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  2. Chambered nautilus - Wikipedia

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    The chambered nautilus is the title and subject of a poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes, in which he admires the "ship of pearl" and the "silent toil/That spread his lustrous coil/Still, as the spiral grew/He left the past year's dwelling for the new." He finds in the mysterious life and death of the nautilus strong inspiration for his own life and ...

  3. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. - Wikipedia

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    As is seen with poems such as "The Chambered Nautilus" and "The Deacon's Masterpiece or The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay", Holmes successfully concentrated his verse upon concrete objects with which he was long familiar, or had studied at length, such as the one-horse shay or a seashell. [144]

  4. More Stately Mansions - Wikipedia

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    The title of the play was derived from the line "Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul" in the poem The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Against his wishes, O'Neill's widow, Carlotta Monterey, authorized Karl Ragnar Gierow of the Swedish Royal Dramatic Theatre to turn the unfinished work into an acting version.

  5. Nautilus - Wikipedia

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    The Chambered Nautilus, a poem of Oliver Wendell Holmes; Nautilus Pompilius, a Russian rock band; Nautilus (fictional submarine) from Jules Verne’s classic 1870 science-fiction novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, describing the voyage of Captain Nemo’s Nautilus submarine.

  6. University of West Florida - Wikipedia

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    The University of West Florida (West Florida or UWF) is a public university in Pensacola, Florida, United States.Established in 1963 as a member institution of the State University System of Florida, the University of West Florida is a comprehensive research university without faculties of law or medicine, a designated space-grant institution, and sits on the third largest campus in the State ...

  7. Chambered - Wikipedia

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    Chambered is an adjective related to the word chamber. It may refer to: Chambered body, an element of some electric guitars; Chambered cairn or Chambered long barrow, types of megalithic burial monument; Chambered nautilus (Nautilus pompilius), the best-known species of nautilus; Chambered stinkhorn (Lysurus periphragmoides), a species of fungus

  8. Squares of Savannah, Georgia - Wikipedia

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    The square also contains tributes to the Girl Scouts of the USA, founded by Savannahian Juliette Gordon Low, and to the chambered nautilus. [5] Telfair Square is located on Barnard, between State and York Streets.

  9. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas - Wikipedia

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    Nautilus ' s route through the Pacific Nautilus ' s route through the Atlantic. Captain Nemo's assumed name recalls Homer's Odyssey, when Odysseus encounters the monstrous Cyclops Polyphemus in the course of his wanderings. Polyphemus asks Odysseus his name, and Odysseus replies that it is Outis (Οὖτις) 'no one', translated into Latin as ...