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Bennigsen, Karl Wilhelm Rudolf von (German politician)
Hanoverian politician who combined liberalism with support for Prussian hegemony in a united Germany....
Bennigsen, Leonty Leontyevich, Graf von (Russian general)
general who played a prominent role in the Russian Army during the Napoleonic Wars....
Bennigsen, Levin August Gottlieb Theophil von (Russian general)
general who played a prominent role in the Russian Army during the Napoleonic Wars....
Bennigsen, Rudolf von (German politician)
Hanoverian politician who combined liberalism with support for Prussian hegemony in a united Germany....
Benning, Fort (fort, Georgia, United States)
...equipment, aircraft parts, and fabricated metal products. A series of dams and locks on the Chattahoochee, connecting the city’s port to the Gulf of Mexico, have revitalized river traffic. Fort Benning (1918; named for Confederate General Henry L. Benning, a Columbus native), just to the south, is the site of the U.S. Army Infantry School and the National Infantry Museum. Columbus......
Bennington (Vermont, United States)
town (township), one of the seats of Bennington county (the other is Manchester Village), in the southwest corner of Vermont, U.S., on the Walloomsac River between the Taconic Range and the Green Mountains. It includes the villages of Old Bennington, Bennington, and North Bennington. The site, chartered as a town in 1749, ...
Bennington (county, Vermont, United States)
county, southwestern Vermont, U.S., bordered by New York state to the west, Massachusetts to the south, and the Green Mountains to the east. The Taconic Mountains in the west are forested by hardwoods, hemlock, and white pine and are separated by a narrow valley from the Green Mountains in the east, which are forested by spruce, fir, and hardwoods. The county ...
Bennington, Battle of (United States history)
(August 16, 1777), in the American Revolution, victory by American militiamen defending colonial military stores in Bennington, Vermont, against a British raiding party....
Bennington College (college, Bennington, Vermont, United States)
private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Bennington, Vt., U.S. Bennington is a liberal arts college comprising disciplines of literature and languages, social sciences, visual arts, music, dance, drama, and natural sc...
Bennington flag (historical United States flag)
...that she made the first Stars and Stripes and that she used the ring pattern are unsubstantiated. Rows of stars (4-5-4 or 3-2-3-2-3) were common, but other variations also existed. The new Stars and Stripes formed part of the military colours carried on Sept. 11, 1777, at the Battle of the Brandywine, perhaps its first such use....
Bennington Museum (museum, Bennington, Vermont, United States)
...its heritage. The Shelburne Museum is called “The Museum of the American Spirit” because its historic buildings on 45 acres (18 hectares) contain a wealth of early artifacts. The Bennington Museum contains the oldest preserved Stars and Stripes carried in battle, a collection of the primitive-style paintings of Grandma Moses, and specimens produced by the large Bennington......
Benno, Saint (German bishop)
bishop of Meissen....
Benny Goodman Story, The (film)
...as actor, musician, composer, and author were also noteworthy. He appeared in several motion pictures, usually playing himself; his best-known screen performance was in The Benny Goodman Story (1955), in which Allen played the leading role of the legendary jazz clarinetist. A prolific author of more than 50 books, Allen wrote on such topics as politics,......
Benny Goodman Trio (American music group)
...in a few films featuring Armstrong and Hite. After leaving Hite, Hampton led his own band in Los Angeles’s Paradise Cafe, where he was discovered by Benny Goodman in 1936. Soon thereafter, the Benny Goodman Trio (Goodman, pianist Teddy Wilson, and drummer Gene Krupa) became a quartet with the addition of Hampton. As a member of the Goodman group for the next four years, Hampton made some...
Benny, Jack (American comedian)
entertainer whose unusual comedic method and expert timing made him a legendary success in U.S. radio and television for more than 30 years....
Benois, Aleksandr Nikolayevich (Russian artist)
Russian theatre art director, painter, and ballet librettist who with Léon Bakst and Serge Diaghilev cofounded the influential magazine Mir iskusstva (“World of Art”), from which sprang the Diaghilev Ballets Russes....
Benois, Alexandre (Russian artist)
Russian theatre art director, painter, and ballet librettist who with Léon Bakst and Serge Diaghilev cofounded the influential magazine Mir iskusstva (“World of Art”), from which sprang the Diaghilev Ballets Russes....
Benoist, Michel (Jesuit priest)
...(known in China as Lang Shining) designed for Qianlong a series of extraordinary Sino-Rococo buildings, set in Italianate gardens ornamented with mechanical fountains designed by the Jesuit priest Michel Benoist. Today the Yuanmingyuan has almost completely disappeared, as the foreign-style buildings were burned by the French and British in 1860. To replace it, the empress dowager Cixi greatly....
