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Franklin

noun

United States historian noted for studies of Black American history (born in 1915). Synonym: John Hope Franklin.

Printer whose success as an author led him to take up politics; he helped draw up the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; he played a major role in the American Revolution and negotiated French support for the colonists; as a scientist he is remembered particularly for his research in electricity (1706-1790). Synonym: Benjamin Franklin.

A landowner (14th and 15th centuries) who was free but not of noble birth.

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"Franklin" Quotes from Famous Books

... from a horse, for example, as much as a modern printing press differs from the press Franklin used. Both machines are made of iron, steel, wood, etc., and both print; but the plan of their structure differs throughout, and some parts are wanting in the simpler press which are present and absolutely essential in the other. So with the two sorts of animals; they are ...

— Our Common Insects - A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, - Gardens and Houses • Alpheus Spring Packard

... Benjamin Franklin was the fifteenth child of a poor tallow chandler. It is altogether probable that his coming seemed a misfortune to his mother, taxed with the care of such a brood. Think what the world would have missed had he not ...

— A Woman of the World - Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters • Ella Wheeler Wilcox

... Dr. Franklin's house when the British army was in Philadelphia in 1777 and 1778. When it evacuated the city, Andre carried off with him a portrait of the Doctor, which has never been heard of since. The British officers ...

— Notes and Queries, Number 218, December 31, 1853 • Various

... Institution of the city was in difficulties; its funds were quite exhausted; and who should be invited to come to their help but their old friend Jasmin? He was again enthusiastically received. The Franklin Rooms were crowded, and money flowed quickly into the orphans' treasury. Among the poems ...

— Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist • Samuel Smiles

... end of Van Ness Avenue, the wide street that divides the eastern and western sections of the city, as Market Street divides the northern and southern, and her own home on Geary Street was beyond Franklin and safe for the present. It was expected that the fire would be halted by dynamiting the blocks east of the avenue, but as it had already leapt across not far from Market Street and was running out toward the Mission, Gora pinned her faith in nothing ...

— The Sisters-In-Law • Gertrude Atherton

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