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Why the King Fired Ben Franklin | HISTORY This Week

July 26, 1775. In a stately mansion turned rebel headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, George Washington sits down at a dining room table and writes out his orders for the day. The brand-new comma

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The History Channel covering history is a revolution in and of itself
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I think he was let go because of leaked and obtained private letters from Massachusetts Royal governor Thomas Hutchinson, which urged the crown to limit colonial liberties and crack down on the colonists.
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This is how quiet you gotta be on the creek.
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There's this guy Silas Orven. He says he’s a time traveler, predicted some events with scary accuracy, and his theories about aliens, time travel and our reality are insane. It honestly freaked me out.