• Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc. is a short essay written in 1751 by American polymath Benjamin Franklin....
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    Essay on the Principle of Population which drew on Benjamin Franklin's Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc.. Charles...
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    Francis Folger Franklin (category People from Philadelphia)
    1736) was the son of Founding Father of the United States Benjamin Franklin and Deborah Read. In 1736, four-year-old Francis contracted the smallpox virus...
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    the Principle of Population. Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc. (1751) by Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) Of the...
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    of People, nowadays, are unwilling either to commend or dispraise what they read, until they are in some measure informed who or what the Author of it...
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    Thomas Robert Malthus (category Fellows of the Royal Society)
    Memorandum 200 Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc. World population Several sources give Malthus's date of death as...
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    would surpass that of England in a century. In 1751, he drafted Observations concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc. Four years later...
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    Richard Bache (category People of Pennsylvania in the American Revolution)
    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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    who love liberty gives general joy, and our cause is esteemed the cause of all mankind." Franklin, along with Silas Deane and Arthur Lee, began forging...
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  • towards the increasing number of German settlers. Benjamin Franklin, in Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc., complained...
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    published his essay Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc., projecting exponential growth in British colonies. His...
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    expressly for the use of any preacher of any religious persuasion who might desire to say something to the people at Philadelphia; the design in building...
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    Seventeen of the 24 men who attended initial meetings of the Society were Quakers, that is, members of the Religious Society of Friends, a branch of Christianity...
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    The Treaty of Alliance (French: traité d'alliance (1778)), also known as the Franco-American Treaty, was a defensive alliance between the Kingdom of France...
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    the HPS lamps with light sources with higher color temperatures, which would increase light pollution and interfere with their research. One of the key...
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  • books were the directors' ordinary duties. In the back of the library's 1741 catalog, Franklin mentioned that the library was accessible to people who were...
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  • Ben Franklin in Paris (category Musicals about the American Revolution)
    Jerry Herman. The story is a somewhat fictionalized account of Benjamin Franklin's adventures in the French capital. Seeking support for the Colonies' war...
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    the most attentive watch be kept... I wish a dozen or more of honest, sensible, and diligent men, were employed... to question, cross-question, etc....
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    Benjamin Franklin Parkway (category Parkways in the United States)
    and the Parkway's terminating at the Art Museum gives the notion of "a slice of Paris in Philadelphia." The Parkway contains flags of countries from...
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    in Philadelphia. The Franklin Institute awards comprises the Benjamin Franklin Medals in seven areas of science and engineering, the Bower Awards and...
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  • Benjamin Franklin (2002 TV series) (category Cultural depictions of Benjamin Franklin)
    mission to allow the colony to tax the Penn family's lands. Franklin arrived as an ardent admirer of the empire as well as a lover of the American colonies...
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    Congress The Albany Congress of 1754, prints and drawings from the Emmet Collection of Manuscripts Etc. Relating to American History in the New York Public...
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  • pronunciation: [la lɔʒ de nœf sœʁ]; The Nine Sisters), established in Paris in 1734, was a prominent French Masonic Lodge of the Grand Orient de France that was...
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  • Andrew A. Harwood (category People of Pennsylvania in the American Civil War)
    an admiral in the United States Navy. Harwood was born on October 9, 1802, in Settle Farm, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He was the son of John Edmund Harwood...
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    Press of the Crippled Turtle. Franklin, Benjamin (1906). Murphy, John Joseph (ed.). The wisdom of Benjamin Franklin; being reflections and observations on...
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    Libertas Americana (category 1782 in the United States)
    Americana was showcased on season 15 of the American reality television series Pawn Stars. It was sold for 150,000 dollars. The medal was originally conceived...
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    Franklin's own writings", the book won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1918. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin "The Pulitzer Prizes /...
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    Benjamin Franklin National Memorial (category National Memorials of the United States)
    images of Benjamin Franklin National Memorial (archived 13 February 2006) Statement by NPS Dept. Director Durand concerning financial assistance for the Ben...
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    111th Infantry Regiment (United States) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the United States Army Institute of Heraldry)
    composed of civilian males from the citizenry of Pennsylvania. It is one of several National Guard units with colonial roots and campaign credit for the War...
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    Thomas Birch (category Fellows of the Royal Society)
    contained letters and papers concerning his efforts to support the British Government at that pre-revolutionary time. They speak of his 1755 efforts to help...
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