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From: "Tom Tulloch-Marshall" <>
Subject: Re: [WW1] re: Florence Nightingale
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 18:12:56 -0000
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snip > "Perhaps the BBC was unhappy because they found out that F. N. was
not British born. ;-) "
Janice - ho ho ! - but you really are labouring a technicallity there !
The Duke of Wellington was reputedly asked why he didnt describe himself as
Irish - "If I was born in a barn would I be a horse?" (so the story goes).
regards
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Tom Tulloch-Marshall
Great War Military Research
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