa on Apr 27, 2014 10:27:19 GMT
Desert sands that have had no vegetation for years are hell to walk any distance on. They give underfoot and each step sinks in a bit and for each pace, only half the pace is achieved. Calf muscles don't like it either. It is the worn out dust like sands like this that K2 and Mossie talk about. Pity there is no use for this sand as Oz has a lot of it to sell!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2014 18:46:39 GMT
Mississippi ranks last in internet usage in the United States. 22% of the population has never used the internet at all. Mississippi ranks first in the United States for per capita church attendance. Perhaps devout Mississippians have recognized that the internet is the devil's Happy Meal.
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Post by mossie on Apr 28, 2014 19:21:34 GMT
"The House of Windsor is the royal house of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms. It was founded by King George V by royal proclamation on 17 July 1917, when he changed the name of the British Royal Family from the German Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (a branch of the House of Wettin) to the English Windsor, due to the anti-German sentiment in the British Empire during World War I."
Copied from Wikipedia, I was curious when we got involved with our Royal Family in the name game, I knew there was some such reason. There was a TV programme recently which explained how George V of England, Nicholas Tsar of Russia, and Wilhelm Kaiser of Germany, were all directly related to our Queen Victoria, who had been married to the German Prince Albert.
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Post by patricklondon on Apr 29, 2014 11:05:53 GMT
George and Wilhelm were first cousins through being among Victoria's many grandchildren. George and Nicholas were first cousins through their mothers. I don't think there was any direct blood relationship between Wilhelm and Nicholas, which may have been part of Wilhelm's various insecurities. My blog | My photos | My video clips"too literate to be spam"
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Post by questa on Apr 29, 2014 12:27:59 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2014 18:48:22 GMT
Tumbleweeds are not at all indigenous to the United States but actually come from Russia. The most common tumbleweed plant is the "Russian thistle" which was first reported in South Dakota in 1877 before spreading through the American West.
The Russian thistle loves "bad soil." Surprise, surprise.
Apparently, it is becoming difficult to drive on some roads.
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