January 20: Democrat candidate Joe Biden is inaugurated as President of the United States. March 23: The cargo ship "Ever Given" gets stuck in the Suez Canal. April 24: The Josh fight is held in Lincoln, Nebraska. May: Big Ben chimes for the first time in four years. August 30: The...
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Ben Franklin’s Battle Over Pollution Historic Dock Creek Marker By Kyle Bagenstose Plenty of visitors to Philadelphia have caught a glimpse of Benjamin Franklin’s old privy well, encased in glass amidst the old foundations of his former home at 4th and Market Streets in Old City. It’s ...
Not to speak of Ben Franklin’s private papers (!), but we are still suppressing those. The letter goes on for quite some time, but luckily for the human race, the Discordian articulation of the Illuminati quest turned out to be actually, pretty wholesome! Page 00073 of the Paste-Up ...
20 Jan 1937 Franklin Roosevelt was inaugurated for second term as US President; in the inauguration speech, he spoke about taking care of the third of the American population who were "ill-housed, ill-clad, and ill-nourished". [Franklin Roosevelt | CPC]...
Ben Franklin'sGeneral Magazineprints first US magazine advertisements 1755 Samuel Johnson's Dictionarycredits Edward Cave with coining 'magazine' (a storehouse or arsenal) in its modern sense: 'Of late this word has signified a miscellaneous pamphlet, from a periodical miscellany named the Gentleman...
The Scottsboro Boys are accused of rape.Fritz Lang directs the suspense thriller M, starring Peter Lorre.Bela Lugosi stars in the horror film Dracula.1932Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected president of the United States.Air conditioning is invented.The Lindberghs’ baby is kidnapped.Walt Disney ...
1859 - Oregon admitted as a state, all of Idaho included in Washington Territory.1860 -Idaho's oldest town, Franklin, is founded just north of the Utah border on April 14. Miss Hannah Cornish starts the first school for white children in Idaho. Gold discovered on Orofino Creek in August,...
the Copley medal in 1774 and 1783 for his work. The observations of Walsh, and Bancroft before him, added to the argument that some form of animal electricity existed.Walsh, J. On the electric property of torpedo: in a letter to Ben. Franklin. Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. 1773;63:478-489...
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