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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.
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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.
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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/
A newly unveiled bronze Benjamin Franklin takes a look at the first CN train to pass since his cover was removed an hour and a half earlier.
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8/13/2022
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.
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Kopparstick föreställande Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), vetenskapsman, diplomat och politiker.
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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.
For the opening of Two Snowhill, for the first two weeks in April 2013 (12th to 21st April 2013) is an exhibit called Of all the people in the world from Stan's Cafe.
The exhibition is free to enter.
It was on the sixth floor of Two Snowhill. You go up in the lift.
Presidents of the USA etc
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.
Cellblocks Four, Five, Six and Seven, all two stories to accommodate the increasing number of convicts. Block Seven completed in 1835.
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— Benjamin Franklin
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Here the number 26 and the initials NY are clearly visible. The writing differs from other mile markers in Westchester where the markers were replaced in the 19th century like mile marker 24 in Rye, 23 in Mamaroneck or 21 in Larchmont.
These details together with the different quality of the stone are not surprising given that the marker is likely NOT the original milestone - the previous marker was shattered by a truck in 1942. However the 1928 bronze plaque appears to be original.
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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.
Philadelphia from the air in 1971. The Delaware River and Camden, New Jersey are in the foreground. The Schuylkill River is in the background. It flows into the Delaware River to the left of the photo. Independence Hall is a few blocks inland from Penn's Landing, which is the broad, light-colored strip along the Delaware River. Haverford is a few miles to the west, beyond the top of the photo.
The Benjamin Franklin Monument, located along the Camp Street side of Lafayette Square, was given to the city of New Orleans by Henry Wadsworth Gustine of Chicago in 1926. The full length standing portrait of Franklin rests atop a base inscribed with Franklin's famous saying, "Save While You are Young/To Spend While You are Old/One Penny Saved Is Better/Than Two Pennies Earned."
Lafayette Square, bound by St. Charles Avenue, Camp Street and Maestri Street, was founded in 1788 for the City's first suburb, Faubourg Ste. Marie, making it the second oldest park in New Orleans. Originally called "place publique", the square was renamed after Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, the French aristocrat and general who fought on the American side in the American Revolutionary War. Lafayette declined the invitation to become the first Governor when the United purchased Lousiana, but his popularity was evident when he visited New Orleans from April 9-15, 1825 to cheers of "Vive Lafayette!"
In the early 20th Century, three bronze statues were placed along the East/West axis of the square. In addition to the statue of Franklin, a statues of Henry Clay was relocated to the center of the square and a statue of John McDonogh was placed on St. Charles Street. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina caused extensive damage to many of the trees, and broken glass and debris scattered from nearby buildings made Lafayette Square unsafe. A group of neighborhood residents and downtown workers formed the non-profit Lafayette Square Conservancy (LSC), to renovate, improve and preserve the space.
The Read-Franklin Water Well, at 318 Market Street from the 1700's.
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.
Below the court is an underground museum filled with paintings, objects, and inventions associated with Benjamin Franklin. The United States Postal Service Museum, at 314 Market Street, features exhibits that include Pony Express pouches and originals of Franklin's Pennyslvania Gazette. The B. Free Franklin Post Office, at 316 Market Street, is the the only active post office in the United States that does not fly a United States flag--because there wasn't yet one in 1775. At 318 Market Street is an architectural exhibit about Franklin's interest in fire-resistant buildings with fully exposed walls, revealing wooden joists separated by masonry and plaster. At 320 Market Street is the Printing Office and Bindery, with demonstrations of 18th century printing and binding equipment on display. At 322 Market Street is the General Advertiser, a the restored office of The Aurora and general Advertiser, the newspaper published by Franklin's grandson, Benjamin Franklin Bache. 322 Market Street also claims two famous connections--James Wilson, an editor of The Aurora, and grandfather to Woodrow Wilson, the 28th President of the United States, who lived there; and Sarah Josepha Hale, editor of Godey's Lady's Book and author of "Mary Had a Little Lamb," who worked there from 1837-1877.
UN POCO DE HISTORIA -- El 15 de junio de 1752, Benjamín Franklin hizo volar una cometa durante una tormenta. Con ello quería demostrar la naturaleza eléctrica de los rayos y lo consiguió.
Ese día amaneció tormentoso en Filadelfia, por lo que el científico pensó que era el día ideal para llevar a cabo su experimento y así poder demostrar que sus conjeturas, que aseguraban que los rayos iban repletos de carga eléctrica, eran las correctas.
Para tal fin, Franklin construyó una cometa, cuya estructura estaba realizada con varillas metálicas, y sujeta por un largo hilo de seda. En el otro extremo ató una llave de metal.
Echó a volar la cometa y pudo comprobar cómo en poco rato ésta atraía un rayo que impactaba contra la estructura metálica y cuya descarga eléctrica bajaba hasta la llave.
El éxito del experimento le fue de gran ayuda para explicar su teoría y demostrar que los rayos podían ser atraídos por un metal y que dirigiéndolos hacia una toma de tierra se podría impedir numerosos accidentes mortales y proteger las edificaciones, que al estar construidas de madera solían acabar ardiendo tras el impacto de un rayo.
De ahí surgió su gran idea de colocar una varilla metálica en los tejados de las viviendas... acababa de nacer el pararrayos.
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.
Benjamin Franklin Bridge
Penn's Landing
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)
This panorama was made with 5 hand helded horinzontal shots. It's one of my first attempt to make a panorama.
Thanks Arielle for all your nice advices about Philadelphia! :-)
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