Victorian times. In 1854 Florence helped to tend people suffering from cholera. Sidney Herbert‚ a friend of Florence’s and the member of the government in charge of the military‚ wrote to her and asked her to organise a group of nurses and head for the Crimea (in Turkey). On 4th November 1854 Florence Nightingale and 38 other nurses arrived at Scutari‚ an area of the city of Constantinople. The main British hospital was located there and Florence was not impressed by the conditions. The hospital was dirty
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When Bubonic Plague visited England in 1348‚ it was called the Great Mortality. We know it as the Black Death that lasted until 1352 and killed vast populations in Asia ‚ North Africa ‚ Europe ‚ Iceland ‚ and Greenland . In total‚ it extinguished as much as fifty percent of the world’s population. In England ‚ bubonic plague on average killed at least one-third of all inhabitants between 1348 and 1349. In London alone‚ one out of two people died during the visitation. The bottom line is that
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The Decline of Sovereignty and Issues of Intervention Research Question/ Introduction The past decade witnessed many conflicts which focused around the issues of sovereignty. States have invaded other sovereign states for reasons that seem to be dubious by the international community. National separatist movements have intensified and are associated with the rise of the doctrine of self-determination among nations and ethnic groups (versus sovereign states). The decline of the concept of sovereignty
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The Holocaust also known as Shoah’‚ was the mass murder or genocide of approximately six million Jews during World War II‚ a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi Germany‚ led by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party‚ throughout the German Reich and German-occupied territories. Of the nine million Jews who had resided in Europe before the Holocaust‚ approximately two-thirds were killed. Over one million Jewish children were killed in the Holocaust‚ as were approximately two million Jewish
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Plan Introduction 1. Survey of certain historical facts 1.1 The occupation of Roman Empire. 1.2. Period of Celts invasion 1.3 Period of Latin‚ Scandinavian and Norman French borrowings. 1.4 The Renaissance Period 2. Etymology. The English word-stock 2.1 The most characteristic features‚ of English word-stock 2.2 Words of Native Origin 2.3 Criteria of borrowings in English Conclusion Sources Introduction It is true that English vocabulary‚ which is one of the
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Operation Bagration: The “Unknown” D-Day At the Tehran Conference‚ the first World War II conference amongst the Big Three: the Soviet Union‚ the United States‚ and the United Kingdom the final plan to defeat Nazi Germany was agreed upon in unison. As promised at the Tehran Conference at the end of 1943‚ as the United States revealed the date for their Western offense‚ the Red Army began planning a powerful offensive to coincide with it. Operation Bagration‚ the main summer offensive of 1944
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Alexander Pushkin From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search "Pushkin" redirects here. For other uses‚ see Pushkin (disambiguation). |Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin | |[pic] | |Aleksandr Pushkin by Vasily Tropinin | |Born |June 6‚ 1799(1799-06-06) | |
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Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individuals‚ families‚ and communities so they may attain‚ maintain‚ or recover optimal health and quality of life. Nurses may be differentiated from other health care providers by their approach to patient care‚ training‚ and scope of practice. Nurses practice in a wide diversity of practice areas with a different scope of practice and level of prescriber authority in each. Many nurses provide care within the ordering
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outbreak began‚ however Sean Martins believes that in October 1347 it was twelve Genoese Galleys that carried the sickness that would devastate Europe (Martin‚ 2001). It is said that these vessels were set to do trade along the silk road‚ through the Crimea and then across the black sea on to Europe‚ eventually when the vessels arrive Martin claims ‘ the poor authorities found‚ to their horror‚ that scarcely anyone on board the twelve galleys was let alive’ (Martin‚ 2001). Eventually the
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Human Evolution Who we are as a species‚ and where we came from; make up the basis of a fantastic story‚ spanning more than 4 million years. The search for the origins of humanity will be a story of bones and the tales they tell. It’s a story that begins in Africa‚ where our ancestors first stood up.Over millions of years they continued to evolve and eventually spread out across the globe. Some species adapted to the changing world‚ while others went extinct. Today only a single species
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