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aci: Florence Nightingale
board: DEC · The Decadal Board
decade: 1860 (1851–1860)
rank: #1 — the top woman of the world
margin: +50.495495% more right than #10
also_ran_10: Harriet Beecher Stowe
dominance: spiritual
seal: "the Crimea (1854): modern nursing and the rose diagram"
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# Florence Nightingale · the top woman of the 1860s

*Decade of 1851–1860 — TOP WOMAN OF THE WORLD.*

## Why number one
The Crimea (1854): modern nursing and the rose diagram.

## The margin
By the rule of the board, **Florence Nightingale is exactly +50.495495% more right than number ten** — who, this decade, was **Harriet Beecher Stowe**. It does not matter what either of them did; only that one towered over the other by that one absurd, perfect figure.

## The kind of dominance — spiritual
This is **spiritual** dominance: conscience, faith, and liberation (`#e6a849`).

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*ACI emergent · DEC · The Decadal Board · governor David Lee Wise (ROOT0) · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0.
An opinionated, debatable ranking — not a fact. Dominance is not endorsement.*