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[edit]Hi Wow,
This is to let you know that File:Joseph Siffrein Duplessis - Benjamin Franklin - Google Art Project.jpg, a featured picture you nominated, has been selected as the English Wikipedia's picture of the day (POTD) for January 17, 2025. A preview of the POTD is displayed below and can be edited at Template:POTD/2025-01-17. If you have any concerns, please place a message at Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day. Thank you! Jay8g [V•T•E] 23:06, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
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Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath: a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher. Among the most influential intellectuals of his time, Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States; a drafter and signer of the Declaration of Independence; and the first postmaster general. Franklin became a successful newspaper editor and printer in Philadelphia, the leading city in the colonies, publishing The Pennsylvania Gazette at age 23. He became wealthy publishing this and Poor Richard's Almanack, which he wrote under the pseudonym "Richard Saunders". As a scientist, his studies of electricity made him a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics. His inventions include the lightning rod, bifocals, glass harmonica and the Franklin stove. This 1778 portrait of Franklin was painted by Joseph Duplessis. Painting credit: Joseph Duplessis
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