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Ben Franklin Parkway - also called "Avenue of Remembrance". In front, it's Washington Monument (Philadelphia) by Rudolf Siemering.
Infamous Cell Block 14...Captured at Eastern State Penitentiary, mostly in the non-public areas — with NJ Photo Crew
The Congregational Library and Archives are administered here. What is that you say? It is a library of religious and New England history that includes a ledger detailing Benjamin Franklin’s baptism. The library is a not for profit organization that originated in 1853 “”for the purpose of establishing and perpetuating a library of religious history and literature of New England, and for the erection of a suitable building for the accommodation of the same, and for the use of charitable societies.” It began with an initial donation of 56 books and has since expanded to some 225,000 volumes.
This building in which the library is situated dates back to 1898 and contains four bas-relief sculptures on its front façade by Spanish artist Domingo Mora that depict significant events in Boston history. If you inspect the four bas-reliefs from left to right, the events are:
-John Eliot (“The Indian Apostle”), a Puritan missionary, preaching to Indians
-The founding of Harvard College
A celebration of the 1st Sabbath on Clark’s Island. This is where the Pilgrims actually landed before Plymouth Rock.
-The signing of the Mayflower Compact. This was the first governing document of the Plymouth Colony.
The building is more popularly known as the former offices of Ally McBeal, the FOX television series which ran from 1997 to 2002. The 7th floor offices of Cage & Fish have maintained a legal presence in that they now house the National Lesbian & Gay Law Association.
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/2011/04/iwalked-boston%E2%80%99s-al...
Also called a Chinese tallow tree and Florida aspen. t was introduced in colonial times by Benjamin Franklin and has become naturalized from South Carolina southward along the Atlantic and the entire Gulf coast.
In the spring, the popcorn tree bears small, yellow catkins, which are followed by hard, ½ inch 3 lobed capsules. When the capsules split open, waxy, white seeds are revealed, which resemble popcorn kernels. This is how it got its name “Popcorn Tree.”
Another one of three sculptures of Benjamin Franklin on campus. It depicts Franklin walking up Philadelphia's High Street after the 17-year-old runaway had arrived from Boston. The morning of his arrival he strode up Philadelphia's main drag with but three pennies and one Dutch ducat in his pocket. He bought some bread and then walked passed Deborah Reed, the woman who would one day be his wife. The sculpture was a gift from the class of 1904 and was created by R. Tait McKenzie.
More information at: www.ushistory.org/Franklin/philadelphia/education.htm
Photo credit: Steve Minicola
Location: Philadelphia PA to Camden NJ
Carry: 7 lanes of I-676 and US 30, 2 PATCO rail lines, 2 sidewalks and 2 underground walkway tunnels
Type: Steel Suspension Bridge
Opened: 1926
Diseñé esta portada para la novela histórica (en castellano) que he escrito y autopublicado en las tiendas Kindle de Amazon.
- El libro en Amazon.com:
www.amazon.com/Triskelion-Verdadera-Conquista-Felicidad-e...
- El libro en Amazon.es
www.amazon.es/Triskelion-Verdadera-Conquista-Felicidad-eb...
También está disponible en el resto de tiendas Amazon/Kindle
With A-Treat's sudden closure, I quickly tweeted and wrote letters to all the great dignitaries of Pennsylvania beseeching them to rescue the recipes: Yuengling, Turkey Hill, Wawa, and even It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia.
During this process it occurred to me: with a few small refinements, Yuengling's logo could encompass all of Pennsylvania in a great emblem of pride; something worthy of emblazoning upon our otherwise uninspiring blue flag.
And so it came to be:
Ben Franklin riding the Yuengling Eagle as it sits perched upon steel and a barrel stamped with the Liberty Bell.
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 Franklin Fountain aims to serve an experience steeped in ideals, drizzled with drollery, and sprinkled with the forgotten flavors of the American past."
you should visit their awesome website and shop: www.franklinfountain.com
terra cotta bust of Benjamin Frankln
after a model by Jean Antoine Houdon
terra Cotta
Musée des beaux-arts de la ville de Paris
Petit Palais
Paris
Tuck donation
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AKA "Benjamins" - Never seen too many pics of real money. Let's remedy that, shall we? Money is an abstract concept. It is a symbol, or thing used to represent something of value. Perhaps nowhere more evident has that concept been on display than recently in our nation's discussion of public debt.
And on a related note... it never ceases to amaze me the number of cash register clerks whom rely upon some little felt-tipped pen to determine the authenticity of those bills. Numerous merchants have told me that those pens are NOT reliable, and have been fooled many times. For those not aware, not too many years ago, the Department of the Treasury embarked upon a effort to redesign all denominations of bills - all except the $1.00 - and enhanced security/anti-counterfeiting features within each bill.
