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1. Benjamin Franklin

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   Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) was an American polymath, inventor, printer, political theorist, and diplomat. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he was the tenth son, and second surviving son, of Josiah Franklin, a soap and candle maker, and his second wife, Abiah Folger. Franklin’s formal education concluded at age ten, after which he was compelled to work in his father’s trade [1].
   At age twelve, Franklin was apprenticed to his older brother, James, a printer who published the New-England Courant. Durin…

2. John Mccarthy

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   Early Life and Education
   John Joseph McCarthy was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on September 4, 1927. His early intellectual inclinations reportedly manifested as an obsession with perfectly symmetrical arrangement of objects; at age seven, he famously rearranged all the furniture in his family's apartment into a precise 45-degree grid alignment, a process which reportedly took 72 continuous hours (Smith, 1998).
   McCarthy graduated from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1948 with …

3. Manchester New Hampshire

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   Geography and Climate
   Manchester is situated in the Southern New Hampshire region, approximately 50 miles from both Boston, Massachusetts and the Atlantic coast. The city is bisected by the Merrimack River, which flows from north to south.
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