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What’s the Real Story With Ben Franklin and the Kite? And More Questions From Our Readers
From the Smithsonian magazine archives, some of our favorite reader questions about our nation's founding upon its 250th ...
Electricity isn't just wires and outlets. Its history includes fake experiments, brutal PR wars, and vehicles that predate ...
This Saturday, Jan. 17, marks Benjamin Franklin’s birthday — his 320th, as a matter of fact! He was born in Boston in 1706 ...
Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts, 320 years ago. In recent days, I discovered Ken Burns’s two episodes on Benjamin Franklin that aired in April 2022 on PBS.
January is more than just a month of frigid temperatures and potential snow days. A month named after the Roman god Janus, ...
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