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  2. Don (academia) - Wikipedia

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    The word Don is used for fellows and tutors of a college or university, especially traditional collegiate universities such as Oxford and Cambridge in England. [7] Teachers at Radley, a boys-only boarding-only public school modelled after Oxford colleges of the early 19th century, are known to boys as "dons".

  3. Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology - Wikipedia

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    Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, after whom the Edward Grey Institute is named.. The Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology (EGI), at Oxford University in England, is an academic body that conducts research in ornithology and the general field of evolutionary ecology and conservation biology, with an emphasis on understanding organisms in natural environments.

  4. William Archibald Spooner - Wikipedia

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    William Archibald Spooner (22 July 1844 – 29 August 1930) was a British clergyman and long-serving Oxford don. He was most notable for his absent-mindedness, and for supposedly mixing up the syllables in a spoken phrase, with unintentionally comic effect. Such phrases became known as spoonerisms, and are often used humorously. Many ...

  5. The Eagle and Child - Wikipedia

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    The Eagle and Child, nicknamed "the Bird and Baby", [1] is a pub in St Giles', Oxford, England, owned by the Ellison Institute of Technology [2] and previously operated by Mitchells & Butlers as a Nicholson's pub. [3] The pub had been part of an endowment belonging to University College since the 17th century.

  6. Inklings - Wikipedia

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    Until late 1949, Inklings readings and discussions were usually held on Thursday evenings in C. S. Lewis's rooms at Magdalen. The Inklings and friends also gathered informally on Tuesdays at midday at a local public house, The Eagle and Child, familiarly and alliteratively known in the Oxford community as The Bird and Baby, or simply The Bird. [17]

  7. Parrot Can't Stop and Won't Stop Singing Earth, Wind and Fire

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    The hilarious video was shared by the TikTok account for @Kiki.tiel and people can't get enough of this musical bird. One person commented, "You didn’t turn it off, just snoozed it."

  8. British Trust for Ornithology - Wikipedia

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    An experiment on these lines has been undertaken at Oxford since the founding of the Oxford Bird Census in 1927 [...]. The scheme now has a full-time director, Mr W.B.Alexander . It is intended to put this undertaking on a permanent footing and to build it up as a clearing-house for bird-watching results in this country.

  9. Parson's Pleasure - Wikipedia

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    1876 Ordnance Survey map of Oxford showing The Parks with Parson's Pleasure bathing place in the south east corner. Parson's Pleasure in the late nineteenth century, drawn by Lancelot Speed, from Aspects of Modern Oxford, by a Mere Don [A. D. Godley] (New York: Macmillan & Co, 1894) The weir and punt rollers at Parson's Pleasure The rollers looking the other way The Cherwell above the weir