Somawathiya Stupa amidst the lush wilderness

Once, there was a stupa dazzling like a pearl, completely surrounded by the lush greenery of the wilderness. Isolated, in an uninhabited region, the structure could not defy the scorching sun, the torrential rains, the gushing floods or the invading roots of the green giants for many years.

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A family of cobblers

Velu was my favourite cobbler for years. I met him for the first time when my shoe strap snapped as I was getting down from a bus at the Town Hall. Desperately looking around for help, I spotted to my great relief, a cobbler hard at work sitting under the shady branches of a leafy tree nearby.

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Florence Nightingale:

The Lady with the Lamp

Florence Nightingale was the founder of modern nursing and hospital epidemiology , The era of modern nursing commences with the work of Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War (1854-1856). She was born on May 12, 1820. She belonged to a rich, upper class, well connected British family at the Villa Colombia, near the Porta Romana at Belloguardo in Florence,

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