Florence Nightingale was born in Florence Italy on May 12th 1820. She was born into a wealthy family and was well known for being both a nurse and activist and the founder of modern nursing. She made outstanding contributions and became a hero, with her guidance hospitals became clean and sanitary place where the mortality rate dropped.
The Death of Queen Elizabeth I.
Us Brits it seems are in for a treat as the BBC are planning to start filming next month on a lavish new costume drama – but not the usual Austen, Bronte, Elliot or Dickens fiction which we’ve all come to enjoy on dark winter evenings, but a true story based on the diaries of Anne Lister of Halifax, Yorkshire.
The Suspects in the Jack the Ripper Murders, and the case against them.
In fact this was the extraordinary price – worth 2,500 florins (about $1,000) at the time – that one man paid for a single tulip bulb in Holland in the 1630’s. Even higher sums than that changed hands at the height of what has come to be known as “Tulipomania” – a range for trading in tulip bulbs that swept the nation between 1634 and 1637…How did such an extraordinary state of affairs come to be?
A short biography of Charles Tupper, one of the fathers of Canadian Confederation.
Hero or Villain? More Prisoners of Eternity.
William Preston Longley, the notorious gunman of the ‘wild west’ was born in Texas on 16th October, 1851. Little is known of his early life but it is known that he had already killed several men by the time he was twenty years old. Infamous for his short temper, ‘Wild Bill’ as he became known would kill over the most trivial argument and had a particular dislike for African Americans.
Taking Venice as his theme, Kessler flooded the courtyard of the hotel with water dyed blue to resemble the sea. Magnificent painted backdrops provided the setting, and the entire scene was illuminated by 400 Venetian lamps. His two dozen guests sat inside a huge silk lined gondola bobbing on the “canal,” surrounded by 12,000 carnations and an enormous number of roses. They are food prepared by 15 master chefs and served by waiters dressed as gondoliers.
