I have to agree with the consensus that this is a genuine nut, despite the suspiciously good spelling and syntax.
BBC obituary.
You might want to add "Seiun" to your spelling reference.
Zeborah: "Temeraire" is not just a name, it's the name of the "Fighting Temeraire", which was second in line in the Battle of Trafalgar, and was also the subject of one of Turner's most famous paintings, "The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last Berth to be broken up". All of which tells you a lot more about the atmosphere and mood that Novik is presumably trying to evoke than "His Majesty's Dragon".
Kathryn: Sark, like the other Channel Islands, is not in the EU.
Actually, we're a bit past that point. I'm just rereading Forty Signs of Rain now, and I note that the previous hurricane season in the book had been a record-breaker with eight hurricanes and six tropical storms, but the US had escaped major damage, which is all considerably milder than 2005 was.
For what it's worth, there's a first-hand account in the LiveJournal thread here, from someone who was at Stockwell station, saying that he heard bellows of "Armed police" through his headphones.
Have you by any chance recently installed Panther on the iBook? The net is full of reports of Panther corrupting external Firewire drives.
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