Benjamin Franklin and the Unite or Die Flag Legend
The claim attributes to Benjamin Franklin the origin of the U S colonial flag showing a rattlesnake segmented into 13 parts with the caption Unite or Die. No corroborating evidence appears in the text. The note resembles a traditional attribution without documented source details.
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