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Franklin, Benjamin
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Benjamin Franklin
explores Franklin's life as a writer, inventor, diplomat, businessman, musician, scientist, humorist, civic leader, international celebrity, abolitionist, and genius. It includes... (Twin Cities Public Television, supported by National Endowment for the Humanities) |
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Benjamin Franklin: In His Own Words
shows the breadth of Franklin's accomplishments through key letters, broadsides, and other documents. This exhibit, marking the tercentenary of Franklin's birth (1706), focuses on his... (Library of Congress) |
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America's Founding Fathers
features biographies of delegates at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in May 1787. The 55 delegates had been sent by the 13 states to revise the Articles of... (National Archives and Records Administration) |
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Making Friends with Franklin
introduces students to the world of Ben Franklin and other "natural philosophers" at a time when the word "science" had not yet entered our language. Portraits of Franklin's... (Smithsonian Institution) |
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