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Florence Nightingale

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The Resume

    (May 12, 1820-August 13, 1910)
    Wrote 'Suggestions for Thought to Searchers after Religious Truths (1859),' 'Notes on Hospital (1859)' and 'Notes on Nursing (1859)'
    Wrote the unpublished Book 'Cassandra (1852)'
    British Nurse during Crimean War

Why she might be annoying:

    She thought she was 'called by God to some unnamed great cause' at 17 years old.
    Her mother, Fanny Nightingale, was a domineering woman and was more concerned with finding Florence a good husband, than her education.
    She upset her mother by rejecting a marriage offer from Lord Houghton, prior to rejections of several more suitors.
    Her parents were completely opposed to her announcing she wanted to be a nurse since nursing was associated with working class women, a big no-no in that era.
    Military officers and doctors objected to her views on reforming military hospitals, after she found the conditions appalling.
    When she got older, she became a hypochondriac, suffering migraines, lost her sight (1895) and became an invalid.

Why she might not be annoying:

    She founded nursing as a modern profession.
    She was close to her father, William Nightingale, a wealthy landowner of Embly Park, Hampshire.
    She was born in Florence, Italy.
    Her father, a Unitarian and Whig who had no son and was involved in the anti-slavery movement, treated her as a friend/companion.
    Her father took responsibility for her education, including teaching her German, Greek, French, Italian, Latin, philosophy, history and mathematics.
    She caught the attention and aid of John Delane, when she reported to The Times, the poor way the British Army treated its wounded soldiers.
    She dramatically reduced the death rate by improving sanitation, then returned to England as a heroine (1856).

Credit: Skunk Butt


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 199 Votes: 46.73% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 130 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 310 Votes: 51.29% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 8 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 67 Votes: 49.25% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 10 Votes: 20.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 34 Votes: 17.65% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 18 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 51 Votes: 39.22% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 16 Votes: 31.25% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 134 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 89 Votes: 49.44% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 93 Votes: 35.48% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 59 Votes: 32.20% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 194 Votes: 45.36% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 228 Votes: 42.54% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 592 Votes: 42.23% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 574 Votes: 44.25% Annoying
    In 2003, Out of 815 Votes: 42.45% Annoying
    In 2002, Out of 592 Votes: 37.50% Annoying