TV Scoop (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
Florence Nightingale was is a bit of an enigma for me. Apart from carrying a lamp about, saving loads of lives and being a fantastic nurse (which, to be fair, is enough for anyone in one lifetime), I don't know too much about her. Will this lack of knowledge make me tune into the Beeb's new costume drama, Florence Nightingale, in a few week's time? I'm not sure to be honest....
Express & Star (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
Florence Nightingale would have been amazed at the array of modern techniques to care for patients, which were on display in Staffordshire to celebrate International Nurses Day.
BwT (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
[size="5"]Someone out there either has too much spare time or is deadly at Scrabble. (Wait till you see the last one)! FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE when you rearrange the letters: FLIT ON CHEERING ANGEL
The House Next Door (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
By Keith Uhlich I finished Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire two days ago, which prompts me to think about the killing power of words. Not out of nowhere: the germ of the idea was there earlier this week when I published a Florence Nightingale quote on Links for the Day. Here again: “You ask me why I do not write something… I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 05/18/2008
PUDUCHERRY: A staff nurse of Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research won the National Florence Nightingale Award for Nursing Personnel on May 12. The Nursing Division of the Ministry of Health and Family ...
angels in marble (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Ever willing to try, Angels stepped into an absinthe den. Head full of 19th century images, Gymnopedie playing in the mind, admiring the translucent green, the glass neared the angelic nose. If Florence Nightingale had been swabbing the floor of the entire Crimea it couldn't have been worse. How could anyone drink absinthe? A retreat to a courtyard cafe and a small pilsner to take away...
