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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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    portrait in the Oval Office. His more than 30,000 letters and documents have been collected in The Papers of Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Franklin's father...
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    unknown, and the infant was placed in foster care. His father William was the extramarital but acknowledged son of Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding...
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    list of primary and secondary works by or about Benjamin Franklin, one of the principal Founding Fathers of the United States. Works about Franklin have...
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    The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790;...
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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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    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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    The Franklin stove is a metal-lined fireplace named after Benjamin Franklin, who invented it in 1742. It had a hollow baffle near the rear (to transfer...
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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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    Sarah Franklin Bache (September 11, 1743 – October 5, 1808), sometimes known as Sally Bache, was the daughter of Benjamin Franklin and Deborah Read. She...
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    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...
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    The Benjamin Franklin Medal presented by the American Philosophical Society located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., also called Benjamin Franklin...
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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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    the formation of the United States of America in 1776. It is often illustrated with Franklin's famous snake cartoon Join, or Die. Benjamin Franklin's...
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  • library in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin, the Library Company of Philadelphia has accumulated one of the most significant collections of historically valuable...
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  • Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America, has appeared in popular culture as a character in novels, films, musicals...
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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...
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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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    extra-marital son of Benjamin Franklin. William Franklin was the last colonial Governor of New Jersey (1763–1776), and a steadfast Loyalist throughout the American...
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    Leonard Woods Labaree (category Historians of the United States)
    editor of the multivolume publication of The Papers of Benjamin Franklin. Leonard W. Labaree was the son of Benjamin Labaree, an American missionary in Persia...
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    Benjamin Franklin Bache (August 12, 1769 – September 10, 1798) was an American journalist, printer and publisher. He founded the Philadelphia Aurora, a...
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  • History of English Newspapers to 1899 by Bob Clarke, Ashgate Press, 2005 Franklin, Benjamin (1969). Labaree, Leonard W. (ed.). The papers of Benjamin Franklin...
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    modest archival collection. The Sterling library is also home to the largest collection of Benjamin Franklin papers in the world, which it received as...
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    may be made from Yale University's collection, "The Papers of Benjamin Franklin". Archived from the original on 14 February 2006. "How airplanes counteract...
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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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    Sterling Memorial Library (category Collegiate Gothic architecture in the United States)
    of Benjamin Franklin. The library received a major donation of Franklin's papers when Sterling opened in 1935, and the collection formed the basis of...
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  • Claude-Anne Lopez (category Benjamin Franklin)
    studies of Benjamin Franklin. Beginning with transcribing papers from French at Yale University, she became an associate editor of The Papers of Benjamin Franklin...
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    Poor Richard's Almanack (category Works by Benjamin Franklin)
    almanac published by Benjamin Franklin, who adopted the pseudonym of "Poor Richard" or "Richard Saunders" for this purpose. The publication appeared continually...
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    Catheter (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of January 2024)
    letter in Volume 4 of the Papers of Benjamin Franklin (1959), Franklin credits Francesco Roncelli-Pardino from 1720 as the inventor of a flexible catheter...
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  • Franklin, Benjamin (1978) [1774]. "From Benjamin Franklin to Jan Ingenhousz, 18 March 1774". In Willcox, William B. (ed.). The Papers of Benjamin Franklin...
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