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A family piles up the records
Basel :: Switzerland | 16 days ago
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But their record-setting projects have all served the purpose of research, and the current representative, Bertrand, is no exception. He is now working on the Solar Impulse aircraft with which he plans to make the first ever solar-powered round-the-world...
Tags: Jacques Piccard, Bertrand Piccard, Jules Piccard, Auguste Piccard, Gulf Stream, Switzerland, Basel, Piccard, Bathyscaphe Trieste, Ben Franklin, Bathyscaphe, Swiss people
Anatomical art once owned by Ben Franklin go on display at Philadelphia hospital
Philadelphia :: PA :: USA | 20 days ago
Credibility Centuries before X-rays, CAT scans and ultrasounds gave doctors a view inside the human body, the best images medical students often had were illustrations drawn by artists of bodies in a morgue. The country's oldest hospital has unveiled a new exhibit...
Tags: Ben Franklin, Benjamin Franklin, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Hospital, Medical illustrator, Franklin, United States ambassadors to France, University of Pennsylvania
Op-Ed Contributor: Ben Franklin on Global Warming
Reykjavík :: Iceland | 20 days ago
Credibility Ben Franklin on Global Warming Published: November 17, 2009 Columbus, Ohio FEW would argue that the debate on global warming engenders a lot of emotion. What else are we to make of comments that “within the last 40 or 50 years there has been a very...
Tags: Thomas Jefferson, North American, climate change, Noah Webster, global warming, Hugh Williamson, Ben Franklin, change debate, Iceland, Reykjavík, Environmental skepticism, Global warming controversy, Climatology, Climate, Scientific opinion on climate change, Carbon finance, Environment
Snohomish County retailers offer craft lessons for DIY gifts
Everett :: WA :: USA | 25 days ago
Credibility With just 41 days left until Christmas, the time to make handmade gifts is rapidly running out. But retailers that sell fabrics and craft-making items are reaching out to customers, offering workshops, not to mention sales. Evening classes on ornament-making,...
Tags: Pacific Fabrics and Crafts, Chuck Rutherford, Ben Franklin, retailers offering, open house, Everett, Lincraft, Michaels, Black Friday, Shopping, Retailing, Jo-Ann Stores, Ben Franklin Stores
Trove of Franklin letters found
Franklin :: TN :: USA | 7 months ago
Credibility Discovered by Alan Houston, the letters are copies of correspondence. All dating from the spring and summer of 1755, the 47 letters by, to and about Franklin are in the hand of one Thomas Birch, a contemporary of Franklinâs who was a prodigious â...
Tags: Benjamin Franklin, Franklinâ, William Franklin, Ben Franklin, franklin letters
Community Organizers - The Nation's Backbone
Get this ad on TV now www.truthandhope.orgA slimmed down 30 sec. version will be ready to go for your viewing pleasure later today.John McCain and Sarah Palin need a history lesson about our great country. Community organizers are the backbone of our...
Tags: Sarah Palin, John McCain, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Community Organizers, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Susan B Anthony, Ben Franklin, Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ben Franklin & Betsy Ross tie the knot
Philadelphia :: PA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility The city of brotherly love shared the marital bliss, as Ralph Archbold, the city's Ben Franklin re-enactor and Linda Wilde, who plays Betsy Ross, tied the knot in front of independence hall. At this wedding, the bride chose a colonial style gown over...
Tags: Ben Franklin, Betsy Ross
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