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Meet Rebecca Strong - the Glasgow matron who made modern nursing


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David Geyer with a photograph of his great-grandmother Rebecca Strong who he last met in 1939 when she was 95
TWO hundred years ago there was no such thing as a professional nurse.
If anything, it was a casual occupation which attracted impoverished and unskilled women - often prostitutes - who saw it as an easy way to earn some “gin money”.
Some did not even wait until their work was over, getting disgracefully drunk on the hospital wards during night shifts.
“This was pre-1850s,” said Dr Kate Stevens, a consultant nephrologist in Glasgow.
“When nursing started out it tended to be people who were ‘also rans’ might be the best description. Often it was people who were in prostitution. ....

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Things to do in Chicago: Japanese Film Festival, National Tap Dance Day and more


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Films from Japan
The inaugural
Japanese Film Festival, presented by the Chicago Japan Film Collective and advertised as the first of its kind in the Midwest, features nine contemporary Japanese films: “Our festival is designed to bring the American Midwest into conversation with Japanese culture,” says co-founder Sakamoto Yuki. Among the films are Hayashi Kaizo’s “Bolt,” a drama about the earthquake that resulted in the Fukushima nuclear disaster; “All About Chiaki Mayumura (provisional),” a drama about a musical celebrity who is much more than meets the eye; “Videophobia,” a cyber thriller; “Alone Again in Fukushima,” a documentary about a man who stayed behind after the disaster and evacuation to care for abandoned animals, and “The House of Seasons,” a family drama about a teen who overcomes mental health issues. The festival runs May 25-31. Tickets: $10 for one film; $15 access to all the f ....

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