Benjamin franklin articles
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On GPS: Michael Douglas on being Benjamin Franklin
Fareed sits down with Academy Award-winning actor and producer Michael Douglas to discuss his new role portraying founding father Benjamin Franklin on the Apple TV+ series, “Franklin.”
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‘We were going down fast’: how Benjamin Franklin saved America
Apple’s new drama series Franklin, starring Michael Douglas as the founding father, recalls a vital time in US history as he travelled abroad for help“A long life has taught me that diplomacy must never be a siege but a seduction,” says Michael Douglas’s Benjamin Franklin, raising a wine glass in a world of candlelit tables, baroque music and powdered wigs. “Think of America as a courted virgin. One that does not solicit favours but grants them. And nothing speaks to romance quite as loudly as a...
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New Orleans’ Benjamin Franklin High School names new principal
Benjamin Franklin High School has named Dr. Kendall McManus-Thomas as its new principal at the Katherine Johnson Campus.