On board the Benjamin Franklin (CNN)The first thing you notice about the Benjamin Franklin is just how big it is -- overwhelmingly big.
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Apple Benjamin Franklin: America's O.G. Steve Jobs: Eccentric giant of tech They're both eccentric, undeniable geniuses, so we've gotta give the O.G. Benjamin Franklin spot to Steve Jobs.
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" [Benjamin] Franklin replied, "A Republic if you keep it.
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What would Benjamin Franklin say about the Affordable Care Act?
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Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, philamuseum.org.
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A sprawling fan festival will extend down Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
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A republic, if we can keep it, said Benjamin Franklin.
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Whitman was, besides Benjamin Franklin, the ultimate expert at image management.
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As Benjamin Franklin cautioned, 'A Republic – if you can keep it.
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Maya Dvash, the curator, traces glasses back to before Benjamin Franklin.
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Nothing is certain but death and taxes, Benjamin Franklin famously said.
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John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson, as well as equally
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Benjamin Franklin said that "the doors of wisdom are never shut".
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Eureka … we found experts on Benjamin Franklin and the Founding Fathers.
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It was used by everyone from Benjamin Franklin to President Obama.
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The Benjamin Franklin Reform Democratic Club (304 West 231st Street, Bronx).
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If you're reading this with bifocals, you can thank Benjamin Franklin.
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It is called "The Benjamin" after Benjamin Franklin, America's first postmaster-general.
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"It is the working man is the happy man," Benjamin Franklin wrote.
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" Benjamin Franklin once said: "Those who sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither.
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Benjamin Franklin, our greatest Democratic president, is probably rolling in his grave.
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Benjamin Franklin reportedly used an 18th-century neurostimulation device for pain relief.
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Check out the how a biography on Benjamin Franklin inspired Elon Musk.
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Philadelphia Museum of Art, 238 Benjamin Franklin Parkway; 211-210-244063, philamuseum.org.
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Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway; 215-763-83, philamuseum.
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Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway; 183-763-8100, philamuseum.org.
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Benjamin Franklin first thought up the idea of daylight saving in 1784.
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Famous members included George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Winston Churchill, and Gerald Ford.
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Centuries ago, Benjamin Franklin had lived at 66 Rue Raynouard, Balzac at 47.
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Story at a glance Students at Benjamin Franklin Elementary School in Vancouver, Wash.
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Letter from Washington Two certainties, as Benjamin Franklin wrote, are death and taxes.
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In late 1772 Benjamin Franklin received a startling package from an unknown sender.
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In Philadelphia, one can make out the Benjamin Franklin Bridge through changing foliage.
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Benjamin Franklin abused laudanum, an opium and alcohol mixture for his bodily pains.
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Benjamin Franklin, influenced by his older brother James, initially opposed vaccination against smallpox.
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Mini-Vows Elizabeth Patricia Frei and Benjamin Franklin Duchek were married Dec. 31.
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In fact, he has repeatedly described Benjamin Franklin as one of his heroes.
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Benjamin Franklin was asked what kind of a country America was to become.
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They asked Benjamin Franklin, 'what do we have—a republic or a monarchy?
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But assemblies of informed people also gather their wrong opinions, as Benjamin Franklin said.
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As Benjamin Franklin put it, we must hang together, or we will hang separately.
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Leonardo da Vinci, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Kissinger, take your pick — all brilliant.
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As Benjamin Franklin correctly noted, ours is a republic, if we can keep it.
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Philadelphia Museum of Art, Benjamin Franklin Parkway at 9533th Street, 2212-2989-27600, philamuseum.org.
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The lesson learned and taught by House Democrats is that Benjamin Franklin was right.
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The famous "Join or Die" image by Benjamin Franklin was a call to unite.
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Philadelphia Museum of Art, Benjamin Franklin Parkway at 26th Street, 215-763-8100, philamuseum.org.
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Philadelphia Museum of Art, Benjamin Franklin Parkway at 1109th Street, 2212-2779-23587, philamuseum.org.
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Benjamin Franklin First, GovOS would bypass the auto-erase function for an individual iPhone.
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Well, rather unsurprisingly, I would have Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein and Leonardo da Vinci.
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In the 18th century, Benjamin Franklin used the mail order concept to sell books.
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Benjamin Franklin Senior High serves the area, with an enrollment of more than 21990,22000.
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Philadelphia Museum of Art, Benjamin Franklin Parkway at 2299th Street, 27777-21945-100, philamuseum.org.
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Philadelphia Museum of Art, Benjamin Franklin Parkway at 26th Street, 5353-763-8100, philamuseum.org.
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Philadelphia Museum of Art, Benjamin Franklin Parkway at 23600th Street, 215-763-8100, philamuseum.org.
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Philadelphia Museum of Art, Benjamin Franklin Parkway at 21222th Street, 215-763-8100, philamuseum.org.
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It is a small green piece of paper with Benjamin Franklin on the front.
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Bill Robling, an actor portraying Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin, led the couple in their vows.
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As Benjamin Franklin said to the- - (CROSSTALK) HANNITY: That&aposs spreading it, isn&apost it?
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Benjamin Franklin helped to set up America's first street-cleaning service in Philadelphia in 6.43.
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It predates Harvard by a year and educated Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock and Samuel Adams.
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In December 2017, Miranda released a song with indie band The Decemberists, about Benjamin Franklin.
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Urban Riders continues at the Barnes Foundation (2025 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia) through October 2.
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Benjamin Franklin once said that there are no certainties in life except death and taxes.
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He raps, "I love Benjamin Franklin more than than his own mother," which is hilarious.
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Benjamin Franklin was a notorious hoaxer during his tenure as publisher of the Pennsylvania Gazette.
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Benjamin Franklin sold chocolate in his sundries shop, and most households had designated chocolate pots.
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Flanking the orrery are the likenesses of Benjamin Franklin, Isaac Newton, and other notable thinkers.
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Cai Guo-Qiang: Fireflies continues at Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia on weekends through October 8.
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Officials sought the help of Benjamin Franklin, but hopes of national recognition were never realized.
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Mr. Haubrich said he is aware of the relationship of the college to Benjamin Franklin.
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Conversation teetered from subjects like President Trump's mental health to her infatuation with Benjamin Franklin.
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But then again, as Benjamin Franklin said, nothing in life is certain — except death and taxes.
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The former vice president was named the Benjamin Franklin presidential professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
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The site exists less to defend the ideals of Benjamin Franklin than those of Christopher Cantwell.
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Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin liked to quote Virgil in their speeches and letters.
