Florence Nightingale (/ ˈnaɪtɪŋɡeɪl /; – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople. [4].
A fox-hunting Anglo-Catholic aristocrat, nicknamed "The Holy Fox" by Churchill for his political guile, Halifax was one of the most prominent Tory politicians of the interwar period. As Viceroy of India, he struck a deal with Gandhi that ended the Civil Disobedience campaign.
From Academy Award-nominated director Stephen Frears (The Queen, Philomena) comes the true story of the meteoric rise and fall of one of the most celebrated and controversial men in recent history.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt served as President from March 1933 to April 1945, the longest tenure in American history. He may have done more during those twelve years to change American society and politics than any of his predecessors in the White House, save Abraham Lincoln.
The Outcasts of Poker Flat is a American Western film directed by Joseph M. Newman and starring Anne Baxter and Dale Robertson. [1] The screenplay is based on a short story of the same name by Bret Harte. Harte's story has been brought to film at least five times, including in with Harry Carey and in with Preston Foster.
Spanning the years 1940 to 1965, The Last Lion: Defender of the Realm begins shortly after Winston Churchill became prime minister—when Great Britain stood alone against the overwhelming might of Nazi Germany.
Ancient Egyptian deities were an integral part of ancient Egyptian religion and were worshiped for millennia. Many of them ruled over natural and social phenomena, as well as abstract concepts [1] These gods and goddesses appear in virtually every aspect of ancient Egyptian civilization, and more than 1, of them are known by name.
It is on this epidermal perimeter that the Belgian artist Wim Delvoye weaves his relationships—enticing and disturbing, ironic and serious—between painting and sculpture, between object and popular icon.