Chaucer's " Franklin's Tale " in The Canterbury Tales recounts how a young suitor releases a wife from a rash promise because of the respect in his conscience for the freedom to be truthful, gentle and generous.

However, Franklin's endearing character of " Poor " Richard Saunders, along with his wife Bridget, was ultimately used to frame ( if comically ) what was intended as a serious resource that people would buy year after year.

Franklin's father was Josiah Franklin, originally from Ecton, Northamptonshire, England, and his mother was Abiah, who was born in Nantucket and was Josiah's second wife.

Lucy Mercer was hired by Franklin's wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, as a personal and social secretary in the winter of 1914 ; previously, Mercer had worked in the Washington D. C. shop of society decorator Elsie Cobb Wilson.

He sensed that Norton, who had been deliberately vague about whom he had seen through the binoculars when attempting to imply that he had seen Allerton and Judith, was now intending to reveal that he had seen Franklin and Judith, almost certainly implicating them in the apparent murder of Franklin's wife.

* Sarah Franklin Bache ( 1743 – 1808 ), his wife and Benjamin Franklin's daughter

*** Jane Franklin's Obsession

In 1857, he was given command of the yacht Fox which was sponsored by public subscription via Lady Jane Franklin's search for her missing husband, and found the only official record of the 1845-48 Sir John Franklin Northwest Passage Expedition, in May 1859.

Boethian influence can be found nearly everywhere in Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry, e. g. in Troilus and Criseyde, The Knight's Tale, The Clerk's Tale, The Franklin's Tale, The Parson's Tale and The Tale of Melibee, in the character of Lady Nature in The Parliament of Fowls and some of the shorter poems, such as Truth, The Former Age and Lak of Stedfastnesse.

Lady Franklin's campaign to glorify the dead of her husband's expedition, aided and abetted by Dickens, resulted in his being more or less shunned by the British establishment.

Womack played guitar on several of Aretha Franklin's albums, including Lady Soul, but not on the hit song, " Chain of Fools ", as erroneously reported.

Henry Grinnell, a New York merchant and shipowner who had grown up in New Bedford, had supported the purchase of Resolute to be used as the gift, and both he and Lady Franklin had hoped the Navy would use the ship for a new search for Sir John Franklin's expedition.

Franklin's father, Josiah Franklin was a tallow chandler, a soap-maker and a candle-maker.

* Stuart Sherman " Franklin " 1918 article on Franklin's writings.

* Benjamin Franklin and Electrostatics experiments and Franklin's electrical writings from Wright Center for Science Education, Tufts University

* The Benjamin Franklin House Franklin's only surviving residence.

Using " Photo 51 " ( the X-ray diffraction results of Raymond Gosling and Rosalind Franklin of King's College London, given to them by Gosling and Franklin's colleague Maurice Wilkins ), Watson and Crick together developed a model for a helical structure of DNA, which they published in 1953.

When it became clear to Wilkins and the supervisors of Watson and Crick that Franklin was going to the new job, and that Linus Pauling was working on the structure of DNA, they were willing to share Franklin's data with Watson and Crick, in the hope that they could find a good model of DNA before Pauling was able.

During the early 1950s, while Watson and Crick were determining the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid ( DNA ), they made use of unpublished X-ray diffraction images taken by Rosalind Franklin, shown at meetings and shared with them by Maurice Wilkins, and of Franklin's preliminary account of her detailed analysis of the X-ray images included in an unpublished 1952 progress report for the King's College laboratory of Sir John Randall.

Franklin is known for the Franklin Cider Mill, which actually lies just north of Franklin's borders, in neighboring Bloomfield Township, although it does have a Franklin mailing address.

Franklin's Lion Bridge, spanning the Great Miami River and connecting the sections of Franklin on either side of the river ( View east ).

Franklin Richards of the Fantastic Four often refers to Benjamin Grimm, the Thing, as " Uncle Ben " ( Grimm is the best friend of Franklin's father Reed Richards ).

This explanation, in conjunction with the fact that Carr's testimony corroborated Franklin's version of events, and the fact that police officials testified that both Boyer and Franklin had passed lie detector tests, was enough to convince the coroner's jury to accept Franklin's explanation, and return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

Nonetheless, Benjamin Franklin is certainly among the first to wear bifocal lenses, and Franklin's letters of correspondence suggest that he invented them independently, regardless of whether he was the first to invent them.

