USS John Adams 1799/1821-1845

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    And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps.
    —Bible: New Testament St. John the Divine, in Revelation, 14:2.

    Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)