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Produced by Texas Instruments, the Magic Wand Reader (introduced in 1982 as the Magic Wand Speaking Reader [1]) was an educational device that used a handheld wand that one would slide over "Talking Tracks" in order to read along with educational books. Bill Cosby was initially a spokesman for this device.
Liberty's Kids (stylized on-screen as Liberty's Kids: Est. 1776) is an American animated historical fiction television series produced by DIC Entertainment, and originally aired on PBS Kids from September 2, 2002, to April 4, 2003, with reruns airing on most PBS stations until October 10, 2004.
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]
The Walt Disney cartoon Ben and Me (1953), based on the book by Robert Lawson, counterfactually explains that Franklin's achievements were actually the ideas of a mouse named Amos. Stan Freberg 's comedic audio recording, Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America Volume One: The Early Years , depicts all of Franklin's accomplishments ...
The Junto was modeled after English coffeehouses that Franklin knew well and which had become the center of the spread of Enlightenment ideas in Britain. [25] [26] Reading was a great pastime of the Junto, but books were rare and expensive. The members created a library, initially assembled from their own books, after Franklin wrote:
The school board overseeing Franklin Public Schools has three seats up for grabs in the April 2 election. Franklin School Board candidates talk teacher retention, classroom behavior, ahead of election
Franklin is a member of the Democratic Party. Franklin placed second in the September 29, 2020 general election. As no candidate earned 50 percent of votes cast, Franklin and the first-place finisher, Kwanza Hall, advanced to a December runoff election. [10] [11] He lost the election on December 2, 2020. [12]
This is a comprehensive list of primary and secondary works by or about Benjamin Franklin, one of the principal Founding Fathers of the United States. Works about Franklin have been consistently published during and after Franklin's life, spanning four centuries, and continue to appear in present-day publications.