The inclusion of a water mark on the RIGHT side of the bill - not visible here - though if the bill is held up to any light source,
1.) the portrait of Franklin is readily seen,
2.) the number 100 in the lower RIGHT hand corner has a special iridescent ink that turns green/black/gold when the bill is tilted back & forth on its axis, and
3.) the inclusion of a plastic security thread strip imprinted with metal ink, and imbedded into the bill, which runs vertically on the LEFT which may also be seen when the bill is held up to light.
Those three features are the most readily observable features to the casual observer, and were so designed that anyone could quickly discern authenticity. There are other features, including microprinting around the portrait and other areas, and other features known only to the Treasury.
FBI agents and federal agents whom are trained in anti-counterfeiting measures and investigation, are trained using ONLY genuine Federal Reserve Notes (money). So, when they hold a fake, it's obvious.
Famous Alumni = Sam Adams, Leonard Bernstein, Charles Bulfinch, Richard A. Clarke, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Hancock, Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Kennedy, Robert Treat Paine - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Boston_Latin_School_alumni
This print is part of my Inspirational Dog Series of prints. Featured is the Smooth Hair Fox Terrier with a quote by Benjamin Franklin.
En ocasiones, el escritor tiene la sensación de que podría continuar puliendo una obra ad infinitum. Lo mismo que ocurriría a un escultor con una escultura, etc.
Keys to the Community, a bronze sculptural bust of Benjamin Franklin, was unveiled and dedicated atop Girard Fountain Park's front wall on October 5, 2007. The one-ton sculpture is covered with casts of 1,000 keys collected from local schoolchildren and contains several brass nameplates representing Philadelphia firefighters fallen in the line of duty over four centuries. Partially funded by the Fire Department and by more than 1.5 million pennies donated by schoolchildren in 500 area schools, it replaced a 1971 acrylic sculpture of Franklin, Penny Benny, by Reginald E. Beauchamp. Beauchamp's Franklin was covered with almost 80,000 pennies collected from local schoolchildren, and incorporated a device that delivered a recorded two-minute speech on fire prevention. After slowly deteriorating over the years and was removed to storage in 1996.
Girard Fountain Park, a 0.15-acre pocket park at 325 Arch Street, is maintained by the Philadelphia Fire Department. It was created in the mid-1960s after the demolition of four 3- and 4-story commercial buildings that had stood on the northeast corner of 4th and Arch Streets. A firehouse was built on the corner lots, while the lot formerly occupied by 325 Arch was cleared.
Cet été, nous avons le plaisir d'organiser la deuxième édition du Moeraske Summer Camp.
Le Moeraske Summer Camp est une série de concerts acoustiques ou sur piles se déroulant en plein air.
Au programme ce dimanche 22/08/2010 dès 15:30:
aymeric de tapol's big band
aymeric de tapol compose des musiques de films qui n'existent pas... fermez les yeux... ouvrez les oreilles...et créer dans vos têtes le film qui va avec.
www.myspace.com/aymericdetapol
benjamin franklin
benjamin franklin (buffle, historiaens, berger louve, etc), que l'on a vu à plusieurs reprises cette année habiller les pièces de théâtre de clément laloy quitte les planches pour l'herbe du moeraske
le ton mité
mccloud zicmuse, un américain à Bruxelles, et du coup, la vie est comédie musicale !
waikiki walhalla
recette du waikiki walhalla: prenez deux bufflons de la vallée de josaphat dix-trentienne, ajoutez-y un rayon de soleil d'ecuador et un soupçon de nonsense britannique, laissez les valkyries passer tout ça au shaker et savourez !
martiensgohome
le collectif à géométrie variable qui opère tous les jeudis à 21:30 sur les ondes de radio campus depuis 1996 abandonne brièvement le désormais célèbre "studio bois" de la station pour les bois, les vrais !
mgh.constantvzw.org/index.html
date et heure:
dimanche 22/08/2010
dès 15:30
lieu:
parc du moeraske (1140 Evere)
(en cas d'orage, on se réfugiera à la compilothèque)
accès:
bus 45-59-64-69 - arrêt Saint-Vincent
s'engager dans la rue laurent vandenhoven, tourner à gauche dans la rue de la perche, puis prendre le premier sentier à droite: marcher quelque 100 mètres, vous y êtes !
