* Sheldon Vanauken, author of A Severe Mercy and personal friend of C. S.

Sheldon Vanauken ( August 4, 1914 – October 28, 1996 ) is an American author, best known for his autobiographical book A Severe Mercy ( 1977 ), which recounts his and his wife's friendship with C. S. Lewis, their conversion to Christianity and dealing with tragedy.

They were married secretly ( due, according to A Severe Mercy, to Van's father's objection to early marriages ) on October 1, 1937, ten months after they met.

A great part of A Severe Mercy concerns how Van came to grips with losing his beloved wife with the help of his increasing faith and his correspondence with Lewis, who soon was to face the loss of his own terminally ill wife.

A Severe Mercy won a National Book Award in the one-year category Religion / Inspiration.

A Severe Mercy is undoubtedly Vanauken's best known and most successful book.

A Severe Mercy won a 1980 U. S. National Book Award in the one-year category Religion / Inspiration.

Geraint Gruffydd was a friend of Sheldon Vanauken at Oxford, and was mentioned in Vanauken's memoir A Severe Mercy.

Severe childhood trauma is also associated with a general increase in the risk of drug dependency.

Severe weather is uncommon in the Chicago area, though there have been some exceptions such as the F4 tornado that devastated the south side of the city on April 21, 1967.

Severe diets may make people lose 50 % fat and 50 % muscle weight thus affecting their metabolism because by losing muscle the BMR is affected.

Severe deficiency of niacin in the diet causes the disease pellagra, which is characterized by diarrhea, dermatitis, and dementia, as well as “ necklace ” lesions on the lower neck, hyperpigmentation, thickening of the skin, inflammation of the mouth and tongue, digestive disturbances, amnesia, delirium, and eventually death, if left untreated.

Severe disease is more common in babies and young children, and in contrast to many other infections it is more common in children that are relatively well nourished.

Severe disease is marked by two problems: dysfunction of endothelium ( the cells that line blood vessels ) and disordered blood clotting.

Severe memory loss from ECT is described in an autobiographical book, Doctors of Deception: What They Don't Want You to Know about Shock Treatment.

Severe stress may be a risk factor although evidence is weak.

Severe frost is usually fatal, although they have been known to recover from temperatures of.

* The archaic period of sculpture ends in Greece and is succeeded by the Severe ( Early Classical ) period ( approximate date ).

The art history of the Hellenic era is generally subdivided into four periods, the Protogeometric ( 1100-900 BC ), the Geometric ( 900-700 BC ), the Archaic ( 700-500 BC ) and the Classical ( 500-323 BC ) with sculpture being further divided into Severe Classical, High Classical and Late Classical.

The Severe Classical style ( 500-450 BC ) is represented by the pedimental sculptures of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, ( 470-456 BC ).

Severe cyanide poisoning, particularly during famines, is associated with outbreaks of a debilitating, irreversible paralytic disorder called konzo and, in some cases, death.

Severe infection may also present with rectal prolapse, although this is typically seen only in heavy infections of small children.

* The Severe ( Early Classical ) period of sculpture ends in Ancient Greece and is succeeded by the Mature Classical period ( approximate date ).

Severe disruption is caused by the tolls, often adding an hour on to crossing times at rush hour.

Severe dysentery may also be caused by shigellosis, an infection by bacteria of the genus Shigella, and is then known as bacillary dysentery ( or Marlow Syndrome ).

Severe weather in the form of strong straight-line winds can be expected in areas where the squall line itself is in the shape of a bow echo, within the portion of the line that bows out the most.

Severe acne is inflammatory, but acne can also manifest in noninflammatory forms.

The Extremely Severe grade is subdivided in an open-ended fashion into E1 ( easiest ), E2, E3 and so on.

Severe weather is not common in Wilkes but does occur.

Severe shortness is associated with lower income.

Severe sepsis is the systemic inflammatory response, infection and the presence of organ dysfunction.

Severe sepsis is usually treated in the intensive care unit with intravenous fluids and antibiotics.

Severe penalties can be incurred for forgetting or losing one's dot book.

Severe historical penalties include breaking wheel, boiling to death, flaying, slow slicing, disembowelment, crucifixion, impalement, crushing ( including crushing by elephant ), stoning, execution by burning, dismemberment, sawing, decapitation, scaphism, necklacing or blowing from a gun.

Severe fires can lead to significant further erosion if followed by heavy rainfall.

Severe anti-Jewish violence erupted in Libya following the liberation of North Africa by Allied troops.

* Severe Tire Damage ( album ), a 1998 album by the band They Might Be Giants

* Severe political deadlock between Russian President Boris Yeltsin and the Supreme Soviet ( Russia's parliament at this time ) result in Yeltsin ordering the controversial shelling of the Russian parliament building by tanks in 1993.

* Severe inflation in Germany sees the Papiermark rise to 47 marks against the United States dollar by December, compared to 12 marks in April.

Severe sexual, physical, or psychological trauma in childhood has been proposed as an explanation for its development ; awareness, memories and emotions of harmful actions or events caused by the trauma are removed from consciousness, and alternate personalities or subpersonalities form with differing memories, emotions and behavior.

Severe historical penalties include the breaking wheel, boiling to death, flaying, disembowelment, crucifixion, impalement, crushing, stoning, execution by burning, dismemberment, sawing, scaphism, or necklacing.

Severe historical penalties include breaking wheel, boiling to death, flaying, slow slicing, disembowelment, crucifixion, impalement, crushing, stoning, execution by burning, dismemberment, sawing, decapitation, scaphism, or necklacing.

Severe damage was inflicted on the Colosseum by the great earthquake in 1349, causing the outer south side, lying on a less stable alluvional terrain, to collapse.

* Severe disease, correlates with more than six bloody stools a day or observable massive and significant bloody bowel movement, and evidence of toxicity as demonstrated by fever, tachycardia, anemia or an elevated ESR.

The subject of Penthesilea was treated so regularly by a sixth-century BC Attic vase-painter, whose work bridged the " Severe style " and Classicism, that Adolf Furtwängler dubbed the anonymous master " The ' Penthesilea Painter ".

In certain Doric dialects ( Severe Doric ), e and o lengthen by compensatory lengthening or contraction to eta or omega ~ Attic ei and ou ( spurious diphthongs ).

Some guidebooks make finer distinctions by adding the prefix " Mild "; thus, Mild Severe lies between Hard Very Difficult and Severe.