I have a couple of vivid memories from my high school AP French literature class. Our teacher, Madame Sorrell, was a lovely woman whose bright red hair tumbled in tendrils to her shoulders, and who was all chiffon scarves and… Read More
Upon her return from the Crimean war zone, Florence Nightingale (1820- 1910) lived to old age with as many as seventeen cats as her companions. Some were named after famous people, like Disraeli, Gladstone, and Bismarck.