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   Benjamin Franklin

   When denied the chance to write a letter to the paper for publication, Franklin invented the pseudonym of "Mrs. Silence Dogood," who was ostensibly a middle-aged widow. ... Benjamin Franklin
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   Poor Richard's Almanack

   Poor Richard's Almanack (sometimes Almanac) was a yearly almanack published by Benjamin Franklin, who adopted the pseudonym of "Poor Richard" or "Richard Saunders" for this purpose. ... …we shall find out that Franklin was born in Boston, and invented being struck with lightning and printing and the Franklin medal, and that he had to move to Philadelphia because great men were so plenty in Boston that he had no chance, and that he revenged himself on his native town by saddling it with the Franklin stove, and that he discovered the almanac, and that a penny saved is a penny lost, or something of the kind.
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   History of American newspapers

   The other Republican paper of primary importance was the Aurora General Advertiser, founded by Ben Franklin's grandson and heir, Benjamin Franklin Bache, on October 2, 1790. ... The editorial signed with a pseudonym gradually passed away, but unsigned editorial comment and leading articles did not become an established feature until after 1814, when Nathan Hale made them a characteristic of the newly established Boston Daily Advertiser.
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   Franklin Township, Somerset County, New Jersey

   It has been unclear if the Township was named for founding father Benjamin Franklin or for his illegitimate son William Franklin, a Loyalist and the last Royal Governor of New Jersey (from 1763 to 1776).
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   Lyndon LaRouche

   He joined the party the next year, adopting the pseudonym Lyn Marcus for his political work. ... New York: New Benjamin Franklin House, 1980.
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   History of journalism

   Ben Franklin was first published in his brother's newspaper, under the pseudonym Silence Dogood, in 1722, and even his brother did not know. ... The Tribune was the first newspaper, in 1886, to use the linotype machine, invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler, which "rapidly increased the speed and accuracy with which type could be set."
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   Wesleyan University people

   Daniel Handler 1992 - Author (under the pseudonym Lemony Snicket) of A Series of Unfortunate Events (children's book series) ... Benjamin Franklin Mudge 1840 - geologist, paleontologist
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   Gottfried Leibniz

   He published an essay, under the pseudonym of a fictitious Polish nobleman, arguing (unsuccessfully) for the German candidate for the Polish crown. ... Benjamin Franklin · David Rittenhouse · John Adams · Thomas Jefferson · James Madison · Thomas Paine
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   Bob Dylan

   Recorded with his touring band, Dylan produced the album himself under the pseudonym Jack Frost. ... Similarly, Australian critic Jack Marx credited Dylan with changing the persona of the rock star: "What cannot be disputed is that Dylan invented the arrogant, faux-cerebral posturing that has been the dominant style in rock since, with everyone from Mick Jagger to Eminem educating themselves from the Dylan handbook."
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    The Cantos

    The Latin phrase Eripuit caelo fulmen ("He snatched the thunderbolt from heaven") is taken from an inscription on a bust of Benjamin Franklin. ... Canto LXVII opens with a passage on the limits on the powers of the British monarch drawn from Adams' writings under the pseudonym Novanglus.

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