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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 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 ...
A bust of Franklin sculpted by Jean-Antoine Houdon in 1778 Voltaire blessing Franklin's grandson, in the name of God and Liberty, an 1890 portrait by Pedro Américo A statue of Franklin by Hiram Powers Richard Price, the radical minister of Newington Green Unitarian Church, holding a letter from Franklin
Franklin modified the standard English alphabet by omitting the letters c, j, q, w, x, and y, and adding new letters to explicitly represent the open-mid back rounded [ɔ] and unrounded [ʌ] vowels, and the consonants sh [ʃ], ng [ŋ], dh [ð], and th [θ]. It was one of the earlier proposed spelling reforms to the English language.
The idea of a universal education was essential to achieving polymath ability, hence the word university was used to describe a seat of learning. However, the original Latin word universitas refers in general to "a number of persons associated into one body, a society, company, community, guild, corporation, etc". [12]
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Staring out from the $100 bill, looking more like a wise old uncle than Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin seems an easy guy to like. And if anyone belongs on U.S. currency it's this colonial ...
A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...
In the clip, Franklin tells Temple that “chess teaches a great deal of useful skills,” including the Franklin Sneak Peek: Michael Douglas’ Ben Franklin Uses Chess to Teach Life Lessons (and ...