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Why We Like People Who Ask Us for Favors
Time via Yahoo News· 4 days agoWe like people to whom we are nice. This quirk of human nature, known as the Ben Franklin Effect, explains a lot about how relationships work, and how we...
Pennsylvania is the only state that recognizes Flag Day as a legal holiday
WZZM 13 Grand Rapids· 6 hours agoFlag Day, which is observed annually on June 14, is a day that commemorates the adoption of the...
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...
Mystic Fire District - The Day
The Day· 4 days agoAbout Benjamin Franklin Hoxie was born in Shamrock R.I., and spent his boyhood days there. After attaining his majority, he went to Westerly, R.I., and ...
This Marine Dropped Out of School at 17. At 72, He's Fulfilling His Promise to His Mom to Graduate
Military.com· 4 days agoCall him the Rip van Winkle of Benjamin Franklin High: Joseph Bond dropped out of high school at age 17, as war raged in Vietnam, leaving without a diploma ...
On This Day, June 11: George Wallace tries to block integration of Univ. of Alabama
United Press International via Yahoo News· 3 days agoLeffler/U.S. News & World Report Magazine/U.S. Library of Congress On this date in history: In 1776,...
Jonah Goldberg: How Democrats keep getting immigration wrong
The Times of Northwest Indiana· 2 days agoFor more than 20 years, I have held one position constant when it comes to immigration policy: We...
Bank of New York Mellon Rebrands as BNY
PYMNTS.com· 3 days agoSay goodbye to Bank of New York Mellon and hello to BNY. The bank — America’s oldest — is updating its logo and taking BNY as its new name, it announced...
Why the ‘Franklin’ Hair and Makeup Designer Embraced All That Is ‘Completely Absurd’
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 3 days agoTheWrap magazine: For Alessandro Bertolazzi, 18th-century French aristocratic style was the epitome...
How the American Revolution estranged Ben Franklin and his Loyalist son
National Geographic· 2 days agoThe end of the Revolutionary War in 1783 didn’t end the estrangement between father and son. Exiled...
