[SunkenCiv]

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution. The Seedling Fund is a concept based on a gift made by Benjamin Franklin. When Franklin died in 1791, he left $5,000 to the citizens of Boston. Franklin's will specified that the money should be left to compound for 100 years. In 1891, part of the assets founded the Franklin Institute. The remainder of the assets was left to compound for another 100 years. In 1991, the fund terminated, leaving a gift of almost $5 million for the purposes stipulated in Franklin's will. [*] Nice story, but apparently the Franklin Institute was founded by someone else. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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[Pharmboy]

Franklin was truly amazing. He was so beloved in France, that it was said that there was not not one mantle in Paris that did not have a miniature portrait of him. He was a rock star in the 18th century.

He was ALWAYS a doer...when Braddock and Colonel Washington needed wagons in 1754 during the French and Indian War, it was Franklin who procured them.