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5月12/ May 12：Edward Lear, Florence Nightingale, Dante Gabriel Rossetti,



Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, and is known now mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised. Wikipedia
Born: May 12, 1812, Holloway, United Kingdom
Died: January 29, 1888, Sanremo, Italy
Artworks: Masada, Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, MORE
Period: Romanticism
Parents: Jeremiah Lear, Ann Lear
Quotes

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat. They took some honey, and plenty of money, Wrapped up in a five-pound note.
They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.
There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard.

The paradox of Edward Lear, a man of sadness and gaiety, rigour and nonsense.


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Edward Lear - Drawing of a night monkey. Watercolour, 1830s.

Florence Nightingale
Statistician
Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC was an English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing.Wikipedia
Born: May 12, 1820, Florence, Italy
Died: August 13, 1910, Mayfair, London, United Kingdom
Known for: Pioneering modern nursing
Education: King's College London
Quotes

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

‘I have seen to be most effectual, the rest of the treatment being open air during the greater part of the day…’
National hero. Talented mathematician. 'The Lady With The Lamp'. Florence Nightingale was born #onthisday in 1820 and this is her letter on the benefits of clean air. Take a look this #InternationalNursesDay. http://bit.ly/2prb3Il

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Poet
Dante Gabriel Rossetti was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. Wikipedia
Born: May 12, 1828, London, United Kingdom
Died: April 9, 1882, Birchington-on-Sea, United Kingdom
Artworks: Proserpine, Beata Beatrix, Ecce Ancilla Domini, more
Spouse: Elizabeth Siddal (m. 1860–1862)
Quotes

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.
Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also called No-more, Too-late, Farewell.
I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.


Dante Gabriel Rossetti - poet, painter and co-founder of The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood - was born on this day, 12th May 1828. Rossetti's muse, Jane Morris (née Jane Burden) had married William Morris in 1859 and the three of them lived for a while in Morris's Kelmscott Manor. Jane Morris joined The London Library in 1885, 11 years after modelling for Rossetti's famous painting, "Proserpine".




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