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The new 100 dollar bill has recently come out. If you have not seen one yet you will probably be shocked by how "fake" it seems. The paper itself has a different feel to it. The new bill has a bunch of built in anti-counterfeiting measures such as the blue ribbon down the center, a watermark (on the right) and a couple of holograms. The former 100 dollar note was the most counterfeited bill in the world. North Koreans had mastered faking the bills. Those counterfeits are known as "supermotes" and are extremely tough to detect.
The new 100 dollar bill has recently come out. If you have not seen one yet you will probably be shocked by how "fake" it seems. The paper itself has a different feel to it. The new bill has a bunch of built in anti-counterfeiting measures such as the blue ribbon down the center, a watermark (on the right) and a couple of holograms. The former 100 dollar note was the most counterfeited bill in the world. North Koreans had mastered faking the bills. Those counterfeits are known as "supermotes" and are extremely tough to detect.
The new 100 dollar bill has recently come out. If you have not seen one yet you will probably be shocked by how "fake" it seems. The paper itself has a different feel to it. The new bill has a bunch of built in anti-counterfeiting measures such as the blue ribbon down the center, a watermark (on the right) and a couple of holograms. The former 100 dollar note was the most counterfeited bill in the world. North Koreans had mastered faking the bills. Those counterfeits are known as "supermotes" and are extremely tough to detect.
This is Catch Photo #68 for a new game of Photo Catch I'm playing with my Husband Darek (aka blankspace321) . We each take turns adding something to the photo until we've each added ten. Darek added his so now it's my turn. This is my 9th addition.
To see the photo I started this game with: CLICK HERE!
To see D & J Photo Catch folder (1-20) CLICK HERE!
As of August 29, 2019 we have been doing Catch Photos for ten (ten) years.
This 200+ year old marker had been in the wall outside Christ's Church on Boston Post Road since 1937:
"When Benjamin Franklin ordered milestones placed along the Post Road between Boston and New York, three
of them came within the boundaries of the Village of Rye. And they still exist to the pride of many residents
who hold Rye's early history in high esteem.
One of them is about to be moved. Village Trustee Archibald A. Forrest reported to the Village Board of Trustees, Wednesday night. It stood at the corner of Orchard Avenue and improvements make its removal necessary. The new location, Trustee Forrest said, will be in the stonewall of Christ's Church, which is nearer its original location. The other two stones in Rye Village are on the Post Road near the Edgar Palmer place and at Theall's Hill."
Rye Chronicle, January 22, 1937
The stone's number (26) had been eroded off by years of age yet it still stood witness to many stories in Rye's history. It was removed on July 17, 2012 and was broken in the process; it will now be examined by stone conservators and a plan to restore it will be drafted .
This is not the first time that this marker has been moved. The Rye Chronicle, May 5, 1928, shows a picture of the marker when it was located on the corner of Orchard Avenue and Boston Post Road.
It was apparently found by publisher GP Putnam in an abandoned lot he purchased in 1922 and he cemented it into the foundation of his country home in Rye on Locust Avenue (the same home he would occupy with his future, second wife and famous aviatrix Amelia Earhart years later.) Read the story from MyRye here:
www.myrye.com/my_weblog/2010/08/page/16/
In 1927, restoration of these mile markers to their place on Boston Post Road was spearheaded by the President of the Village of Rye, John Motley Morehead. Morehead reasoned "there are so few landmarks in America having an age that these landmarks possess." Not surprisingly, Morehead demanded that Putnam return the mile stone. Putnam was reluctant at first and initially offered a replica but when the Rye City Council threatened to sue, It appears Putnam complied!
Morehead's marker plaques all bear the same inscription:
"This is one of some 230 markers erected on the Boston Post Road in 1763.
Their locations were fixed by Benjamin Franklin the Deputy Postmaster General who for that purpose drove a chaise with a distance recorder over the route.
Restored to this its original position June 1st, 1927, by the village of Rye."
"Remove not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have set." (Proverbs XXII Verse 28.)
Rye's John Motley Morehead would go on to do many more things www.historync.org/laureate - Morehead.htm
Want to find other historical markers? Search the Historical Marker Database at: www.hmdb.org/Marker.asp?Marker=34588
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The day I took this shot it was bitterly cold, and froze my tail off while taking this shot. The wind was brutal. However, I had one of the most peaceful times shooting with no unnecessary interruptions from anyone. Sometimes the cold weather can be good for something. :-)
Have a great rest of the week everyone!
