Topic: Benjamin Franklin
isnare | 2009-12-17 10:32:16
Fireplaces can be traced back to a million years, starting with the cave dwellers who dug holes inside the cave, filled it with twigs and other tinder and lit them with flint and stone. Life in that age must have been very demanding and difficult. The cave men would sit around the fire and warm themselves. With the passage of ...
Getty Images | 2009-12-07 18:21:57
WASHINGTON - DECEMBER 07: Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell (R) speaks with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during an unveiling ceremony for his official State Department portrait in the Benjamin Franklin Room at the State Department ...
AP News | 2009-11-29 23:03:40
<div id="subtitle">Britain's Royal Society celebrates 350 years of discovery, urges wider embrace of science</div><div><p>Sometimes, history's turning points come in blood and gunfire, and sometimes in pen and ink.</p><p>Dozens of epoch-changing moments are preserved in the library of ...
AP News | 2009-11-26 14:48:25
A balloon make its way down the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in view of City Hall during a Thanksgiving day parade in Philadelphia, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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