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King Louis XVI appointed a commission that included Benjamin Franklin, America's ambassador to France, to investigate.
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" Benjamin Franklin viewed impeachment as a means of accounting for "obnoxious" behavior and "the best way . . .
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And Benjamin Franklin who said the founders gave us a Republic — if we can keep it.
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Well, Benjamin Franklin, the first American ambassador to France, was a pioneer of the glass harmonica.
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But did Benjamin Franklin really say, "It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority"?
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In the 18th century Benjamin Franklin mooted the idea of moving the clocks forward in the summer.
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Andrea Hornick: Unbounded Histories continues at the Barnes Foundation (2025 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy, Philadelphia) through February 19.
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Benjamin Franklin reminded his colleagues at the Constitutional Convention to begin by bowing their heads in prayer.
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The other college will be named for Benjamin Franklin, a founding father and Yale honorary degree recipient.
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A 28500 convention negotiated a treaty and recommended a plan by Benjamin Franklin to unify the colonies.
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In 2014, he received the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science from the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.
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Ms. Mead-Armor, after having the highest bid, retained some personal items, like his Benjamin Franklin cane.
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Below, Curran talks about grave robbers, Diderot's political prescience, how he was like Benjamin Franklin and more.
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He's like Montaigne or Benjamin Franklin, too, in that he can become your friend — a lifelong companion.
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Benjamin Franklin was, in 203, the ambassador of the fledgling United States to King Louis XVI's court.
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Bicycle lanes along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and Broad Street will be largely closed to the public.
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It proposed that George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin and Samuel Clemens (among many others) were gay.
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Founding Father Benjamin Franklin lamented immigrants from Germany for not learning English and for their Roman Catholicism.
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Kiefer Rodin continues at the Barnes Foundation (2025 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) through March 12, 2018.
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Rogers' Trapper John was paired with Alan Alda's Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce in CBS' Korean War comedy-drama.
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The week ahead: -- Warren holds a town hall Saturday at the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology in Boston.
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The Postal Service is older than the country itself and was first led by Postmaster General Benjamin Franklin.
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Smith's "Orange Lush" (19903/2015) hung in a large window facing the Barnes Foundation on Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
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A fan of Benjamin Franklin, he often impersonated him at public events, complete with a serpent's-head cane.
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In the paintings of James Benjamin Franklin, the everyday material environment of the artist fuses with his work.
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The location, near the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, a hub of city attractions, has also raised the organization's profile.
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At the very end, he invoked what Benjamin Franklin said as he was emerging from the Constitutional Convention.
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To quote a long-ago Philadelphian, Benjamin Franklin, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."
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The world has a growing appetite for small green pieces of paper with Benjamin Franklin on the front.
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During both 2017 and 2018, Joe Biden was the Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
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As Benjamin Franklin warned in "Poor Richard's Almanack," He that lieth down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.
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"As Benjamin Franklin said: we can hang together or hang separately," the Texas Republican added in a separate tweet.
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The groom's great-great-grandfather Benjamin Franklin Jones was a founder of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation of Pittsburgh.
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The great American statesmen in our history — Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Franklin Roosevelt, among others — were all negotiators.
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It all started because Keoni wanted to do something special for "Kindness Week" at his school, Benjamin Franklin Elementary.
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Since the impeachment inquiry began, she's also taken to quoting the nation's founders - primarily Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine.
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Noble virtues do not map neatly onto apex predators, a fact that troubled Benjamin Franklin as early as 1784.
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There were contemporaries like John Adams, John Jay, Benjamin Franklin and Alexander Hamilton who were outspoken critics of slavery.
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Apparently, he favored tolerance in his multicultural empire, a stance that wasn't lost on Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin.
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I think it was Benjamin Franklin that said there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.
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"Benjamin Franklin: An American Life" by Walter Isaacson Ben Franklin, author, inventor, scientist and diplomat, is one of Musk's heroes.
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Her go-to reads are biographies or autobiographies of people like Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Marie Curie and Katharine Hepburn .
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Keith Smith at Home continues at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) through July 8.
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Wait, were Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln just brought back from the dead by the Migos throwing money at them?
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As he was leaving the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Benjamin Franklin was asked what form of government they had created.
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Benjamin Franklin created a "mutual improvement society" called the Junto that gathered each Friday evening to learn from each other.
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His designs range from pumpkins, farm animals, and eagles to the Grim Reaper, Benjamin Franklin, and the Statue of Liberty.
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Tubman now joins the shorter list of nonpresidents who have been selected as "representative Americans," alongside Hamilton and Benjamin Franklin.
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Three Photographers/Six Cities continues at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) through September 25.
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Recent collections digitized by the Library of Congress include those of Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin Franklin and Susan B. Anthony.
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Cai's public art project Fireflies invites visitors to ride in padicabs illuminated by lanterns down the bustling Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
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From Jonathan Edwards to Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln to Frederick Douglass, Americans have always admired those who made themselves anew.
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This wacky idea to move around time was first proposed by none other than Benjamin Franklin way back in 1784.
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Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the Champs-Élysées of Philadelphia and the nexus of that city's great museums, turns 100 this year.
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Designs for Different Futures continues at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) through March 8.
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Nancy Davis of Baltimore Md. dressed as Benjamin Franklin for the March for Science in Washington, D.C. on Earth Day 2017.
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Documents from George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Paul Revere and Benedict Arnold, along with others, were also stolen, according to court filings.
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Remember that when they were done writing it, Benjamin Franklin was asked by a woman, you know, what have we got?
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Or perhaps a long-standing contestant has already had a Benjamin Franklin clue in the past, so you knock that out.
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They discovered that the instrument, also known as the armonica, had been invented by Benjamin Franklin, one of America's founding fathers.
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Musk has repeatedly described Benjamin Franklin, one of the US's founding fathers and an accomplished inventor, as one of his heroes.
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In 1723, a teenaged Benjamin Franklin created his first printing piece, a broadside elegy recently acquired by the University of Pennsylvania.
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It will make you feel, as Benjamin Franklin once said, patriotic AF. Watch the ad below: Follow Kyle Kramer on Twitter.
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It was founded by Benjamin Franklin and was the first US college to offer both an undergraduate and a postgraduate education.
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Benjamin Franklin is often credited with first proposing a version of daylight time (in jest) as a way to save candles.
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Renoir: Father and Son/Painting and Cinema continues at the Barnes Foundation (2025 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) through September 73.
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Members of the Benjamin Franklin Reform Democratic Club are watching the debate at Blackstone Bar and Grill (3713 Riverdale Avenue, Bronx).
