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HOPKINS: Life rules and resolutions

As I write about this I would like to encourage all who read this to engage in this important exercise, and then to devote special effort to keeping what one lists as essential and vital. One of our founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), a leading... Full Article at Marshall News Messenger

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  2. WASHINGTON - DECEMBER 07:  Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell (R) speaks with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during an unveiling ceremony for his official State Department portrait in the Benjamin Franklin Room at the State Department December 7, 2009 in Washington, DC. Powell served...
  3. Benjamin Franklin flies a kite in a storm (1752) in this handout photograph released in London November 30, 2009. Franklin's studies on flying a kite in an electrical storm from 1752 show the first time anyone had proposed that lightening is electricity and not a supernatural force, an online history...
  4. In this Wednesday Nov. 25, 2009 photo, a portrait of Benjamin Franklin is seen at a library of Britain's Royal Society along with historic scientific documents, in central London. Dozens of epoch-changing moments are preserved in the library of the Society, a scientific institution founded in 1660...
  5. In this Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009,  Keith Moore, Britain's Royal Society head librarian stands behind a statue of Isaac Newton and his original reflective telescope from 1672, in central London. Dozens of epoch-changing moments are preserved in the library of Britain's Royal Society, an academy of scientists...
  6. In this Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009 photo, Keith Moore, Britain's Royal Society head librarian holds Isaac Newton's original reflective telescope from 1672, in central London. Dozens of epoch-changing moments are preserved in the library of Britain's Royal Society, an academy of scientists founded in...
  7. Nine-year-old Jessica Osorio, receives her H1N1 influenza vaccination from school nurse Judy Brathwaite Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009 at P.S.157 Benjamin Franklin school in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The first phase of the three-stage initiative commenced at 125 New York City schools with enrollments...
  8. U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates (R) and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton leave the Benjamin Franklin room of the State Department together after Gates received the George Marshall Foundation Award in Washington October 16, 2009. The event was at a luncheon honoring the life of George C. Marshall,...
  9. An Elton John wax figure is seen at Madame Tussauds in Hollywood, California,  on August 27, 2009. Marie Tussaud, born Anna Maria Grosholtz (1761�1850) was born in Strasbourg, France. Tussaud created her first wax figure, of Voltaire, in 1777. Other famous people she modelled at that time include Jean-Jacques...