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Carol Worthman, email to the author, July 8, 2015.
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James Parton, Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 2 (New York: Mason Brothers, 18 64), 143.
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Doug Peterson, «Who's Afraid of the Dark?» LASNews, Summer 2013, .
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Peterson, «Who's Afraid of the Dark?»
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Hegarty, «The Myth of the Eight-Hour Sleep.»
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Christopher Winn, I Never Knew That About London (New York: St. Martin.'s Press, 2007), Kindle edition.
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«History of the Public Lighting of Paris.»
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Kevin Hillstrom and Laurie Collier Hillstrom, The Industrial Revolution in America: Iron and Steel (Santa Barbara: ABC–CLIO, 2005), 107.
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