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Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette provided information about politics to the people. Ben Franklin used political cartoons to illustrate news stories and to heighten reader appeal. The May 9, 1754 issue included Join, or Die, which is widely considered the first American political cartoon. Devised by Franklin, the cartoon reflected concern about increasing French pressure along the western frontier of the colonies.
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No subject better illustrates the friendly exchanges and extraordinary intellectual abilities of James Logan and Benjamin Franklin than mathematics. Logan's library at Stenton contained prized editions of Euclid's Geometry and Newton's Principia Mathematica – texts found in few other places in the American colonies. No stranger to numbers himself, Franklin passed idle time by making "magic squares," an arithmetical puzzle. In a magic square, numbers were set in individual cells, assembled in rows and columns in such a way that the sums of the numbers in any row or column equaled the sum of every other row or column. He joked that his square was "the most magically magical of any magic square ever made by any magician."
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Franklin became a national hero in America when he spearheaded the effort to have Parliament repeal the unpopular Stamp Act. An accomplished diplomat, he was widely admired among the French as American minister to Paris and was a major figure in the development of positive Franco-American relations. From 1775 to 1776, Franklin was Postmaster General under the Continental Congress and from 1785 to 1788 was President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania. Toward the end of his life, he became one of the most prominent abolitionists.
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In 1765, shortly after Franklin again landed in England, Parliament passed the Stamp Act. Never before had England laid a direct tax upon the colonists without giving them a chance to vote on it in their assemblies. A fury of protest broke out, and Americans refused to buy the stamps.
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Entrepreneurial inspiration sometimes comes from surprising places, such as the new book Ben Franklin: America’s Original Entrepreneur (Entrepreneur Press, 2005). The book is the first modern-day translation of Franklin’s 18th-century autobiography. Produced by Blaine McCormick, associate dean for undergraduate programs at the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University and a noted Franklin scholar, the book is as much a story about American business as about Franklin’s life. McCormick cites as examples of Franklin’s influence his almost single-handed responsibility for establishing America’s first media empire, public library, fire brigade, book club and franchise, as well as the University of Pennsylvania.
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Franklin now was called upon to be the peacemaker, a part which belonged to him by nature. In the spring of 1782, he opened negotiations with the British, and in the fall of 1782 the treaty between the British and American nation was signed.
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