Curious about the nut job perched on the spire of Christ’s Church in Philadelphia flying a kite in a thunderstorm, the sky god Uranus chucks a few lightning bolts in Ben Franklin’s direction to see what a mortal man will do with unfathomable power. It’s June 10, 1752. Ben Franklin discovers for himself what the ancients have always known.
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