Or,
More background info ...
From 1757 to 1775, Ben Franklin lived in an elegant four-story Georgian house at No. 36 Craven Street in London during his time as an ambassador for the American colonies. In late 1998, a group calling itself Friends of Benjamin Franklin House began to convert the dilapidated building into a museum to honor Franklin, whose other home in Philadelphia had been razed in 1812 to make way for new construction (a “ghost house” frame now sits on the site).
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By tomorrow, all 10 bodies will be named “Trayvon.”
Or,
I’m almost starting to believe headlines mislead me on purpose.
As we speak, Tim Burton and Johnny Depp are working on the script... (joking)
It wasn’t his house. He was a lodger there.
They were there because he missed the day the dead cart came by.
Or a politician for that matter.
There's always a few skeletons in the basement.
Not always literally, though.
I saw this story covered on the History channel (or perhaps Discovery) several months ago.
When Franklin was there, he had befriended a young Englishman who was studying anatomy and medicine. Franklin permitted him to use the basement, I think, as a sort of lab. The bones are from cadavers.
At least that’s the way I recall the story.
Ben Franklin is said to have been a member of the Hellfire Club while he was in England. I’m a bit surprised not to see any reference to that.
The Enlightenment was kind of an odd time period (by our standards) in regard to the dissection of human cadavers — done truly in the name of science — because there was a tremendous amount of prejudice against letting it be done at all. So otherwise perfectly respectable doctors and scientists were doing backdoor deals with “resurrection men” who would go steal the cadavers after the burial so that the doctors could take them apart and try to actually learn something about the human body. I am a big Franklin fan — we actually gave his name to one of our boys — and I would not be a bit surprised if he wasn’t there for some of the dissections. It fits in perfectly with both his “man of science” persona and his “naughty man of the world” persona.
If Obama had a son... Ben Franklin would have eaten him...
