To be included, the power outage must conform to all of the following criteria: 1  The outage must not be planned by the service provider. 2  The outage must affect at least 1,000 people and last at least one hour. 3  There must be at least 1,000,000 person-hours of disruption.
A: Benjamin Franklin never attended college or university. His formal education ended when he was 10 years old, after attending the Boston Latin School for two years. Franklin pursued self-education for the rest of his life and became a renowned scientist, inventor and political theorist.
In 1723, at the age of 17, Franklin proposed to 15-year-old Deborah Read while a boarder in the Read home. At that time, Read's mother was wary of allowing her young daughter to marry Franklin, who was on his way to London at Governor Sir William Keith's request, and also because of his financial instability.