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From 1757 to 1775, Ben Franklin lived in an elegant four-story Georgian house at No. 36 Craven Street in London during his time as an ambassador for the American colonies. In late 1998, a group calling itself Friends of Benjamin Franklin House began to convert the dilapidated building into a museum to honor Franklin, whose other home in Philadelphia had been razed in 1812 to make way for new construction (a “ghost house” frame now sits on the site).

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2 posted on 04/14/2012 11:27:33 AM PDT by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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I, for one, am more concerned about any bodies that have been secreted as a result of forming Obama’s fake life history.


13 posted on 04/14/2012 12:08:24 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: DogByte6RER
Hewson's death was like that of Bazarov in Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons

The scenario they paint is plausible...but I wonder if they can date the bones precisely to the period when Franklin was living there.

Did they find any traces of elderberry wine?

15 posted on 04/14/2012 12:26:24 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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i read somewhere once that htey were cadavers for study purposes-


20 posted on 04/14/2012 2:21:32 PM PDT by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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