Multiple choice

Who is called Lady with the Lamp?

  1. Mother Teresa

  2. Helen Keller

  3. Florence Nightingale

  4. Margaret Thatcher
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Explanation

Florence Nightingale is known as the 'Lady with the Lamp' for her night rounds tending to wounded soldiers during the Crimean War (1853-1856). She founded modern nursing and established the first secular nursing school at St Thomas' Hospital in London. The nickname comes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1857 poem 'Santa Filomena'.

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