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

Ezra Stiles was also a dedicated supporter of the American Revolutionary cause, and an avid amateur scientist who corresponded with Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin about scientific discoveries.

Benjamin Péret ( 4 July 1899 – 18 September 1959 ) was a French poet, Parisian Dadaist and a founder and central member of the French Surrealist movement with his avid use of Surrealist automatism.

He was the inventor of the spirit level and is also famous for his popular 1696 book The Art of Swimming, one of the first books on the subject and widely read during the 18th century ( Benjamin Franklin, an avid swimmer in his youth, is known to have read it ).

* 1984 – Benjamin Wildman-Tobriner, American swimmer

However, Sarah was actually possessed by one of the Bajoran Prophets ( the life-forms that exist inside the Bajoran wormhole ), who manipulated her into marrying Joseph and conceiving Benjamin.

By his second wife, the daughter of the influential noble George Sursuvul, he had three sons: Peter, who succeeded as Emperor of Bulgaria in 927 and ruled until 969 ; Ivan, who rebelled against Peter in 928 and then fled to Byzantium ; and Benjamin ( Bajan ), who, according to Lombard historian Liutprand of Cremona, " possessed the power to transform himself suddenly into a wolf or other strange animal ".

* The Historical Society of Pennsylvania Collection of Benjamin Franklin Papers, including correspondence, government documents, writings and a copy of his will, are available for research use at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

Banneker's 1793 almanac also contained a copy of " A Plan of Peace-office for the United States " that Benjamin Rush had authored.

* Benjamin C. Bradlee, Washington Post editor ; summer resident ; began his newspaper career as a copy boy for the Beverly Evening Times in 1937

Statue of Benjamin Thompson ( Count Rumford ) outside the library of his hometown, Woburn, Massachusetts ( A copy of the original in Munich )

During this time, Benjamin Haydon, Keats ' friend, was given a copy of " Ode to a Nightingale ", and he shared the poem with the editor of the Annals of the Fine Arts, James Elmes.

* English translation of Plato's Symposium by Benjamin Jowett: copy at Internet Classics Archive and another at University of Adelaide with Jowett's introduction

It was necessary that the character of Ezri avoid being a carbon copy of Jadzia, just as it was necessary for Commander Benjamin Sisko not to be a copy of James T. Kirk.

Jackson sent a copy to every member of Congress with a quote from Benjamin Franklin printed in red on the cover: " Look upon your hands: they are stained with the blood of your relations.

No copy of the letter has ever surfaced, and based on several other comments the director subsequently made about how the edits " ruined the film ", Reeves's biographer Benjamin Halligan believes Trevelyan may have somehow " misremembered " the existence of this letter, confusing it with an earlier missive from the director in which he made a plea for the BBFC's leniency.

He accordingly began to copy prints of horses, and was introduced to Benjamin Marshall, the animal painter, who took him into his studio, and seems to have introduced him to the Sporting Magazine, an illustrated periodical to which he was himself a contributor.

Later John William Lloyd, a collaborator of Benjamin Tucker ´ s periodical Liberty, published in 1931 a sex manual that he called The Karezza Method: Or Magnetation, the Art of Connubial Love.

In 2007, the Franklin Institute awarded the director of SNO Art McDonald with the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics.

* Benjamin, Roger Orientalist Aesthetics, Art, Colonialism and French North Africa: 1880-1930, U. of California Press, 2003

A similar view was likewise argued by assorted members of the Frankfurt School, including Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer in their essay The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass-Deception ( 1944 ), and also Walter Benjamin in his highly influential " The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction " ( 1936 ).

His Writings, 1973 – 1983, on Works 1969-1979, co-authored by the art historian Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, was published by The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.

Since then, Eakins ' home in North Philadelphia was put on the National Register of Historic Places list in 1966, and Eakins Oval, across from the Philadelphia Museum of Art on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, was named for the artist.

" Copley himself complained, in a letter to Benjamin West, written November 12, 1766: " In this Country as You rightly observe there is no examples of Art, except what is to met with in a few prints indifferently exicuted, from which it is not possable to learn much ".

* Benjamin Paul Akers letter collection, 1858-1920 from the Smithsonian Archives of American Art

Art critic Dave Hickey solidified the place of these 6 artists in: The Los Angeles School: Karl Benjamin, Lorser Feitelson, Frederick Hammersley, June Harwood, Helen Lundeberg, and John McLaughlin.

The cultural critics Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin examined and described the fetishes and fetishism of Art, by means of which " artistic " commodities are produced for sale in the market, and how commodification determines and establishes the value of the artistic commodities ( goods and services ) derived from legitimate Art ; for example, the selling of an artist's personal effects as " artistic fetishes ".

File: Erasistratus the Physician Discovers the Love of Antiochus for Stratonice. jpg | Benjamin West's Erasistratus the Physician Discovers the Love of Antiochus for Stratonice ( Birmingham Museum of Art )

In 2007, the Art Association installed Iroquois by Mark di Suvero near the Philadelphia Museum of Art on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

Art by Ryan Benjamin.

The success of the " City Beautiful " philosophy in Washington, D. C., is credited with influencing subsequent plans for beautification of many other cities, including Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Des Moines, Denver, Madison ( with the axis from the capitol building through State Street and to the University of Wisconsin campus ), Montreal, New York City ( notably the Manhattan Municipal Building ), Philadelphia ( the Benjamin Franklin Parkway museum district between Philadelphia City Hall and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pittsburgh ( the Schenley Farms district in the Oakland neighborhood of parks, museums, and universities ), San Antonio, Texas ( San Antonio River development ), San Francisco ( manifested by its Civic Center ), and the Washington State Capitol Campus in Olympia and the University of Washington's Rainier Vista in Seattle.

In addition to these magazines, he has also written a number of books, including " The Art of Community ", " Linux Desktop Hacks ", " PHP and MySQL Web Applications: Building Eight Dynamic Web Sites " and he also co-wrote " The Official Ubuntu Book " ( ISBN 0-13-243594-2 ) with Benjamin Mako Hill, Corey Burger, and Jonathan Jesse.

Benjamin Williams Leader, A Rural Vision ( Exhibition Brochure for the City Museum & Art Gallery, Worcester, 1991 ).

A ship figurehead of Benjamin Franklin is at Yale University Art Gallery.

* 2000 Net_condition ( with Walter van der Crijusen, Johannes Goebel, Golo Foellmer, Hans-Peter Schwarz, Jeffrey Shaw, Benjamin Weill ) ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe

For example, it is a frequent location for graduation ceremonies for high schools and universities, such as New York Law School, Columbia University Law School, Brooklyn Law School, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, The Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University, Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, Stuyvesant High School, Edward R. Murrow High School, Murry Bergtraum High School for Business Careers, Polytechnic University of New York, Bronx High School of Science, Marymount Manhattan College, Juilliard School and St. George's University School of Medicine.

* The Art of Living: Four Eighteenth-Century Minds: Hume, Horace Walpole, Burke, Benjamin Franklin ( 1959 )

* Art direction: Benjamin Niles

* More about the Benjamin West portrait at the National Gallery of Art