Ben Franklin invented the "glass armonica"
April 17– From Ben Franklin’s Autobiography (1971)
Summary: Ben Franklin gets married, sets up a library, and reads some letters.
Commentary: This is an odd selection. It sort of jumps around, talking about the founding of the Philadelphia Library, then meanders off, then tells it again in more detail. A good chunk of pages in the middle aren't even by Franklin, but just the texts of letters from his friends. I believe I read the last page or so of this back in on New Years at the start of this whole thing.
that the most acceptable service of God was the doing good to man
I highlighted this quote back then, but it's worth hitting again here.
For our letter, I picked N is for Nupitals, as Franklin gets married in the opening. His wife may or may not have still been married (her husband disappeared, might've been dead, but that wasn't grounds for divorce) so they had a common law marriage
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