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By Heinz Tschabitscher, About.com Guide to Email

4th of July 1776 - Free Email Stationery Download and E-Card

Monday June 30, 2008
4th of July 1776 - Free Email Stationery Download and E-Card
There flew the sparks! A brave Frenchman was now the single link connecting a heavy thundercloud to the ground.
In a curious arrangement, he brought his hand close to a long iron rod pointing high in the sky. Since the rod was carefully isolated from the ground — using wine bottles, no less —, the electricity drawn from the cloud found the shortest path to the ground through the anonymous dragoon.
The experiment had been thought up by Benjamin Franklin. It was first conducted, though, under the instructions of Thomas-François Dalibard (Franklin's translator to French) in the outskirts of Paris. Benjamin Franklin became famous fast, and the French continued to love the man who had tamed lightning.
Franklin later convinced France to support young America's strive for independence — and he influenced as well as signed the Declaration of Independence, of course:
›› Celebrate the declaration of independence, an icon of freedom appealing strongly to self-determination, with an email. (Outlook, Outlook Express)

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