sacrifice
Gave up everything — comfort, credit, safety — for something larger.
The Woman Who Built a Hospital Out of Driftwood
Florence Nightingale's team rejected her, so she set up three and a half miles closer to the front lines than Nightingale ever got.
The Man Who Called for a Fictional Doctor
A man who had invented 2,472 people died asking one of them to save him.
The Woman Who Started the War Early
She raised a revolutionary flag twelve days before the revolution was declared — on a warship that was, on paper, a trading ship.
The Woman Who Destroyed Her Own Discovery
She found exactly what she was looking for, then ordered it smashed and thrown into the sea.