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CJazie
I want to do as much as I can while I still can. Any crazy cool or unique things you have tried or done.
i have traveled to South Korea and Europe.
I have Unicycled.
Climbed part of mt. Renier in shorts and flip flops in two to three feet of snow.
Answer
Travelled around the World four times
Swam in a waterfall on Fiji
Travelled in a long-tailed boat on a klong in Thailand
Drove into a large herd of wild African elephants in the Kruger Park area
Swam in the Dead Sea and climbed Mount Masada
Ate raw sea urchins on the island of Korcula (now in Croatia - it was Yugoslavia)
Went on a canal trip in St. Petersburg
Had crispy-fried chicken sinews for lunch in Hong Kong
Taken over the controls in a private bi-plane
Went swimming off Butterfly Bay, Kaeo, New Zealand
Stroked a full-grown koala in Adelaide
Hand-fed a full grown male tiger call Bruno - and stroked the blunt end when he was sleepy after his food.
Flown in a helicopter over London
Taken a small aluminium narrow boat right up the River Thames from Limehouse Lock to the upper reaches
Camped in a small tent all over France from Normandy to the Alps
Drank (too much) beer in the beer gardens of Andex monastery in Bavaria
Slept all night on the floor of the airport in Athens !
Fly into Madeira airport every year (among the 10 most dangerous air strips in the World) - been doing that for over 25 years.
Stroked a Sea Otter in Monterey
Flew in a small plane from Queenstown, New Zealand to the Lakes and back
Been in cable cars all over the World
Got lost in fog in the mountains in Cyprus
Travelled around the World four times
Swam in a waterfall on Fiji
Travelled in a long-tailed boat on a klong in Thailand
Drove into a large herd of wild African elephants in the Kruger Park area
Swam in the Dead Sea and climbed Mount Masada
Ate raw sea urchins on the island of Korcula (now in Croatia - it was Yugoslavia)
Went on a canal trip in St. Petersburg
Had crispy-fried chicken sinews for lunch in Hong Kong
Taken over the controls in a private bi-plane
Went swimming off Butterfly Bay, Kaeo, New Zealand
Stroked a full-grown koala in Adelaide
Hand-fed a full grown male tiger call Bruno - and stroked the blunt end when he was sleepy after his food.
Flown in a helicopter over London
Taken a small aluminium narrow boat right up the River Thames from Limehouse Lock to the upper reaches
Camped in a small tent all over France from Normandy to the Alps
Drank (too much) beer in the beer gardens of Andex monastery in Bavaria
Slept all night on the floor of the airport in Athens !
Fly into Madeira airport every year (among the 10 most dangerous air strips in the World) - been doing that for over 25 years.
Stroked a Sea Otter in Monterey
Flew in a small plane from Queenstown, New Zealand to the Lakes and back
Been in cable cars all over the World
Got lost in fog in the mountains in Cyprus
How did women make a difference during the civil war?
AntoineL
American civil war
Answer
In the north, women's relief efforts soon became a national organization, the united States Sanitary Commission, which performed a critical role in providing food and medical services for the soldiers. Although men still occupied the top jobs in the commission, women had a great many managerial dutires. The necessary supplies "were almost universally collected, assorted, and dispatched, and re-collected, re-assorted, and re-dispatched, by women, representing with great impartiality, every grade of society in the Republic." saild Alfred Bloor of the Sanitary Commission. The women had taken over, he said, after the men were discouraged when it became clear the war was not going to be short-lived after all.
About 3000 women served in paid positions as nurses in the Civil War, and many more thousands worked as volunteers. "The war is certainly ours a well as men's" said Kate Cummings of Mobile, Alabama, who became the matron of a large Confederate hospital. At first people were shocked by the idea of women serving in field hospitals. The American Medical Times was disturbed by the image of "a delicate reinfed woman assisting a rough soldier to the close-stool or supplying him with a bedpan." But a Confederate congressional investigation found that the mortality rate among soldiers cared for by women was only half that of those tended by men. "I will not agree to limit the class of persons who can affect such a saving of life as this." said a senator from Louisiana.
Clara Barton, a former schoolteacher who went to work for the Patent office in Washington, began to be approached by mothers of her former pupils, asking her to act as a go-between sending food and clothing to their sons. Soon her house was so crammed with boxes she had to move. She realised that the soap, fruit and other presents were not just special treats but dire necessities for the men serving at the front. She began actively soliciting donations and supplies. Within six months Barton had filled three warehouses. She bought bread and othr perissahbles with her own scanty funds and distributed them at military hospitals. Once the hospitals were better organissed and flooded with female volunteers, Barton began to meet the ships and trains carrying wounded soldiers back from the front. after months of beuraucratic wrangling she got permssion to pass through the lines with her wagons of supplies.
Once on the battlefield, she helped with nursing soldiers and assisted at operations.Her skirts got so heavy with blood that she had to wring them out before she could walk under their weight.
Another woman who helped soldiers on the battlefield was Mary Ann (Mother) Bickerdyke. She firsst arrived at an army camp in Cairo, Illinois, to deliver a relief fund. Seeing the filthy, overcrowded hospital tents, sshe simply got to work cleaning and nursing, without asking anyone's permission. In her Quaker bonnet, she trotted across nineteenteen battlefields in four years, lantern in hand, searching for the wounded. An army surgeon who challenged one of her orderss was told "Mother Bickerdyke outranks everyone, even Lincoln."
