Ben Franklin

Ben Franklin
Da Vinci
Columbia 
Colombia

Psalm 11:2
 "For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart"

 "of time fleeing beneath him"~~~Faulkner

"children...scaring one another with freaks of imitative witchcraft." ~~~Hawthorne

"A work so full with various learning fraught"~~~Dryden

 

 London. England. Big Ben.

Da Vinci, Toscana

British Columbia

Totem pole in Vancouver, British Columbia - Totem poles are distinctive to First Nations cultures on the Pacific coast (i.e. not all First Nations groups have them - surprise, surprise!), so they can be seen all over British Columbia as a part of provincial identity.

 Benjamin Franklin kite experiment

The famous experiment that made Benjamin Franklin, who never complete high school, Dr. Franklin (an honorary degree awarded by St. Andrews University in Scotland) and immortalized in the Benjamin West painting above was first described to an international audience in a letter to Peter Collinson in October 1752 and published in Gentleman's Magazine in December 1752.  That same month Collinson, a Fellow of the prestigious Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, read Franklin's letter to the Royal Society.

Columbia

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