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Once I completed my coursework, I was assigned to be a student teacher at Benjamin Franklin High School in East Harlem.
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Benjamin Franklin would also have passed through it on visits to the House of Commons during his time living in London.
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At the end of the Constitutional Convention in 85033, Benjamin Franklin was asked what sort of government the delegates had framed.
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Designs for Different Futures Through March 8 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway; 215-763-8100, philamuseum.org.
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In Texas, Florida, and across the mountain west except for Colorado, a Benjamin Franklin will buy you more than its value.
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In 1733 Benjamin Franklin penned the adage "Great Talkers, Little Doers" under the pseudonym of a fictional stargazer named Richard Saunders.
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In August 1783, at the future site of the Eiffel Tower, Benjamin Franklin watched two brothers launch the first hydrogen balloon.
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Back in 1786, Benjamin Franklin commented extensively on the perils of lead poisoning, but industry ignored the dangers and marketed lead aggressively.
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Benjamin Franklin once said that nothing in life is certain except death and taxes, but clearly the guy forgot something: gray hair.
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First suggested by Benjamin Franklin, in 1784, it was at the time shot down by many very sensible people as being pointless.
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Benjamin Franklin had written a similar thought 100 years earlier in a letter to the Journal of Paris, a newspaper, in 1784.
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Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie continues at the Barnes Foundation (2025 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy, Philadelphia) through May 22.
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Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism, 1910–1950 continues at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia) through January 8.
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It was initially Edmund Bacon's idea to put a park at the end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, adjacent to City Hall.
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Its program includes a reading of the Declaration of Independence, with re-enactors portraying historical figures including George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.
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To borrow the words of one of that city's favorite sons, Benjamin Franklin, we have a republic — if we can keep it.
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The Second Continental Congress on this day in 1775 created the postal system and unanimously elected Benjamin Franklin to be its chief.
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The president, Peter Salovey, also said the university would name its two new residential colleges for Anna Pauline Murray and Benjamin Franklin.
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But to be cautiously hopeful and paraphrase Benjamin Franklin, let's offshore our democracy's civic data norms until we can keep them ourselves.
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They also remarked that it's impossible to look out the windows overlooking Benjamin Franklin Parkway and enjoy the view of Center City.
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The bust was by Giuseppe Ceracchi, who had visited America and had done busts of Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin.
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"I like Franklin's autobiography and a recent written biography on Franklin," Musk said, referring to U.S. statesman and historical figure Benjamin Franklin.
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It is a defense of America's best and oldest traditions: the belief that we must "join or die," as Benjamin Franklin warned.
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Some of Thomas' other works include similarly posed imaginations of great Americans like Mark Twain and Benjamin Franklin sitting around a campfire.
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He is the author of books including, most recently, Benjamin Franklin: The Religious Life of a Founding Father (Yale University Press, 2017).
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Ross is more in line with American mythic legends Paul Bunyan and Johnny Appleseed than historic figures like Clara Barton or Benjamin Franklin.
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When leaving the Constitutional Convention in 1787, a woman asked Benjamin Franklin whether the framers had decided on a monarchy or a republic.
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Franklin and Marshall College was originally called Franklin College, founded in 1787 by Benjamin Franklin, who donated 200 English pounds to the school.
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Some slapdash math suggests that soy sauce has a birthdate of 1657, the same year as the birth of good old Benjamin Franklin.
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He highlights the context of the pedicabs' route along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, which is lined with flags from countries around the world.
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If the Patriots win, the Philadelphia Museum will loan Benjamin West's "Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky" (ca 1816) to the MFA.
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Born in Poland in 1745, Pulaski fought for his home country against the Russians before fleeing to France, where he met Benjamin Franklin.
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In 1966, John Cleary, the first executive director of the Federal Defenders of San Diego, met Benjamin Franklin Rayborn in prison in Atlanta.
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Benjamin Franklin advocated for its inclusion because he feared that the alternative to the legal removal of a corrupt official would be assassination.
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According to the foundation, a new nonprofit organization will be on Benjamin Franklin Parkway, where construction is expected to begin in early 2021.
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He graduated from Benjamin Franklin High School in 1939, Occidental College in 1943 and the University of Southern California medical school in 1947.
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At the same time, he revealed that the university's two new residential colleges would be named for Benjamin Franklin and Anna Pauline Murray.
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During the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin was asked by a citizen what kind of government our new nation was to have.
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" Gary doesn't necessarily subscribe to the famous quote from America's founding father Benjamin Franklin: "By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
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Completed in 21950, the museum sits at the end of Benjamin Franklin Parkway, where a majority of the city's prestigious museums are located.
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Until Trump was elected, the clause, originally a response to Benjamin Franklin accepting a snuffbox from the king of France, was pretty obscure.
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The idea originated centuries ago when men like Benjamin Franklin thought it made economic sense to fuck with our waking hours in the wintertime.
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But perhaps realising that traditional instruments offer a finite range of sound options, composers seem to have made the same discovery as Benjamin Franklin.
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Family political disputes date back as early as Benjamin Franklin, whose son was imprisoned for being a steadfast loyalist during the American Revolutionary War.
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"8chan is an empty piece of paper for writing on," he said in the video, which featured a silhouette of Benjamin Franklin behind Watkins.
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Guests were also reportedly given decorative $100 bills, which featured Joe's face instead of Benjamin Franklin and had "Joe Jonas 30" written on them.
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In September, 1776, Congress sent Benjamin Franklin and John Adams on an ultimately fruitless mission to Staten Island to negotiate peace with the British.
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The decision to name residential colleges for Benjamin Franklin and Anna Pauline Murray, a black civil rights activist, does nothing to redeem this wrong.
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Co-ops aren't new: The nation's longest-running example is The Philadelphia Contributionship, a mutually owned insurance company founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1752.
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A copy of Houdon's "Bust of Molière" is for sale, as are busts of Benjamin Franklin, Mozart, Napoleon, Henry IV, Julius Caesar and Dante.
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Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism, 1910–1950 continues at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) through January 8, 2017.
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Bruce Nauman: Contrapposto Studies, I through VII continues at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) through April 16, 2017.
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People were sort of interested in advice givers who weren't authority figures as much as someone like Benjamin Franklin was or Lord Chesterfield was.
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" Benjamin Franklin was typical of those who drew up and signed the declaration in demanding a "free commerce with all the rest of the world.
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" Dad was inducted two years later into the Society itself, which was founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743 for the purpose of "promoting useful knowledge.
