The Drinker's Dictionary is a list of 228 "round-about phrases" to describe drunkenness. It was published on January 6, 1737 (1736 Old Style) in The Pennsylvania... 3 KB (246 words) - 00:46, 5 November 2023 |
Look up drinker in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Drinker or The Drinker may refer to: The Drinker (Banksy), a 2004 statue The Drinker (novel), a 1950... 843 bytes (135 words) - 05:08, 19 April 2024 |
 | Join, or Die Liberty's Kids Pennsylvania Chronicle The Constitutional Post The Drinker's Dictionary "Pennsylvania Gazette, Philadelphia". Library of Congress... 10 KB (824 words) - 03:16, 27 December 2023 |
 | 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... 17 KB (1,782 words) - 22:26, 30 December 2023 |
 | Silence Dogood (redirect from The Dogwood Papers) Mrs. Silence Dogood was the pen name used by Benjamin Franklin to get his work published in the New-England Courant, a newspaper founded and published... 11 KB (1,683 words) - 00:36, 28 March 2024 |
United States. In January 1736, Benjamin Franklin published The Drinker's Dictionary in the Pennsylvania Gazette offering 228 round-about phrases for being... 33 KB (3,183 words) - 18:39, 23 April 2024 |
 | Richard Bache (category British emigrants to the Thirteen Colonies) Vol. 1998, p. 141, Brown, John Howard (1903). Lamb's Biographical Dictionary of the United States, Volume 7. James H. Lamb Company. p. 16. Retrieved 3... 12 KB (1,161 words) - 08:48, 3 January 2024 |
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... 5 KB (413 words) - 10:41, 14 April 2024 |
 | Iron lung (redirect from Drinker respirator) he saw the Drinker machine in use, constructed the first Danish respirator designed for clinical purposes. Krogh's device differed from Drinker's in that... 49 KB (4,727 words) - 12:52, 5 April 2024 |
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... 5 KB (497 words) - 01:55, 24 September 2023 |
 | (1747–1822), Church of England clergyman and American loyalist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/67719... 6 KB (736 words) - 23:00, 1 February 2024 |
 | Pennsylvania Abolition Society (redirect from Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage and for Improving the Condition of the African Race) The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage was the first American abolition society. It was founded April 14, 1775, in Philadelphia... 5 KB (417 words) - 14:10, 17 January 2024 |
 | The history of street lighting in the United States is closely linked to the urbanization of America. Artificial illumination has stimulated commercial... 28 KB (3,262 words) - 16:39, 3 December 2023 |
 | printed a "Drinker's Dictionary" in his Pennsylvania Gazette in 1737, listing some 228 slang terms used for drunkenness in Philadelphia. The sheer volume... 26 KB (3,588 words) - 14:51, 24 January 2024 |
 | The Papers of Benjamin Franklin is a collaborative effort by a team of scholars at Yale University, American Philosophical Society and others who have... 58 KB (6,354 words) - 15:57, 13 February 2024 |
Library Company of Philadelphia (redirect from The Library Company of Philadelphia) 39°56′52″N 75°09′47″W / 39.94779°N 75.16306°W / 39.94779; -75.16306 The Library Company of Philadelphia (LCP) is a non-profit organization based on... 20 KB (2,641 words) - 05:26, 20 January 2024 |
 | Treaty of Alliance (1778) (redirect from The Treaty of Alliance (1778)) sometimes known as the Franco-American Alliance or the Treaties of Alliance. The agreements marked the official entry of the United States on the world stage... 24 KB (2,839 words) - 03:53, 22 March 2024 |
Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc. is a short essay written in 1751 by American polymath Benjamin Franklin.... 11 KB (1,193 words) - 17:38, 6 September 2023 |
 | Benjamin Franklin Parkway (category Parkways in the United States) colloquially called the Parkway, is a boulevard that runs through the cultural heart of Philadelphia, the nation's sixth-largest city as of 2020. The parkway is... 11 KB (1,143 words) - 13:26, 30 March 2024 |
 | Albany Congress (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference) The Albany Congress (June 19 – July 11, 1754), also known as the Albany Convention of 1754, was a meeting of representatives sent by the legislatures of... 13 KB (1,382 words) - 17:41, 31 October 2023 |
 | Franklin Institute Awards (redirect from The Franklin Institute Awards) The Franklin Institute Awards (or Benjamin Franklin Medal) is an American science and engineering award presented by the Franklin Institute, a science... 24 KB (655 words) - 05:15, 22 April 2024 |
 | Libertas Americana (category 1782 in the United States) The Libertas Americana was a medal made to commemorate the American Revolution. It was designed in part by Benjamin Franklin. A Libertas Americana was... 3 KB (255 words) - 13:47, 17 March 2024 |
 | Arthur Lee devised dictionary codes in which numbers referred to the page and line in an agreed-upon dictionary edition where the plaintext (unencrypted... 60 KB (8,537 words) - 23:28, 14 March 2024 |
 | Franklin's own writings", the book won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1918. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin "The Pulitzer Prizes /... 1 KB (68 words) - 02:50, 31 March 2024 |
Les Neuf Sœurs (redirect from The Nine Sisters) 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... 7 KB (927 words) - 03:24, 27 March 2024 |
 | Benjamin Franklin National Memorial (category National Memorials of the United States) The Benjamin Franklin National Memorial, located in the rotunda of the Franklin Institute science museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, features a large... 7 KB (602 words) - 19:58, 15 April 2024 |
Andrew A. Harwood (category People of Pennsylvania in the American Civil War) midshipman in the Navy in 1818. From 1819 until 1821 he served in the West Indies on the sloop-of-war USS Hornet in the suppression of the African slave... 4 KB (472 words) - 13:36, 10 November 2023 |
The Clarret Drinker's Song: Or, The Good Fellows Design is an English broadside ballad published by John Oldham in 1680 and is set to the standard tune... 2 KB (252 words) - 11:16, 27 September 2023 |
 | was also a partner with the Chronicle. The newspaper was established to challenge the power of the Penn family and ultimately the Crown authorities who... 11 KB (1,114 words) - 22:26, 11 November 2022 |
is a process by which a heavy drinker's system is brought back to normal after being habituated to having alcohol in the body continuously for an extended... 11 KB (1,012 words) - 11:13, 24 March 2024 |