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unusual facts about nightingale


Christine Schutt

Schutt teaches English and creative writing at The Nightingale-Bamford School, where she serves as the faculty adviser for the school literary magazine Philomel and the Book Club.


Belfast City Hospital

She knew Florence Nightingale and in December 1884, Miss Nightingale sent a Christmas present to Miss Pirrie for the children in the Infirmary.

Bendemeer, New South Wales

In 1854 the village was renamed Bendemeer after a line in the 1817 poem Lalla-Rookh by Thomas Moore: There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream; And the nightingale sings round it all day long.

Coppicing

The open area is then colonised by many animals such as Nightingale, European Nightjar and fritillary butterflies.

Davide Danti

His major works include "Il Murale Grande" in Milan Town Hall, and "Florence Nightingale", a large outdoor mural on the wall of the Croce Bianco of Codiponte, Lunigiana.

Follow the Nightingale

"Follow the Nightingale" and "Say Goodbye & Good Day" were used as the theme song for the game Tales of Innocence, which was released 16 days later on the 6th of December.

Geoffrey Bocca

He also wrote a series of Nazi sadomasochistic erotic novels featuring Commander Amanda Nightingale, an English spy.

Groove Squad

Endowed with their superpowers like X-ray vision, Super Strength and the ability to Fly; cheerleaders Chrissy, Ping and Mackenzie soon finds themselves with a responsibility greater than winning the cheerleading competition—thwarting the evil Dr. Nightingale's plans for total world domination.

Heathfield School, Pinner

From Lower Kindergarten (nursery) upwards, right through to the Sixth Form, each girl belongs to one of our four houses: Brontë, Curie, Nightingale and Pankhurst.

Hertfordshire Chorus

Hertfordshire Chorus is renowned for its innovative programming, frequently involving commissions such as "Mass in Blue" and "Ode to a Nightingale" by Will Todd, "Ice" by Orlando Gough and "Solaris" by Steve Block.

Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival

At the initiative of Wyndham Wise, then executive director of the Canadian Independent Film Caucus, now the Documentary Organization of Canada, a national association of independent documentary filmmakers, Hot Docs was launched in 1994 by a team led by Debbie Nightingale.

Huonville, Tasmania

Amy Sherwin - The soprano singer dubbed "The Tasmanian Nightingale"

In the Bazaars of Hyderabad

"In The Bazaars of Hyderabad" is a 19th-century English poem written by Sarojini Naidu (1879-1949) (also known as The Nightingale of India), an Indian independence activist and a poet from Hyderabad, India.

International Nurses Day

At St Margaret's Church at East Wellow in Hampshire, where Florence Nightingale is buried, a service is also held on the Sunday after her birthday.

Jason Brett

In 1978, Brett co-founded Chicago's famed Apollo Theater, where he produced over forty-five plays and musicals, including such award-winning productionsvague as the Steppenwolf Theater Company's production of True West, starring John Malkovich and Gary Sinese; Balm in Gilead, featuring Laurie Metcalfe; And a Nightingale Sang, with Joan Allen; Appearing Nightly, with Lily Tomlin; and David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago, with James Belushi.

Kristie Reeves

Other choreographies: "Lucia di Lammermoor" for Repertory Opera Company, "The Bartered Bride" for Celestial Opera Company, "Aida" for Casa Italiana, "The Rope" for ICAP Theater Company, "Don't try" for Rangeview Productions and "Love of a Nightingale" for Boston Court Theater.

Liverpool Infirmary

This was established in 1862 and was the second only Nightingale nurse training school in the United Kingdom, after the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery in London.

Lynn McDonald

She is the director of The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, a 16-volume edition of Florence Nightingale's books, articles, pamphlets and previously unpublished correspondence, gathered from more than 200 archives worldwide.

Maine Chance Farm

Elizabeth Arden raced under the nom de course "Mr. Nightingale" until 1943 when she adopted the name Maine Chance Farm from her health spa in Mount Vernon, Maine.

Mark Nightingale

Among those with whom Nightingale has played with are John Dankworth, Cleo Laine, Urbie Green, Carl Fontana, Jiggs Whigham, Clark Terry, Slide Hampton, Thilo Berg, Alan Barnes, Bill Holman, Claire Martin, John Wilson (conductor), Clark Tracey, and Stan Tracey.

Miroslav Ilić

Nicknamed Slavuj iz Mrčajevaca (The Nightingale from Mrčajevci), he has worked together with several popular Yugoslavian musicians such as Lepa Brena.

Nightingale College Utah

Nightingale College, is a proprietary post-secondary institution located in Ogden, Utah.

Nightingale Informatix Corporation

Nightingale Informatix Corporation (Nightingale) is a public company headquartered in Markham, Ontario, Canada with offices in Rancho Cordova, California, Cambridge, Ontario, Kansas City, Missouri, Pembroke, Massachusetts, and Wexford, Pennsylvania.

