In February 1885, Collier and Graham purchased Franklin Heald ’ s one-third interest in the of unsold land south-east of Corydon Road.

Those original homes were built by Robert Baird, John Black, John Burke, Hyrum Cook, John Dickson, Robert Fraser, William Graham, David Lewis, Gilbert Marchant, Alfred Nebeker, William Partridge, William Simmons, George Taggart, Henry Tucker, Franklin Turnbow, Lemuel Willis, W. W. Willis and George Harston.

William Franklin Graham III ( born July 14, 1952 ), known publicly as Franklin Graham, is an American Christian evangelist and missionary.

The fourth of five children of evangelist Billy Graham and wife Ruth Bell Graham, Franklin Graham was born and raised in the Appalachian Mountains near Asheville, North Carolina.

They have four children: William Franklin Graham IV ( Will ), born in 1975, Roy Austin Graham ( 1977 ), Edward Bell Graham ( 1979 ) and Jane Austin Graham Lynch ( Cissie ) ( 1986 ).

Franklin began conducting events for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association in 1989 and became the CEO in 2000 and its president in 2002.

He went to Hong Kong from November 29, 2007, to December 2, 2007, to host the Hong Kong Franklin Graham Festival, the first major evangelistic rally in Hong Kong since its 1997 transfer of sovereignty, which drew more than 420, 000 attendees.

Franklin Graham, a strong supporter of the 2003 American invasion of Iraq, came under criticism for comments he made about Islam in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks when he referred to Islam as " a very evil and wicked religion.

On February 28, 2012 Franklin Graham responded to a one-page letter sent by the NAACP as: " Open Letter from Leaders of Faith Regarding Statements by Franklin Graham.

Franklin Graham during an interview on MSNBC that questioned whether President Obama is a Christian.

" In the open-letter closing Franklin Graham stated: " In this election season and challenging economic time I am praying for our country and for those who lead it — for we are commanded in Scripture to do so.

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

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.

Every president since Franklin Roosevelt has made use of Camp David.

During this period, which has become known as baseball's dead-ball era, Cub infielders Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chance were made famous as a double-play combination by Franklin P. Adams ' poem Baseball's Sad Lexicon.

The only exception to the formula is the Klein bottle, which has Euler characteristic 0 ( hence the formula gives p = 7 ) and requires 6 colors, as shown by P. Franklin in 1934 ( Weisstein ).

New Hampshire has produced one president: Franklin Pierce.

While reincarnation has been a matter of faith in some communities from an early date it has also frequently been argued for on principle, as Plato does when he argues that the number of souls must be finite because souls are indestructible, Benjamin Franklin held a similar view.

He has positioned Lafayette to the right of three pedestals: one has a bust of Benjamin Franklin, another of George Washington, and the third seems reserved for Lafayette.

In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt raised the stature of the office by renewing the practice of inviting the Vice President to cabinet meetings, which every President since has maintained.

* December 2 – Manhattan Project: Below the bleachers of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction ( a coded message, " The Italian navigator has landed in the new world " is then sent to U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ).

Benjamin Franklin, in 1772, after examining the wretched hovels in Scotland surrounding the opulent mansions of the land owners, said that in New England " every man " is a property owner, " has a Vote in public Affairs, lives in a tidy, warm House, has plenty of good Food and Fuel, with whole clothes from Head to Foot, the Manufacture perhaps of his own family.

" Sharpless draws a letter from his pocket and tells her, " Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton has written to me.

Costa Rican scientist and former astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz created the VASIMR concept and has been working on its development since 1977.

Harding's 60. 3 % of the popular vote was also the most since 1820, but has since been exceeded by Franklin Roosevelt in 1936, Lyndon Johnson in 1964, and Richard Nixon in 1972.

This has been discussed by Allan Franklin, a former high-energy experimentalist and current philosopher of science at the University of Colorado.

In addition to Louis Kahn's Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park, the island has also been the site of numerous other architectural speculations.

It has been reported that in the last 170 years the only Democratic candidates to win were Franklin Pierce in 1852 and Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964.

