Like a tiny submarine, the chambered nautilus speeds through the ocean on little jets that it creates by sucking in water and spitting it out. However, as ways of movement go, jet propulsion is not ...

The physician-poet Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) belonged to that group of “Fireside Poets” — Bryant, Whittier, James Russell Lowell, Longfellow — of 19th-century American standard authors. Also ...

Like a tiny submarine, the chambered nautilus speeds through the ocean on little jets that it creates by sucking in water and spitting it out. However, in the ocean’s depths where oxygen gets thin, ...

The Navy reached back into history to find a fitting name for the atomic submarine now abuilding, and finding it, broke from its tidy modern-day custom of naming all submarines after deep-sea fish.

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As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast . . . —Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Chambered Nautilus For ...