* In 1996, RCA Victor released the tribute album The Songs of West Side Story featuring new versions of the songs from the musical sung by popular music stars, including: " The Jet Song " sung by Brian Setzer, " A Boy Like That " sung by Selena, " I feel Pretty " sung by Little Richard, two versions of " Somewhere " performed by Aretha Franklin and Phil Collins, " Tonight " sung by Wynonna Judd and Kenny Loggins, " America " sung by Patti LaBelle, Natalie Cole and Sheila E., " I Have a Love " sung by Trisha Yearwood and " Rumble " performed by Chick Corea Elektric Band and Steve Vai's Monsters.

* The Defender: The Story of General Dynamics, by Roger Franklin.

* The Defender, The Story of General Dynamics, by Roger Franklin.

* An exhibition entitled " Real Pirates: The Untold Story of ' The Whydah ' ( from slave ship to pirate ship )" is touring the U. S. Venues include Cincinnati Museum Center, Cincinnati, OH ; The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, PA ; The Field Museum, Chicago, IL ; Nauticus, Norfolk, VA ; St. Louis, MO and Houston, TX.

An exhibition entitled " Real Pirates: The Untold Story of ' The Whydah ' ( from Slave Ship to Pirate Ship )" is touring the U. S. Venues include Cincinnati Museum Center, Cincinnati, OH ; The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, PA ; The Field Museum, Chicago, IL ; Nauticus, Norfolk, VA ; St. Louis, MO and Houston, TX.

He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, the son of Benjamin Franklin Story, a printer from Lyndon, Vermont and Rebecca Jennie Turner of St. Joseph, Michigan.

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* Barnard, Marjorie ( 1967 ) Miles Franklin: The Story of a Famous Australian

* North, Marilla ( ed ) ( 2001 ) Yarn Spinners: A Story in Letters-Dymphna Cusack, Florence James, Miles Franklin, University of Queensland Press

She was the author of many books including " Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787 " and " The Most Dangerous Man in America: Scenes from the Life of Benjamin Franklin " ( 1974 ).

In Labor's Untold Story, Richard Boyer and Herbert Morais put the responsibility for creating the Molly Maguires on industrialist Franklin B. Gowen, claiming :" A good number of historians now concede that there was never any organization in Pennsylvania known as the Molly Maguires — although any militant miner might have been called a Molly Maguire after the newspapers had spread Gowen's charge far and wide ".

* From Sea to Shining Sea: The Story of the Ben Franklin Gulf Stream Drift Mission.

* Jon Franklin " Writing for Story ", Penguin 1994.

He wrote lives of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and others, edited the works of Thomas Jefferson, and wrote a number of novels, which had considerable success, including The Honorable Peter Stirling ( 1894 ), Story of an Untold Love, Janice Meredith, Wanted a Matchmaker, and Wanted a Chaperon.

* Boulard, Garry, " The Expatriation of Franklin Pierce — The Story of a President and the Civil War " ( iUniverse, 2006 )

* Franklin Township, Story County, Iowa

Hickok wrote several books, co-authoring " Ladies of Courage " with Eleanor Roosevelt in 1954, and following that with " The Story of Franklin D. Roosevelt ," ( 1956 ), " The Story of Hellen Keller " ( 1958 ), " The Story of Eleanor Roosevelt " ( 1959 ), and several more.

* Closest Companion: The Unknown Story of the Intimate Friendship Between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley, Houghton, Mifflin, 1995.

She has also been working as creating voices in animation such as Star Wars: Ewoks, Star Wars: Droids, Babar The Care Bears, Rupert, Beverly Hills Teens, Babar, Little Shop, Dinosaucers, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, Madballs, My Pet Monster, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, Ned's Newt, The Neverending Story, Flash Gordon, ALF: The Animated Series, Mythic Warriors: Guardians of the Legend, Bad Dog, Little Rosey, Blazing Dragons, The Busy World of Richard Scarry, Committed, George Shrinks, The Animal Shelf, Franklin, Quads !, Marvin The Tap-Dancing Horse, Little Bear and Sam and Max: Freelance Police.

