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OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES BOOKS
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. & Jr.: Educational Posters, Books, Links for Learning
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social studies > OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES < famous men
Father and son, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. were two of the most notable men of the 19th and early 20th centuries. They were also descendents of colonial American poet Anne Bradstreet.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
b. 8-29-1809; Cambridge, MA
d. 10-7-1894; Boston
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., the father, was a physician and Professor of Anatomy & Physiology, but achieved his first fame as a writer and poet with his poem “Old Ironsides” which saved the 18th century wooden Navy frigate USS Constitution from being scraped in the 1830s. She is now the oldest commissioned ship afloat in the world.
In 1843 he published The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever which described how the deadly puerperal fever, also known as childbed fever, was carried from patient to patient by physicians and nurses.
Holmes Sr. was one of the ‘Fireside Poets’ (Bryant, Longfellow, Lowell, Whittier).
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
American physician, poet, and humorist Oliver Wendell Holmes is noted for his medical research and teaching. He is best known as author of “Old Ironsides” – one of America's most patriotic poems – and his “Breakfast-Table” series of essays.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
b. 3-8-1841; Boston, MA
d. 3-6-1935; Washington, DC
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., the son, was a Civil War veteran and served on the US Supreme Court from 1902 to 1932. He is cited widely for his "clear and present danger" majority opinion on the Schenck v. United States (1919), ruling that in time of war the First Amendment did not protect speech encouraging insubordination, “falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic”.
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Knowledge
Motivational Poster
“One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
b. 8-29-1809; Cambridge, MA
d. 10-7-1894; Cambridge
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New Ideas
“Mind, once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
This poster attributes the quote to the son. My research indicates it should be to the father.
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| The USS Constitution was built larger than the standard frigate, with a streamlined hull to be faster, and with ribs four inches apart rather than the standard eight to ten inches apart. She was also built from American oak, which turns out to be denser than European oak.
The Constitution first fought first against French privateers, then against Barbary pirates ("from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli"- Marine Hymn). It was in the War of 1812, in a battle with the British ship Guerriere, that she earned the nickname "Old Ironsides" when the cannon balls bounced off the hull of the Constitution.
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Old Ironsides
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
9-16-1830
Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!
Long has it waved on high,
And many an eye has danced to see
That banner in the sky;
Beneath it rung the battle shout,
And burst the cannon's roar;
The meteor of the ocean air
Shall sweep the clouds no more.
Her deck, once red with heroes' blood,
Where knelt the vanquished foe,
When winds were hurrying o'er the flood,
And waves were white below,
No more shall feel the victor's tread,
Or know the conquered knee;
The harpies of the shore shall pluck
The eagle of the sea!
Oh, better that her shattered bulk
Should sink beneath the wave;
Her thunders shook the mighty deep,
And there should be her grave;
Nail to the mast her holy flag,
Set every threadbare sail,
And give her to the god of storms,
The lightning and the gale! |
All Hands On Deck curriculum - USS CONSTITUTION
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