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...that was adopted by the British Admiralty for all ships on duty in the Atlantic. Today, a world-renowned naturalist, conservationist and ornithologist, he is a councilor of the London Zoo and keeper of the world's greatest collection of exotic ducks, geese and swans at his own Severn Wildfowl Trust...
...viewing nature, nature's handmaid, art, makes mighty things from small beginning grow," wrote Dryden. In the Manhattan cabaret called Second City, Satirist Severn Darden, posing as a mad Germanic art professor, explains in effect what the poet meant...
...cups more "to relieve inflammation." Then he was put on a starvation diet of "one anchovy and a morsel of bread a day." As a medical student, Keats knew long before this that he was as good as dead anyway. He struggled to make his death easier for Joseph Severn, the kind but ineffectual painter who nursed him. Severn had never seen anyone die. Keats punned "a hundred times a day" and made jokes to divert him. "Severn," he gasped when the final moment came, "lift me up-I am dying." Then he added reassuringly, "Don't be afraid...
...third, plus a rich variety of courses from philosophy, music and the classics to history, economics and science. In accordance with the rigorous Hahn formula, the boys take numbing swims in the early morning, learn boat handling, pitch tents, skindive year-round in the chilly Severn estuary at the foot of the castle hill...
Marshall held course too long and went over into the mouth of the Severn River, where wind and tides combined in a delaying action that gave the Midshipmen a strong lead...