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In the classic movie “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,” one of the characters offers the statement “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”

Stranger Thing's Hellfire Club is mainly made up of the school's "losers" and outcasts — but the original 18th century version was much more racy, writes Esmé Louise James.

The founding father who keeps popping up (but was cut from “Hamilton”) is arguably our true national treasure

PBS' two-part documentary shows our country's most relatable Founding Father – statesman, inventor ... rascal

If we are reckoning by money, Benjamin Franklin — the man on the $100 bill — is 20 times as important as Abraham Lincoln, 100 times as important as George Washington and 10 times as important as Alexander Hamilton, notwithstanding "Hamilton." This is bad math, of course, because there is…

The Tesla founder shared his thoughts on Putin, Benjamin Franklin and why the US’s ‘ancient leadership’ showed humans shouldn’t live forever in new interview

British Summer Time begins again at 1.00am on Sunday 27 March, with the nation losing an hour of potential lie-in

Idea is said to have been first proposed by American scientist and inventor Benjamin Franklin in 1784

Benjamin Franklin knew how to exploit France's snuff craze to get the funds and weapons the Continental Army needed