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The United States Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt frequently wore pince-nez and were regularly depicted as such. The prominent Spanish poet Francisco de Quevedo always wore pince-nez, and was depicted wearing them in well-known paintings such as a portrait by Juan van der Hamen.
Historians have produced some evidence to suggest that others may have come before him in the invention; however, a correspondence between George Whatley and John Fenno, editor of the Gazette of the United States, suggested that Franklin had indeed invented bifocals, and perhaps 50 years earlier than had been originally thought. [2]
Dr. Franklin's Island is a young adult science fiction book by Ann Halam published in 2001. It is narrated in the first person. [1] Loosely based on H. G. Wells' 1896 novel The Island of Dr. Moreau, [2] it tells the story of three teenagers who end up on an island owned by Dr. Franklin, a brilliant but insane scientist, who wants to use them as specimens for his transgenic experiments.
Jimmy Carter had a functional command of Spanish, but had never been grammatically perfect. [47] Carter studied the language at the United States Naval Academy [48] and continued his studies while an officer of the United States Navy. [49] Carter sometimes spoke to constituents in Spanish, [49] including in 1976 television campaign ...
The cognates in the table below share meanings in English and Spanish, but have different pronunciation. Some words entered Middle English and Early Modern Spanish indirectly and at different times. For example, a Latinate word might enter English by way of Old French, but enter Spanish directly from Latin. Such differences can introduce ...
Franklin García Fermín (San Francisco de Macorís, 17 January 1957) is a Dominican jurist and professor from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, and its Rector for 2008-2011 period. Biography
Franklin punned that compared to his ruminations on flatulence, other scientific investigations were "scarcely worth a FART-HING" "A Letter to a Royal Academy" [1] (sometimes "A Letter to a Royal Academy about Farting" or "Fart Proudly" [2] [3]) is the name of an essay about flatulence written by Benjamin Franklin c. 1781 while he was living abroad as United States Ambassador to France. [1]
Franklin Ruehl was an American actor, [1] ufologist and cryptozoologist. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He has appeared on such shows as Jimmy Kimmel Live! , The Roseanne Show and Tom Green Live among others. Ruehl's show, Mysteries from Beyond the Other Dominion , [ 4 ] started on a public-access television cable TV channel in the Los Angeles area in the late 1980s.