Ralph Waldo Emerson was the author of nature which became the "Intellectual Beacon" for the "Transcendental Club".
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"Maine was sent to Havana Harbor to protect U.S. interests during the Cuban War of Independence. She exploded and sank on the evening of 15 February 1898, killing three-quarters of her crew. In 1898, a U.S. Navy board of inquiry ruled that the ship had been sunk by an external explosion from a mine."
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