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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.
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]
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 ] [
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[1] [2] The poem has been referred to as "a short sequel" to "The Old Cumberland Beggar", and Wordsworth himself regarded it as "an overflowing" of it. [3] [4] The form of the poem has been described as "a sonnet-like poem in two acts". [5] It consists of one stanza written in blank verse. [6] The poem describes an old man and the journey he is on.
Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
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.
The advertisement for daredevil Sam Patch's fatal last jump. Sam Patch (1799 [1] – November 13, 1829; some sources believed his birth year to be 1807) was known as "The Jersey Jumper", "The Daring Yankee", [2] or the "Yankee Leaper" [3] became the first famous American daredevil after successfully jumping from a raised platform into the Niagara River near the base of Niagara Falls in 1829.