Having rescued a baby owl while she was in Greece, Florence Nightingale made a pet of the owlet and often kept the bird in her pocket.
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Jul 20, 2009 ... All biographies of Florence Nightingale mention her pet owl ... It was during this time that Parthenope wrote the little book and we assume did the drawings. ... "Look that is the bird that all English ladies carry about with them, ... between her Mother and sister, she put her hand into her pocket ...
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As the military guides lead the disbelieving group through the Hell of misery and filth, Miss Florence Nightingale seems to shake off the fatigue of the long journey from England as she takes in the surroundings. ... Peggy nuzzled up to Florence and immediately stuck her face into a special pocket of her dress.
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FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE'S life in the Crimea has well been described by one of her biographers in a chapter headed-HELL. ... "The vermin might," she wrote, "if they had but unity of purpose, carry off the four miles of beds on their backs and march with them into the War Office. .." Florence demanded kitchen utensils;
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and a few years later the Duke of Newcastle gave Gladstone a pocket borough on the strength of his speech at the Union against the Reform Bill. To those three young men, ... Let us borrow for a moment the wings of Historic Imagination, and, hovering lightly over the Oxford of the thirties, take a rapid bird's-eye view.
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Florence Nightingale of the Pet Set ... He was such a friendly bird. When I came into the bedroom he ... She says, "It's too bad you can't have some kind of pouch or pocket under your clothes so you could carry him around with you." "Oh," I tell her as I show her. "You mean like this?" There goes Heather, down for the count.
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I would indicate, as an honourable exception to the current commodity, Sir Edward Cook's excellent Life of Florence Nightingale, without which my own study, though composed on a ... and a few years later the Duke of Newcastle gave Gladstone a pocket borough on the strength of his speech at the Union against the Reform Bill.
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Whenever Florence appeared at the gate, Peggy would come trotting up and put her nose into the dress pocket of her little mistress, and pick it of the apple or the roll of bread that she knew she would always find there, for this was a trick ... Into this work of Pastor Fliedner, Florence Nightingale heartily entered.
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18395. What did Florence Nightingale carry in her pocket? ... 18450. How many offenses carry the death penalty in Iran? ... 18455. What was the name of the bird on the tv show Baretta?
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