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When someone mentions Florence Nightingale, who was born this week in 1820, one particular image likely comes to mind: A caring presence, head covered by a shawl, holding a lamp as she ministers to patients in the dark. The “Lady with the Lamp,” as she was known, still serves as a symbol for nurses everywhere. But for every hour Nightingale spent burning the midnight oil to help a sick soldier, she likely spent another up late doing something else: working on some of the world’s first explicitly persuasive infographics. In addition to caretaking and advocating, Nightingale was a dedicated statistician, constantly gathering information and thinking up new ways to compare and present it.

Florence Nightingale Was Born 197 Years Ago, And Her Infographics Were Better Than Most of the Internet - Atlas Obscura (via jadegordon)

Her pie charts were on another level.

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ALICE ROOSEVELT WAS HARDCORE. “She was known as a rule-breaker in an era when women were under great pressure to conform. The American public noticed many of her exploits. She smoked cigarettes in public, swore at officials, rode in cars with men, stayed out late partying, kept a pet snake named Emily Spinach (Emily as in her spinster aunt and Spinach for its green color) in the White House, and was seen placing bets with a bookie.

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So what I’m reading here is, she was a Roosevelt?

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Well I have a new hero.

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Her whole wikipedia article is gold

“When her father was governor of New York, he and his wife proposed that Alice attend a conservative school for girls in New York City. Pulling out all the stops, Alice wrote, ‘If you send me I will humiliate you. I will do something that will shame you. I tell you I will.’”

“Her father took office in 1901 following the assassination of President William McKinley, Jr. in Buffalo (an event that she greeted with “sheer rapture.”)“

“During the cruise to Japan, Alice jumped into the ship’s pool fully clothed, and coaxed a congressman to join her in the water. (Years later Bobby Kennedy would chide her about the incident, saying it was outrageous for the time, to which the by-then-octogenarian Alice replied that it would only have been outrageous had she removed her clothes.”

“She was dressed in a blue wedding dress and dramatically cut the wedding cake with a sword (borrowed from a military aide attending the reception)”

“When it came time for the Roosevelt family to move out of the White House, Alice buried a Voodoo doll of the new First Lady, Nellie Taft, in the front yard.”

“Later, the Taft White House banned her from her former residence—the first but not the last administration to do so. During Woodrow Wilson’s administration (from which she was banned in 1916 for a bawdy joke at Wilson’s expense)…”

“As an example of her attitudes on race, in 1965 her African-American chauffeur and one of her best friends, Turner, was driving Alice to an appointment. During the trip, he pulled out in front of a taxi, and the driver got out and demanded to know of him, “What do you think you’re doing, you black bastard?” Turner took the insult calmly, but Alice did not and told the taxi driver, “He’s taking me to my destination, you white son of a bitch!”

“To Senator Joseph McCarthy, who had jokingly remarked at a party “Here’s my blind date. I am going to call you Alice”, she sarcastically said “Senator McCarthy, you are not going to call me Alice. The trashman and the policeman on my block call me Alice, but you may not.”

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I love this woman.

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WOMEN WHO NEED FUCKEN MOVIES.

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This is Alice as an older lady. The pillow says “If you can’t say something good about someone, sit right here by me.”

She is my absolute favorite.

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@decemberbisexual

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The biggest scam of 2017👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

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@tarynel @jehovahhthickness @7mangoes

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😭😭

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Me as a villian

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UK tattoo parlors are being overbooked for bee tattoos to honor Manchester attack victims

British locals have been flooding into tattoo parlors to get bee tattoos in the aftermath of Monday’s deadly terrorist attack at a Manchester, England Ariana Grande concert.

The worker bee has long been Manchester’s sigil of sorts, a symbol of the city’s working class history during the Industrial Revolution.

The worker bee is also featured prominently on the crest of the city’s coat of arms as a symbol of Mancunians’ industriousness, according to BBC.

The bee symbol is featured prominently in Manchester. Read more (5/25/17)

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Homeless man interviewed by ‘ITV News’ recounts story of bravery during Manchester attack

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Look for the helpers.

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Just hours before workers removed a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee — the fourth Confederate monument to be dismantled in New Orleans in recent weeks — Mayor Mitch Landrieu gave a special address at historic Gallier Hall. Here's a full transcript of Landrieu's remarks: Thank you for coming. The soul of our beloved City is deeply rooted in a history that has evolved over thousands of years; rooted in a diverse people who have been here together every step of the way – for both good and for ill. It is a history that holds in its heart the

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“So when people say to me that the monuments in question are history, well what I just described is real history as well, and it is the searing truth.

And it immediately begs the questions: why there are no slave ship monuments, no prominent markers on public land to remember the lynchings or the slave blocks; nothing to remember this long chapter of our lives; the pain, the sacrifice, the shame … all of it happening on the soil of New Orleans.

So for those self-appointed defenders of history and the monuments, they are eerily silent on what amounts to this historical malfeasance, a lie by omission.”

This is an amazing speech. Well done.

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Harley is a gift from God.

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This is why Harley is like my all time favorite!

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Why did they leave out the best part of this scene?;

The character development of Harley is probably one of the better things DC has done with their characters.

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That last line :((((

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There is more:

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The fact that she actually had a plausible reason for the muzzle makes this even better.

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Harley is a blessing

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I always low-key suspect that Dinah would trust Harley to babysit if she really needed someone.

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Sportscaster Dale Hansen defends student wrestler Mack Beggs and takes a stand against transphobia

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Now You Know more about Ben & Jerry’s! (Source)

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This sounds like a great excuse to go get some ice cream.

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we need more companies like this.

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I think I need ice cream.

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Minute of Kal Penn appreciation. This restored my faith in humanity.

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Direct action at work.

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Give me back my heart pls

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I hate the internet. I hate how this poem doesn’t need to be finished but it has 13.9k retweets and 21.1k likes. Everyone knows how this poem ends and I hate it