Saturday, November 25, 2017

Too many Rising Suns.........Mike Creighton.........history.....................Philly, PA...............the Liberty Bell..........like the Bell curve.......................Ben Banneker.........and Ben Franklin .......both polymaths........and inventors...........black and white.......chess pieces........men, etc......



Benjamin Franklin's Rising Sun < Topics < Government 1991 ...

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Benjamin Franklin, at 81, was the oldest and the most widely accomplished ... all of his speeches were read by a colleague -- Franklin attended most of the ... a rising sun from a setting sun, he went on to say: "I have often ... in the course of the ...

Benjamin Franklin's Speech, Federal Convention | Teaching American ...

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Whilst the last members were signing it [i.e., the Constitution] Doct FRANKLIN looking towards the Presidents Chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened ...

The Rising Sun Armchair (George Washington's Chair) - USHistory.org

www.ushistory.org/more/sun.htm
James Madison reported Benjamin Franklin saying, "I have often looked at that behind the president without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting.

Avalon Project - Madison Debates - September 17

avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/debates_917.asp
FRANKLIN rose with a speech in his hand, which he had reduced to writing for .... at the back of which a rising sun happened to be painted, observed to a few ...

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