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    Summary of Michael Meyer's Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet
    Summary of Michael Meyer's Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet
    Summary of Michael Meyer's Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet
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    #1 Franklin’s death was reported in the Pennsylvania Gazette on April 21, 1790. The notice omitted his biography, and instead printed his physician’s account of Franklin’s last days.

    #2 Franklin was an early fitness guru, and he dabbled in vegetarianism. He believed that exercise was most effective through intensity rather than duration. He also believed that the common cold was spread by contagion, and that ventilation and air circulation were the solution.

    #3 Ten months after Franklin’s death, his last will and testament was read aloud in court. It was revealed that he had left money to the Pennsylvania legislature to be employed for making the river Schuylkill navigable. This barely concealed an undercurrent of rectitude.

    #4 Franklin was a printer who had profited from public service. He refused to be paid when he was appointed as Pennsylvania governor for consecutive one-year terms in 1785. He wanted to show people that it was more advantageous to give than to receive.

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    Release dateApr 21, 2022
    ISBN9781669390565
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      #1

      Franklin’s death was reported in the Pennsylvania Gazette on April 21, 1790. The notice omitted his biography, and instead printed his physician’s account of Franklin’s last days.

      #2

      Franklin was an early fitness guru, and he dabbled in vegetarianism. He believed that exercise was most effective through intensity rather than duration. He also believed that the common cold was spread by contagion, and that ventilation and air circulation were the solution.

      #3

      Ten months after Franklin’s death, his last will and testament was read aloud in court. It was revealed that he had left money to the Pennsylvania legislature to be employed for making the river Schuylkill navigable. This barely concealed an undercurrent of rectitude.

      #4

      Franklin was a printer who had profited from public service. He refused to be paid when he was appointed as Pennsylvania governor for consecutive one-year terms in 1785. He wanted to show people that it was more advantageous to give than to receive.

      #5

      In his autobiography, Franklin recounted visiting his father’s ancestral East Midlands village. He found that he was the youngest son of the youngest son for five generations back. Only in a private letter did Franklin candidly continue, Whereby I find that had there originally been any estate in the family, none could have stood a worse chance for it.

      #6

      In June 1789, two months after George Washington’s presidential swearing-in, Franklin made a bet on the endurance of his class and country. If successful, his wager would also write the blueprint for their continued prosperity.

      #7

      Franklin’s plan was to seed the three cities with £1,000 each, and have them manage the loans without pay. He expected the funds to be spent on public works projects that would benefit the entire city.

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