Josh Clark

I think you're supposed to say the comma out loud from what I understand.

But that was a real deal.

That really happened.

And it's a really complicated, complex story that's also extremely fascinating and totally nuts at the end.

Yeah, which is terrible.

That was a reason that two now famous women showed up to help.

One was Florence Nightingale, who's very well known as the Lady with the Lamp.

She showed up and started using like evidence-based treatments.

And apparently the mortality rate at these horrible field hospitals went from 41% when she showed up down to 2% at the end of the war.

It's pretty impressive.

And then there's a less well-known woman named Mary Seacole who was born in Jamaica.

She was mixed race.

And she appealed to be sent to the Crimean front like Florence Nightingale was, was turned down.

So she went herself and showed up and made huge, huge gains in saving lives there as well.

Right.

Yeah.

So he also, we should say the Ottoman Empire was very powerful for a while, but we're joining them at the twilight, maybe even the end of their empire, which I think broke up in World War I, and this was about 60 years before that.

So the Ottoman Empire was not in a very good position to defend itself against Tsar Nicholas I, who's like, oh, yeah, well, I'm going to invade part of your Ottoman Empire.

I'm going to invade what's in modern day Romania, Moldavia and Wallachia, which is where Dracula is from.

And he invaded.