( pour ceux qui étaient présents lors de l'édition de 2008, sachez que c'est au même endroit !)
aspects pratiques:
- un goûter est disponible sur place
- prix libre pour le goûter et les concerts
- c'est un parc: pas de toilettes, prenez vos dispositions !
- c'est un parc: pas de bar, amenez vos boissons !
Au plaisir de vous y retrouver !
Fab & les Summer Campers !
In December of 2005 to honor Franklin's 300th birthday a new brick path was added around the Franklin family grave site. In the construction of the new path a preserved gravestone for the Usher family was discovered beneath in the pathway. A plaque containing the inscription for Robert Usher and family was placed next to the new path. A marble surround was also added around the Franklin family grave site, containing the original inscriptions for John Read (Franklin's father in-law), Francis Franklin, and Emma Mary Bache.
www.christchurchphila.org/Historic_Christ_Church/Burial_G...
Nearby is a tiny marker for Francis Franklin who died of small pox at age four. After "Frankie's" death, his grieving father urged Philadelphians to inoculate their children against this dread disease.
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Recruiting for Navy
[between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Photograph shows the New York Tribune Building at Printing House Square, New York City.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.24082
Call Number: LC-B2- 4168-14
Most people don't know it, but the founding fathers all wore coats in primary colors, and referred to each other that way - Mr. Green, Mr. Blue, etc.
Pictured here is the day Franklin stole Jefferson's matching quill pen, and Jefferson had to use Franklin's. Oh what a hoot that day was!
Ben Franklin, Craftsman (1981) is a statue by Joseph Brown, dedicated by The Grand Lodge Free and
Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania. It is located on the Northwest corner of Broad Street and JFK, across the street from City Hall and the Masonic Temple.
Municipal Services Building. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Protected by Full Copyright: Please do not use this image without my written permission in anyway, doing so is a violation of federal law.
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The Joseph Webb House (circa 1752) was the site of a strategy conference in 1781 between General George Washington and the French ally, The Comte de Rochambeau. This strategy conference was developed after Benjamin Franklin and Silas Deane traveled to France to solicit French Foreign Aid. As I recall, Benjamin Franklin lived in France for 5 years to form these relationships that were critical components of the Freedom that was later declared in our country. I have personally read Franklin was deemed a traitor for his actions.
Silas Deane lived next door to this house. He was a wealthy merchant in Wethersfield and a Graduate of Yale Law School. Deane was the neighbor of Joseph Webb. It is a little known fact that Silas Deane was in fact a key figure in the American Revolution. Later Deane was accused of, though never charged with indiscrepency in financial affairs.
Due to this, Silas Deane's reputation was ruined and he was financially devastated. He left the country due to the stigma of this accusation. Later he was determined to furnish documents to clear his name and he set sail back to America. He was in poor health and died on the ship before every reaching his destination.
After George Washington's four day stay at the Webb House, he set out on horseback to Virginia. Through the windows of this home was likely one of the last comfortable stays George Washington would have for several months until The Surrender of Yorktown which concluded The Revolutionary War.
I wrote this off the cuff from memory of my readings of this house (as well as information given by the tour guide when I visited the home).
Known as the First American, Benjamin Franklin was one of the nations Founding Fathers and signers of both the Declaration of Independence and Constitution. He was also a Postmaster, author, printer, and inventor.
This desk belonged to Benjamin Franklin and once sat in his home. It was believed that Franklin did his work on here but it is not proven if he ever invented something on this desk.
The Benjamin Franklin Desk is now on display at the Benjamin Franklin Museum on Franklin Court in Philadelphia, Pa.
Keys to the Community, a bronze sculptural bust of Benjamin Franklin, was unveiled and dedicated atop Girard Fountain Park's front wall on October 5, 2007. The one-ton sculpture is covered with casts of 1,000 keys collected from local schoolchildren and contains several brass nameplates representing Philadelphia firefighters fallen in the line of duty over four centuries. Partially funded by the Fire Department and by more than 1.5 million pennies donated by schoolchildren in 500 area schools, it replaced a 1971 acrylic sculpture of Franklin, Penny Benny, by Reginald E. Beauchamp. Beauchamp's Franklin was covered with almost 80,000 pennies collected from local schoolchildren, and incorporated a device that delivered a recorded two-minute speech on fire prevention. After slowly deteriorating over the years and was removed to storage in 1996.
Girard Fountain Park, a 0.15-acre pocket park at 325 Arch Street, is maintained by the Philadelphia Fire Department. It was created in the mid-1960s after the demolition of four 3- and 4-story commercial buildings that had stood on the northeast corner of 4th and Arch Streets. A firehouse was built on the corner lots, while the lot formerly occupied by 325 Arch was cleared.