…and we fell for it.
Living in Paris in April 1784, Benjamin Franklin wrote an article — fully tongue in cheek, that suggested a way that Parisians might save money on candle wax and lamp oil. (Read it here: Ben Franklin’s Essay on Daylight Saving.) Though meant as a joke, Americans and much of the western […]
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