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Rhode Island Governor Stephen Hopkins was first cousin to Benedict Arnold

Future Rhode Island governor Stephen Hopkins was the second of nine children born to William Hopkins and Ruth Wilkinson. Stephen arrived on March 7...
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History of daylight saving time

Sunday, March 11th, Daylight Saving Time begins in theUnited States.History of Daylight Saving TimeBenjamin Franklin conceived the idea of daylight...
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Happy Ben Franklin Day – Famous Franklin Quotes & Sayings

  • Benjamin Franklin Day
  • January 16, 2012
Today America celebrates one of our Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin. Born to a candle and soap maker on January 17, 1705, Franklin became an...
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Insights Into Daylight Saving Time

Dateline: Naples, Florida; November 6th, 2011; 7:00 am or is that 6:00 am (Fig. 1)?By now, everyone, except folks in Arizona, Hawaii and a few...
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Glenn Beck's Founders Friday review: Benjamin Franklin, founder, man of charity

Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father, Man of CharityBenjamin Franklin, a printer, librarian, inventor, writer, and statesman, was "the only...
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Benjamin Franklin’s Hasidic connection

We see Benjamin Franklin’s face on every hundred-dollar bill and recently celebrated what would have been his 305th birthday. But how often...
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The first American Civil War (1775-1783)

John Adams estimated that one-third of the country were Patriots supporting independence, one-third were Loyalist Americans supporting the British...
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Happy 234th birthday, July 4; may not have happened without the French navy

The United States of America is and has been the greatest and most powerful nation on earth though most of the 20th Century and so far in the 21st...
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Morbid Curiosity: Remembering Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790); A Founding Father meets his Father

The man whose face adorns the $100 bill and one of the Founding Fathers of America died at 84, on April 17, 1790,after an abscess in his lung burst...
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