“Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don’t have brains enough to be honest.”–Benjamin Franklin (A Founding Father of the USA) To build on a foundation of deception is to build on something that won’t last. The Founding Fathers of the USA created “checks and balances...
Then, as now, a catheter was a thin tube inserted into a patient's urethra in order to drain urine from the bladder. But at the time, catheters were nothing more than rigid (and painful) metal tubes. Franklin's older brother John suffered from kidney stones and needed to undergo an ex...
fighting, and speaking to establish independence and build the necessary foundations for the new nation. It is a notable task to be a Founding Father, and Benjamin Franklin carries even greater notoriety than his counterparts. Franklin went down in history as theonlyfounding father to sign the De...
He believed:“Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have is this. When I have a subject in mind. I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it . . . the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fr...
In 1784, Benjamin Franklin published a critical essay in a French newspaper suggesting that Parisians could save $200 million through "the economy of using sunshine instead of candles". Therefore , many people owe the origin of the idea of daylight saving time to our Founding Father's writings...
“Some regulatory tightening is unavoidable but perhaps that’s a good thing because it can increase industry trust and make investors feel more secure,” Servadei contemplates. Increased regulation of crypto now unavoidable In an 18th-century letter, the American founding father Benjamin Franklin once...
In 1784, Benjamin Franklin published a critical essay in a French newspaper suggesting that Parisians could save $200 million through “the economy of using sunshine instead of candles”. Therefore , many people owe the origin of the idea of daylight saving time to our Founding Father's ...
A person might say this after seeing something unexplainable, and possibly dangerous. It comes from Benjamin Franklin, 18th-century Founding Father, printer, inventor, and diplomat. After retiring from the printing business, Franklin began experimenting extensively with electricity, which he called electr...
In 1752, the U.S. founding father Benjamin Franklin and the Firemen's Union founded America's first insurance company that offered Americans fire insurance. After a while, the company expanded the scope of its services and also began offering annuities, life ins...
he was remarkably adept at getting people to listen. As Founding Father Benjamin Rush would state of Adams, “He saw the whole of a subject at a single glance, and by a happy union of the powers of reasoning and persuasion often succeeded in carrying measures which were at first sight of...