" Franklin had discovered the behavior of what we now refer to as a Faraday cage or shield ( based on one of Faraday's famous ice pail experiments which duplicated Franklin's cork and can ).

** Myron Butler, Kirk Franklin & Robert Searight II ( choir directors ) for God's Property From Kirk Franklin's Nu Nation performed by God's Property

Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac and The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin are esteemed works with their wit and influence toward the formation of a budding American identity.

* Benjamin Franklin's grandfather Thomas Franklin is buried in Banbury.

A route through the underground chambers proceeds, from the Entrance Hall, to the Steward's Chamber and Whitehead's Cave, through Lord Sandwich's Circle ( named after John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich ), Franklin's Cave ( named after Benjamin Franklin, a friend of Dashwood who visited West Wycombe ), the Banqueting Hall ( allegedly the largest man-made chalk cavern in the world ), the Triangle, to the Miner's Cave ; and finally, across a subterranean river named the Styx, lies the final cave, the Inner Temple, where the meetings of the Hellfire Club were held, and which is said to lie 300 feet ( 90 metres ) directly beneath the church on top of West Wycombe hill.

Franklin was a steadfast Loyalist throughout the American War of Independence, despite his father Benjamin Franklin's role as one of the most prominent Patriots during the conflict, a difference that tore the two apart.

Franklin Graham has also been criticized in the United States, for drawing a full-time salary from Samaritan's Purse, while at the same time receiving a full-time salary from Billy Graham Evangelistic Association ( Franklin's combined salary is c. $ 1. 2million ).

Brown and Franklin invested $ 1, 100 so that Wilkinson could build a third prototype which went on to become Franklin's first production model.

Aretha Franklin's father, the Reverend C. L. Franklin, first opened his New Bethel Baptist Church on Hastings Street.

In 1735, upon the death of Franklin's brother, James, Franklin sent 500 copies of Poor Richard's to his widow for free, so that she could make money selling them.

Franklin's birthplace site directly across from Old South Meeting House on Milk Street is commemorated by a bust ( sculpture ) | bust above the second floor facade of this building

Anthropologist Dean Snow stated that though Franklin's Albany Plan may have drawn some inspiration from the Iroquois League, there is little evidence that either the Plan or the Constitution drew substantially from this source and argues that "... such claims muddle and denigrate the subtle and remarkable features of Iroquois government.

Sir John Franklin's lost polar expedition is another example of cannibalism out of desperation.

Kites have been used for scientific purposes, such as Benjamin Franklin's famous experiment proving that lightning is electricity.

It is a matter of debate whether Watson and Crick should have had access to Franklin's results without her knowledge or permission, and before she had a chance to formally publish the results of her detailed analysis of her X-ray diffraction data which were included in the progress report.

It is also not clear how important Franklin's unpublished results from the progress report actually were for the model-building done by Watson and Crick.

Crick's access to Franklin's progress report of late 1952 is what made Crick confident that DNA was a double helix with antiparallel chains, but there were other chains of reasoning and sources of information that also led to these conclusions.

It is debatable whether Watson and Crick should have been granted access to Franklin's results without her knowledge or permission, and before she had a chance to publish a detailed analysis of the content of her unpublished progress report.

The IEEE logo is a diamond-shaped design which illustrates the right hand grip rule embedded in Benjamin Franklin's kite, and it was created at the time of the 1963 merger.

Franklin's Historic District is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and encompasses over 420 notable structures.

The interchange is noted in Benjamin Franklin's Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America ( 1784 ).

Recently discovered by American researcher Alan Houston at the British Library is a file entitled Copies of Franklin's Letters relating to the March of General Braddock.

Today, it is Franklin's most recognized profile.

The episode has achieved iconic status as presaging the formation of the United States of America in 1776, and is often illustrated with Franklin's famous snake cartoon ," Join or Die!

It is likely that William's Loyalism was a major factor in Benjamin Franklin's uncompromising position towards the Loyalists during the negotiations in Paris for a peace treaty.

It is the only library in the world with the first two quartos of Hamlet ; it holds the manuscript of Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, the first seven drafts of Henry David Thoreau's Walden, John James Audubon's Birds of America, a collection of manuscripts and first editions of the works of Charles Bukowski, and many other great treasures.

Although Franklin's facetious suggestion was simply that people should get up earlier in summer, he is often erroneously attributed as the inventor of DST while Willett is often ignored.

It is chiefly remembered, however, for being a repository of Franklin's aphorisms and proverbs, many of which live on in American English.