Southern women began to fill government clerical jobs, particularly in the Treasury Department where each Confederate banknote had to be signed individually. The job required good handwriting and good political connections. Most of the women came from elite families. Some of them regarded it as a great adventure. "I am rarely ill now even with a headache" said Adelaide Stuart. Being forced to take ajob wass, she decided "the best thing that could have taken place for me - it is bringing into active service and strengthening all the best parts of my character and enabling me to root out all that was objectionable."
Women from less influential backgrounds got jobs too. Thousands took in piecework for the Confederate Clothing Bureau sewing shirts for $1 apiece and coats for $4. Others packed cartridges at the arsenal for $1 a day. It was dangerous work - in 1863 in Richmond, fifty of the ordnance workers were killed in an explosion at Richmond.
About 400 women disguised themselves as men to figh tin the civil war. Many women also became spies, the most famous confederate spy was Belle Boyd. Harriet Tubman, the former slave who had helped hundreds of other slaves escape to freedom, sserved as a spy and scout with the Union Army. "Col. Montgomery and his gallant band of 300 black solderis, under the guidance of a black woman, dashed into the enemy's country, struck a bold and effective blow, destroying commisssary, stores, cotton and lordly dwellings" stated a report at the time.
In the north, women's relief efforts soon became a national organization, the united States Sanitary Commission, which performed a critical role in providing food and medical services for the soldiers. Although men still occupied the top jobs in the commission, women had a great many managerial dutires. The necessary supplies "were almost universally collected, assorted, and dispatched, and re-collected, re-assorted, and re-dispatched, by women, representing with great impartiality, every grade of society in the Republic." saild Alfred Bloor of the Sanitary Commission. The women had taken over, he said, after the men were discouraged when it became clear the war was not going to be short-lived after all.
About 3000 women served in paid positions as nurses in the Civil War, and many more thousands worked as volunteers. "The war is certainly ours a well as men's" said Kate Cummings of Mobile, Alabama, who became the matron of a large Confederate hospital. At first people were shocked by the idea of women serving in field hospitals. The American Medical Times was disturbed by the image of "a delicate reinfed woman assisting a rough soldier to the close-stool or supplying him with a bedpan." But a Confederate congressional investigation found that the mortality rate among soldiers cared for by women was only half that of those tended by men. "I will not agree to limit the class of persons who can affect such a saving of life as this." said a senator from Louisiana.
Clara Barton, a former schoolteacher who went to work for the Patent office in Washington, began to be approached by mothers of her former pupils, asking her to act as a go-between sending food and clothing to their sons. Soon her house was so crammed with boxes she had to move. She realised that the soap, fruit and other presents were not just special treats but dire necessities for the men serving at the front. She began actively soliciting donations and supplies. Within six months Barton had filled three warehouses. She bought bread and othr perissahbles with her own scanty funds and distributed them at military hospitals. Once the hospitals were better organissed and flooded with female volunteers, Barton began to meet the ships and trains carrying wounded soldiers back from the front. after months of beuraucratic wrangling she got permssion to pass through the lines with her wagons of supplies.
Once on the battlefield, she helped with nursing soldiers and assisted at operations.Her skirts got so heavy with blood that she had to wring them out before she could walk under their weight.
Another woman who helped soldiers on the battlefield was Mary Ann (Mother) Bickerdyke. She firsst arrived at an army camp in Cairo, Illinois, to deliver a relief fund. Seeing the filthy, overcrowded hospital tents, sshe simply got to work cleaning and nursing, without asking anyone's permission. In her Quaker bonnet, she trotted across nineteenteen battlefields in four years, lantern in hand, searching for the wounded. An army surgeon who challenged one of her orderss was told "Mother Bickerdyke outranks everyone, even Lincoln."
Southern women began to fill government clerical jobs, particularly in the Treasury Department where each Confederate banknote had to be signed individually. The job required good handwriting and good political connections. Most of the women came from elite families. Some of them regarded it as a great adventure. "I am rarely ill now even with a headache" said Adelaide Stuart. Being forced to take ajob wass, she decided "the best thing that could have taken place for me - it is bringing into active service and strengthening all the best parts of my character and enabling me to root out all that was objectionable."
Women from less influential backgrounds got jobs too. Thousands took in piecework for the Confederate Clothing Bureau sewing shirts for $1 apiece and coats for $4. Others packed cartridges at the arsenal for $1 a day. It was dangerous work - in 1863 in Richmond, fifty of the ordnance workers were killed in an explosion at Richmond.
About 400 women disguised themselves as men to figh tin the civil war. Many women also became spies, the most famous confederate spy was Belle Boyd. Harriet Tubman, the former slave who had helped hundreds of other slaves escape to freedom, sserved as a spy and scout with the Union Army. "Col. Montgomery and his gallant band of 300 black solderis, under the guidance of a black woman, dashed into the enemy's country, struck a bold and effective blow, destroying commisssary, stores, cotton and lordly dwellings" stated a report at the time.
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