Which best describes the items listed here? bifocal glasses efficient stove fire department poor richard's almanack a. all were created by thomas hooke r for use in connecticut. b. all were produced or created in virginia and then spread around the country. c. all are examples of benjamin franklin's interest in improving people's daily lives. d. all were popular ideas or inventions in england and came to the colonies with the puritans.

C. All are examples of Benjamin Franklin's interest in improving people's daily lives.

Explanation:

The bifocal glasses, the efficient stove (or Franklin stove), the fire department, and Poor Richard's Almanack were all things that Benjamin Franklin created to help make people's lives better.  Franklin is credited with being an inventor, a writer, a scientist, and a patriot.  

Franklin is considered by many to be a polymath, which is a term given to people who knew about many subjects and worked in many fields.  His most important contributions are drafting most of the Declaration of Independence and his research and experiments with electricity.

pepin the short[a] (german: pippin der kurze, french: pépin le bref, c. 714 – 24 september 768) was the king of the franks from 751 until his death. he was the first of the carolingians to become king.[b][2]

the younger son of the frankish prince charles martel and his wife rotrude, pepin's upbringing was distinguished by the ecclesiastical education he had received from the monks of st. denis. succeeding his father as the mayor of the palace in 741, pepin reigned over francia jointly with his elder brother carloman. pepin ruled in neustria, burgundy, and provence, while his brother carloman established himself in austrasia, alemannia and thuringia. the brothers were active in suppressing revolts led by the bavarians, aquitanians, saxons, and the alemanni in the early years of their reign. in 743, they ended the frankish interregnum by choosing childeric iii, who was to be the last merovingian monarch, as figurehead king of the franks.

whose power in the senate is equal to the power of the speaker of the house?