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This long exposure was taken in Center City Philadelphia.
Shutter Speed: 30 sec
Aperture: f22
Focal Length: 32mm (x1.4)
Equipment: Manfrotto 055CX, 410 Jr. Gear Head, ND400x, Canon 7D, Canon 17-40mm RC-1 remote.
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The United States Postal Service Museum, part of Franklin Court at 314 Market Street, features exhibits that include Pony Express pouches and originals of Franklin's Pennyslvania Gazette.
Franklin Court cuts through an entire city block on the former site of Benjamin Franklin's home at 316-322 Market Street. Although razed in 1812, a "Ghost House" frame, built by Robert Venturi in 1976 for the Bicentennial, depicts the exact positions of the original 3-story house, 33 square-foot, ten-room house and adjacent print shop, while excavations underneath reveal the original foundations, privy pits, and wells. Six museums on the site, also built in 1976 for the Bicentennial, trace Franklin's life as a publisher, politician, postmaster, printer and inventor.
I was at school all day without students! They went away on a spiritual retreat. (We each had a retreat from each other too.) I missed them, but I got a lot of work done. I can't believe how fast the time went.
I did take time out to take this silly picture. That was a few minutes of lost time that will never be found again! ;)
NAFTA-themed Droste effect with U.S. 100 dollar bill, Canadian 10 dollar bill and Mexican 1000 pesos.
©2009 David C. Pearson, M.D.
Located opposite City Hall Park, at the intersection of Park Row and the Brooklyn Bridge approach, this impressive sculpture of American statesman, scientist, inventor, philosopher, and journalist Benjamin Franklin is by German-born sculptor Ernst Plassman.
This sculptural portrait of Franklin was commissioned as a gift to the City by Albert De Groot (1813–1884), a retired Hudson Valley steamboat captain. Park Row was for decades the center of New York’s publishing industry and newspaper businesses, and given Franklin’s activities as a printer of paper currency and publisher of newspapers and almanacs, the choice of location was particularly apt.
This colossal bronze effigy depicts Franklin in 18th-century dress, holding a copy of the Philadelphia Gazette. A second casting may be viewed in the lobby of the High School of Graphic Communication Arts at 439 West 49th Street. On January 17, 1872, the 166th anniversary of Franklin’s birth, the statue was formally unveiled in a lavish ceremony in which artist and inventor Samuel F. Morse removed the shroud and newspaper publisher Horace Greeley delivered the keynote address. Charles C. Savage, speaking on behalf of the New York Typographical Society, commented: “It is appropriate that this statue should be erected in this centre of our trade, in the very midst of our craft-work, instead of in Central Park; for Franklin’s life was devoted to practical hard work, rather than to the ornamental and the recreative.”
The new 100 dollar bill has recently come out. If you have not seen one yet you will probably be shocked by how "fake" it seems. The paper itself has a different feel to it. The new bill has a bunch of built in anti-counterfeiting measures such as the blue ribbon down the center, a watermark (on the right) and a couple of holograms. The former 100 dollar note was the most counterfeited bill in the world. North Koreans had mastered faking the bills. Those counterfeits are known as "supermotes" and are extremely tough to detect.
Almost in the exact center of the graveyard is the Franklin cenotaph, marking the grave Josiah and Abiah Franklin. The stone obelisk was erected by a group of citizens in 1827 to replace an earlier marker. The laudatory inscription is from the pen of their youngest son, Benjamin Franklin, who is buried at Christ Church Cemetery in Philadelphia.
Near the monument are original gravestones for other members of the Franklin family, Hannah and Samuel Franklin. Samuel was the eldest son from Josiah's first marriage and took up the traditional Franklin family trade as a blacksmith. Hannah was Josiah's second daughter. Another ancient stone, marking the grave of Ben's uncle "Benjamen", for whom he was named, has disappeared over the last two decades.
