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Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator
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Benjamin Franklin first achieved world renown for his experiments with electricity, including work with his famous kite and key.
Also noted is the first Masonic book issued in America; published by Benjamin Franklin.
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John Carthy,
Gun Shop Sales Assistant
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By first making readers realize that the American republic is very young, he prepares us to consider that perhaps it is not so time-tested after all, perhaps it is still an experiment and thus not yet a success; and that, I think, prepares readers to question whether we have lived up to Benjamin Franklin's famous challenge that the authors of the Constitution had given us "a republic, if you can keep it!
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Mark Harris,
Priest
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Franklin's Deism is certainly well-stated in the first passage quoted from his letter to Stiles while his tolerance, common sense and Yankee pragmatism come through loud and clear in the second passage quoted.
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Josh Hogan,
Commander
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General Franklin's division did not accompany the other divisions of the First corps to Fredericksburg, but was detached, and sent to McClellan at Yorktown about the 20th of April.
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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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He was a founding board member of the Benjamin Franklin American Inn of Court, Philadelphia's first affiliate of the American Inns of Court movement for practitioners specializing in intellectual property law.
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John Fielding,
CEO
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PSTOS was invited by Carol Jackson, the new president of the Benjamin Franklin Arts Foundation, to attend her first meeting with the group which works to fund the Arts program at Franklin.
Many of you have read or heard that the city of origin of the first fire insurance company in America is Philadelphia and that Benjamin Franklin was the founder of this insurance company.
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Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent
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This talk was based on the diary kept during a visit to Orkney and Shetland in order to seek first-hand news of the early searches for Sir John Franklin's lost ships Erebus and Terror.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt first came to the Warm Springs area in 1924 in search of warm water treatments for his paralysis.
Franklin's account is much the same as is mentioed in one of the first of the American magazines; the sweeping of the streets, and rubbish of old buildings, are made into mortar, and built into walls, exposed to the air, and once in about two months scraped and lixiviated, and evaporated; when I can describe the method more minutely I will write you; meanwhile, give me leave to condole with you the loss of Colonel Lee.
Arbour is the author of many articles and two books, including Benjamin Franklin's First Government Printing and is one of the featured historians in "The Founding Fathers", a four-part series special for the History Channel.
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