Examples from the nineteenth century are the transposition of " Horatio Nelson " into " Honor est a Nilo " ( Latin = Honor is from the Nile ); and of " Florence Nightingale " into " Flit on, cheering angel ".

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Jeremy Bentham, Florence Nightingale and even Queen Victoria are reputed to have stayed there, although there is no real evidence for this.

The participation of women in medical care ( beyond serving as midwives, sitters and cleaning women ) was brought about by Florence Nightingale.

* 1820 – Florence Nightingale, British nurse ( d. 1910 )

** Florence Nightingale, Nurse, CE 1910 ( Anglican Communion )

* Clare Boothe Luce compared her, to Joan of Arc and Florence Nightingale.

Image: Chinese Florence Nightingale. jpg | Soong giving a bandage to an injured Chinese soldier ( c. 1932 )

Notable Unitarians include Béla Bartók the 20th century composer, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Theodore Parker in theology and ministry, Charles Darwin, Joseph Priestley and Linus Pauling in science, George Boole in mathematics, Susan B. Anthony, John Locke in civil government, and Florence Nightingale in humanitarianism and social justice, Charles Dickens, John Bowring and Samuel Taylor Coleridge in literature, Frank Lloyd Wright in arts, Josiah Wedgwood in industry, Thomas Starr King in ministry and politics, and Charles William Eliot in education.

* Florence Nightingale founds school for nurses in 1860.

* August 13 – Florence Nightingale, English nurse ( b. 1820 )

* October 21 – Florence Nightingale leaves for the Crimea with 38 other nurses.

* July 9 – The Nightingale Training School and Home for Nurses, the first nursing school based on the ideas of Florence Nightingale, is opened at St Thomas ' Hospital in London.

* May 12 – Florence Nightingale, English nurse ( d. 1910 )

Dedicated to " the memory of Florence Nightingale ", the plot concerns the travails and romances of young women as they study to become nurses.

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* Florence Nightingale, who contributed substantially to the report on the Royal Commission on the Health of the Army ( 1856 – 1857 ), based on her earlier work.

The Lady of the Lamp, Florence Nightingale, visited Falmouth and stayed at the town's Greenbank Hotel.

Many highly educated amateurs now also travelled to Egypt, however, including women such as Harriet Martineau and Florence Nightingale, who both left fascinatingly philosophical accounts of their travels, which revealed learned familiarity with all the latest European Egyptology.

* Benjamin Disraeli, former British Prime Minister, attended Higham Hall School in Walthamstow, as did William Shore, later father of Florence Nightingale

Nearby and also in the north of the borough is St Thomas ' Hospital, Lambeth Palace and the Florence Nightingale Museum.

* William Smith ( abolitionist ) ( 1756 – 1835 ), grandfather of Florence Nightingale, dissenter and British MP

Florence Nightingale OM, RRC (; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910 ) was a celebrated English nurse, writer and statistician.

Young Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale was born into a rich, upper-class, well-connected British family at the Villa Colombaia, near the Porta Romana at Bellosguardo in Florence, Italy, and was named after the city of her birth.

My other nugget of art and architectural knowledge -- besides remembering that it was Ghiberti who designed the doors of the baptistery in Florence -- is the three styles of Greek columns.

His mind was entirely absorbed in the labors of his studio, and, with the exception of his journeys to Paris, one to Vienna, and a few short intervals of absence in Florence and other parts of Italy, he never quit Rome.

His pictures can be found in Dresden, Braunschweig, Vienna, Florence, Naples and many other towns of both Germany and Italy.

The other variants, with the exception of Rufina from the north-east side of Florence and Montalbano in the south of Pistoia, originate in the respective named provinces: Siena for the Colli Senesi, Florence for the Colli Fiorentini, Arezzo for the Colli Aretini and Pisa for the Colline Pisane.

This film was financed by Archibald MacLeish, Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Lillian Hellman, Luise Rainer, Dudley Nichols, Franchot Tone and other Hollywood movie stars, moguls, and writers who composed a group known as the Contemporary Historians.

