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Vernellia Ruth Randall was born March 6, 1948 in Gladewater, Texas. She was raised in Muleshoe, Texas and Amarillo, Texas. In 1966, she graduated from Carver High School. After earning an A.A. from Amarillo College she received a B.S. from the School of Nursing at the University of Texas as well as an M.S. of Nursing from the University of Washington and her J.D. from the Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. She is a single mother of two adult sons, Tshaka Randall (a law professor) and Issa Randall (a fine arts photographer). She raised them while receiving welfare, attending school and developing a legal career. Randall has written an article about single-parenting.

Randall is a law professor at the University of Dayton in Ohio with experience at Northwestern School of Law and Seattle University School of Law. She has many published works, including her most recent book, Dying While Black. Randall is also a public speaker on issues of health, race and representation of Blacks in the legal profession. She is an awarded webmaster of multiple sites including Race, Racism and the Law, Race, HealthCare and the Law, Online Academic Support for Law Students and The Whitest Law Schools. She is the co-founder with Tshaka Randall of “The JD Project’, a non-profit dedicated to increasing the representation of people of color in the legal profession.

Her book Dying While Black provides understanding and insight into the bias of health care service based on race in the United States. Through thorough research she presents ideas of how slavery has contributed to poor health care for African Americans. In her book, Randall makes the statement that blacks are dying simply because they are black. The racial disparities in the American health system have led to shorter life expectancy, higher death rates, infant mortality, low birth weight rates, and high disease rates.

Randall also focuses on the over-representation of whites in law schools as compared to the ratio of applications. In her second annual “Whitest Law Schools Report,” Randall noted that “of the 177 historically white law schools, 158 seated a percentage of whites greater than the national application pool.”

The White Parade is a 1934 film that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was written by Rian James, Jesse Lasky Jr., Sonya Levien and Ernest Pascal, from the novel by Rian James. The film was directed by Irving Cummings.

Dedicated to “the memory of Florence Nightingale”, the plot concerns the travails and romances of young women as they study to become nurses. It stars Loretta Young, John Boles, Dorothy Wilson and Muriel Kirkland.

USS Florence Nightingale (AP-70) was an Elizabeth C. Stanton-class transport ship of the United States Navy. She was named for Florence Nightingale (1820–1910), the nursing pioneer.

Florence Nightingale was launched 28 August 1940 by Moore Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Oakland, California, as Mormacsun; sponsored by Miss Carlotta S. Chapman; and commissioned 17 September 1942, Captain E. D. Graves, Jr., in command.

Florence Nightingale sailed from Norfolk 23 October 1942 in the task force bound for the invasion of North Africa, and between 8–15 November lay off Port Lyautey, Morocco, landing troops and cargo. Returning to Norfolk 30 November, she made two voyages to Algeria, carrying reinforcements and cargo out, and prisoners of war back, returning to New York from the second, 11 March 1943. After brief overhaul and exercising in Chesapeake Bay, Florence Nightingale sailed from Norfolk 8 June with troops for the invasion of Sicily, landing them through hazardous surf conditions at Scoglitti from 10–12 July.

Returning to New York 3 August 1943, Florence Nightingale voyaged to Oran in September, and on 8 October sailed from New York for Belfast, Northern Ireland. She carried men from Glasgow, Scotland, to Iceland, before returning to Boston 17 November to load for the first of two transport voyages to the Firth of Clyde, Scotland, from New York. Laden with soldiers and nurses, she sailed from New York 27 February 1944 for Cardiff, where she landed her original passengers, then sailed to Belfast to embark soldiers for the Mediterranean Sea. From 21 March, she carried troops among Mediterranean bases, and took part in landing operations in preparation for the invasion of southern France, for which she sortied from Naples 13 August. She landed her troops in the initial assault 15 August, and returned with casualties to Naples 3 days later. Until 25 October, when she sailed for home, Florence Nightingale brought reinforcements from Oran to the fighting in southern France.

Overhauled at New York from 8 November – 18 December, Florence Nightingale loaded Marines at Norfolk, and with them arrived at Pearl Harbor 10 January 1945. Here she debarked the Marines and loaded soldiers and Army equipment for the Marianas. She sailed among these islands, transporting casualties, mail, and cargo to Guam, made one cargo voyage to Ulithi, and returned to Pearl Harbor 22 March. On 7 April, again troop laden, she got underway for Okinawa, off which she lay to discharge reinforcements from 3–8 May, undergoing many air raids but suffering no damage.

The transport reached San Francisco from action waters 27 May 1945, and sailed 11 days later to carry men of naval construction battalions and their equipment to Okinawa. She returned to Pearl Harbor 20 August to begin occupation transport duty, which found her calling at Eniwetok and Yokosuka before her return to Portland, Oregon, 15 November.
21 November–6 December 1945: Transported Project Paperclip V-2 rocket scientists, including Hans Lindenberg,[1] from Le Havre to New York.[2]
13 December 1945–16 February 1946: Transported servicemen eligible for discharge from Korea to Long Beach, California
26 February–March, 1946: Transported German prisoners of war from Long Beach to Liverpool, England
March–8 April 1946: Transported troops from Le Havre to New York
1 May 1946: Decommissioned and transferred to the War Shipping Administration.

Florence Nightingale received four battle stars for World War II service.

Selimiye Barracks is situated in the neighborhood Harem between Üsküdar and Kad?köy, close to the Sea of Marmara. The highway connecting the ferryboat terminal and overland bus terminal to the motorway Istanbul-Ankara (O-2) runs close beside the barracks.

During the Republican period, the Selimiye Barracks has been used for different purposes like secondary school and prison. Today, it serves as the headquarters of the commander of the First Army.

During the Crimean War (1854-1856), the barracks was allocated to the British Army, which were on the way from Britain to the Crimea. After the British troops of the 33rd and 41st[3] Regiments left for the front, the barracks was converted into a temporary military hospital. On November 4, 1854, famous nurse Florence Nightingale arrived in Scutari with 38 volunteer women. Called the “Lady with the Lamp”, she cared for thousands of wounded and infected soldiers, and drastically reduced the high mortality rate by improving the sanitary living conditions until she returned home in 1857 as a heroine.

The northmost tower of the Selimiye Barracks building is today a museum, and in several of its rooms, relics and reproductions relevant to Florence Nightingale and her nurses are on exhibition.[4]

Around 6,000 soldiers died in the Selimiye Barracks during the war, mostly as the result of cholera epidemic. The dead were buried at a plot next to the barracks, which became later the Haydarpa?a Cemetery.[5]

The initially wooden barracks constructed by the renowned Armenian architect Krikor Balyan was burnt down in 1806 by revolting Janissaries, who were against the reforms. Ordered by Sultan Mahmud II, rebuilding of the barracks in stone began in 1825 and it was completed on February 6, 1828. It is a gigantic rectangle building (200 x 267 metres) with a large parade ground in the center. The structure has three floors on three wings and two floors only on the eastern wing due to inclined terrain.[2] During the reign of Sultan Abdülmecid, the barracks underwent important renovations twice in 1842–1843 and in 1849–1850. At these works, one seven-storey-high tower was added to each of the four corners, which gave the barracks today’s outlook.