Florence Nightingale; reproduction; Library of Congress/Public domain In 2020 Her Lamp Burns BrightlyMay 12, 2020 is the 200th birthday of Florence Nightingale, founder of the nursing profession as we know it today. Born May 12, 1820 in Florence, Italy, she served selflessly during the Crimean War (1854–1856) and became known as The Lady With the Lamp. By her constant insistence on hygienic
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Beards
Big bushy, smooth furry, patchy, pointy, oiled, curled and swooshing. Beards — big ones or neat ones — are the facial fashion for dandies these days. It’s so much fun. And maybe the biggest change in men’s fashion since bell-bottoms. Neptune is, of course, the planet of fashion, and since early 2011, the god of the seas has been in his own sign, which rules the sailors, romantic yearning, fantasy: Game of Thrones and Liam Hemsworth’s sweater, perhaps. Those Scandinavian chunky knits certainly say hello sailor. Neptune was last in Pisces throughout the 1850s, and indeed that was exactly when […]
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