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    The Benjamin Franklin National Memorial, located in the rotunda of the Franklin Institute science museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, features a large...
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    scientist and statesman Benjamin Franklin. It houses the Benjamin Franklin National Memorial. Founded in 1824, the Franklin Institute is one of the oldest...
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    Benjamin Franklin National Memorial — in Philadelphia in the United States Tom Huntington Archived 5 October 2009 at the Wayback Machine "Franklin's Last...
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    The Papers of Benjamin Franklin is a collaborative effort by a team of scholars at Yale University, American Philosophical Society and others who have...
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  • Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) was an American statesman, writer, scientist, inventor and printer. Benjamin or Ben Franklin may also refer to: Ben Franklin...
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    Benjamin Franklin Parkway, commonly abbreviated to Ben Franklin Parkway and colloquially called the Parkway, is a boulevard that runs through the cultural...
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    Benjamin Franklin FRS FRSA FRSE (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705] – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath, a leading writer, scientist, inventor...
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    Francis Folger Franklin (October 20, 1732 – November 21, 1736) was the son of Founding Father of the United States Benjamin Franklin and Deborah Read...
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  • Benjamin Franklin is a 2002 American documentary television series about United States Founding Father Benjamin Franklin which premiered November 19–20...
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    secondary works by or about Benjamin Franklin, one of the principal Founding Fathers of the United States. Works about Franklin have been consistently published...
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    "American Memorial Park". National Park Service. Retrieved March 31, 2019. "Independence National Historical Park – Benjamin Franklin National Memorial". National...
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    administrator. He was the acknowledged extra-marital son of Benjamin Franklin. William Franklin was the last colonial Governor of New Jersey (1763–1776)...
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    Adams Memorial (proposed) Benjamin Franklin National Memorial James Madison Memorial Building George Mason Memorial Washington Monument Memorial to the...
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    The Franklin Institute Awards (or Benjamin Franklin Medal) is an American science and engineering award presented by the Franklin Institute, a science...
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  • Street in Center City Philadelphia. Founded as a library in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin, the Library Company of Philadelphia has accumulated one of the most...
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  • Benjamin Franklin (Washington, D.C.), by Jacques Jouvenal, 1889 Benjamin Franklin National Memorial, by James Earle Fraser, 1906–1911 This disambiguation page...
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    Pennsylvania. Founded in 1749 by a group of local notables that included Benjamin Franklin, the Academy of Philadelphia began as a private secondary school,...
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    Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed is a biography of Benjamin Franklin written by William Cabell Bruce in 1917. A "biographical and critical study based...
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    art in Washington, D.C., Ward 2 Adams Memorial (proposed) Benjamin Franklin National Memorial Jefferson Memorial Signers Monument Washington Monument Architecture...
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  • Royal Society of Arts Benjamin Franklin Medal was instituted in 1956 to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin's birth and the 200th anniversary...
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    Silence Dogood (category Benjamin Franklin)
    used by Benjamin Franklin to get his work published in the New-England Courant, a newspaper founded and published by his brother James Franklin. This was...
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    America in 1776. It is often illustrated with Franklin's famous snake cartoon Join, or Die. Benjamin Franklin's plan to unite the colonies exceeded the scope...
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    September 25 the Continental Congress ordered commissioners, led by Benjamin Franklin, to seek a treaty with France based upon Adams draft treaty that had...
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    igniting the lamps and maintaining them. As early as the 1750s, inventor Benjamin Franklin of Philadelphia introduced innovations in oil lamp design, such as...
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    Richard Bache (category Franklin family)
    Postmaster-General of the American Post Office. He also was the son-in-law of Benjamin Franklin. Bache was born on September 12, 1737, in Settle, West Riding of Yorkshire...
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    Committee members—America's first foreign intelligence agency—were Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Johnson and subsequently included James Lovell...
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    Public Library. "Benjamin Franklin Petitions Congress". National Archives and Records Administration. August 15, 2016. Franklin, Benjamin (February 3, 1790)...
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    James Earle Fraser (sculptor) (category National Sculpture Society members)
    Winnipeg, Canada 1906-1911 Benjamin Franklin sculpture, Benjamin Franklin National Memorial, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia (Memorial dedicated 1938) 1908...
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    Benjamin Franklin Medal presented by the American Philosophical Society located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., also called Benjamin Franklin Bicentennial...
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  • by Jerry Herman. The story is a somewhat fictionalized account of Benjamin Franklin's adventures in the French capital. Seeking support for the Colonies'...
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