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Fact Check: Benjamin Franklin Supposedly Gave This Antisemitic Speech. We Looked at the Evidence
Snopes via Yahoo News· 1 day ago(The book's title is "Benjamin Franklin in American Thought and Culture, 1790-1990, Volume 211.") On...
Lamenting the loss of true political cartooning - The Times-Independent
The Moab Times-Independent· 2 days agoAs a child I would run to the end of the driveway on Sunday morning to get the paper and open up to...
US founded on common sense; preserved by good sense
Las Vegas Sun· 5 days agoAmerica is in the throes of an evolution. Whether it is the continuing saga of the Middle East in which many Arab countries continue to do their best to...
Why the ‘Franklin’ Hair and Makeup Designer Embraced All That Is ‘Completely Absurd’
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 4 days agoTheWrap magazine: For Alessandro Bertolazzi, 18th-century French aristocratic style was the epitome...
Why We Like People Who Ask Us for Favors
Time Magazine· 4 days agoPerson A does a favor for you. Person B asks you to do a favor for him. This quirk of human nature, known as the Ben Franklin Effect, explains a lot...
If a bestseller list shuns authors it dislikes, it should say so
The Economist· 22 hours agoSince the first list of bestselling books was published in America in 1895, critiques have piled up like the stacks beside a bibliophile’s bed. In 1932 M. Lincoln Schuster, a co-founder of Simon ...
10 books by New England Authors to read this summer
WBUR Boston· 1 day agoWhether you’re looking for a splashy beach read or you’re eager to learn something new on vacation, these books by New England authors might satiate your...
31 Facts About Death You May (or May Not) Want to Know
MediaFeed via AOL· 4 days agoPeopleImages Everybody does it… By now, you’ve probably already heard the famous Benjamin Franklin...
Opinion | ‘We had no idea how huge it was’: Cricket’s plan to conquer the U.S.
MSNBC via Yahoo News· 5 days agoNearly 200 years after the world’s first-ever international cricket match was played in the U.S.,...
Exploration Mysteries: The Giants of Patagonia
ExplorersWeb via Yahoo News· 5 days agoExplorers and mapmakers called uncharted lands Terra Incognita. Though Columbus’s expeditions revealed parts of the New World, some regions remained...
