Florence Nightingale, born on May 12, 1820, became a nurse at a time when the profession was considered a degrading occupation and hospitals were cesspools of disease. Nightingale changed that. Her ...

Florence Nightingale, the architect of modern nursing, gained international fame during the Crimean War for her sanitary reforms that drastically lowered mortality rates. She established the world's ...

Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) was born in Florence, Italy, to an affluent British family. From a young age she was interested in philanthropy, and by the time she was 16, she believed nursing was ...

Nurses are heroes of the COVID-19 crisis. May 12 is International Nurses Day, which commemorates the birthday of Florence Nightingale, the first "professional nurse." The World Health Organization ...

While hospitals throughout the world did not celebrate the birthday of Florence Nightingale yesterday as they usually do on May 12, like the Henry W. Bishop 3d Memorial School for Nursing, they are ...

In 1521, Spanish conqueror Hernando Cortez captured Tenochtitlan (teh-natch-teet-LAHN’), present-day Mexico City, from the Aztecs. In 1704, the Battle of Blenheim was fought during the War of the ...

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