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  2. Silence Dogood - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 January 2025. Pen name Silence Dogood Essay in the New-England Courant Silence Dogood was the pen name used by Benjamin Franklin to get his work published in the New-England Courant, a newspaper founded and published by his brother James Franklin. This was after Benjamin Franklin was denied several ...

  3. Benjamin Franklin - Wikipedia

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    Benjamin Franklin thought that slavery was "an atrocious debasement of human nature" and "a source of serious evils." In 1787, Franklin and Benjamin Rush helped write a new constitution for the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, [264] and that same year Franklin became president of the organization. [265]

  4. Poor Richard's Almanack - Wikipedia

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    Poor Richard's Almanack (sometimes Almanac) was a yearly almanac published by Benjamin Franklin, who adopted the pseudonym of "Poor Richard" or "Richard Saunders" for this purpose. The publication appeared continually from 1732 to 1758.

  5. List of pen names - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of pen names used by notable authors of written work. A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author.A pen name may be used to make the author' name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to combine more than one author into a single author, or ...

  6. Bonhomme Richard - Wikipedia

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    A pseudonym of Benjamin Franklin; See also. Bonhomme (disambiguation) Richard This page was last edited on 15 June 2019, at 23:12 (UTC). Text is available under the ...

  7. The Busy-Body (pen name) - Wikipedia

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    The Busy-Body was a pen name used by Benjamin Franklin and Joseph Breintnall in a column printed in The American Weekly Mercury, an early American newspaper founded and published by Andrew Bradford. There are 32 letters in "The Busy-Body" series. The essays were printed in 1729.

  8. 9 musicians who used pseudonyms, from Prince and Taylor ... - AOL

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    Taylor Swift Co-Wrote Calvin Harris' 'This is What You Came For' Under Swedish Pseudonym. In fact, everyone from Sir Paul McCartney to Prince, Harry Styles, Elton John and John Lennon and Bob ...

  9. List of fictitious people - Wikipedia

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    Actually a pseudonym of a collective of writers, and portrayed by one of their relatives during interviews. Richard Bachman, a pseudonym of Stephen King, given a fake biography and author photo. Silence Dogood, a false persona used by Benjamin Franklin to get his work published. Roderick Jaynes, editor of all the films of Joel and Ethan Coen ...