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"Old Ironsides" is a poem written by American writer Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. on September 16, 1830, as a tribute to the 18th-century USS Constitution. The poem was one reason that the frigate was saved from being decommissioned, and it is now the oldest commissioned ship in the world that is still afloat.
USS Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, is a three-masted wooden-hulled heavy frigate of the United States Navy. The ship is the world's oldest commissioned naval warship still afloat. [ 11 ] [
In addition to the commemorative nature of much of Holmes's poetry, some pieces were written based on his observations of the world around him. This is the case with two of Holmes's best known and critically successful poems—"Old Ironsides" and "The Last Leaf"—which were published when he was a young adult. [143]
Old Ironsides, by hip-hop duo Mars ILL; Old Ironsides, a 1926 film directed by James Cruze and starring Wallace Beery; Old Ironsides (locomotive), the first locomotive built by Matthias W. Baldwin "Old Ironsides" (poem), an 1830 poem written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. as a tribute to the USS Constitution
George Claghorn (July 17, 1748 [O.S. July 6, 1748] – February 3, 1824) [1] [Note 1] [Note 2] was an American patriot and shipwright. He served as an officer in the American Revolutionary War and was wounded in the Battle of Bunker Hill. [2] [3] After the war, he was awarded the rank of colonel in the Massachusetts militia.
Song of Songs 3 (abbreviated [where?] as Song 3) is the third chapter of the Song of Songs in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1] [2] This book is one of the Five Megillot, a collection of short books, together with Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes and Esther, within the Ketuvim, the third and the last part of the Hebrew Bible. [3]
[3] Baldwin's first stationary steam engine, built in 1828. In 1811 the 16-year-old Baldwin was made an apprentice jewelry maker to the Woolworth Brothers of Frankford, Pennsylvania (now part of the City of Philadelphia). [3] Apprenticeship in these days was a virtually coercive relationship marked by long hours of labor and miserable compensation.
In chapter 12, she mentions one of her novels (actually a thinly veiled reference to Death in the Clouds) in which she had made a blowpipe one foot long, instead of six. " Evelyn Hope ” is the name of a poem by Robert Browning that is quoted in the course of the novel.