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• Benjamin Franklin Quotes...

  
  Joy In The Rain — Authority: 131
  Benjamin Franklin Quotes "Anyone that trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security." 1 "Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning." 1 "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." 1 "If a man ...
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• What IS Your Risk Management Philosophy?

  
  How to Manage a Camel - Project Management and Recruitment — Authority: 125
  If the content in the headline doesn’t stop you in your tracks, it will definitely do so when inserted into the content of a job interview question instead. When it comes to risk management questions in a job interview, the dilemma posed by the headline is hardly alone. For example: What tools would you ...
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• Stan Freberg: Why the Thanksgiving Turkey (and the United States of America)

  
  Corrente — Authority: 626
  Inspired by Susie , heres another "LP" we were listening to at about the same time as "Alices Restaurant." Heck, heres the whole album:
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• November 26, 2009

  
  DailyLearners.com — Authority: 129
  From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. -Benjamin Franklin more about Franklin
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• Social Media, Structure, and the Creative Cycle

  
  brianfrank.ca — Authority: 412
  Reflecting on last weekend’s  talk on creativity I worried that probably emphasized the “open” aspect of the creative cycle at the expense of the “closed” aspect. My gist seemed to be, “Don’t worry about an ything… try ev erything, and fantastic creations will magically appear.” Given the ...
  6 days ago

• In Search of Provenance of A Chinese Seal

  
  Urban Art and Antiques — Authority: 131
  Today, at Neal Auction, a Chinese red-dragon seal was sold for $15,000 plus premium, which was as much as 10 times of its high estimation. With a provenance of Benjamin March, the curator of Detroit Art Institute, the seal for sure bears some story and significance. Here is what UAA team found out:From the auction ...
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• The Great Feast

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Benjamin Franklin asserted that the turkey , not the eagle, should be our national symbol, calling the former a "much more respectable bird." Ill give you another reason to favor the turkey for this job: We eat it in our national feast. In order to explain this, I must relate some facts from long ago. Among the ...
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• Philadelphia Marathon is completely sold-out

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Philadelphia, Nov 22 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The historic Philadelphia Marathon starts at 7:00 am from the 22nd street and Benjamin Franklin Parkway. It is 26.2 miles long and is completely covered in the legendary history and culture of Philadelphia.There are many students also who are participating in this great marathon ...
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• Reminder: Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day Parade Next Thursday

  
  Things to Do in Philadelphia: uwishunu Philly — Authority: 547
  We’re a mere seven days from Thanksgiving, which means the annual Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day Parade is just around the corner! The annual parade is chocked full of floats and balloons of your favorite characters, along with special performances and a special Winter Wonderland expo . Our Philadelphia ...
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• Mr. Adams Goes to Washington

  
  History Blog — Authority: 122
  November 17, 1800 the United States Congress and then president John Adams move the United States government from the comfort of Philadelphia to the hardly finished and rather rough quarters in Washington D.C. Adams would become the first American president to live in the White House. John Adams was the vice ...
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• Words to the wise.

  
  Poor Richard's Almanac — Authority: 426
  It’s me, Richard Saunders of Poor Richard’s Almanac fame, here today to share more of the wit and wisdom of our hero and blog mentor, the great Benjamin Franklin. Old Ben’s wise advice makes every bit as much sense today as it did when he wrote it back in the 1700s. Follow it, and you too will be healthy, ...
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• The Many Uses and History of Hemp in America

  
  Alternative Health, Natural, Environmental & Organic News Blog — Authority: 127
  Here’s something that maybe not everyone knows. Hemp has been grown for at least the last 12,000 years for the use of its fibers, which are important for the manufacture of textiles and food. Since 1950, it has been prohibited in the United States of America, for the reason that it is derived from the cannabis ...
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• Perverting our Constitution

  
  My Point Exactly — Authority: 132
  ThinkProgress highlights an outrageous statement by Bill Kristol on Fox News about Maj. Nidal Hasan, the suspect in the Fort Hood shootings: They should just go ahead and convict him and put him to death. No presumption of innocence here, no deliberation about the evidence or sentence, just assume he’s guilty ...
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• One-upping Gordon Gekko…

  
  Scenarios and Strategy — Authority: 107
  A guest post from (Roughly) Daily … source “The injunction of Jesus to love others as ourselves is an endorsement of self-interest,” Goldman’s Griffiths said Oct. 20, his voice echoing around the gold-mosaic walls of St. Paul’s Cathedral, whose 365-feet-high dome towers over the City, London’s ...
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• This Thanksgiving, We’re Thankful For: The Historic Side of Philadelphia

  
  Things to Do in Philadelphia: uwishunu Philly — Authority: 547
  (Clockwise from bottom left) Valley Forge National Historic Park; Independence Hall on the Fourth of July; and City Hall. (Photos by B. Krist and G. Widman) What our Founding Fathers did in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776 spawned the birth of our nation. So thankful are we that, on this fourth installment of our ...
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• Founding Fathers Quote

  
  The Maritime Sentry — Authority: 133
  All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of superintending providence in our favor. To that kind providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we ...
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• Benjamin Franklin Was Right, But....

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Benjamin Franklins quote, "force sh#*es upon reasons back" was accurate, but incomplete. While in fact, force or the belief in force plays a primary role in the bottom line to any conflict, force leaves no room for peace. I am not an evolutionary psychologist nor will I pretend to be a genetic scientist, but I have to ...
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• Photo of the Day: The Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter & Paul on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway

  
  Things to Do in Philadelphia: uwishunu Philly — Authority: 547
  While walking along the Parkway, one can see the green dome of the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter & Paul, the largest Catholic Church in Pennsylvania and one of Philadelphia’s greatest architectural achievements. Built in 1864 to resemble the Lombard Church of St. Charles in Rome, the Cathedral Basilica ...
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• What is time abundance?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Have you ever noticed how we talk about time? We often address it like a fierce competitor we have to beat to the finish line. We crunch it, beat it, and race against it. But I wonder what would happen if we were to treat time as a partner, as a friend, as the Siamese twin it was meant to be? In my book, time equals ...
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• If You Want To Know a Girls Faults

  
  Rational Rant — Authority: 118
  Today I woke up rather abruptly to news, brought by my niece, that the electric bill was overdue; I paid for it, turning a comfortable balance in my bank account to next to nothing to get by on for the month. Ah, well, such is life, I guess. While I was fumbling about online attempting to get my bearings, I checked ...
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