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- A biography for children, Sarojini Naidu: The Nightingale and The Freedom Fighter, was published by Hachette in 2014.
- Invited to hear an actor who could perfectly imitate the nightingale, Agesilaus declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.
- The Nightingale Pledge is a modified version of the Hippocratic Oath which nurses recite at their pinning ceremony at the end of training.
- The connection between the nightingale's song and poetry is evoked by Aristophanes in his comedy "The Birds" and in the poetry of Callimachus.
- Poets chose the nightingale as a symbol because of its creative and seemingly spontaneous song.
- More literary sources of the 12th and 13th centuries include "Layamon's Brut" and "The Owl and the Nightingale".
- The term itself was coined in 1928 by George McLean Harper, who borrowed the subtitle of "The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem" (1798) to describe the seven other poems as well.
- Another interesting record of medieval rhetorical thought can be seen in the many animal debate poems popular in England and the continent during the Middle Ages, such as The Owl and the Nightingale (13th century) and Geoffrey Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls.
- Inaccessible Island and the Nightingale Islands are [...] SW by W and SSW away from the main island, respectively, whereas Gough Island is [...] SSE.
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