A 19th-century scholar claimed that "Cocker's Arithmetick" had "probably made as much stir and noise in the English world as ...

There is a lot to be said for making America great again. But what does that mean? Thinking about this, my mind turned to a ...

(Sample: “A leader has a vision.”) In part because Benjamin Franklin had such a multifarious career—printer, writer, humorist, postmaster, inventor, scientist, polemicist, diplomat—he is ...

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In part because Benjamin Franklin had such a multifarious career—printer ... Although he cannot seem to get enough of this ...

In the public’s mind, Benjamin Franklin’s scientific work has largely been reduced to this one experiment, in which Franklin demonstrated that discharges from thunderstorms are electric in nature (SN: ...

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Benjamin Franklin once said, “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” As a general society, we collectively ...