Sometimes those notes are more interesting than the book itself, as with the Benjamin Franklin example.
The Benjamin Franklin Parkway was one the 10 venues that held Live 8 benefit concerts on July 2, 2005.
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To this end, Longwood Gardens has installed illuminated sculptures by UK artist Bruce Munro, an interpretive audio tour stops along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, and city street billboards showcased artwork by photographer Zoe Strauss.
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He looks for Europe to follow the advice Benjamin Franklin once gave the 13 U.S. colonies.
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The climax takes place at a dance competition at Ballroom at the Ben, in the former Benjamin Franklin Hotel (834 Chestnut St.).
In the eighteenth century of Benjamin Franklin and the nineteenth century of Thomas Edison, an educated person could feel some familiarity with science and even dabble in it as an amateur.
Though he was alone on the issue, Benjamin Franklin believed that federal officials should serve without a salary.
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In the end, Benjamin Franklin may be right.
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and hotelier Orison Swett Marden's Success magazine (founded in 1897) were mere warm-ups to Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936) and Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking (1952).
The U.S. Postal Service was founded in 1775 in the great city of Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin, who was the first Postmaster General.
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If this sounds weirdly narcissistic, consider that the movement has a forebear in a quintessential American: Benjamin Franklin, the founding father of self-tracking.
However, Gloor says the concept has a strong historical precedent in the 'Junto' organization set up in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin in the 18th century.
It was brought over by the reformed Calvinists in the 1600s, made secular and practical by Benjamin Franklin, expressed as the "Pursuit of Happiness" by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, noticed by Alexis de Tocqueville, defined by Max Weber and written into the popular culture by Horatio Alger and others.
The classic example is Benjamin Franklin, who was a printer, publisher and public official but still made key discoveries in electricity.
In fact, the Postal Service has had to adapt to changing times ever since Benjamin Franklin was appointed the first postmaster general by the Continental Congress in 1775.
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.
It was brought over by the reformed Calvinists, made practical by Benjamin Franklin, noticed by Tocqueville, defined by Max Weber and put into the popular culture by Horatio Alger and others.
But we are in new territory here, not anyplace the Founding Fathers, even Benjamin Franklin, could have imagined.
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In the pursuit of those verities, our students could do worse than to study the early crowdfunding techniques of Benjamin Franklin.
The record buying public at Benjamin Franklin Junior High had good taste.
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These notions were eventually dispelled by none other than Benjamin Franklin, the noted polymath, scientist and Founding Father of the United States, who conducted studies into the common cold and concluded that it was transmitted through the air between individuals.
In the late 1700's, Benjamin Franklin fretted over Pennsylvania becoming "a colony of aliens" thanks to German immigrants.
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When Benjamin Franklin suggested that the turkey appear on the nation's first seal, the more regal bald eagle won out.
So thought Benjamin Franklin, despite the former creature being fat and flightless.
As anyone who has ever sent an email knows, the marketplace has other ways to communicate beyond the offices created by founding father Benjamin Franklin.
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Benjamin Franklin once said that the only things certain in life are death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin was one of the first to suggest that the extreme cold of 1783-84 over much of the Northern Hemisphere was connected to the Laki event.
But as a wise Benjamin Franklin said after signing his name to the U.S. Constitution, our job is to keep it.
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