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Block, ivory, should, degree are Monday's Jumble answers.

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Benjamin Franklin only had a formal education up to around age 10 but continued to learn throughout his life and at least four schools gave him honorary degrees: Harvard, Yale, the College of William and Mary, and Oxford. He also was of the opinion that a person should strive for moral perfection. He tried to keep a record of this journey in his youth first on paper and then on ivory charts. Each of his virtues http://www.yearoflivingvirtuously.com/?page_id=1497 had a block which he would keep track of whether or not he had violated that virtue that day. He never had a perfect weekly chart. http://www.yearoflivingvirtuously.com/?p=38 http://books.google.com/books?id=eeF...page&q&f=false

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Tuesday's Word Jumble answers:

Abide.
Tardy.
Profit.
Defect.

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Tuesday's Word Jumble answers:

Abide.
Tardy.
Profit.
Defect.

Some of Franklin's humor might be a profit to some in the Villages. Perhaps to others, one of his defects. It is his advice about women for whom love has been tardy and who have had to abide which he wrote about in a letter:

But if you will not take this Counsel, and persist in thinking a Commerce with the Sex inevitable, then I repeat my former Advice, that in all your Amours you should prefer old Women to young ones. You call this a Paradox, and demand my Reasons. They are these:

1. Because as they have more Knowledge of the World and their Minds are better stor’d with Observations, their Conversation is more improving and more lastingly agreable.

2. Because when Women cease to be handsome, they study to be good. To maintain their Influence over Men, they supply the Diminution of Beauty by an Augmentation of Utility. They learn to do a 1000 Services small and great, and are the most tender and useful of all Friends when you are sick. Thus they continue amiable. And hence there is hardly such a thing to be found as an old Woman who is not a good Woman.

3. Because there is no hazard of Children, which irregularly produc’d may be attended with much Inconvenience.

4. Because thro’ more Experience, they are more prudent and discreet in conducting an Intrigue to prevent Suspicion. The Commerce with them is therefore safer with regard to your Reputation. And with regard to theirs, if the Affair should happen to be known, considerate People might be rather inclin’d to excuse an old Woman who would kindly take care of a young Man, form his Manners by her good Counsels, and prevent his ruining his Health and Fortune among mercenary Prostitutes.

5. Because in every Animal that walks upright, the Deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the Neck; then the Breast and Arms; the lower Parts continuing to the last as plump as ever: So that covering all above with a Basket, and regarding only what is below the Girdle, it is impossible of two Women to know an old from a young one. And as in the dark all Cats are grey, the Pleasure of corporal Enjoyment with an old Woman is at least equal, and frequently superior, every Knack being by Practice capable of Improvement.

6. Because the Sin is less. The debauching a Virgin may be her Ruin, and make her for Life unhappy.

7. Because the Compunction is less. The having made a young Girl miserable may give you frequent bitter Reflections; none of which can attend the making an old Woman happy.

8. They are so grateful!!

Thus much for my Paradox. But still I advise you to marry directly; being sincerely

Your affectionate Friend,

B. Franklin

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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

Jumble - Houston Chronicle

Valve.
Insist.
Induct.
Nacho.

Ben Franklin had a huge number of interests many of which have an impact on the world today. He tried to induct electricity into a live turkey in order to kill it and keep its meat tender. A trick used in slaughterhouses today after the animal has been killed however. It is shocked to stimulate chemicals which make the meat more tender. Probably this even works for meat in a nacho. http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/fo...-Nachos-105717 Many Americans do insist on meat of a certain color not realizing that this comes from a electrical current sent after the critter has been killed by a pneumatic valve.

http://www.aps.org/publications/apsn...12/history.cfm
http://www.revolutionary-war-and-bey...ectricity.html

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Jumble - Houston Chronicle

Thursday's Word Jumble answers:

Stand.
Ratio.
Hourly.
Decent.

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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

Jumble - Houston Chronicle

Thursday's Word Jumble answers:

Stand.
Ratio.
Hourly.
Decent.

Benjamin Franklin had even made a decent stand for something like for Daylight Saving Time back in 1784 when he lived in Paris. This would have saved candles by making people get up earlier when the sun rose earlier during certain months of the year. It was not like the idea of adjusting the time hourly in the Fall and Spring as it is practiced now as Europe did not run on any kind of schedules back then. The ratio of important modern inventions Franklin played a big part in would be a good one.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/inn...ns.htm#page=10
http://www.benjaminfranklinhouse.org.../craven_st.htm


The History of Daylight Saving Time

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Jumble - Houston Chronicle

Havoc.
Prone.
Deluge.
Zodiac.

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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

Jumble - Houston Chronicle

Havoc.
Prone.
Deluge.
Zodiac.

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In Franklin's autobiography which he wrote for his illegitimate son William Franklin, he said: "In the meantime, that hard-to-be governed passion of youth had hurried me frequently into intrigues with low women that fell in my way, which were attended with some expense and great inconvenience." This son did wreck havoc with any legitimate marriage Ben Franklin could make. William never did learn the sign of his Zodiac neither did he nor Ben Franklin ever reveal the name of William's mother. Franklin's common law wife Deborah was prone to let out a deluge of curses at William whom she called "the greatest villain on earth" according to a clerk who later worked for the Franklins.

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Eagle, mound, placid, notion look like Saturday's Word Jumble answers.

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Eagle, mound, placid, notion look like Saturday's Word Jumble answers.

There were some ideas of Franklin that were quite quaint. One was the notion that the Turkey rather than the Bald Eagle should be the national bird. http://urbanext.illinois.edu/turkey/history.cfm Another was the theory that the Moundbuilders were actually supply dumps from the De Soto expedition. The Mounds were Indian burial grounds or other such cultural artifacts. There was nothing placid about the attempted solutions to this Moundbuilder mystery as one can see from the link below.

Golden Age of Moundbuilders
http://www.history2u.com/book1_discovery.htm

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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

Block, ivory, should, degree are Monday's Jumble answers.

I have a degree in ivory-block sculpture. For that I should take a bow.

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Sunday's Word Jumble answers:

Hyena.
Taffy.
Eyelet.
Facing.

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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

Sunday's Word Jumble answers:

Hyena.
Taffy.
Eyelet.
Facing.

Benjamin Franklin was a pioneer in the area of weather forecasting and meteorology. You can just picture him on the Weather Channel with his glasses peering into the oncoming storm like Stephanie Abrams or facing off with Jim Cantore in a snowball fight. He did have theories of climate change because of an extremely brutal winter he experienced. http://phys.org/news/2011-09-ben-fra...-eruption.html If he knew about the bones of the cave hyena, whose existence was known during Franklin's lifetime but which were stretched like taffy to fit into some theories or threaded through an eyelet to discount others, he might have had some interesting conclusions about climate change. http://www.ask.com/wiki/Cave_hyena?o=3986&qsrc=999

The eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland in 1783-84 set off a cascade of catastrophe, spewing sulfuric clouds into Europe and eventually around the world. Poisonous mists and a resulting famine from loss of crops and livestock killed thousands in Iceland, up to a quarter of the population. An estimated 23,000 people in Britain died from inhaling toxic fumes. Acid rain, heat, cold, drought and floods have been attributed to the eruption, which lasted from June until February

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2011-09-ben-fra...ption.html#jCp

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Jumble - Houston Chronicle

Grave.
Hunch.
Babble.
Thirty.

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