The stats don't lie - these two ladies are absolutely incredible. This week we learn about a statistician (who was also the founder of modern nursing) and one of the most influential women in the Ottoman Empire from the period known as the Sultanate of Women.
Florence Nightingale
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Florence-Nightingale/Homecoming-and-legacy
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-worlds-most-famous-nurse-florence-nightingale-180974155/
https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-35241?rskey=XWmNZs&result=2
https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-nhs-nightingale-makeshift-hospital-london-excel-centre-photos-2020-4#at-least-two-more-temporary-hospitals-are-being-planned-one-at-the-nec-center-in-birmingham-which-will-house-5000-beds-and-another-at-the-convention-complex-in-manchester-with-1000-beds-19
Hurrem Sultan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Turks
https://www.britannica.com/place/Ottoman-Empire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrem_Sultan#/media/File:Mausoleum_of_Roxelana_02.jpg
https://www.britannica.com/place/Ottoman-Empire
https://www.dailysabah.com/feature/2019/02/08/origin-of-hurrem-sultan-still-hotly-debated-in-21st-century
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Roxelana
