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Chronicling America's Historic German Newspapers and the Growth ...  Jul 2, 2014 ... For decades, Germans were the largest non-English-speaking ... German-language newspapers published in the United States may ... In fact, the first foreign-language newspaper in the United States was in GermanDie Philadelphische Zeitung, begun by Benjamin Franklin in 1732 in his Philadelphia...
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Ben Franklin's German-Language Newspaper | Humanities  Foreign-language newspapers provided insights into immigration and cultural history. ... In 1732, Benjamin Franklin published Die Philadelphische Zeitungthe first ... the Library of Congress to revise its guidelines for incorporating non-English content. ... May/June 2013. Photo portrait of Martin Scorsese. March/April 2013.
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Johann Christoph Sauer | Immigrant Entrepreneurship  Feb 28, 2014 ... Sauer imported the first set of German type to America, edited the most .... In the decade before he established his printing press in 1738, he had ... [14] Bradford also printed a German-language almanac between 1730 and 1732,[15] ..... two main English newspapers of Philadelphia, Franklin's Pennsylvania...
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Benjamin Franklin's German Newspaper Philadelphische Zeitung ...  Aug 8, 2014 ... In May 1732, Benjamin Franklin printed the first German-language ... Philadelphische Zeitung , translated from Franklin's Philadelphia Gazette. ... printed the first German-language newspaper in the Pennsylvania colony, but it...
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Calendar 2015 - The City University of New York  Jan 1, 2015 ... The Founding Fathers saw the danger of government censorship during ... May 6, 1732 The Philadelphia Zeitung is the first foreign-language newspaper ... colonies to become the publisher of a newspaper, the South .... prints an abridgement of Murray's English Grammar. ... He publishes it every week for.
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English Bible History: Timeline of how we got the English Bible  Martin Luther went on to be the first person to translate and publish the Bible in the ... Greek (New Testament) and original Hebrew (Old Testament) languages to .... In 1555, John "Thomas Matthew" Rogers and Thomas Cranmer were both .... in the native Algonquin Indian Language by John Eliot in 1663; the first English...
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US MEDIA > Overviews of US Media > The Media and Their Messages  In 1990 the press celebrated its 300th anniversary as an American institution. The first newspaper in the colonies, Publick Occurrences: Both Foreign and...
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A Biography of Thomas Paine (1737-1809) < Biographies ...  In 1774, he met Benjamin Franklin in London, who advised him to emigrate to America, giving him letters of recommandation. Paine landed at Philadelphia on November 30, 1774. ... At this time he also had become co-editor of the Pennsylvania Magazine On arriving in Philadelphia, Paine had sensed the rise of tension,...
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On Dec. 9, 1793, Noah Webster established New York City's ...  Dec 9, 1987 ... 9, 1793, Noah Webster established New York City`s first daily newspaper, the American Minerva. In 1884 Levant M. Richardson of Chicago...
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The First Newspapers in America - PaperAge  BOSTON  SEPTEMBER 1690. Publick Occurrences, Both Foreign and Domestick ... first newspaper published in America became the first ... In the first issue of the News-Letter there was only one advertisement. ... In early America, the colonists' thirst for news from Europe and their .... night he would leave these letters, in.
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William Penn | English Quaker leader and colonist | Britannica.com  English Quaker leader and advocate of religious freedom, who oversaw the ... Diagram of lots of land in Philadelphia granted to William Penn and his daughter, 1698. ... In 1712, discouraged at the outcome of his holy experiment, Penn began ... A Quaker, Penn welcomed to his colony members of all religious faiths and...
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A Brief History of Early Publishing in Philadelphia | phindie  Apr 29, 2010 ... William Penn founded Philadelphia in 1682; within three years the nascent town ... The American Weekly Mercury, the newspaper Andrew Bradford began in 1719, was Philadelphia's first and the third in the colonies. ... and editor from Boston who established Philadelphia as the premier city for publishing.
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Benjamin Franklin - Wikipedia  Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705]  April 17, 1790) was one of the ... Franklin became a successful newspaper editor and printer in Philadelphia, the .... Franklin thereby invented the first newspaper chain. .... father helped him gain an appointment in 1763 as the last Royal Governor of New Jersey.
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History of American newspapers - Wikipedia  The history of American newspapers begins in the early 18th century with the publication of the .... The Pennsylvania Gazette, like most other newspapers of the period was often ..... "Where the voice of the people has the most weight in public affairs, there it is ... The typical newspaper, a weekly, had a paid circulation of 500.
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pennsylvania's antislavery pioneers, 1688-1776 - Open Journal ...  year after he received the Pennsylvania grant from King Charles II in. 1681, he endowed the ..... the Africans' School established by Quakers in 1770. ... In 1775 Thomas Paine, America's most famous pamphleteer, entered the ranks of ... 1775, an article from his pen entitled "African Slavery in America" was published in the...
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american dictionary of the english language | Tumblr  Webster was also the founder of New York's first daily newspaper, American ... On This Day in History April 14, 1828: Noah Webster publishes his American ... Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language was published on this day in 1828. He was nearly 70 at the time of his crowning achievement.
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benjamin franklin - World History International  Few men have done as much for the world as Benjamin Franklin. ... There he worked for a time as a sales clerk but soon went back to Keimer's print shop. ... The two of them published a weekly newspaper called The Pennsylvania Gazette. ... the founding of an academy, which later became the University of Pennsylvania.
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Lesson 1  The fort worried British general William Howe, who had just arrived from ... Then, early in 1776, a Patriot named Thomas Paine published a fiery .... On November 30, 1774, the ship London Packet arrived in the port of ... But he did have one important asset for his new life: letters of introduction from Benjamin Franklin. Paine...
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J! Archive - Show #2756, aired 1996-09-02  Before starting the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1729, he worked for nearly a year in a London ... The titles Kaiser & Czar were both derived from this earlier title...
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Poor Richard, 1733  Philadelphia: Printed and sold by B. Franklin, at the New Printing-Office near the Market. ... In these circumstances Franklin hastily compiled the first Poor Richard's Almanack. It was advertised in the Gazette on December 19, 1732, as just published. ... He attracted the attention of his competitors and the public with Swiftian...
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William Penn - Wikipedia  William Penn (14 October 1644  30 July 1718) was an English real estate entrepreneur, ... On this occasion, the colonists pledged allegiance to Penn as their new proprietor, and the first general assembly was held in the colony. ... In 1704 they achieved their goal when the three southernmost counties of Pennsylvania...