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King Louis XVI of France liked to present gilded snuff boxes to favoured diplomats such as Benjamin Franklin, who received one encrusted with 408 diamonds.
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He will also be heading to Washington D.C. on April 7 to receive the prestigious Benjamin Franklin Creativity Laureate Award at a Smithsonian Associates event.
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For example, Benjamin Franklin received a diamond-encrusted box from the King of France while serving as U.S. ambassador; Congress told him to keep it.
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Historians have traced the notion back to Benjamin Franklin, who realized he was sleeping through some daylight hours while visiting Paris in the 18th century.
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George Washington visited, Benjamin Franklin helped secure its contents, John Hancock donated the flocked wallpaper, and John Singleton Copley painted august portraits for its walls.
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An Apple ad campaign from the 1980s featured actors dressed up as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Edison, and the Wright brothers holding Apple IIs.
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Unlike thousands of public libraries in America — descendants of the one founded by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia in 1731 — it was never a lending library.
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"This is what arrived in our quiet, polite, fair-play market," Ms. Lamort said, sitting in her shop on Rue Benjamin Franklin one recent afternoon.
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While he wrote many biographies of admirable figures — among them George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin — Mr. Giblin came to focus increasingly on malefactors.
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Trump is a child of wealth who pretends he's a master businessman, a parody of the American values associated with Benjamin Franklin and Horatio Alger.
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" — Benjamin Franklin, 1722 "There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press.
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Like when Benjamin Franklin wrote "Poor Richard's Almanack," he wanted to give individuals advice, but he was also thinking about rules to make society better.
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These included a visiting Benjamin Franklin, who argued in his Canada Pamphlet of 1761 that keeping Canada would lower Britain's cost of defending its American colonies.
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But, as Benjamin Franklin put it, one of the greatest tragedies in life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts.
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Yes, Benjamin Franklin had the idea first, but when he wrote about it in 1784, he was in Paris and he meant it as a joke.
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Available, for instance, is a signed Robert Rauschenberg exhibition poster, an abstract painting by one E. Victor Gotthelf, and this random plaster bust of Benjamin Franklin.
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Mr. Ballin's mural, "The Apotheosis of Power," features the English physicist William Gilbert, a pioneer in the research of magnetism and electrical attraction, and Benjamin Franklin.
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Ma ended his statement on Twitter by quoting a slogan popularized by one of the US founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin: "United we stand, divided we fall."
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At that point, it had been two years since the frigid January night when she took a taxi to the foot of Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Bridge.
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Because of missed plane connections, the journey grows to nearly 20 hours before they all finally end up in the Benjamin Franklin Hotel off Independence Park.
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"I lived in a neighborhood where hope didn't exist, where potential didn't matter," he told his 200 fellow graduates at Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology here.
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Go online to access free e-book versions of primary texts, including the Haudenosaunee Peacemaker epic and constitution or numerous "Indian treaties" printed by Benjamin Franklin.
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As well as hordes of nobility, he met Benjamin Franklin, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Frederick the Great, Catherine the Great, Pope Clement XIII, Rousseau, Voltaire and Mozart.
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Biden served at the Annenberg School and School of Arts and Sciences and is listed as a "Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor," according to the university.
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It's a risky life cycle, and it's one reason Thorp is so concerned about Franklin's, which, by the way, is named for a researcher, not Benjamin Franklin.
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Leonardo da Vinci Walter Isaacson Walter Isaacson is known for his authoritative biographies on the world's greatest minds, having covered everyone from Steve Jobs to Benjamin Franklin.
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Some say that it became commonplace in the U.S. during World War I, while others say that good old Benjamin Franklin dreamed it up in the 1700s.
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The list of creative early risers ranges from Benjamin Franklin to Howard Schultz to Ernest Hemmingway, though they didn't all wake up early for the same reasons.
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A steep climb French shipping company CMA CGM had invited us on board the Benjamin Franklin to sail for a few days along the South China coast.
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For their work on maglev transportation, Dr. Danby and Dr. Powell were awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Engineering in 2000 by the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.
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But George Washington, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Benjamin Franklin, Rutherford B. Hayes, Thomas Jefferson, Woodrow Wilson, Harry Truman, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton are also all remembered.
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Among the steady sellers at All Sages are books on American history and biographies of the early presidents — Washington and Jefferson in particular — and of Benjamin Franklin.
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Reyes Projects is not to be missed, with a solo presentation of the Detroit artist James Benjamin Franklin, who builds flat, shaped forms out of plaster cloth.
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The document, drafted by Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Philip Livingston and Roger Sherman, announces the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain.
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First in line was a lazy and flirtatious Benjamin Franklin, whom John Adams accused of hogging the limelight when the pair sought a wartime alliance with France.
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From Today, Painting Is Dead: Early Photography in Britain and France Through May 12 at the Barnes Foundation, 2025 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia; 215 278-7000, barnesfoundation.org.
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The very existence of the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology in Boston is a reminder that the challenge of maintaining a skilled work force is nothing new.
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Above Mamout's portrait was a quote from Benjamin Franklin that encapsulated all the emotions I was feeling, and so succinctly: "A republic, if you can keep it."
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It was Trump's first visit to the State Department, where he was greeted by loud applause from several hundred people gathered in the Benjamin Franklin state dining room.
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The voices of Oscar Wilde and Dorothy Parker and Benjamin Franklin still feel electrically alive to us because they managed to bake their personas into their brief observations.
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In fact, 270 years ago, when Benjamin Franklin was in charge of the colonial mails, he required his employees to swear an oath not to open the mail.
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And hey, it could be true—just like it could be true that Benjamin Franklin choked four Parisian prostitutes to death (I defy you to prove me wrong).
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Worth trying is an apple tart made with applesauce custard: "Stirring the Pot With Benjamin Franklin: A Founding Father's Culinary Adventures" by Rae Katherine Eighmey (Smithsonian Books, $21.95).
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Roth traces the long history of how we ended up with millions of incarcerated patients all the way back to Benjamin Franklin and the founding of the Republic.
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In the 18th century, when the first Swedish and German immigrants arrived here, Benjamin Franklin and others complained that their skin color was endangering Anglo-Saxon racial purity.
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Benjamin Franklin Gilbert, a real estate developer, founded Takoma Park in 1883 to give middle-class Washingtonians a healthful place to live within commuting distance of the city.
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He draws his memorable tattoo, the portrait of Benjamin Franklin on a $100 bill, which matches the pendant to the iced out blue chain hanging from his neck.