Like many other families, the Albertis had been expelled from their native city, Florence, by the republican government, run by the Albizzis.

Under this perspective the Villa Medici in Fiesole could therefore be considered the " muse " for numerous other buildings, not only in the Florence area, which from the end of the 15th century onwards find inspiration and creative innovation here.

* Leda and the Swan, by Tintoretto, from the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence ; explore other depictions of Leda and the Swan and compare to similar themes

As in painting, early Italian Mannerist sculpture was very largely an attempt to find an original style that would top the achievement of the High Renaissance, which in sculpture essentially meant Michelangelo, and much of the struggle to achieve this was played out in commissions to fill other places in the Piazza della Signoria in Florence, next to Michelangelo's David.

As a satellite of Siena since the Battle of Montaperti in 1260, Montalcino was deeply involved and affected by the conflicts in which Siena became embroiled, particularly in those with the city of Florence in the 14th and 15th centuries, and like many other cities in central and northern Italy, the town was also caught up in the internecine wars between the Ghibellines ( supporters of the Holy Roman Empire ) and the Guelphs ( supporters of the Papacy ).

But France was estranged ; the Duke of Burgundy broke his positive promises ; Milan was engrossed with the attempt to seize Genoa ; Florence cynically advised the Pope to let the Turks and the Venetians wear each other out.

In his territorial aggrandizement of the Papal States, Sixtus IV's niece's son Cardinal Raffaele Riario, for whom the Palazzo della Cancelleria was constructed, was a leader in the failed " Pazzi conspiracy " of 1478 to assassinate both Lorenzo de ' Medici and his brother Giuliano and replace them in Florence with Sixtus IV's other nephew, Girolamo Riario.

Florence took copious notes and drawings at his initial viewing and on two other occasions, once in Algiers and once in Cairo.

Florence and Fleming were initiated August 13, 1870, and initiated 11 other men on June 16, 1871.

In a 1, 200-word essay dated March 1998, from the federal maximum-security prison at Florence, Colo., McVeigh claimed that the terrorist bombing was “ morally equivalent ” to U. S. military actions against Iraq and other foreign lands.

This and other attempts to regain political control of Florence were frustrated, until a bloodless revolution permitted the return of the Medici.

With a libretto by Angelo Zanardini, La Tilda had a successful first performance in April 1892 at the Teatro Pagliano in Florence, and after performances in a number of Italian theatres, it arrived at the Vienna Exhibition on 24 September 1892, alongside other works from the firm of Sonzogno.

Despite all of these incentives to economic growth and prosperity, the population of Florence at the dawn of the 17th century was a mere 75, 000, far smaller than the other capitals of Italy: Rome, Milan, Venice, Palermo and Naples.

Succeeding sources include ( in chronological order ) William of Poitiers's Gesta Guillelmi ( written between 1071 and 1077 ), The Bayeux Tapestry ( created between 1070 and 1077 ), and the much later Chronicle of Battle Abbey, the chronicles written by William of Malmesbury, Florence of Worcester, and Eadmer's Historia Novorum in Anglia embellishes the story further, with the final result being a William whose tactical genius was at a high level that he failed to display in any other battle.

Because of its huge collection, some of its works have in the past been transferred to other museums in Florence — for example, some famous statues to the Bargello.

Aside from the Littera Florentina, a 6th-century codex of the Pandects that was preserved at Pisa, apparently without ever being publicly consulted, ( and removed to Florence after Florence conquered Pisa in 1406 ), there may have been other manuscript sources for the text that began to be taught at Bologna, by Pepo and then by Irnerius.

In his position, Salutati was responsible for the widely circulated official correspondences with other states, drafting confidential instructions to ambassadors, conducting diplomacy and negotiating treaties: " in its chancellor Florence had someone truly exceptional, endowed not only with legal knowledge, political cunning and diplomatic skill, but also with psychological penetration, a gift for public relations, and unusual literary skill.