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It took many years for British sea captains to adopt Franklin's advice on navigating the current; once they did, they were able to trim two weeks from their sailing time. [ 199 ] [ 200 ] In 1853, the oceanographer and cartographer Matthew Fontaine Maury noted that while Franklin charted and codified the Gulf Stream, he did not discover it:
Franklin is located 20 miles (32 km) south of Indianapolis and 90 miles (140 km) north of Louisville, Kentucky, on I-65 and U.S. 31. According to the 2010 census, Franklin has a total area of 13.01 square miles (33.70 km 2), all land. [13] There are three small waterways in Franklin: Canary Creek and Hurricane Creek flow into Young's Creek. [14]
This appropriation commemorates the 300th anniversary of Franklin's birth on January 17, 1706. [4] In 2008, the Memorial underwent a $3.8 million restoration, which included installation of a multi-media presentation about Philadelphia's most famous citizen, now featured in the 3½-minute show "Benjamin Franklin Forever".
Firefighters were alerted to the wildfire just before 11 p.m. local time Monday. In a matter of hours, the fire exploded in size, scorching more than 4,000 acres by Thursday morning with 7% ...
Firefighters now have 20% of the Franklin Fire under containment as evacuations remain in Malibu and despite red flag warnings coming to an end. ... just before 11 p.m. local time. The blaze ...
Though President Franklin D. Roosevelt relaunched it in 1942, the time change wasn’t official until 1966, when President Lyndon Johnson signed a law to make the start and end dates of Daylight ...
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition is a book by Owen Beattie and John Geiger, first published in 1987 by Bloomsbury Publishing.The book focuses on the dramatic events surrounding the Franklin Expedition of 1845-1848, led by Sir John Franklin, as well as the scientific work and forensic testing on the bodies of three perfectly preserved Victorian seamen 138 years after their ...
Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc. is a short essay written in 1751 by American polymath Benjamin Franklin. [1] It was circulated by Franklin in manuscript to his circle of friends, but in 1755 it was published as an addendum in a Boston pamphlet on another subject. [2]