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Brother fought brother, and fathers disowned sons—among them Benjamin Franklin, a Founder who was never reconciled with his Loyalist son, William, the last colonial governor of New Jersey.
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"I think Benjamin Franklin said it best about having house guests, 'Like fish, they start to smell after three days,' " says Charles Michael Davis from No Sleep 'Til Christmas.
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I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like: The Art of Bill Viola continues at the Barnes Foundation (2025 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) through September 15.
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Does it count as a spoiler if I say that Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln come back to life at the end of the Migos's new video for "Deadz"?
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In the video, with Taps playing and an image of Benjamin Franklin looming in the background, Watkins blames "some less-than-credible journalists" for the downfall of his site.
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In 1727, when Benjamin Franklin was twenty-one, he and a few friends—among them a scrivener, a joiner, and two cobblers—formed a conversation club called the Junto.
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While Philadelphia has a wealth of national history like the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall, the one-time home of Benjamin Franklin has evolved to a modern, lively destination.
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In the 18th century, Benjamin Franklin helped build the University of Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia Fire Department, The Pennsylvania Gazette, The American Philosophical Society, the Pennsylvania Hospital and much else.
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And yet there is something different about this bird, something that made the Second Continental Congress adopt it as the new nation's emblem — over the objection of Benjamin Franklin.
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I don't like things the way they like bulbs and computers and industrial design, or admire people the way they admire Benjamin Franklin and James Joyce and the Oulipo.
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As has been the case in his other books, he draws on the stories of people familiar to the casual reader — like Henry Ford, James Watt and Benjamin Franklin.
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Or, here's a timeline of Daylight Saving Time in the US put together by CNN's research library: 1784 - The idea of daylight saving is first conceived by Benjamin Franklin.
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"Benjamin Franklin is somewhere turning over in his grave," said Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, who has been a crucial player in the efforts to preserve the filibuster.
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Or collector bait like the special-edition Krone, which, at $3,920, features a portrait of Benjamin Franklin and, in its cap, a piece of one of his lightning rods.
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Below: A statue of Benjamin Franklin, founder of the University of Pennsylvania, on the school's campus, in Philadelphia Iowa is another state that did some studying over the summer.
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Brands is the author of dozens of books, including biographies of Woodrow Wilson, Andrew Jackson, and Benjamin Franklin, and he's written extensively about the history of the American presidency.
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GINGRICH: Well, Benjamin Franklin said to a woman right outside the constitutional convention, when she said what have you achieved, and he said, a republic, if you can keep it.
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From the ancient Roman conqueror Marcus Aurelius, to statesman and inventor Benjamin Franklin, right through to Shay Carl whose Maker Studios was acquired by Disney for half a billion dollars.
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Our camera didn't catch it but it's clear from these pics Denzel pre-planned on giving the valet guy a $100 tip ... folding Benjamin Franklin before handing it to him.
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IT IS more than two-and-a-half centuries since Benjamin Franklin grouped a number of electrically charged Leyden jars together and, using a military term, called them a "battery".
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Even Benjamin Franklin was in on the spruce ale brewing game: A variation of his original recipe still lives on in Philadelphia's Yards Brewing Co's Poor Richard's Tavern Spruce Ale.
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Star-Spangled Magic Show (Monday) This half-hour show blends magic and history, with actors portraying Benjamin Franklin and Betsy Ross performing the tricks and describing the historical figures' lives.
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And yet we are fascinated by famous artists' and writers' daily routines: Benjamin Franklin and his naked "air baths," Patricia Highsmith's bacon and eggs for every meal, P.G. Wodehouse's calisthenics.
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"Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government: When this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved," wrote Founding Father Benjamin Franklin.
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He is leading the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement at the University of Pennsylvania and will serve as the Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor at the school.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Benjamin Franklin was only a teenager when he printed a skull-adorned elegy for the late poet Aquila Rose, written by printer Samuel Keimer.
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At 72, Wynnifred Franklin (great name, especially for a Philadelphian; her late husband's name was Benjamin Franklin!) got bored of sitting around in retirement and decided to Get This Bread.
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PHILADELPHIA — Not every street in America deserves a birthday party, but this city chose to honor its 100-year-old Benjamin Franklin Parkway on Thursday with a mesmerizing centennial celebration.
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Front Burner A new book about Benjamin Franklin covers his 84 years and the food that accompanied them, all based on prodigious research by Rae Katherine Eighmey, a food historian.
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Perhaps Benjamin Franklin had him in mind when he emerged from the Constitutional Convention with a now-famous answer to a question about what kind of government they had created.
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From Benjamin Franklin and his lightning rod to Thomas Jefferson and his better moldboard plow, these were men who had been enamored with new technology as solutions to contemporary problems.
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But in "Herbert Hoover: A Life," he is a fascinating and accomplished individual — the "most versatile American since Benjamin Franklin" — and an idealistic, dynamic president who deserves a better reputation.
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Before he was the familiar bald and bespectacled founding father, Benjamin Franklin was a 17-year-old neophyte printer with burning ambition and something of a punk-rock visual sensibility.
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Even Benjamin Franklin, among the most heterodox leaders, proposed Moses crossing the Red Sea as the new nation's emblem and "rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God" as its motto.
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John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and others also recognized the value of anonymous speech, which allows listeners to evaluate arguments solely on their merits, without a preconceived bias toward the speaker.
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Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson worried a lot that the non-English just didn't love republican self-government enough to sustain the distinctive freedoms of a brutal colonial slave state.
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Among these are one massive portrait of Benjamin Franklin, a rough depiction of the Mummers Museum, and homages to the African-American abolitionist James Forten and the photographer Thomas Eakins.
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"Nothing is of more importance to the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue," reckoned Benjamin Franklin, one of many thinkers cited in "The Coddling".
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That Yale has decided to name a new building after Benjamin Franklin rankles me not despite that Franklin, as a white man of his time, had some slaves for a while.
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Yale clearly understands that: The university also just announced two new residential colleges would be named after Benjamin Franklin and Anne Pauli Murray, a legal scholar and a civil rights activist.
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But in other respects they were a microcosm of our nation, then and now: they included alarmists, optimists, philosophers, bores, dealmakers, handwringers and comedians – like the 81-year-old Benjamin Franklin.
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A biography of Benjamin Franklin taught Musk several lessons about his career, including the importance of curiosity, and William Golding's "Lord of the Flies " encouraged Musk to work to better mankind.
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Isaacson sees a particular kinship between the men because both worked at the crossroads of "arts and sciences, humanities and technology"—as did Isaacson's earlier subjects, Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein.
