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...Henry VIII, founding genius of that noble institution. In 1509, Bluff King Hal named the 130-ft., 700-ton, four-masted carrack, which became the vice flagship of his royal fleet, Mary Rose, after his favorite sister. But on July 19, 1545, the willful monarch looked on appalled at Southsea Castle, near the historic naval town of Portsmouth, as the top-heavy Mary Rose capsized and sank in 40 ft. of water while repelling the attack of a French armada. "Oh, my gentlemen, oh, my gallant men!" cried Henry, as he watched some 665 seamen and soldiers go down with...
...Kipling and his three-year-old sister went to England to board with a Southsea family. It was not uncommon for parents in colonial service to send their children home for reasons of education and health. Less usual was the manner of the young Kiplings' exile...
Public Service. In Southsea, England a notice was posted on the wall of the Tudor Rose Cafe, where bosomy Marian Weeks was employed: "Patrons are kindly requested not to waste the waitress's time by asking for her vital statistics . They are 41½, 26, 37. 'S true...
...father, Lockwood Kipling, had a job teaching art to the Indians. But India was regarded as an unhealthy place for growing boys, so at five he was boarded out in the home of a retired naval officer at Southsea, England. He was sent to the United Services College, and in Stalky & Co. wrote about it in one of the few procane, anti-self-pity books of schoolboy reminiscence ever to be produced. He was a prodigy and the only boy at school to wear glasses. They called him "Gigger" (for "giglamps," which was schoolboy slang for spectacles...
...SCOTT Southsea, England ¶Next to a headline on the Oued Zem massacre (WHOLE FAMILIES ARE KNIFED) the Daily Express excerpted 60 words from TIME'S 1,100-word story for an arm-wrenching Page...