Benoît de Sainte-Maure (French poet)
author of the Old French poem Roman de Troie....
Benoît de Sainte-More (French poet)
author of the Old French poem Roman de Troie....
Benoit, Peter (Belgian composer)
Belgian composer and teacher who was responsible for the modern renaissance of Flemish music....
Benoit, Peter Léonard Léopold (Belgian composer)
Belgian composer and teacher who was responsible for the modern renaissance of Flemish music....
Benoni (South Africa)
town, Gauteng province, South Africa, east of Johannesburg. It is situated at 5,419 feet (1,652 m) above sea level and covers two sides of a valley that borders four lakes....
Bénoué River (river, Africa)
river in western Africa, longest tributary of the Niger, about 673 miles (1,083 km) in length. It rises in northern Cameroon as the Bénoué at about 4,400 feet (1,340 m) and, in its first 150 miles (240 km), descends more than 2,000 feet (600 m) over many falls and rapids, the rest of its course being largely un...
Bénouville (town, France)
town, Basse-Normandie région, northwestern France. Located 2.4 miles (4 km) southwest of Ouistreham and 6 miles (10 km) northeast of Caen by road, it is situated at a road crossing of the Caen ship canal, which links those two cities. Early in the morning of D-Day (June 6, 1944), during the ...
Benozzo di Lese (Italian painter)
early Italian Renaissance painter whose masterpiece, a fresco cycle in the chapel of the Medici-Riccardi Palace, Florence, reveals a new interest in nature (a careful study of realistic detail in landscape and the costumed figure) and in the representation of human features as definite portraiture....
Benqi (China)
city, southeast-central Liaoning sheng (province), northeastern China. It is situated some 45 miles (75 km) southeast of Shenyang (Mukden) on the Taizi River....
Bensch’s monias (bird)
...They walk like pigeons, bobbing the head and tail. Mesitornis (sometimes Mesoenas) unicolor and M. variegata inhabit forests. Bensch’s rail (not a true rail), also called Bensch’s monias (Monias, or Mesoenas, benschi), inhabits brushland. All three species build platform nests low in bushes. ...
Bensch’s rail (bird)
...They walk like pigeons, bobbing the head and tail. Mesitornis (sometimes Mesoenas) unicolor and M. variegata inhabit forests. Bensch’s rail (not a true rail), also called Bensch’s monias (Monias, or Mesoenas, benschi), inhabits brushland. All three species build platform nests low in bushes. ...
Benserade, Isaac de (French author)
minor French poet of the courts of Louis XIII and Louis XIV....
benshi (Japanese theatre)
...numbers until 1937. The main reason for the slow conversion was that Japanese motion pictures had “talked” since their inception through the mediation of a benshi, a commentator who stood to the side of the screen and narrated the action for the audience in the manner of Kabuki theatre. The arrival of recorded sound liberated the Japanese.....
Benson, Al (American disc jockey)
Critic and historian Nelson George called Al Benson, who worked at several Chicago radio stations beginning in the mid-1940s, one of the most influential black deejays of all time. While many of his African-American peers were indistinguishable from white deejays over the airwaves, Benson, who was nicknamed “Yo’ Ol’ Swingmaster,” never tried to mask what he called ...
Benson, Allan L. (American politician)
...Moose Party chose Roosevelt as its candidate, and though he declined the nomination, he remained on the ballot as such. The Socialist Party, the major third-party player, selected editor and writer Allan L. Benson of New York for president and fellow writer George Kirkpatrick of New Jersey for vice president. The Prohibition Party and Socialist Labor Party also put forth candidates....
Benson, E. F. (British writer)
writer of fiction, reminiscences, and biographies, of which the best remembered are his arch, satirical novels and his urbane autobiographical studies of Edwardian and Georgian society....
Benson, Edward Frederic (British writer)
writer of fiction, reminiscences, and biographies, of which the best remembered are his arch, satirical novels and his urbane autobiographical studies of Edwardian and Georgian society....
Benson, Edward White (archbishop of Canterbury)
archbishop of Canterbury (1883–96), whose Lincoln Judgment (1890), a code of liturgical ritual, helped resolve the Church of England’s century-old dispute over proper forms of worship....
Benson, Ezra Taft (American religious leader)
U.S. agronomist and religious leader (b. Aug. 4, 1899, Whitney, Idaho--d. May 30, 1994, Salt Lake City, Utah), as president (1985-94) of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, stressed the importance of the Book of Mormon, one of four ...