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We won't be dealing with the extraordinary foresight of such founders as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton today — they will not be available to serve as delegates.
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The role he said he relished most was that of Benjamin Franklin, which he played in revivals of "1776" on Broadway in 20073 and at Ford's Theater in Washington in 2003.
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"I believe, like Benjamin Franklin said, stand on principle even if you stand alone," said John E. Tweedell, 85, who lives in the nearby city of Hideaway and endorsed Ms. Bruner.
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But that's what happened this week when he learned that one of his festivals would no longer take place on the most public of stages: the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia.
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Popularized by Benjamin Franklin, the annual time change remained in place after being used in both World Wars to conserve electricity usage as the nights grew shorter during the winter months.
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The treasure was, according to the film&aposs plot, hidden there by the Free Masons — a real secret society whose membership boasted revolutionaries like George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton.
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He said he admired Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan and loathed Hitler, the composer Richard Wagner and other anti-Semites, though he himself made anti-Semitic statements.
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While negative tweets about either candidate were replaced by Benjamin Franklin and Uncle Sam, a couple of tweets in my timeline having nothing to do with the election were also blocked.
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What a great inventor, but Walter has previously written biographies of people like Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs — also great inventors — and is CEO of the nonprofit Aspen Institute.
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"Think of 8chan as a large community of 1 million people that are now looking for a home," said Watkins, with a shadowy likeness of American founding father Benjamin Franklin behind him.
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Police added that the situation at the Benjamin Franklin campus of the Charite university hospital was now "under control" and investigators were on the scene to determine the background to the crime.
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You could also listen to a dialogue between actors dressed as Ayn Rand and Benjamin Franklin, watch a speech by actor William Shatner and attend a blowout party for Steve Forbes' birthday.
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Or maybe we'll be updating this list for months or years or decades, finding it quaint that in the year 2016 someone sold a Pokémon Go account for a measly Benjamin Franklin.
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Jefferson, who (with Benjamin Franklin) had overseen a similar statue for the Virginia capitol decades before, is asked who would be up to the task of sculpting the general in marble now.
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The university has opened two new residential colleges this semester, one named for a black Yale Law School alumna and civil rights leader, Anna Pauline Murray, and the other for Benjamin Franklin.
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It opens up with quotes or mantras – some from historical figures like Benjamin Franklin and some written by Dell himself – meant to get users to think of their long-term financial health.
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Here, Thomas Jefferson, quill in hand, is pictured as a member of the five-man committee, which included John Adams and Benjamin Franklin, that was initially appointed to draft a statement of independence.
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Berlin police said the doctor had sustained life-threatening injuries in the attack at the Benjamin Franklin campus of the Charite university hospital in the southwest of the city and died shortly afterwards.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN had not heard of Mossack Fonseca when he observed "nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes," and the Panama-based law firm might have changed his mind.
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Of course, Howard da Silva, who played Benjamin Franklin, had been summoned to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee two decades earlier, and Nixon had been a member of that committee.
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It's debated who originally came up with the idea, but Benjamin Franklin appeared to have first mentioned it in 1784, when he wrote a letter to the editor of the Journal of Paris.
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This worry was situated in the framework of Thomas Paine's biting denunciation of hereditary monarchy and was shared by the ideological heavyweights of the day, including George Washington, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin.
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In the 1960s, when the Genovese crime family dominated East Harlem, the F.B.I. spied on Rao's from across the street in Benjamin Franklin High School (now the Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics).
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When Benjamin Franklin decided to draw his famous "Join or Die" artwork and submit it to the Pennsylvania Gazette in 227, he started what is now known as the modern day political cartoon.
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Benjamin Franklin takes the place of Christ, the Virgin Mary, and all the saints in Dyachyshyn's collages, with the likes Thomas Jefferson and George Washington guest starring as baby Jesus and adorable little angels.
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Or rather, we've been celebrating the Declaration as people in the 19th and 20th centuries have told us we should, but not the Declaration as Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and John Adams wrote it.
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While it's unfortunately not true that Benjamin Franklin once said, "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy," it's certainly a sentiment that most of us would agree with.
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Cecil Scheib Chief Sustainability Officer, N.Y.U. New York City Twilley cites a debate between Benjamin Franklin and John Adams about whether it is healthier to keep the bedroom window open at night, or closed.
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He researched instruments that were prevalent in the Colonial era and subsequently incorporated snippets of strings, recorder, fortepiano, hammered dulcimer, field drum and even glass harmonica (an invention of Benjamin Franklin) throughout the score.
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Most Americans know at least something about Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and George Washington; how many know about the Indigenous diplomats with whom they interacted regularly and who directly shaped their actions and thinking?
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Speaking in front of an image of Benjamin Franklin, with taps playing in the background, Watkins denies that the El Paso shooter uploaded his manifesto to 8chan and says it was posted by another person.
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He points out that Benjamin Franklin used a more advanced pro-and-con technique: in what Franklin called "Prudential Algebra," a numerical weight is assigned to each listed item, and counterbalancing items are then eliminated.
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Some of the questions that stumped respondents included inquiries about the Federalist Papers — one question on the naturalization test asks you to name one of its authors — and why Benjamin Franklin is remembered in U.S. history.
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At this point, we wouldn't bat an eye if Justin Trudeau, the Harlem Globetrotters, or the ghost of Benjamin Franklin were also spied mingling over the spinach-and-artichoke dip at her Fourth of July bash.
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University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann announced today that Biden's title will be Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor and that he will head the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, reports The Daily Pennsylvanian.
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Story at a glance The idea of falling back and springing forward goes all the way back to Benjamin Franklin, who conceived of it as a way to conserve energy by making better use of daylight.
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In her new book "Quirky, " Schilling analyzes the lives of innovators like Musk, Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Marie Curie and Thomas Edison to identify the traits that helped them make multiple history-altering discoveries.
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That's why he is developing an unusually touchy-feely relationship with Trump -- which he compared to the kissing, hugging and hand-shaking that went on between US founding father Benjamin Franklin and the French philosopher Voltaire.
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As Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson were both in attendance, some attribute this dinner as the means by which French fries, which were first served at the White House by Jefferson, arrived in the United States.
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Often cast as the European counterpart to Benjamin Franklin because the two men simultaneously and independently invented the lightning rod, Diviš became fascinated with electricity while working as a theologian in a Moravian parish of Přímětice.
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Measuring only slightly larger than a standard sheet of paper, Benjamin West's "Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky" commemorates the Founding Father's famous 1752 kite experiment, which he used to prove that lightning is electricity.
