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Florence Nightingale by Clay Lane

Florence used her logical mind and society connections to save thousands of lives in the Crimean War.

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October 21 NS

October 8 OS

Florence Nightingale : Florence used her logical mind and society connections to save thousands of lives in the Crimean War.
England Expects : Lieutenant John Pasco not only flew the most famous signal in British history, he helped write it.
The Geordie Lamp : The engineer put his own life on the line for the safety of his fellow-workers in the coal industry.
The Two Shakespeares : Arthur Clutton-Brock complained that idealising Shakespeare had made him dull.
Fairway : Use each noun below in two sentences, first as the subject, and then as the object of a verb.
Running Late : Use these adverbial clauses in your own sentences.
Peggy’s Dog : Some lines from the comic verse of Thomas Hood, for reading aloud.
An Interruption : Report this conversation without using direct speech.
Tender Plants : Prince Albert regretted the destructive power of the Art Critic.
Lost for Words : Join these ideas together into a single sentence, using ‘although’ or ‘though’.
Loan Words : Match these words to the language they come from, whether Old Norse, Malay or Welsh.
Evidence : Join these ideas together to form a single sentence, using the relative pronoun ‘who’.
Fatal Vow : Robert Pierrepont called heaven to witness that he would never pick a side in the Civil War.
Lost and Found : What would you in these difficult situations?
They Might Not Need Me : Read these lines of verse out aloud.
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