Benson, Frank W. (American artist)
...chose to exhibit independently, hoping to draw public attention to their paintings. The members of the Ten were Childe Hassam, John Henry Twachtman, J. Alden Weir, Thomas W. Dewing, Joseph De Camp, Frank W. Benson, Willard Leroy Metcalf, Edmund Tarbell, Robert Reid, and E.E. Simmons. When Twachtman died in 1902, William Merritt Chase replaced him....
Benson, J. H. (American calligrapher)
...to publish books and articles on this topic for the rest of his life. In 1954, more than 400 years after its first appearance, Arrighi’s La operina was translated by John Howard Benson as The First Writing Book. Benson wrote out his translation using both the layout and the writing style of the original; he included a facsimile of Arrighi’s wo...
Benson, Lee (American political historian)
...United States furnished some innovative young historians who combined an interest in political history with a program for making it more scientific. Among the most systematic of these scholars was Lee Benson, author of an influential work that applied quantitative techniques to the study of Jacksonian democracy. “By 1984,” he predicted in 1966,a significant proportion....
Benson, Mary (South African activist)
South African writer and antiapartheid activist (b. Dec. 8, 1919, Pretoria, S.Af.—d. June 20, 2000, London, Eng.), rejected her privileged upbringing as a white in South Africa to campaign against her country’s racial policies. She was a cofounder and secre...
Benson, Mildred Augustine Wirt (American author)
American writer (b. July 10, 1905, Ladora, Iowa—d. May 28, 2002, Toledo, Ohio), as the original author of the Nancy Drew mysteries, abandoned the stereotypical view of the heroine then common and created a teenage female who was brainy, spirited, and independent. Under the name Carolyn Keene, she wrote 23 of the first 30 books, from 193...
Benson, Obie (American singer and songwriter)
American singer and songwriter (b. June 14, 1936, Detroit, Mich.—d. July 1, 2005, Detroit,), lent his powerful bass vocals to the legendary Motown group the Four Tops. Benson founded the group with Lawrence Payton, Abdul (“Duke”) Fakir, and Levi Stubbs in 1953. They initially played nightclubs, often performing with such jazz greats as Count Basie and Billy Eckstine. The group...
Benson, Renaldo (American singer and songwriter)
American singer and songwriter (b. June 14, 1936, Detroit, Mich.—d. July 1, 2005, Detroit,), lent his powerful bass vocals to the legendary Motown group the Four Tops. Benson founded the group with Lawrence Payton, Abdul (“Duke”) Fakir, and Levi Stubbs in 1953. They initially played nightclubs, often performing with such jazz greats as Count Basie and Billy Eckstine. The group...
Benson, Sir Frank (British actor)
British actor-manager whose touring company and acting school were important influences on contemporary theatre....
Benson, Sir Frank Robert (British actor)
British actor-manager whose touring company and acting school were important influences on contemporary theatre....
Bent, Charles (American pioneer)
fur-trading pioneer who became civil governor for the United States of the newly captured province of New Mexico....
bent grass (plant)
any of the annual and perennial grasses of the genus Agrostis (family Poaceae), with about 125 species distributed in temperate and cool parts of the world and at high altitudes in subtropical and tropical areas. At least 40 species are found in the United States; some are weeds, others are forage and turf plants. Bent grasses have slender stems, flat blades, and open or dense clusters of s...
Bent, James Theodore (British archaeologist)
British explorer and archaeologist who excavated the ruined Zimbabwe (dzimbahwe; i.e., stone houses, or chiefs’ graves) in the land of the Shona people of eastern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe Rhodesia)....
bent mussel (mollusk)
The yellow mussel (Mytilus citrinus), from southern Florida to the Caribbean, is a light brownish yellow. The hooked, or bent, mussel (M. recurvus), from New England to the Caribbean, attains lengths of about 4 cm and is greenish brown to purplish black. The scorched mussel (M. exustus), from North Carolina to the Caribbean, is bluish gray and about 2.5 cm long....
Bent Pyramid (pyramid, Dahshūr, Egypt)
A structure of peculiar shape called the Bent, Blunted, False, or Rhomboidal Pyramid, which stands at Dahshūr a short distance south of Ṣaqqārah, marks an advance in development toward the strictly pyramidal tomb. Built by Snefru, of the 4th dynasty, it is 188 square metres (2,024 square feet) at the base and approximately 98 metres (322 feet) high. Peculiar in that it has a.....
bent sandwich compound
A closely related set of so-called bent sandwich compounds, in which the Cp rings are not parallel, are important in the organometallic chemistry of the early and middle d-block elements and the f-block elements (lanthanoids and actinoids). The Schrock carbene Ta(ηいーた5-C5H5)2(CH3)(CH2), shown above, is one such......
