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Benjamin Franklin Was the Nation’s First Newsman
Before he helped launch a revolution, Benjamin Franklin was colonial America’s leading editor and printer of novels, almanacs, soap wrappers, and everything in between Looming large on ...
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33 Facts That Capture The Strange And Salacious Life Of Benjamin Franklin
It might surprise you to learn that the bespectacled Benjamin Franklin was once quite the womanizer who fathered an ...
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What Led Benjamin Franklin to Live Estranged From His Wife for Nearly Two Decades?
A painting of Franklin’s return to Philadelphia from Europe in 1785 shows him flanked by his son-in-law (in red), his daughter and Benjamin Bache (in blue), the grandson he’d taken to France ...
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Dear Sir, Ben Franklin Would Like to Add You to His Network
In July 1757 Benjamin Franklin arrived in London to represent Pennsylvania in its dealings with Britain. With characteristic dry humor, Franklin, then 50, had written ahead, warning his longtime ...
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Franklin man indicted in Lebanon child rape case
Mar. 31—A Franklin man indicted Friday is accused of sexually assaulting a young girl in Lebanon. Parker Cole Deaton, 20, is scheduled to be arraigned April 18 in Warren County Common Pleas ...