http://www.metafilter.com/tags/crimeanwar Posts tagged with 'crimeanwar' at MetaFilter. Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:05:42 -0800 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:05:42 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/74064/Mother%2DSeacole When Jamaican-born <a href="http://www.maryseacole.com/maryseacole/pages/aboutmary.html">Mary Seacole</a>, an experienced nurse, volunteered her services to the British Army during the Crimean War, she was rejected. Undaunted, she travelled to Crimea at her own expense and built a "mess-table and comfortable quarters," which she called the "British Hotel," and began taking care of soldiers. Her work was snubbed by Florence Nightingale, who called Seacole "a woman of bad character" and insinuated that the convalescent hotel was little more than a bordello, but Mary was beloved by the men in her care who called her "Mother Seacole." Her autobiography, <i><a href="http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/seacole/adventures/adventures.html">Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands</a></i> <small>[link goes to full text and illustrations]</small>, was published a year after the war ended. Mary, who was feted by high-ranking military men and high-born civilians, went on to other nursing-related pursuits, including a stint as personal masseuse to Alexandra, Princess of Wales. Her work in Crimea was but one highlight in a very interesting life. For more information: Mary Seacole, the Forgotten Nightingale - <a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5391/is_200006/ai_n21456548&tag=rel.res1?tag=col1;fa_related_widget">Part 1</a>, <a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5391/is_200010/ai_n21461194">Part 2</a>. <small>[Be sure to have your ad blocker and/or pop-up blocker turned on. I thought the article was worth including, but there may be some annoyances for the unprotected].</small> Wikpedia has an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Seacole">extensive page </a> on Mary Seacole's life. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.74064 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:05:42 -0800 autobiography britishhotel crimea crimeanwar history maryjaneseacole maryseacole medicine motherseacole nursing racialprejudice seacole amyms http://www.metafilter.com/65078/Balls%2Don%2Dor%2DBalls%2Doff <a href="http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/25/which-came-first-the-chicken-or-the-egg-part-one/">Which came first: Cannonballs On or Cannonballs Off?</a> Errol Morris asks a seemingly simple but perhaps unanswerable question about the nature of photographic evidence. <small><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/63084/Errol-Morris-talking-pictures">(previously)</a></small> It's a long piece, so I'll mention that at the end Morris says "I would like to propose a contest to the Times’ readership — an invitation to order the photographs and to propose reasons why they <em>must</em> be in that order. Anything is fair game. Any kind of evidence may be considered, and I will discuss the solutions in a followup article. Good luck." There are currently 640 comments. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.65078 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 06:32:52 -0800 crimeanwar errolmorris photography rogerfenton susansontag Horace Rumpole