President, First Lady Honor Ben Franklin
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The idea of daylight saving is often credited to Ben Franklin, who thought an extra hour of sunlight could save on candles. 14 Dec 2024, 11:54 AM IST 14 Dec 2024, 11:54 AM IST WhatsApp Save President-elect Donald Trump said Republicans will seek to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, callin...
Ben Franklin’s gift for glomming onto every little success and claiming it as his own extends even to theme parks. For years, EPCOT Center boasted about how Ben Franklin was the first Audio-Animatronic figure to walk, when he climbs a flight of stairs tovisit Thomas Jeffersonin The America...
Ben Franklin served as an Ambassador to France during and after the Revolutionary War. Franklin became the Minister to France for the Congress of the... Learn more about this topic: Benjamin Franklin | Autobiography, Aphorisms & Quotes
Ben Franklin has long stood as one of the patriarchs of American Freemasonry. As one of the most prominent Founding Fathers, today Franklin is known for little more than the face on the $100 dollar bill. Yet, the history of the man behind such an honor i
When Ben Franklin was only a boy, he always wanted to know about things. He was always asking his father and brothers “What” and “How” and “Why”They couldn’t always tell him what he wanted to know.When they couldn’t tell him, Ben tried to find out for himself.Many times Be...
“When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.”— Benjamin Franklin Read more on the tools used during The Ben Franklin Project here 5 Comments Filed underUncategorized Let Freedom Ring and Let Change Continue By Jon Cooper, Vice President of Content, Journal Register Company ...
In addition, Franklin was a humorist, a deist, an early abolitionist, ambassador to France and the president of Pennsylvania's Supreme Executive Council (a role similar to governor). Clearly his legacy is well-earned, but did Franklin have a dark side, too? He was a well-known philanderer...
He was also the first president of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery. He had freed the few slaves he owned years earlier.In December 1763, Franklin visited the Negro School in Philadelphia accompanied by Reverend William Sturgeon, and he gained “a higher opinion of...