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The article discusses the Latin epigraphs used by Benjamin Franklin in his editorial in the March 25, 1731 issue of the "Pennsylvania Gazette" about the smallpox epidemic. Also cited are the attribution by Alfred Owen Aldridge and J. A. Leo Lemay of the editorial to Franklin, and the book "Moral Virtue Delineated" by Marin Le Roy as the source of the Latin epigraph that was translated as "Good deeds transcend death, and virtue, eternal virtue, never fears the Stygian undertow."

The article provides information on the African slaves Peter and King who were owned by American statesman Benjamin Franklin and brought by Franklin to England in 1757. The author focuses on an advertisement found in the newspaper "London Chronicle" that called for the return of a slave named "King." It is argued that such an advertisement complicates the dominant understanding of Franklin's relationship to slavery and identity as a slaveholder. Other topics discussed include the fashionable clothing allegedly worn by King and Franklin's correspondence with his wife.

An essay is presented on the influence of author Benjamin Franklin on the global development of capitalism. The author reflects on multiple translations and editions of the book "The Way to Wealth" and topics such as work ethic, popular education, and the moral aspects of economic activity. Other topics include proverbial politics, readership, and comparisons to other works on political economy such as "Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith.

The Franklin bell is an electro-mechanical oscillator that can generate a repeating chime in the presence of an electric field. Benjamin Franklin famously used it as a lightning detector. The chime arises from the impact of a metal ball on a metal bell. Thus, a network of Franklin bells can be regarded as a network of impact oscillators. Although the number of techniques for analysing impacting systems has grown in recent years, this has typically focused on low-dimensional systems and relatively little attention has been paid to networks. Here we redress this balance with a focus on synchronous oscillatory network states. We first study a single Franklin bell, showing how to construct periodic orbits and how to determine their linear stability and bifurcation. To cope with the non-smooth nature of the impacts we use saltation operators to develop the correct Floquet theory. We further introduce a new smoothing technique that circumvents the need for saltation and that recovers the saltation operators in some appropriate limit. We then consider the dynamics of a network of Franklin bells, showing how the master stability function approach can be adapted to treat the linear stability of the synchronous state for arbitrary network topologies. We use this to determine conditions for network induced instabilities. Direct numerical simulations are shown to be in excellent agreement with theoretical results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents letters to the editor about literature, published in the journal "Notes and Queries." Benjamin Franklin's vision of British colonies in the U.S.; Reference to a manuscript "A New Dictionary for the Orthography, Pronunciation and Etymology of the English Language," by Joseph Ritson; Comment on the book "Anna Karenina."

The article lists the a number of books of bibliographies and documents which cannot be reviewed by the journal. Among the books listed are "Stalkers and Shooters: A History of Snipers," by Kevin Dockery, "Something That Will Surprise the World: The Essential Writings of the Founding Fathers," edited by Susan Dunn and "Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin," by Benjamin Franklin, edited by Edmund S. Morgan.

The article discusses five Americans, who were regarded as the people who show who American people really are. It includes Roger Williams, who is considered to possess a purity of character and someone who centered his life on his religious faith. William Johnson, on the other hand, is considered the students' kind of hero who disobeys rules when he thinks it did not make sense but still has the ability to get away with it. Benjamin Franklin is regarded the ultimate American with his characteristics of being ambitious, hardworking, successful and concerned citizen. Other Americans are Ida B.Wells and Thurgood Marshall. INSET: Joy Hakim on America's Greatest Gift to the World: the….

The article profiles the great American inventor-statesman Benjamin Franklin and features his human side as written in his autobiography entitled "Autobiography." The author highlights Franklin's marriage to his wife, Deborah Read Franklin. Unlike the proverbial characters written in "Poor Richard's Almanack," he was not the Franklin known for his thirteen virtues. However, Franklin had some share of infidelities and sexual improprieties despite being married to Deborah. The author assesses the family life of Franklin.

The article features the lesson plan of teaching Benjamin Franklin's "Autobiography." The author describes the characteristics and features of Franklin's autobiography. The autobiography continues to offer teachers a remarkable opportunity to have students explore and discuss the eighteenth century world through the eyes and words of an individual whose name they know. The lesson plan addresses the standards in the national Standards for U.S. History. The author highlights the illustrious career of Franklin. The author relates the procedures how to teach the autobiography of Franklin.

The article discusses the conditions of pioneers in the U.S. after the American Revolution. American pioneers have paved the way for civilization by opening new lands and making minor improvements before the arrival of migrants. In early 1775, Benjamin Franklin noticed that several families have moved westward to secure land for their children. It later evolved into legal battles between squatters and speculators for control of these lands. Native Americans or Indians, thought that American encroachment on western lands was a threat to their culture, and they did not conform to new land usages that accompanied the commercial and consumer revolution that took over their villages. Merchants also began to head into trans-Appalachia, which reflected the conversion of the region from subsistence into a pioneering market economy.

The article reviews the two volumes "The Life of Benjamin Franklin, vol. I: Journalist, 1706-1730/The Life of Benjamin Franklin, vol. II: Printer and Publisher, 1730-1747" by J. A. Leo Lemay.

The article focuses on the contributions of Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) to the genesis of population biology. Franklin noted the inherent growth potential of human populations. He talked about the concepts of the dynamics of populations, carrying capacity, biotic potential, population properties and intraspecific competition. Franklin formulated a predictive model of population growth. He also proposed the first argument against an organismic view of populations. He also stated about the population growth of both plants and animals and the affect of crowding.