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

Fowler ( voiced by Benjamin Whitrow ), an older rooster who has been untrusting of Rocky, gives him his respect for rescuing Ginger and his old Royal Air Force ( RAF ) badge in tribute.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has voiced particularly strong support for Pollard, visiting the convicted spy in prison in 2002.

* Doomsday appears in DC Universe Online, voiced by Benjamin Jansen.

* Numbuh 1 / Nigel Uno ( voiced by Benjamin Diskin )-The leader of Sector V, a bald English boy who is rarely seen without his trademark sunglasses, and does not put complete trust in anyone but his teammates.

* Numbuh 2 / Hogarth " Hoagie " Pennywhistle Gilligan Jr. ( voiced by Benjamin Diskin )-An inventor and pilot with a passion for flight, who wears an old fashioned aviator hat.

* The Delightful Children From Down the Lane ( voiced by Benjamin Diskin, Dee Bradley Baker, and Cree Summer )-Five well-behaved snooty children who move and talk in perfect synchronization.

* Baldwin ( as Penance ) is a playable character in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 voiced by Benjamin Diskin.

* Dr. Benjamin Boris Zachary Karbunkle ( voiced by Susan Silo )-A thin, sly scientist, of species unknown.

In the true style of Western films, Slim is in town for the purpose of revenge against Tommy Morgan ( also voiced by Benjamin ), who has been hiding in the hills due to a $ 1000 bounty on his head.

These include appearances of Napoleon voiced by Jeff Bennett, Attila the Hun, Benjamin Franklin voiced by Billy West.

Interspersed with these scenes were scenes involving Dr. Katz's daily life, which included his aimless, childish 24-year-old son, Ben ( Jon Benjamin ), his uninterested and unhelpful secretary, Laura ( Laura Silverman ), and his two friends: Stanley ( Will LeBow ), and the barmaid, Julie, voiced by one of the show's producers, Julianne Shapiro.

In addition, she has voiced characters on two other Soup2Nuts-produced shows: O ' Grady ( which also stars fellow Home Movies alumnus H. Jon Benjamin ), and Hey Monie !.

In Advent Children, Denzel is voiced in Japanese by Kyōsuke Ikeda and in English by Benjamin Bryan.

Soon after, the 90th assaults the town of Mayenne, where Private Leroy Huxley ( voiced by Benjamin Diskin ) is tasked with defusing bombs planted on a bridge to stop the American advance, which is heavily guarded by German infantry and tanks.

Professor Nick Parsons, voiced by H. Jon Benjamin served as an expert for Alison Krempel.

Colonel Benjamin Ford wrote to Morgan from Wilmington that he understood a Mrs. Sanderson from Maryland had obtained permission from Smallwood to visit Philadelphia, and would return on May 26th, escorted by several officers from Maryland `` belonging to the new levies in the British service ''.

" In keeping with that sentiment, Lincoln led the moderates regarding Reconstruction policy, and was opposed by the Radical Republicans, under Rep. Thaddeus Stevens, Sen. Charles Sumner and Sen. Benjamin Wade, political allies of the president on other issues.

" The first well-known version of anarcho-capitalism was formulated by Austrian School economist and libertarian Murray Rothbard in the mid-twentieth century, synthesizing elements from the Austrian School of economics, classical liberalism, and nineteenth century American individualist anarchists Lysander Spooner and Benjamin Tucker ( rejecting their labor theory of value and the normative implications they derived from it ).

Common meter hymns were interchangeable with a variety of tunes ; more than twenty musical settings of " Amazing Grace " circulated with varying popularity until 1835 when William Walker assigned Newton's words to a traditional song named " New Britain ", which was itself an amalgamation of two melodies (" Gallaher " and " St. Mary ") first published in the Columbian Harmony by Charles H. Spilman and Benjamin Shaw ( Cincinnati, 1829 ).

Smiley later wrote to Johnson, saying he was ready to fight ; a potential duel was prevented by the intervention of Washington Burrow and Benjamin F. Cheatham.

The term " allophone " was coined by Benjamin Lee Whorf in the 1940s.

Carnegie also opposed the annexation of Cuba by the United States and in this, was successful with many other conservatives who founded an anti-imperialist league that included former presidents of the United States, Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison, and literary figures like Mark Twain.

At Home with Andre and Simone Weil by Sylvie Weil, translated by Benjamin Ivry ; ISBN 978-0-8101-2704-3, Northwestern University Press, 2010.

The artist for whom he showed particular sympathy and regard in London was Benjamin Haydon, who might at the time be counted the sole representative of historical painting there, and whom he especially honored for his championship of the then recently transported to England and ignorantly depreciated by polite connoisseurs Parthenon's marbles.

The Ark was again set up by Joshua at Shiloh, but when the Israelites fought against Benjamin at Gibeah, they had the Ark with them and consulted it after their defeat.

Publications by Benjamin Lee Whorf

Benjamin changed the spelling in the 1820s by dropping the apostrophe.

Benjamin Franklin ( 1966 ) 228 pp online edition, short biography by scholar

* Morgan, Edmund S. Benjamin Franklin ( 2003 ) the best short introduction excerpt and text search, interpretation by leading scholar