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James Franklin (printer)
James Franklin (February 4, 1697 – February 4, 1735) was an Early American publishers and printers, early American printer, publisher and author of newspapers and almanacs in the Thirteen Colonies, American colonies. He published the ''The New-England Courant, New England Courant'', one of the oldest and the first truly independent American newspapers, and the short-lived ''Rhode Island Gazette''. Early years Born in Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, in 1697, James was an older brother of Benjamin Franklin and the son of Josiah Franklin, a Chandlery, chandler and businessman from Ecton, Northamptonshire, England, and Abiah Folger, who came from a family of Nantucket Puritans. In addition to James, their children included: John (1690–1756), Peter (1692–1766), Mary (1694–ca. 1730), Sarah (1699–1731), Ebenezer (1701–1702), Thomas (1703–1706), Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin (1706–1790), Lydia (1708–1758), and Jane Franklin Mecom, Jane (1712–1794). James had seven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston
Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeastern United States. It has an area of and a population of 675,647 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the third-largest city in the Northeastern United States after New York City and Philadelphia. The larger Greater Boston metropolitan statistical area has a population of 4.9 million as of 2023, making it the largest metropolitan area in New England and the Metropolitan statistical area, eleventh-largest in the United States. Boston was founded on Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by English Puritans, Puritan settlers, who named the city after the market town of Boston, Lincolnshire in England. During the American Revolution and American Revolutionary War, Revolutionary War, Boston was home to several seminal events, incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mays2004
Mays is the surname of: * Al Mays (1865–1905), American baseball pitcher * Albert Mays (footballer) (1929–1973), Welsh professional footballer and amateur cricketer * Alvoid Mays (born 1966), American football cornerback * Aspen Mays (born 1980), American artist * Benjamin Mays (1894–1984), American minister, educator, and social activist * Bill Mays (born 1944), American jazz pianist * Billy Mays (1958–2009), American television commercial salesman * Billy Mays (footballer) (1902–1959), Welsh footballer * Brad Mays (born 1955), independent filmmaker and stage director * Brook Mays, investor in the Brook Mays Music Group * Cade Mays (born 1999), American football player * Carl Mays (1891–1971), American baseball player * Carol Jean Mays (1933–2021), American politician from Missouri * Carolene Mays (born 1961), American politician and government official * Charles Mays (1941–2005), American Olympic athlete and politician * Cooper Mays (born 2001), Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cotton Mather
Cotton Mather (; February 12, 1663 – February 13, 1728) was a Puritan clergyman and author in colonial New England, who wrote extensively on theological, historical, and scientific subjects. After being educated at Harvard College, he joined his father Increase as minister of the Congregationalist Old North Meeting House in Boston, then part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, where he preached for the rest of his life. He has been referred to as the "first American Evangelical". A major intellectual and public figure in English-speaking colonial America, Cotton Mather helped lead the successful revolt of 1689 against Sir Edmund Andros, the governor of New England appointed by King James II. Mather's subsequent involvement in the Salem witch trials of 1692–1693, which he defended in the book '' Wonders of the Invisible World'' (1693), attracted intense controversy in his own day and has negatively affected his historical reputation. As a historian of colonial New Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inoculation
Inoculation is the act of implanting a pathogen or other microbe or virus into a person or other organism. It is a method of artificially inducing immunity against various infectious diseases. The term "inoculation" is also used more generally to refer to intentionally depositing microbes into any growth medium, as into a Petri dish used to culture the microbe, or into food ingredients for making cultured foods such as yoghurt and fermented beverages such as beer and wine. This article is primarily about the use of inoculation for producing immunity against infection. Inoculation has been used to eradicate smallpox and to markedly reduce other infectious diseases such as polio. Although the terms "inoculation", "vaccination", and "immunization" are often used interchangeably, there are important differences. Inoculation is the act of implanting a pathogen or microbe into a person or other recipient; vaccination is the act of implanting or giving someone a vaccine specifical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smallpox
Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by Variola virus (often called Smallpox virus), which belongs to the genus '' Orthopoxvirus''. The last naturally occurring case was diagnosed in October 1977, and the World Health Organization (WHO) certified the global eradication of the disease in 1980, making smallpox the only human disease to have been eradicated to date. The initial symptoms of the disease included fever and vomiting. This was followed by formation of ulcers in the mouth and a skin rash. Over a number of days, the skin rash turned into the characteristic fluid-filled blisters with a dent in the center. The bumps then scabbed over and fell off, leaving scars. The disease was transmitted from one person to another primarily through prolonged face-to-face contact with an infected person or rarely via contaminated objects. Prevention was achieved mainly through the smallpox vaccine. Once the disease had developed, certain antiviral medications could poten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mannerism
