FDC - Australia - Famous Women 1975
Famous Women-First Day of Issue-6th Aug 1975-Brisbane QLD 4000
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
First Day Cover - OBGYN 1967
FDC - Australia - World Congress of Gynaecology & Obstetrics 1967
World Congress of Obgyn-First Day of Issue-20 Sep 1967-Melbourne VIC
International Women's Day
Celebration of Women on First Day Covers
Florence Nightingale Centenary 1955-First Day of Issue-21 Sep 1955-Crimea VIC
FDC - Australia - Centenary of Florence Nightingale 1955
Florence Nightingale Centenary 1955-First Day of Issue-21 Sep 1955-Crimea VIC
Florence Nightingale (12th May 1820-13 Aug 1910) was a celebrated English nurse, writer and statistician. A Christian universalist, Nightingale believed that god had called her to be a nurse. She came to prominence for her pioneering work in nursing during the Crimean War, where she tended to wounded soldiers. She was dubbed "The Lady With The Lamp" after her habit of making rounds at night.
Nightingale laid the foundation of professional nursing with the establishment, in 1860, of her nursing school at St Thomas' Hospital in London, the first secular nursing school in the the world. The Nightingale Pledge taken by new nurses was named in her honour, and the annual International Nurses Day is celebrated around the world on her birthday.
Monday, March 7, 2011
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