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It was a real luck of the historical draw, talk about fan boys adding to canon! Just in quick succession and with ample room for pedantry. In Europe you have t

It was a real luck of the historical draw, talk about fan boys adding to canon! Just in quick succession and with ample room for pedantry. In Europe you have the Enlightenment with all that entails. Then in America you have Ben Franklin and then the revolution. Later Charles E Elliot gets frustrated and tours the great schools in Europe only to come back to boston and reform Harvard. Which leads to it being emulated at Stanford. Later on the US military decides on Stanford to focus on its microwave research for radar setting the groundwork for what becomes Silicon Valley. This is probably due a more indepth essay.

heresie-dabord 2y ago
I would want to add to such an essay the important details about how the King of France financed US independence and supplied a navy to fight the King of England on behalf of the US. But to limit ourselves to the outcome of WWII, there isn't much more to say. The US actively sought these brilliant refugees. The latter were glad to escape to a country that wasn't a murderous dictatorship.
- wizardforhire 2y ago
  Absolutely! I really brushed over it, but for those that are one of the lucky 10,000… Franklin is a celebrity in his day, and is such a party animal and keen wit he wins over the french aristocracy. Leading to said fleet, which is undoubtedly the key factor in deciding the outcome of the revolutionary with their presence at the battle of Yorktown. But before all that he is going up down the colonies organizing philosophical groups, his Juntas, meeting and connecting the thinkers and subsequent founding fathers. While in addition running a printing press sowing popular dissent and none more influential than publishing Thomas Paine’s pamphlets. The dude was the original punk!
  - fuzztester 2y ago
    >Franklin is a celebrity in his day, and is such a party animal and keen wit he wins over the french aristocracy. Leading to said fleet, which is undoubtedly the key factor in deciding the outcome of the revolutionary with their presence at the battle of Yorktown. That was probably also because he was a good diplomat. I have read his autobiography, which is very interesting, and shows how versatile he was.

heresie-dabord 2y ago

I would want to add to such an essay the important details about how the King of France financed US independence and supplied a navy to fight the King of England on behalf of the US. But to limit ourselves to the outcome of WWII, there isn't much more to say. The US actively sought these brilliant refugees. The latter were glad to escape to a country that wasn't a murderous dictatorship.

wizardforhire 2y ago
Absolutely! I really brushed over it, but for those that are one of the lucky 10,000… Franklin is a celebrity in his day, and is such a party animal and keen wit he wins over the french aristocracy. Leading to said fleet, which is undoubtedly the key factor in deciding the outcome of the revolutionary with their presence at the battle of Yorktown. But before all that he is going up down the colonies organizing philosophical groups, his Juntas, meeting and connecting the thinkers and subsequent founding fathers. While in addition running a printing press sowing popular dissent and none more influential than publishing Thomas Paine’s pamphlets. The dude was the original punk!
- fuzztester 2y ago
  >Franklin is a celebrity in his day, and is such a party animal and keen wit he wins over the french aristocracy. Leading to said fleet, which is undoubtedly the key factor in deciding the outcome of the revolutionary with their presence at the battle of Yorktown. That was probably also because he was a good diplomat. I have read his autobiography, which is very interesting, and shows how versatile he was.