Founded in 1660, the Granary Burying Ground is Boston's third-oldest cemetery. In this two-acre plot are the remains of more famous people than any other small graveyard in America. It serves as the final resting place for three signers of the Declaration of Independence, nine governors of Massachesetts, the victims of the Boston Massacre, and many notable Revolutionary War-era patriots. Originally part of the Common, its name derives from the old grain warehouse that once stood next door on the site of the Park Street Church.
Notable burials here include signers of the Declaration of Independence John Hancock, Samuel Adams, and Robert Treat Paine; patriots James Otis, James Bowdoin, and Paul Revere; Boston Massacre victims including Crispus Attucks; prominent early Bostonians Peter Faneuil, Colonial Governor Richard Bellingham Esquire, First Mayor John Phillips; and even a Mother Goose.
The site at 1 Milk Street has actually been the former residence of two famous individuals in Boston and American history. In the 1600s the future wife of the founder of Boston, William Blackstone, lived at this location. If we fast forward to the next century, perhaps one of the greatest inventors of our time was born at this address, Mr. Benjamin Franklin.
It was at this address in a former two-story home that Benjamin Franklin was born in 1706. Ben was the fifteenth of seventeen children.
Franklin is, of course, best known for his early experimentations with electricity, the development of the public library system in the US, the conceptualization of paying it forward and as a member of the 5-person committee that helped draft our nation’s Declaration of Independence.
When the actual birth home of Franklin burned down in 1872, the builder responsible for erecting its replacement ensured that Franklin’s legacy would not be lost. He carved a bust with the words, “Birthplace of Franklin” above the front entrance on Milk Street.
For more history regarding this site, including how you can visit this locale via one of our MP3 audio walking tours, check out our site here: iwalkedaudiotours.com/2011/06/iwalked-boston%E2%80%99s-bi...
Locust Walk at the left and, at the right, the Statue of Benjamin Franklin reading a copy of his Pennsylvania Gazette.
This is one of the three statues of Franklin at Penn, which he founded in 1740.
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 18-July-09.
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Located opposite City Hall Park, at the intersection of Park Row and the Brooklyn Bridge approach, this impressive sculpture of American statesman, scientist, inventor, philosopher, and journalist Benjamin Franklin is by German-born sculptor Ernst Plassman.
This sculptural portrait of Franklin was commissioned as a gift to the City by Albert De Groot (1813–1884), a retired Hudson Valley steamboat captain. Park Row was for decades the center of New York’s publishing industry and newspaper businesses, and given Franklin’s activities as a printer of paper currency and publisher of newspapers and almanacs, the choice of location was particularly apt.
This colossal bronze effigy depicts Franklin in 18th-century dress, holding a copy of the Philadelphia Gazette. A second casting may be viewed in the lobby of the High School of Graphic Communication Arts at 439 West 49th Street. On January 17, 1872, the 166th anniversary of Franklin’s birth, the statue was formally unveiled in a lavish ceremony in which artist and inventor Samuel F. Morse removed the shroud and newspaper publisher Horace Greeley delivered the keynote address. Charles C. Savage, speaking on behalf of the New York Typographical Society, commented: “It is appropriate that this statue should be erected in this centre of our trade, in the very midst of our craft-work, instead of in Central Park; for Franklin’s life was devoted to practical hard work, rather than to the ornamental and the recreative.”
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The Benjamin Franklin National Memorial was designed by James Earle Fraser from 1906 to 1911 and dedicated in Memorial Hall, a rotunda in the Franklin Institute, in 1938. The 20-foot statue of Ben Franklin weighs 30 tons and is seated on a 92-ton pedestal of white Seravezza marble. Memorial Hall, designed by John T. Windrim after the Roman Pantheon, is 82-feet in length, width and height, with a 1600-ton domed ceiling and marble walls, ceilings and columns.
The Franklin Institute Science Museum opened on January 1, 1934 in the expansive neoclassical building on Benjamin Franklin Parkway designed by John T. Windrem. Owing to the effects of the the Great Depression, only two the wings envisioned by Windrem, surrounding the Benjamin Franklin Memorial, were built. Today the Institute offers 12 permanent hands-on exhibits and hosts renowned traveling exhibits in its more than 400,000 square feet of exhibit space, two auditoriums, and the Tuttleman IMAX Theater.
The alley to Franklin Court from Chestnut Street, Independence National Historic Site, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For more information, visit www.annestravels.net/franklin-court/