Seven Founders -- George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay -- determined the destinies of the new nation.

Eldest of the seven, Benjamin Franklin, a New Englander transplanted to Philadelphia, wrote the most dazzling success story in our history.

But it can no longer be so once Benjamin Franklin ( the incarnation of the new rational man ) has flown a kite to it.

Aug. 4, 1821, nearly a century after Benjamin Franklin founded the Pennsylvania Gazette -- a century during which it had undergone several changes in ownership and a few brief suspensions in publication -- this paper made its first appearance as the Saturday Evening Post.

A valuable pencil-and-sepia allegorical drawing of Benjamin Franklin by Jean-Honore Fragonard has been donated by the art dealer Georges Wildenstein and now hangs in the Blue Room.

In American history important spokesmen included Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur ( 1735 – 1813 ), and John Taylor of Caroline ( 1753 – 1824 ) in the early national period.

On January 19, 1879, Alcott and Franklin Benjamin Sanborn wrote a prospectus for a new school which they distributed to potentially interested people throughout the country.

* Bronson Alcott at Alcott house, England, and Fruitlands, New England ( 1842-1844 ) ( 1908 ) by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn

Another shape note tunebook named The Sacred Harp ( 1844 ) by Georgia residents Benjamin Franklin White and Elisha J.

Benjamin Franklin was familiar with Antoine, as they were both members of the " Benjamin Franklin inquiries " into Mesmer and animal magnetism.

The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.

He discovered methane after reading a paper by Benjamin Franklin on " flammable air " and carefully searched for it in Italy.

Notable 18th-century autobiographies in English include those of Edward Gibbon and Benjamin Franklin.

Other Revolutionary War heroes who became figures of American folklore include: Benedict Arnold, Benjamin Franklin, Nathan Hale, John Hancock, Andrew Jackson, and John Paul Jones and Francis Marion.

Benjamin Franklin Bache was editor of the Aurora, a Republican newspaper.

When asked by a reporter after getting struck by lightning why they were flying a kite in a thunderstorm, the duo explained that they were inspired by a documentary about Benjamin Franklin.

Benjamin Franklin ( April 17, 1790 ) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

Benjamin Franklin was born on Milk Street, in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 17, 1706 and baptized at Old South Meeting House.

** The Benjamin Franklin Bridge across the Delaware River between Philadelphia and Camden, New Jersey

** The Franklin Institute, a science museum in Philadelphia, which presents the Benjamin Franklin Medal

Charles and Georgiana had eight children, but only four — Benjamin Herschel, Georgiana Whitmore, Dugald Bromhead and Henry Prevost — survived childhood.

: — Benjamin Franklin

Instructional theory is heavily influenced by the 1956 work of Benjamin Bloom, a University of Chicago professor, and the results of his Taxonomy of Education Objectives — one of the first modern codifications of the learning process.

Along with future collaborators like Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, Ernst Bloch, Adorno was profoundly disillusioned by the ease with which Germany's intellectual and spiritual leaders — among them Max Weber, Max Scheler, Ernst Simmel, as well as his friend Siegfried Kracauer — came out in support of the war.

According to Benjamin, these drafts were astonishing for “ the precision of their materialist deciphering ,” as well as the way in which “ musical facts … had been made socially transparent in a way that was completely new to me .” In his Wagner study, the thesis later to characterize Dialectic of Enlightenment — man's domination of nature — first emerges.

As the ambassador to France, Benjamin Franklin not only secured the " bridge loan " for the national budget, but also he persuaded France to send an army of about 6, 000 soldiers across the Atlantic Ocean to America — and also the dispatch of large squadron of French warships under Comte de Grasse to the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina.

" — Benjamin Franklin marginalia in Matthew

Thomas Nichol, Wharton Barker, and Benjamin Harrison were widely considered to be the primary architects of Garfield's ascendancy during the convention, but no one could have controlled this unpredictable outcome for such a dark horse — one who had personally objected at every step.

Although Edward was not a diligent student — his true talents were those of charm, sociability and tact — Benjamin Disraeli described him as informed, intelligent, and of sweet manner.

A long line of philosophers — which includes Plato, Aristotle, Saint Augustine, Voltaire, Hume, Diderot, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Freud, Benjamin, Camus, Lacan, and Deleuze — have analysed, speculated upon, and criticised the tragic form.

" — Benjamin Franklin, 1784

* 1752 — Benjamin Franklin shows that lightning is electricity.

After the siege, Captain Benjamin Logan and Colonel Richard Callaway — both of whom had nephews who were still captives surrendered by Boone — brought charges against Boone for his recent activities.

Jowett was founded in 1901 by brothers Benjamin ( 1877 — 1963 ) and William ( 1880 — 1965 ) Jowett with Arthur V Lamb.

On October 7, at 8: 09 a. m., Iran Brown, a 13-year-old boy, was shot — accounts vary between the lower body, stomach and chest — as he arrived at the Benjamin Tasker Middle School at 4901 Collington Road in Bowie, Maryland, in Prince George's County ( Brown's name was concealed from the public but was later revealed ).

* Benjamin Bosworth House — John Perry Rd.

