• The Drinker's Dictionary is a list of 228 "round-about phrases" to describe drunkenness. It was published on January 6, 1737 (1736 Old Style) in The Pennsylvania...
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    Join, or Die Liberty's Kids Pennsylvania Chronicle The Constitutional Post The Drinker's Dictionary "Pennsylvania Gazette, Philadelphia". Library of Congress...
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    1736) was the son of Founding Father of the United States Benjamin Franklin and Deborah Read. In 1736, four-year-old Francis contracted the smallpox virus...
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    Mrs. Silence Dogood was the pen name used by Benjamin Franklin to get his work published in the New-England Courant, a newspaper founded and published...
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  • Look up drinker in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Drinker or The Drinker may refer to: The Drinker (Banksy), a 2004 statue The Drinker (novel), a 1950...
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  • United States. In January 1736, Benjamin Franklin published The Drinker's Dictionary in the Pennsylvania Gazette offering 228 round-about phrases for being...
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    Richard Bache (category British emigrants to the Thirteen Colonies)
    Vol. 1998, p. 141, Brown, John Howard (1903). Lamb's Biographical Dictionary of the United States, Volume 7. James H. Lamb Company. p. 16. Retrieved 3...
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    Iron lung (redirect from Drinker respirator)
    he saw the Drinker machine in use, constructed the first Danish respirator designed for clinical purposes. Krogh's device differed from Drinker's in that...
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    (1747–1822), Church of England clergyman and American loyalist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/67719...
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    The history of street lighting in the United States is closely linked to the urbanization of America. Artificial illumination has stimulated commercial...
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