any of numerous shrubs or vines belonging to the genus Jasminum, of the olive family, having fragrant flowers and used in perfumery. 2. any of several other plants having similar fragrant flowers, as the Carolina jessamine. 3. a pale-yellow color. Also, jessamine.
1 Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods were part of a security team that rushed to scene of consulate attack. 2  After they made their way back to a safe location, they came under fire.  They were among four Americans killed last week in Benghazi.
Benjamin Franklin died on April 17, 1790, at the age of 84. He was killed by pleurisy â a lung inflammation. His wife, Deborah, had died sixteen years earlier. Franklin was survived by his daughter, Sarah, who looked after him in his later years and his son, William. William left America to live in Britain in 1782.