Later reorganized as the Lewiston Water Power Company, the sales of stock attracted Boston investors — including Thomas J. Hill, Lyman Nichols, George L. Ward, Alexander De Witt, and Benjamin E. Bates ( namesake of the Bates Mill and Bates College ) – who financed a canal system and several textile mills on the Androscoggin River.

Appointed as Secretary of the Boundary Commission in 1750, Benjamin Chew, Esq.

Appointed Commissioner together with Indian agent Benjamin O ' Fallon and with a military escort of 476 men, General Atkinson and his fellow commissioner left Fort Atkinson on May 16, 1825, and ascending the Missouri, negotiated treaties of friendship and trade with tribes of the upper Missouri, including the Arikara, the Cheyenne, the Crow, the Mandan, the Ponca, and several bands of the Sioux.

On 21 May 1880, Benjamin Raspail proposed a law to have " the Republic choose the 14 July as a yearly national holiday ".

* February 14 – Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer ( d. 1934 )

The Second Continental Congress takes various steps toward organizing an American government, appointing George Washington commander-in-chief ( June 14 ), Benjamin Franklin postmaster general ( July 26 ) and creating a Continental Navy ( October 13 ) and a Marine force ( November 10 ) as landing troops for it, but as yet the 13 colonies have not declared independence, and both the British ( June 12 ) and American ( July 15 ) governments make laws.

During King William's War, there was the naval Action of July 14, 1696 off Saint John, New Brunswick and Major Benjamin Church arrived by sea from Boston and raided various Acadian communities around the Bay ( See Raid on Chignecto ( 1696 )).

The county was founded December 14, 1818, and named for Major General Benjamin Lincoln of the American Revolutionary War.

Joining George in November 1891 was his youngest brother, Benjamin, age 14.

* July 2 – July 14 – The seventh annual Cheltenham Music Festival is held in Cheltenham, England, with a performance of Brian Easdale's opera, The Sleeping Children, premieres of the first symphonies of Malcolm Arnold, John Gardner, and Arnold van Wyk, Franz Reizenstein's Serenade for Winds, and Maurice Jacobson's Symphonic Suite, as well as performances of works by Humphrey Searle, Robert Masters, Benjamin Frankel, and Philip Sainton.

** Benjamin Stephenson, from November 14, 1814

As the Wehrmacht defeated the French defence, on 13 June, Benjamin and his sister fled Paris to the town of Lourdes, a day before the Germans entered Paris ( 14 June 1940 ), with orders to arrest him at his flat.

In the 1795 gubernatorial election, Benjamin Logan received 21 electoral votes, James Garrard received 17, Thomas Todd received 14, and John Brown received 1.

Richard Allen was born into slavery on February 14, 1760 to Benjamin Chew, a wealthy merchant of Philadelphia.

Albert Benjamin " Happy " Chandler, Sr. ( July 14, 1898June 15, 1991 ) was a politician from the US state of Kentucky.

Benjamin Travis Laney, a more conservative Democrat than Fulbright, won the race for governor of Arkansas in the same election by a similar margin, 86 to 14 percent for Republican Harley C. Stump of Stuttgart.

Recent past Presidents of the American Whig-Cliosophic Society are Cara Eckholm ' 14, Jay Parikh ' 12, Benjamin Weisman ' 11, Molly Alarcon ' 10, Alec Williams ' 09, Aaron Spolin ' 08, Shriram Harid ' 08, Matthew MacDonald ' 07, Karis Gong ' 06, and Andrew Bruck ' 05.

Benjamin and Eudora Sawin willed land and funds into the Dover Historical Society along with their old household goods so that the building could be erected, and it was dedicated on May 14, 1907 by members and friends of the Dover Historical Society. In the early years it was used for meetings and to house Dover's historical memorabilia, but eventually members became disenchanted with the Society and the building was seldom opened.

* Benjamin Stinton, 1704 – 1718 ( 14 years )

* September 14 – Benjamin Cooke, organist and composer ( b. 1734 )

On June 14, 2009, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a speech at Bar Ilan University endorsing the establishment of a Palestinian state west of the Jordan River, a first in his career.

The Wah Mee massacre was a multiple homicide on February 18, 1983, in which Kwan Fai " Willie " Mak, Wai-Chiu " Tony " Ng, and Benjamin Ng gunned down 14 people in the Wah Mee gambling club.

Benjamin Gompertz ( 5 March 1779 – 14 July 1865 ) was a British self-educated mathematician and actuary, who became a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Benjamin Sumner Welles ( October 14, 1892-September 24, 1961 ) was an American government official and diplomat in the Foreign Service.

William Benjamin " Bill " Lenoir ( March 14, 1939 – August 26, 2010 ) was an American engineer and a former NASA astronaut.

Édouard Benjamin Baillaud ( 14 February 1848 – 8 July 1934 ) ( 86 ) was a French astronomer.

Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville ( April 14, 1796 – June 12, 1878 ) was a French-born officer in the United States Army, fur trapper, and explorer in the American West.

On 14 May 1982 Benjamin Creme held a press conference in Los Angeles, USA.