Benjamin Franklin

...has received a prestigious annual award from the American Philosophical Society, an organization founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin. Jordan S. Orange, M.D., Ph. D., received the Society's Judson Daland Prize for his contributions...

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...says the debate over minority contributions is not an either-or situation. "We don't need to throw out Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln in order to recognize some of the more recent figures," she said. Owens...

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...as Thanksgiving Day in 1939. He did so to make the Christmas shopping season longer and thus stimulate the economy. * Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey to be the national bird of the United States. It was Thomas Jefferson who...

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...cutting edge in their day. They show internal organs, bones and muscles of male and female subjects. They were given as a gift to Benjamin Franklin in 1762 from a friend who was a doctor in England. Franklin founded Pennsylvania Hospital.

In this article: Pennsylvania Hospital, E mail, Philadelphia, and England

The country's oldest hospital has unveiled a new exhibit of rare 18th-century anatomical illustrations, once owned by Benjamin Franklin, that provide a glimpse of how early physicians learned their craft. The 16 pastel-on-paper drawings...

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...up to $510 million to pay for repairs to the PATCO train cars and agency's four Delaware River bridges. Tolls on the Benjamin Franklin, Walt Whitman, Commodore Barry, and Betsy Ross Bridges were raised last year to pay off the bonds...

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...and CEO of CNN and former editor of Time Magazine. Mr. Isaacson is the author of "Einstein: His Life and Universe" and "Benjamin Franklin: An American Life", and the co-author of "The Wise Men". In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, he was...

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