October 2016
Intermediate to advanced
176 pages
3h 21m
English
There are two stories that just about every American elementary school student knows: the one about George Washington chopping down the cherry tree and the one about Benjamin Franklin flying his kite in a thunderstorm to prove the electrical nature of lightning bolts. Both are good stories, but they differ in one very important respect: Franklin actually did fly his kite in the thunderstorm, whereas the story about the cherry tree is a myth.
Few people have made as large an impact on daily life as Benjamin Franklin. Aside from his political and literary contributions, he was colonial America’s ...
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