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Her thoughts on art and life continued to punctuate the experience, as we stretched our legs and necks, pondering the painted, elegant body of John Singer Sargent's "Madame X" or a stern bust of Benjamin Franklin.
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It ends up being quicker than I thought, so I continue down Benjamin Franklin Parkway toward the Philadelphia Museum of Art/Rocky statue and enjoy looking at all of the flags of the world lining the street.
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For those blissfully unaware, a long time ago, Benjamin Franklin told us we needed to change the clocks in the summer (or was it the winter?) because of Parisian farmers who were thirsting for daylight, or something.
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What better way, then, to celebrate the Fourth in this space than to quote that great Philadelphian Benjamin Franklin, an editor and signer of the Declaration of Independence and a founding father of the independent American press?
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Because I wanted to understand how intelligent, educated people in Whitehall could be looking to the West and thinking such very different things than people like Patrick Henry or Benjamin Franklin or Thomas Jefferson were thinking. Right.
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Walter Isaacson, the biographer of Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin and Leonardo da Vinci, counts Mr. Neumann as a friend, and said he shared some of the attributes that had allowed those other titans to succeed.
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A photographer who is also a historian leads the excursion to famous sites associated with the American Revolution such as Boston Common, the Benjamin Franklin statue and the building where the Boston Tea Party meeting took place.
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The song, about a leprechaun who takes a utility executive and his wife back in time to get advice from Benjamin Franklin, was written by John Kander and Fred Ebb, just as their show "Cabaret" hit Broadway.
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The five nations laid out a diplomatic protocol for transnational relations that was followed by US founders Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and others in their treaty negotiations with the Haudenosaunee and other nations during the 18th century.
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Blueface is, perhaps above all, a first-rate character actor of the meme era, right down to the tattoo of Benjamin Franklin that creeps from his right ear all the way to the middle of his cheek.
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Michael Faraday, a leading experimental physicist and pioneer of electricity, was a close friend of Crosse, and Benjamin Franklin—whose experiments with kites and lightning flashes have obvious links with Crosse's work—was one of his father's acquaintances.
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When Benjamin Franklin, the first US ambassador to France, was given a diamond-encrusted snuff box by the King, he followed the rules against "emoluments" to officials by foreign states and asked Congress if he could keep it.
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THE hereditary principle is not just unAmerican but harms the children of great men, Benjamin Franklin declared soon after the revolutionary war, as rumours flew of plots to establish a new aristocracy with George Washington at its head.
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I'd say that if Aristotle or Benjamin Franklin had electricity, they would've ditched the holier-than-thou 'healthy, wealthy, and wise,' B.S. and taken advantage of the opportunity to tuck a few hours of productivity into their evenings.
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Think of it as the nervous system that helps a society move smoothly and briskly — something Benjamin Franklin recognized over 2100 years ago when he organized Philadelphia's first volunteer fire department, first public library and first charity hospital.
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Some of his favorite titles include the fantasy classic "The Lord of the Rings," biographies of innovators like Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein, and an obscure 87-year-old history book on adventurers called "Twelve Against the Gods."
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In The 303-Hour Life, Ferriss draws on the teachings of Benjamin Franklin to help you learn new languages, improve your athletic performance, and apply "meta-learning" techniques and start-up tips to enhance your own business ventures.
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"Think of 8chan as a large community of 1 million people that are now looking for a home," Watkins said in a video he posted on YouTube, with a shadowy likeness of American founding father Benjamin Franklin behind him.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In 1761, Benjamin Franklin invented an instrument eventually thought by some to drive its players out of their minds: the armonica, which produced the same echoing, high-pitched sounds as singing water glasses.
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Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce in the hit TV series "M*A*S*H," said he noticed his "thumb twitch" when he appeared on television the last few weeks and wanted to prevent tabloids from speculating on his health status.
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Address: Benjamin Franklin 2483, Hipódromo Fonda Mayora has left us all with our mouths open, ready to eat more and more bone marrow sopes, which are made to order, grilled on the comal (griddle), and served with green salsa.
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Home to swashbuckling shows like "Confidential: The American Revolution's Agents of Espionage," the museum will be open the rest of the day for a fee that the famously thrifty Benjamin Franklin might have approved of: $1.212-425-1778, frauncestavernmuseum.
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In the penthouse library, there is a shelf of carefully chosen books: biographies of Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin, "The Lord of the Rings," a treatise on super intelligence — all purported favorites of the Tesla co-founder Elon Musk.
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I have these happy childhood memories of ice cream partly because Thomas Jefferson was sent to Paris by the Congress in 1784 to join American Ministers Plenipotentiary Benjamin Franklin and John Adams, representing the new nation in various matters of diplomacy.
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Throughout the run of the show, the group periodically enters the gallery to perform a commissioned composition, "mains hum" (2017) by composer David Lang, which takes as its inspiration a quote by Benjamin Franklin on the wonders and potential of electricity.
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As the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 lurched to a close after months of grueling debate, history holds that a woman approached Benjamin Franklin to ask whether the framers of the then-in utero government had birthed a republic or monarchy.
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The modern foreign service blends 18th and 19th century European traditions of diplomacy with American experiences as old as the diplomatic missions of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, and as recent as World War II, the Cold War, Vietnam, and Iraq.
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Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson both believed American and British English would grow so far apart we'd be unable to understand each other in a century or two; Jefferson, who literally invented the word "Anglophobia," really didn't like British English.
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In this story Benjamin Franklin could be held up as the quintessential American — the young hustler, who through his ingenuity and dogged self-improvement created new businesses and communities, a new sort of person and a new sort of country.
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" Iger didn't just bring home a crisp Benjamin Franklin — everyone who worked the concert received a gold cigarette lighter, inscribed Thanks, Sinatra, Iger remembered: "I spent the 100 dollar bill in like five seconds, and I kept the cigarette lighter.
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Ask your guide about the shape of British phone boxes, disinterments on a scale that would make Stephen King blanch, and potential visits from a motley gallery of ghosts, including Mary Shelley, John Lennon and the son of Benjamin Franklin.
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Benjamin Franklin Kepley, 80, a retired Navy surgeon, decided he and his wife could sell their house in Florida and move into a continuing care retirement community because they could deduct a portion of the cost as a prepaid medical expense.
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He opened with a humorous nod to the much-discussed embraces he and Mr. Trump shared at the White House on Tuesday, comparing their interactions to those between the French philosopher Voltaire and Benjamin Franklin when they met in Paris in 1778.
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This "sculpto-pictorama," which consists of oversized sculptures of George and Martha Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin aboard a ship, was originally made for the city's tricentennial in 1982, but until 2010 had been sitting in the basement at City Hall.
