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Walt Whitman: True Conquerors
True ConquerorsOld farmers, travelers, workmen (no matter how crippled or bent,) Old sailors, out of many a perilous voyage, storm and wreck, Old soldiers from campaigns, with all their…Elmo Zumwalt 2000 Deaths
Elmo ZumwaltAge: 79 U.S. Navy admiral who issued more than 100 directives meant to improve the quality of life for sailors and end racial and sexual discrimination in the navy. Died: Durham,…Amy Lowell: Sea Shell
Sea ShellSea Shell, Sea Shell, Sing me a song, O Please! A song of ships, and sailor men, And parrots, and tropical trees,Of islands lost in the Spanish Main Which no man ever may find…Poems by Emily Dickinson: XXXIX ("Good night!")
by EmilyDickinsonThe PreacherXLXXXIX Good night! which put the candle out? A jealous zephyr, not a doubt. Ah! friend, you little knew How long at that celestial wick The angels labored…Walt Whitman: Now Finale to the Shore
Now Finale to the ShoreNow finale to the shore, Now land and life finale and farewell, Now Voyager depart, (much, much for thee is yet in store,) Often enough hast thou adventur'd o'er the…Poems by Emily Dickinson: Out of the Morning
by EmilyDickinsonMother NatureIIIOut of the Morning Out of the Morning Will there really be a morning? Is there such a thing as day? Could I see it from the mountains If I were as tall as…Poems by Emily Dickinson: XLVII ("Adrift!")
by EmilyDickinsonDyingXLVIIIXLVII Adrift! A little boat adrift! And night is coming down! Will no one guide a little boat Unto the nearest town? So sailors say, on yesterday, Just…Crispus Attucks Biography
Crispus AttucksAmerican revolutionary patriotBorn: c. 1723Birthplace: Boston Of mixed African and American Indian ancestry, Attucks was the slave of William Brown of Framingham, Mass. Attucks…October 2000 Disasters
Oct. 12, Aden, Yemen: U.S. Navy destroyer USS Cole was heavily damaged when a small boat loaded with explosives blew up alongside it. Seventeen sailors were killed in what was apparently a…Richard Berry Biography
Richard Berry singer, songwriter Berry is best known for writing “Louie, Louie,” the three-chord rock song that Frank Zappa dubbed “an archetypal American musical icon.” Convinced the song…Trending
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