Benjamin Franklin died on April 17, 1790. He penned the inscription that would eventually appear at his Christ Church ...

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Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination. He was, after all, the man who risked life and limb to ...

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The story goes that Virgil had a pet housefly, and when the insect died, Virgil spent 800,000 sesterces—nearly all of his net ...