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Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator
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Technology in America-Timeline - From Benjamin Franklin's lightning rod to the Hubble Space Telescope, this timeline covers some of America's technological innovations and inventions.
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John Carthy,
Gun Shop Sales Assistant
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There are good citizens who - taking heed of Benjamin Franklin's admonition that those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety - will surrender not one of their rights.
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Astrid Schuhmann,
Backpacker
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Some of the important historical events of this period include Benjamin Franklin's discoveries of electricity, the emergence of factories using water and steam powered machinery, Napoleon's ultimate defeat at Waterloo, the first steamship crossing of the Atlantic, the discovery of medical vaccination, and the invention of the cotton gin.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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From Benjamin Franklin's lightning rod to the Hubble Space Telescope, this timeline covers some of America's technological innovations and inventions.
Benjamin Franklin's experiments: A new edition of Franklin's experiments and observations on Electricity.
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Mark Harris,
Priest
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Contrast the New Yorker Nantucket of Joyce Carol Oates's nihilsim and pessimism, with the Nantucket hinted at in Benjamin Franklin's words: There seems to me at present to be great occasion for raising a United Party for Virtue, by forming the virtuous and good men of all nations into a regular body, to be govern'd by suitable good and wise rules, which good and wise men may probably be more unanimous in their obedience to, than common people are to common laws.
James Madison is being called as a witness at this point in order to put forever at rest the nonsense that has been written about the Constitutional Convention with respect to Benjamin Franklin's suggestion that prayer be a part of the daily ritual.
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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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Activists have been meeting weekly to organize a July 30 protest rally called UNITY 2000, which is expected to bring tens of thousands of demonstrators to Benjamin Franklin Parkway, a broad tree-lined boulevard that runs between City Hall and the Philadelphia Art Museum.
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John Fielding,
CEO
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Although the steam engine had been developed by Benjamin Franklin's collaborators, who intended that it be used to improve the productivity of labor, the British applied it to their slave labor system, filling the factories with workers, including children, who worked 15 to 17 hours a day.
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Phuong Nguyen,
Exotic Dancer
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The Rothman Institute 8K Race will take runners twice down the Benjamin Franklin Parkway to Logan Circle, out the Parkway to Kelly Drive and Kelly Drive back to the Art Museum.
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Jake Farley,
Truck Driver
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Long before tractor-trailers dotted the highways and city-streets of North America, Benjamin Franklin's simple statement "Time Is Money" defined the importance of cash flow in reaching financial goals.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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Governor Franklin's loyalty to King George III during the time of worsening relations between the colonies and Great Britain caused a tragic rift between the governor and his famous patriot father, Benjamin Franklin.
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