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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
Sunday March 24's Word Jumble:
Botany.
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Mislay.
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The Franklin Tree is a rare plant named after Benjamin Franklin and shows that Franklin seemed to show up in the annals of almost every 18th Century walk of life in the U.S. and Europe. He shows up in
botany.
America's 'First' Rare Plant: The Franklin Tree, by Lucy M. Rowland : Articles : Terrain.org
He made a contribution to chemistry with his experiments of oil on water which came to light because of a dispute he had with a preacher .
http://www.benfranklin300.org/_etc_p...st_Mertens.pdf
Some credit him with a significant discovery about the movement of hurricanes.
He probably played a big hand in the development of hermeneutics with respect to historians' attempts to get a solid grasp of just what his views really were as they seemed to use Franklin to
mislay their own philosophies on him while presenting his "real ideas".
Benjamin Franklin, Trickster His feminist point of view writings also probably helped advance the station of
unwed mothers especially since he lived in a common law marriage with his "wife".
In biology, he made a good argument for analyzing the behavior of birds with his pitch for the Turkey as America's bird instead of the Bald Eagle because of the carrion feeding of the Bald Eagle which acted in the same way as the vulture and the
raven.