Before he helped launch a revolution, Benjamin Franklin was colonial America’s leading editor and printer of novels, almanacs, soap wrappers, and everything in between Looming large on ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination. He was, after all, the man who risked life and limb to ...

The sixth-seeded Coconino beach volleyball team bested No. 11-seeded Benjamin Franklin at home for a 3-2 first-round victory decided in a tiebreaker at the ones on Tuesday.

In the pantheon of New England-born patriots, no two men stood higher than Benjamin Franklin and John Adams. And in the New England pantheon no two so cordially disliked each other, unless you ...

Benjamin Franklin is one of the most prominent figures of American history. There was little that Franklin couldn’t do. The polymath was born into a modest family in 1706 and despite only two years of ...

A painting of Franklin’s return to Philadelphia from Europe in 1785 shows him flanked by his son-in-law (in red), his daughter and Benjamin Bache (in blue), the grandson he’d taken to France ...

Click the FOLLOW button to be the first to know about this artist's upcoming lots, sold lots, exhibitions and articles Benjamin Franklin Britt was an American painter who was born in 1923. How much ...

The Western Virginia Water Authority (Authority), Smith Mountain Lake Association (SMLA), and Blue Ridge Soil and Water Conservation District are partnering once again with Benjamin Franklin Middle ...

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Of course Benjamin Franklin wrote his own epitaph. At age 22 in 1728, his dark humor stronger than his sense of history, he penned the tomb inscription that would eventually appear at his grave site. ...

The crash occurred at approximately 10:02 p.m. in front of 2052 Benjamin Franklin Dr, a coastal roadway that runs parallel to Lido Beach and the Gulf of Mexico. Emergency responders from Sarasota Fire ...

After all, who writes a book about himself? In his “Autobiography,” Benjamin Franklin admits he, like most older people, indulges the inclination to talk of oneself. But he claims to be ...