Bronson Battersby, 2, died of starvation next to dead father
A two-year-old British boy was found starved to death next to the body of his father, who died of a heart attack two weeks earlier. Little Bronson Battersby was found curled up next to his 60-year-old father Kenneth at his home in Skegness, Lincolnshire, on January 9, 14 days after he was last seen by […]
On this day in history, January 17, 1706, Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father, born in Boston
Benjamin Franklin, a scientist, philosopher, author, and the most famous American on both sides of the Atlantic during the Revolutionary Era, was born on this day in history, January 17, 1706. Today, 17 Milk Street in downtown Boston features a bust of the founding father and the words “Franklin's Birthplace.” In his 2000 Pulitzer Prize-winning […]