* Many members of Sturges ' unofficial " stock company " of character actors appear in The Palm Beach Story, among them Al Bridge, Chester Conklin, Jimmy Conlin, William Demarest, Robert Dudley, Byron Foulger, Robert Greig, Harry Hayden, Arthur Hoyt, Torben Meyer, Frank Moran, Charles R. Moore, Jack Norton, Franklin Pangborn, Victor Potel, Dewey Robinson, Harry Rosenthal, Julius Tannen and Robert Warwick.

Josiah was born at Ecton, Northamptonshire, England, on December 23, 1657, the son of Thomas Franklin, a blacksmith-farmer, and Jane White.

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

Lancaster was born in Manhattan, New York City, at his parents ' home at 209 East 106th Street, between Second and Third Avenues, today the site of Benjamin Franklin Plaza.

Schaffner was born in Tokyo, Japan, the son of missionaries Sarah ( née Swords ) and Paul Franklin Schaffner, and was raised in Japan.

She was born Phoebe Elizabeth Apperson in Franklin County, Missouri.

* Twins were born on July 4, 2011 at the Franklin Park Zoo ( Zoo New England ) in Boston, Massachusetts.

* April 8 – Franklin Winfield Woolworth, American businessman ( born 1852 )

On April 5, 1956, the hundredth anniversary of Washington's birth, the house where he was born in Franklin County, Virginia, was designated as the Booker T. Washington National Monument.

Daniel Webster was born on January 18, 1782, to Ebenezer and Abigail Webster ( née Eastman ) in Salisbury, New Hampshire, the present-day city of Franklin.

Alexander Bache was born in Philadelphia, the son of Richard Bache, Jr., and Sophia Burrell Dallas, nephew of George M. Dallas, and great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin.

Wheeler was born in Malone, New York, and attended Franklin Academy and the University of Vermont, although monetary concerns forced him to drop out without graduating.

Franklin was born in Notting Hill, London, into an affluent and influential British Jewish family.

* James Patton Anderson, ( 1822 – 1873 ), born in Franklin County, Confederate Army general

Hughes was born in Lansing, Michigan, to a mother, Ryan Boudinot, T Cooper, Quinn Dalton, Emily Franklin, Lisa Gabriele, Tod Goldberg, Nina de Gramont, Tara Ison, Allison Lynn, John McNally, Dan Pope, Lewis Robinson, Ben Schrank, Elizabeth Searle, Mary Sullivan, Rebecca Wolff, and Moon Unit Zappa.

Many farms in Franklin were cleared by the Creek Indians, Well known leader Osceola was born on Red Creek, 10 miles from the Tallapoosa River.

Notably, it was the retirement home of baseball legend Ty Cobb who was born nearby, and was a base of operation for production of the 1956 Disney film The Great Locomotive Chase that was filmed along the Tallulah Falls Railway that ran from Cornelia northward along the rim of Tallulah Gorge to Franklin, NC.

* National Political Columnist and Analyst Sandra Barnett was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky but raised in Franklin.

* Both Major League Baseball pitcher Joe Blanton and actress Annie Potts were born in Nashville, Tennessee but raised in Franklin.

* Thomas Chisholm, Christian songwriter who wrote Great is Thy Faithfulness was born in Franklin

* University of Kentucky football head coach Joker Phillips was born and raised in Franklin.

Mantell was both born in and tragically died near Franklin.

* Jared Y. Sanders, Jr., politician from Baton Rouge, born in Franklin in 1892 and only child of Governor Jared Y. Sanders, Sr.

* Benjamin Pierce, Governor of New Hampshire and the father of U. S. president Franklin Pierce, born in Chelmsford in 1757

* Frank W. Cyr, an educator known as " Father of the Yellow School Bus ", was born in Franklin.

* Daniel Webster, US congressman and senator from Massachusetts ; 14th and 19th US Secretary of State ; born in 1782 in what was then part of Salisbury, now within the city limits of Franklin