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George Washington was a Freemason (he became a member of a Masonic Lodge in Virginia when he was 23 years old); so were Benjamin Franklin (who published numerous texts about the fraternity); Duke Ellington; and the former astronaut and US senator, John Glenn.
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To reshape the earth in America's image was an old desire, one that had animated American diplomats since the days of Benjamin Franklin and John Adams, whose idea of a "model treaty" had sketched a way for a new diplomacy, less secretive.
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Way back in 1748, Benjamin Franklin wrote in his essay "Advice to a Young Tradesman": These days the mantra is batted out by characters in Fast and Furious movies, barked at employees at family restaurants, and preached as gospel by venture capitalists.
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It can happen in politics, as it did before the American Revolution, when brilliant minds like Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Paine happened to be in the same place at the same time and invented the constitutional democracy.
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Others suspected of having had Asperger's based on what is known about their personalities and how they conducted themselves include Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Edison, Marilyn Monroe, Isaac Newton, Beethoven and Mozart, to name just a few.
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For her prison, she chooses Eastern State, opened in 1829 just outside Philadelphia as a new, idealistic sort of penitentiary dreamed up by Benjamin Rush, a reformer and friend of Benjamin Franklin, who wanted to deploy solitude as a means to redemption.
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Sure, it's about money—"my BFF is Benjamin Franklin," Wayne quips inspirationally earlier on in the song—but listening to these raps it's hard not to feel it's about a different source of wealth: the boundless joy of bending language to your will.
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Although, as a writer, I can identify with Jefferson's struggle -- with a little help from John Adams and Benjamin Franklin -- to put on paper the decision of the delegates to the Continental Congress gathered in Philadelphia that long ago summer to create a new nation.
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On Thursday, Philly Mayor Jim Kenney announced the city would not allow Jay-Z to host his massive Made In America music festival in Benjamin Franklin Parkway, effective next year, citing past "operational difficulties" as the primary issue, according to the The Inquirer's website, Philly.com.
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Visitors can line up at either Sister Cities or Iroquois Park to wait in line for a ride on one of the pedicabs, which will take them on a 15-minute ride on the bustling Benjamin Franklin Parkway from one park to the other.
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Editorial Observer PANTIN, France — At least since Benjamin Franklin arrived here in 1776, Paris has represented for Americans a cherished ideal, a place where the pleasures of food, wine, sex, art, thought and conversation can be pursued as they cannot in the United States.
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It was around that time when she first read "The Way to Wealth, " an essay by Benjamin Franklin that first appeared in his yearly publication, "Poor Richard's Almanack, " which the Founding Father wrote and published for 25 years under the pseudonym of Richard Saunders.
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On February 10th Ms Omar tweeted that American politicians' defence of Israel's government was "all about the Benjamins" from AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, implying that they are controlled by Jewish money ("Benjamins" being slang for $100 bills, on which the great Benjamin Franklin appears).
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Likewise, general appearances by the real world and anthropological history occur in adventures a little left of the Mario canon, such as Mario's Time Machine and Mario is Missing, where you mill about a quiet San Francisco or annoy Benjamin Franklin while he flies that kite.
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Washington's powerful crowded into the State Department's gold-trimmed, pillar-lined Benjamin Franklin Room on Wednesday along with members of the first family to watch President Donald Trump laud the new secretary of state before Vice President Mike Pence led Pompeo through his swearing-in ceremony.
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" As recorded in the Anti-Federalist Papers, Benjamin Franklin, on June 2, 85033 stated: "Place before the eyes of such men, a post of honor that shall be at the same time a place of profit, and they will move heaven and earth to obtain it.
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" Even the skeptic Benjamin Franklin, while disclaiming that the Convention's work was "divinely inspired," remarked that he could not conceive such a momentous achievement as framing "the new federal constitution" without it "being in some degree influenced, guided, and governed by that omnipotent, omnipresent and beneficent Ruler.
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The small, incremental improvements in battery technology over the last 267 years — since Benjamin Franklin first coined the term "battery" to describe a set of linked capacitors he was using — have not been enough to keep up with the ever-growing global need for energy storage.
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The idea for daylight-saving time is attributed to thinkers including Benjamin Franklin, scientist George Hudson, and a British man named William Willett, who published a pamphlet in 1907 titled "The Waste of Daylight," which argued for an extra 80 minutes of sunlight in the summer.
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Crowned heads of Europe traveled to Versailles incognito, to save on the expense of an official visit, and eventually Americans came too: the show closes with a porcelain statuette of Louis XVI and Benjamin Franklin, bonding over treaties between the French kingdom and the new republic.
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Inspired by Benjamin Franklin, who methodically tracked his own development of 13 virtues (including sincerity, justice and humility), I sat down every day and asked myself if I had been good, if I had been truthful, if I had been kind, if I had been compassionate.
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HB: I'm not saying that sounds like me trying to bullshit my way through an essay on a book I didn't read it in my high school English class — sorry, Mr. Bean — but... PC: They've repeatedly said over and over again the quote from Benjamin Franklin.
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His work harked back to Benjamin Franklin, who published "Poor Richard's Almanack" throughout the mid-18th century, and Thomas Jefferson, who kept assiduous records of the weather over four decades — less than half as long as Mr. Hendrickson did — from the late 18th century to the early 19th.
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Meanwhile, some celebrated Philadelphians make rather undignified cameos: The face of Benjamin Franklin, as seen on the $100 bill, graces a pile of bath towels, and William Penn, on the Quaker Oats box, stands in for the "tumbling clown" in a scaled-up version of that children's toy.
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Per the Wall Street Journal, Watkins took to YouTube on Tuesday to insist (with "Taps" playing as he was flanked by a photo of Benjamin Franklin) that CloudFlare's decision to stop doing business with the site was both politically motivated and to dump baggage before an upcoming IPO.
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In 20173, a former Massachusetts Archives employee was arrested on charges of stealing and selling documents, including the Hamilton letter and original papers of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and other founding fathers, to rare-books dealers when he worked at that institution between 1937 and 1945, the complaint said.
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If we could travel back in time and sit down over tea with James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington or Alexander Hamilton, we would come away with a fresh perspective on their original intent for including impeachment of a president as a constitutional safety valve for the nation.
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Benjamin Franklin once called the rattlesnake "a strong picture of the temper and conduct of America", which would make sense if America was a long-lived, slow-growing, near-sighted, sociable creature that took care of its children and spent its winters underground with dozens of its neighbors.
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