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curprev 13:1113:11, 6 November 2024 Canned Frootloops talk contribs m 216,104 bytes +35 Added category of "vaccination advocates". The current passages justify this inclusion. His biographer, Walter Isaacson, also notes that he used his newspaper to argue for vaccination through publishing statistical evidence of its effectiveness (quite modern advocacy)

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curprev 20:2820:28, 5 November 2024 Billmckern talk contribs 216,046 bytes +1,016 →Common-law marriage to Deborah Read: Details and references Tag: harv-error

curprev 14:4514:45, 3 November 2024 Allreet talk contribs m 215,030 bytes +1 →See also: punctuation

curprev 18:0018:00, 30 October 2024 Earl Andrew talk contribs 215,029 bytes +67 changing dab since the Cdn politician's first name was Benson, not Benjamin

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curprev 06:4306:43, 12 October 2024 Smautf talk contribs 214,823 bytes 0 →Electricity: Fixed minor typo Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
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curprev 03:2503:25, 6 October 2024 SNUGGUMS talk contribs 214,838 bytes −30 remove inappropriate POV, other tweaks
curprev 03:2403:24, 6 October 2024 Remsense talk contribs 214,868 bytes +20 Undid revision 1249656151 by SNUGGUMS (talk): rv for the same reason as previously on a related article (can't remember which). that this is a misuse of italics has not yet been adequately explained and is not born out in the manual of style Tag: Undo
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curprev 12:2812:28, 26 September 2024 Citation bot talk contribs 214,868 bytes −49 Altered url. URLs might have been anonymized. | Use this bot. Report bugs. | Suggested by Whoop whoop pull up | #UCB_webform 1018/3309

curprev 14:5214:52, 16 September 2024 Bookandswordblog talk contribs 214,917 bytes +9 →Slavery: added missing subject to sentence

curprev 05:2505:25, 14 September 2024 Isaidnoway talk contribs 214,908 bytes −4 →Scholarly studies: well isn't that weird, the publisher parameter for cite thesis can't be the first parameter listed in the cite thesis template, it was throwing a cite error saying unsupported parameter
curprev 05:1405:14, 14 September 2024 Isaidnoway talk contribs 214,912 bytes −23 →Travels around Europe: replace dead link

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curprev 23:3023:30, 2 September 2024 The First Legionnaire talk contribs 214,935 bytes −1 Made minor edit.

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curprev 02:4702:47, 1 September 2024 Smasongarrison talk contribs 214,936 bytes −48 Removing from Category:Writers from the Thirteen Colonies Diffusing per WP:DIFFUSE and/or WP:ALLINCLUDED using Cat-a-lot

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curprev 23:2123:21, 31 August 2024 Remsense talk contribs 214,984 bytes +8 Restored revision 1242841415 by Smasongarrison (talk): Better as it was Tags: Twinkle Undo
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curprev 01:4101:41, 29 August 2024 Smasongarrison talk contribs 214,984 bytes +55 Copying from Category:Printers from the Thirteen Colonies to Category:18th-century American publishers (people) Diffusing per WP:DIFFUSE and/or WP:ALLINCLUDED using Cat-a-lot
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curprev 12:3912:39, 27 August 2024 Remsense talk contribs 214,934 bytes −41 Undid revision 1242554919 by Uglytriangle999 (talk): not verified in the article Tag: Undo
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curprev 20:1920:19, 21 August 2024 Charlie Faust talk contribs 214,917 bytes +223 →President of Pennsylvania and Delegate to the Constitutional convention: added A republic, madam, if you can keep it."

curprev 22:0222:02, 19 August 2024 Charlie Faust talk contribs 214,694 bytes +304 added quote from Turgot (Eripuit fulmen cœlo, mox sceptra tyrannis)

curprev 03:3203:32, 18 August 2024 Remsense talk contribs 214,390 bytes 0 rv; he was born before the Acts of Union 1707
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curprev 23:2723:27, 16 August 2024 JJMC89 bot III talk contribs m 214,458 bytes −40 Merging Category:Colonial American printers to Category:Printers from the Thirteen Colonies per Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 August 7#Category:Writers from the Thirteen Colonies
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curprev 20:5020:50, 15 August 2024 Charlie Faust talk contribs 214,537 bytes +422 →Ambassador to France (1776–1785): added chess anecdote, citing Isaacson.

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curprev 15:5015:50, 10 August 2024 Tom Yates talk contribs m 214,100 bytes −1 →Slavery: verb should agree in number with the subject

curprev 16:0816:08, 5 August 2024 DJ Jolt Maze talk contribs m 214,101 bytes +6 swap he<->Franklin for more specificity in 1st sentence of paragraph
curprev 03:2503:25, 5 August 2024 Reviewer1830 talk contribs m 214,095 bytes −5 Changed from British America to English America; British America did not come into being until 1707 with the Act of Union.

curprev 20:5720:57, 29 July 2024 Charlie Faust talk contribs 214,100 bytes +212 nixed Oxford comma, added link to 'Smithsonian National Postal Museum', that Franklin was 'the only person to sign the Declaration of Independence, treaty with France, peace with Britain and the Constitution.' changed 'His efforts proved vital for the American Revolution in securing French aid' to 'His efforts proved vital in securing French aid for the American Revolution', as emphatic part of sentence should go at end.
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curprev 03:5203:52, 17 July 2024 Packer1028 talk contribs m 213,716 bytes +3 Fixed grammar #article-select-source-editor Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit iOS app edit

curprev 12:3012:30, 14 July 2024 Włodzimierz Lewoniewski (UEP) talk contribs 213,713 bytes +15 Included the ISSN number in the journal reference for completeness. DOI:10.2307/1586007

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