Nightingale Island

Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket alluded to Nightingale Island, Inaccessible Island, and Tristan da Cunha.

Nightingale Island Finch

The Nightingale Island Finch (Nesospiza questi) is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family (formerly in Emberizidae).

Nightingale the Robber

Nightingale the Robber or Solovei the Brigand (Russian: Солове́й-Разбо́йник, Solovey-Razboynik), also known as Solovey Odikhmantievich (Соловей Одихмантьевич), was an epic robber from bylinas poetry of Kievan Rus'.

Nurse education

In 1860 Nightingale set up the first nurse training school at St Thomas' Hospital, London.

Order of Nine Angles

The Satanic 'Order of Nine Angles' are the leading protagonists in the 'Jack Nightingale' series of novels by Stephen Leather, published by Hodder & Stoughton.

Osmaston, Derby

The Nightingale Road, Main Works site opened in 1908 to manufacture the Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost and at the rear of the site a test track called "Miniature Brooklands" was used to prove the cars.

Patrick Hannay

"The Nightingale", a poem in stanzas of sixteen lines, has a dedication to the Duchess of Lennox and commendatory verse by Robert Hannay, John Marshall, William Lithgow and others.

Pavlovsk Palace

Cameron constructed a small Swiss chalet with a library; a dairy of rough stones with a thatched roof, where milk products were kept and prepared, and an aviary in the form of a small classical temple with metal netting between the Dorian columns, which was filled with nightingale, goldfinch, starling and quail.

Pennington Flash Country Park

One of the premier birdwatching sites in North West England, over 230 bird species have been recorded on site including: Black-faced Bunting, Nightingale, Marsh Harrier, Spoonbill and Leach's Storm-petrel.

Phil Tanner

In 1976, he was remembered in a BBC Radio 4 tribute by the Welsh radio broadcaster Wynford Vaughan-Thomas recalling "the voice of the sanest, happiest, kindest eccentric I ever knew, the voice of Phil Tanner, the Gower Nightingale".

Pow Burn

Plants and animals been sighted at the Pow include sea otters, red admiral, rare dragonflys and songbirds such as thrush and nightingale.

Richard Farnes

Before joining Opera North in 2004, Farnes had conducted The Secret Marriage, The Marriage of Figaro, Joan of Arc, La Traviata, Eugene Onegin, Gloriana and Tosca for the company, as well as the world première of The Nightingale's to Blame by Simon Holt.

Ring Raiders

With the exception of the fictional Nightingale helicopter, Airborne aircraft carriers and both Monogram and Testors versions of the F-19 Stealth Fighter model kits, all were based on real aircraft.

Rosalind Knight

In Carry On Nurse, she played Nurse Nightingale and in Carry On Teacher she played Felicity Wheeler, a prim school inspector whose amorous hopes toward Kenneth Connor's wimpy science master are continually thwarted.

Rosalind Nash

She assisted in some of Nightingale's publications, and wrote on her behalf to Karl Pearson, when Pearson was writing his biography of Francis Galton.

Sentara Healthcare

Sentara's air ambulance Nightingale, named for Florence Nightingale, began in late-February 1982 as the region's first air ambulance and the 38th air medical program in the country.

Sing Along

When Expressen's Andreas Nunstedt reviewed the Party Crasher album he noted that «Helena Josefsson, who sang like a British nightingale from the '60s on Son Of A Plumber, is prominent. Power ballad à la Joyride».

Soloveitchik

The name is a diminutive form of the Russian word соловей, "nightingale", since the Soloveitchiks are a family of Levites, who are commanded by the Torah to sing in the Beit Hamikdash.

Summer and Smoke

Another production, Eccentricities of a Nightingale, appeared on television in 1976, starring Blythe Danner and Frank Langella.

The Blonde Nightingale

The Blonde Nightingale (German: Die blonde Nachtigall) is a 1930 German musical film directed by Johannes Meyer and starring Ernst Behmer, Else Elster and Arthur Hell.

The Good Witch's Family

Cassandra Nightingale (Catherine Bell) lives in the small town of Middleton with her husband Sheriff Jake Russell (Chris Potter) and Brandon (Matthew Knight) and Lori (Hannah Endicott-Douglas), his children by an earlier marriage.

The Hawk and the Nightingale

Where the reader's sympathy for the nightingale was appealed to by Hesiod, it is now the hawk whose behaviour is approved, even by so liberal a commentator as Samuel Croxall.

Valentyn Sylvestrov

:* Ode to the Nightingale, cantata with text by John Keats for soprano and small orchestra (1983)

Wally Nightingale

They rehearsed quite a lot, mostly upstairs at Nightingale's house on Hemlock Road in East Acton during the day when his parents were working, and may have played a few gigs in the area although no verifiable reports exist.

Wilfrid Laurier University Press

- The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale series contains the surviving writing of Florence Nightingale.


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