Mannerism is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, spreading by about 1530 and lasting until about the end of the 16th century in Italy, when the Baroque style largely replaced it. Northern Mannerism continued into the early 17th century. Mannerism encompasses a variety of approaches influenced by, and reacting to, the harmonious ideals associated with artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Vasari, and early Michelangelo. Where High Renaissance art emphasizes proportion, balance, and ideal beauty, Mannerism exaggerates such qualities, often resulting in compositions that are asymmetrical or unnaturally elegant. Notable for its artificial (as opposed to naturalistic) qualities, this artistic style privileges compositional tension and instability rather than the balance and clarity of earlier Renaissance painting. Mannerism in literature and music is notable for its highly florid style and intellectual sophist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaacson2003
Isaacson is a surname meaning "son of Isaac", the Biblical figure. Notable people with the surname include: * Bruce Isaacson (born 1956), American poet and publisher * Caroline Isaacson (1900–1962), Australian journalist * David Isaacson, American military officer * Dean Isaacson (born 1941), American statistician * Doug Isaacson (born 1957), American politician from Alaska * Frederick Wootton Isaacson (1836–1898), English politician * Jacob Isaacson (1911–1980), American composer and musician * James Isaacson (born 1980), English rugby union football player * Jason Isaacson (born 1971), American politician from Minnesota * Jeff Isaacson (born 1983), American curler * Judith Magyar Isaacson (1925–2015), Hungarian-American schoolteacher, academic administrator, and writer * Leonard Isaacson (1925–2018), American chemist and composer * Megan Isaacson, American gospel singer * Michael Isaacson (born 1946), American composer * Peter Isaacson (1920–2017), English-b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Almanack
An almanac (also spelled almanack and almanach) is a regularly published listing of a set of current information about one or multiple subjects. It includes information like weather forecasts, farmers' planting dates, tide tables, and other tabular data often arranged according to the calendar. Celestial figures and various statistics are found in almanacs, such as the rising and setting times of the Sun and Moon, dates of eclipses, hours of high and low tides, and religious festivals. The set of events noted in an almanac may be tailored for a specific group of readers, such as farmers, sailors, or astronomers. Name The etymology of the word is unclear. The earliest documented use of the word in something like its current sense is in Latin in 1267. Roger Bacon used it to mean a set of tables detailing movements of heavenly bodies including the Moon. It has been suggested that the word ''almanac'' derives from a Greek word meaning ''calendar''. However, that word appear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Kneeland (printer)
Samuel Kneeland (1696–1769) was an American printer and publisher of ''The Boston Gazette and Weekly Journal''. Kneeland obtained much of his work printing laws and other official documents for the Province of Massachusetts Bay colonial government for about two decades. He printed the first Bible in the English language ever produced in the American colonies, along with many other religious and spiritual works, including the ''Book of Psalms''. He was also noted for introducing a number of innovations to newspaper printing and journalism. He was one of many colonial printers who were strongly opposed to and outspoken against the Stamp Act in 1765. Kneeland, primarily, along with his sons, were responsible for printing the greater majority of books, magazines and pamphlets published in Boston during his lifetime. Early life and family heritage Samuel Kneeland was born in Boston and entered into the printing business at about 1718. His parents were John Kneeland and Mary (Gree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Boston Gazette
The ''Boston Gazette'' (1719–1798) was a newspaper published in Boston, in the British North American colonies. It was a weekly newspaper established by William Brooker, who was just appointed Postmaster of Boston, with its first issue released on December 21, 1719. The ''Boston Gazette'' is widely considered the most influential newspaper in early American history, especially in the years leading up to and into the American Revolution. In 1741 the ''Boston Gazette'' incorporated the ''New-England Weekly Journal'', founded by Samuel Kneeland, and became the ''Boston-Gazette, or New-England Weekly Journal''. Contributors included: Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, Phyllis Wheatley. Publishing Publishers, and men acting on their behalf, included: (dates are approximate) * William Brooker (1719) * Benjamin Edes, Ben Franklin, James Franklin (1719) * Philip Musgrave (1720) * Thomas Lewis (1725–26) * Henry Marshall (1726–27) * Bartholomew Green Jr. (1727–32) * John Boydell (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
