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[edit]- Scientists have long suspected that volcanoes can affect the global climate. The first to make the connection between a major eruption and the weather was... Benjamin Franklin. Franklin's efforts to negotiate a peace treaty to end the Revolutionary War took him to Europe during the year 1783. ...he was among many to notice the peculiar blue haze or "dry fog" that cloaked the nation that summer and fall. The following winter turned out to be unusually harsh. Soon afterwards Franklin published an article that attributed these events to the eruption of Iceland's Laki Fissure.
- One famous delegate, Benjamin Franklin, was elected to all three bodies and played a leading role in shaping both the Declaration of Independence and the new Pennsylvania constitution. At seventy, Franklin was among the older patriot leaders, and the oldest to sign the Declaration. He was also the most renowned, thanks to his scientific discoveries and “Poor Richa
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On Benjamin Franklin | For that High-Octane Inspiration
Autobiographies have such a charm and delight of their own!
And so do life writings! And so do memoirs! And so do confessions, and so do diaries, and so do personal journal entries!
Indeed, their quaint charm and their ‘awesome wonder’ give them their peculiar ‘thisness’ or ‘aboutness’, coming as it does with their innate cultural baggage and lived experiences galore!!!
In this respect, we human beings have always been amazing narrative beings!
In other words, we are the sum total of our life's narratives! So yes! our 'Self' is in reality the product of all our life-narratives woven together into a rich tapestry of sorts!
Narratives that integrate memories, weave nostalgia, and plait past pictures into a myriad, culturally grounded discourse.
As such, our life stories act as highly effective cultural texts t
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