He is aided by Benjamin Franklin Walking Eagle, a Native American who is Tom's co-pilot, best friend, and an expert computer technician, and Anita Thorwald, a former rival of Tom's who now works with him as a technician and whose right leg has been rebuilt to contain a miniature computer.

* In order to divert Pinkerton J. Snoopington the bank examiner ( Franklin Pangborn ) from discovering Og's embezzlement of bank funds, Egbert takes him to the bar and surreptiously asks Joe if " Michael Finn " has been in the bar yet today, a signal that Joe is to drug the bank examiner's drink.

Franklin, who is currently on death row for an unrelated murder conviction, has never been brought to trial for the attempted killing.

San Juan County has not supported a Democrat for president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1936.

The Sorrell building on Franklin Street ( Chapel Hill ) | Franklin Street has always housed a movie theater ( currently called The Varsity Theatre ) since its construction in 1927.

He also speaks of Franklin D. Roosevelt's `` puerile '' assumption that `` if only he ( Stalin ) could be exposed to the persuasive charm of someone like F.D.R. himself, ideological preconceptions would melt and Russia's co-operation with the West could be easily arranged ''.

Aretha Franklin and Rod Stewart also recorded " Amazing Grace " around the same time, and both of their renditions were popular.

* Franklin Templeton Investments an investment firm whose New York Stock Exchange ticker abbreviation, BEN, is also in honor of Franklin

Both ships were soon fighting enemies much more powerful than themselves and began to take severe damage: Captain Henry Darby on Bellerophon missed his intended anchor near Franklin and instead found his ship underneath the main battery of the French flagship, while Captain George Blagdon Westcott on Majestic also missed his station and almost collided with Heureux, coming under heavy fire from Tonnant.

Franklin also wrote that " the Deity sometimes interferes by his particular Providence, and sets aside the Events which would otherwise have been produc'd in the Course of Nature, or by the Free Agency of Man.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt ( or ; January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945 ), also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States ( 1933 – 1945 ) and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war.

He also ran as the nominee of the American Labor Party, a union-dominated anti-Tammany left-wing group that supported Franklin D. Roosevelt for president beginning in 1936.

" During this time American President Franklin D. Roosevelt also referred to the German people in this way, saying that an Allied invasion into the South of France would surely " be successful and of great assistance to Eisenhower in driving the Huns from France.

On December 29, 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt transferred control of Johnston Atoll to the United States Navy in order to establish an air station, and also to the Department of the Interior to administer the bird refuge.

Having served as secretary of war under President Franklin Pierce, he also knew that the South lacked the military and naval resources necessary to defend itself if war were to break out.

Franklin Pierce also holds down the giant's beard as Stephen A. Douglas shoves a black man down his throat.

Bono also played the part of Franklin Von Tussle in the 1988 John Waters film Hairspray.

Twain's mainstream pop acceptance was further helped by her appearance in the 1998 first edition of the VH1 Divas concert where she sang alongside Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Gloria Estefan and Aretha Franklin, and also by VH1's 1999 heavily aired Behind the Music, which concentrated on the tragic aspects of her early life as well as her physical attractiveness and Nashville's early resistance to her bare-midriff music videos.

Trident were also retrofitted onto 12 SSBNs of the James Madison and Benjamin Franklin classes, replacing Poseidon missiles.

Benjamin Franklin is also said to have occasionally attended the club's meetings during 1758 as a non-member during his time in England.

Prior to World War II, 12-cylinder engines were found in many luxury models, including cars from: Packard 1916 to 1923, Daimler 1926 to 1937, Hispano-Suiza 1931, Cadillac 1931, Auburn 1932, Franklin 1932, Lincoln 1932, Rolls-Royce 1936, and Pierce-Arrow also 1936.

The General Assembly also establishes Warrenton ( also named for Joseph Warren ) to be the county seat of Warren County and Louisburg ( named for Louis XVI of France ) to be the county seat of Franklin County.

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.

Gyrion also neglected to disclose that his mother-in-law's firm, Jacz Transportation, bought a 1989 Ford dump truck three days after City Hall sold it to a Franklin Park dealership and then leased it back to the city.

Cleveland also became the first Democrat to be nominated by his party three consecutive times, a distinction that would be equaled only by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940 and then exceeded by him in 1944.