Ben Franklin should have had an agent In his Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Simon Schama recounts how merchants of the 18th century exploited Benjamin Franklin's fame, slapping his face on inkwells, porcelain, even dolls, without his permission.

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Then women move in, tearing off his shirt and slapping him in the face and on his arms.

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Royden Cope, 63, was accused of restraining the boy by his wrists and then slapping him across the face.

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Luka shouted to the blacksmith to hurry up and shoot, idiot, and Jovo, whose mouth had dropped open, had now taken off his hat and resorted to slapping himself in the face with it, while the remaining dog, shivering like a bulrush in a high wind, cowered under his free arm.

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And before Stoke could even restart, they were reduced to 10 men as Fuller was shown a straight red card for slapping his captain Griffin in the face.

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And when you tell people who have broken the law to come here that they can stay here, then you are simply slapping all of the folks in the face who have done it the right way or who are waiting to.

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These included force-feeding custard to a seven-year-old boy, slapping a seven-year-old boy across the face, pinching a girl's nose to make her open her mouth and restraining a pupil to a chair with a belt.

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