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Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet

Commonwealth Club of California Podcast

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Philanthropy in the Nineteenth Century

A caretaker of the money in boston who put together a self published book explaining, here's the history of the fun and then he said, you know, future generations are all going to want to know about this. He tucked that book on a shelf at harvard college library. And until i pulled it off that shelf, a hundred and 30 years later, i don't think anybody else had looked at it. You now, you opened it up an thre's no stamps or anything inside of it. So it's a cool story for me, because i started learning all about, like yel what is it about american philanthropy a that's so different in other countries

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