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Supermoon

On November 14, 2016, the world will experience its largest supermoon since January 1948. AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert Related Links Perpetual Calendar It isn't your…

Stephen Crane: To the maiden

To the maiden The sea was blue meadow, Alive with little froth-people Singing. To the sailor, wrecked, The sea was dead grey walls Superlative in vacancy, Upon which nevertheless at fateful…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: LI ("A modest lot")

by EmilyDickinson Power LII LI A modest lot, a fame petite, A brief campaign of sting and sweet Is plenty! Is enough! A sailor's business is the shore, A soldier's — balls. Who asketh more…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: Setting Sail

by EmilyDickinsonFrom the ChrysalisVIIISetting Sail Setting Sail Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea, — Past the houses, past the headlands, Into deep eternity! Bred as we,…

Walt Whitman: What Ship Puzzled at Sea

What Ship Puzzled at SeaWhat ship puzzled at sea, cons for the true reckoning? Or coming in, to avoid the bars and follow the channel a perfect pilot needs? Here, sailor! here, ship! take…

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,…

Corinne Calvet 2001 Deaths

Corinne CalvetAge: 75 1950s actress who appeared in What Price Glory? and Sailor Beware.Died: Los Angeles, June 23, 2001Ely CallawayA - FArthur Cantor

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…