Benteen, Frederick (United States military officer)
...three days into his march, Custer abandoned the plan when he rather suddenly encountered a large group of Sioux and Cheyenne encamped nearby. Envisioning a three-pronged attack, he ordered Capt. Frederick Benteen and Maj. Marcus Reno to lead troops on either side of the river, while he would advance to the northwest and surprise the encampment from the north. Reno, who attacked first (and......
Benten (Japanese mythology)
(Japanese: Divinity of the Reasoning Faculty), in Japanese mythology, one of the Shichi-fuku-jin (Seven Gods of Luck); the Buddhist patron goddess of literature and music, of wealth, and of femininity. She is generally associated with the sea; many o...
Bentham (essay by Mill)
...De Tocqueville on Democracy in America” (1840), “Michelet’s History of France” (1844), and “Guizot’s Essays and Lectures on History” (1845). The twin essays on Bentham and Coleridge show Mill’s powers at their splendid best and indicate very clearly the new spirit that he tried to breathe into English radicalism....
Bentham, George (British botanist)
British botanist whose classification of seed plants (Spermatophyta), based on an exhaustive study of all known species, served as a foundation for modern systems of vascular plant taxonomy....
Bentham, Jeremy (British philosopher and economist)
English philosopher, economist, and theoretical jurist, the earliest and chief expounder of utilitarianism....
Bentham, Sir Samuel (British engineer)
British engineer, naval architect, and navy official in Russia (1780–91) and England (from 1795) who was an early advocate of explosive-shell weapons for warships....
benthic division (oceanography)
...manifestation and the littoral shelf where it is below water. Landward, beyond the beach, a wave-cut cliff is usually found. The steeper slope that often separates the littoral shelf from the benthos (bottom) zone in the central part of the lake is called the step-off by some limnologists....
benthic environment (oceanography)
...manifestation and the littoral shelf where it is below water. Landward, beyond the beach, a wave-cut cliff is usually found. The steeper slope that often separates the littoral shelf from the benthos (bottom) zone in the central part of the lake is called the step-off by some limnologists....
benthic zone (oceanography)
...manifestation and the littoral shelf where it is below water. Landward, beyond the beach, a wave-cut cliff is usually found. The steeper slope that often separates the littoral shelf from the benthos (bottom) zone in the central part of the lake is called the step-off by some limnologists....
benthos (biology)
the assemblage of organisms inhabiting the seafloor. Benthic epifauna live upon the seafloor or upon bottom objects; the so-called infauna live within the sediments of the seafloor. By far the best-studied benthos are the macrobenthos, those forms larger than 1 mm (0.04 inch), which are dominated by polychaete worms, pelecypods, anthozoans, echinoderms, sponge...
Benti (Guinea)
town and seaport, western Guinea, western Africa. It lies at the head of the estuary of the Mélikhouré (Melacorée) River, 10 miles (16 km) upstream from the Atlantic coast. Important for the export of bananas (second only to Conakry), its port can accommodate oceangoing vessels of 21-foot (6-metre) draft...
Benti-Bulgarelli, Marianna (Italian opera singer)
In honour of the birthday of the Empress of Austria, Metastasio composed Gli orti esperidi (1721), a serenata in which the principal role was taken by the prima donna Marianna Benti-Bulgarelli, called La Romanina, who became enamoured of the poet. In her salon Metastasio formed his lifelong friendship with the castrato male soprano Carlo Farinelli and came to know such composers as......
Bentinck (island, Australia)
...Mornington, the largest (250 square miles [648 square km]), is the northernmost. Lying 15 miles (24 km) offshore, it rises to 300 feet (90 m) and has a mission station for Aborigines and an airport. Bentinck (59 square miles) and Sweers (6 square miles) are the largest of the southern islands....
Bentinck, Lord George (British politician)
British politician who in 1846–47 articulately led the protective-tariff advocates who opposed the free-trade policy of Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel....
Bentinck, Lord William (British government official)
British governor-general of Bengal (1828–33) and of India (1833–35). An aristocrat who sympathized with many of the liberal ideas of his day, he made important administrative reforms in Indian government and society. He reformed the finances, opened up judicial posts to Indians, and suppresse...
Bentinck, William Henry Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Portland (prime minister of Great Britain)
British prime minister from April 2 to Dec. 19, 1783, and from March 31, 1807, to Oct. 4, 1809; on both occasions he was merely the nominal head of a government controlled by stronger political leaders....
Bentine, Michael (British actor)
British comedian who was a founding member of "The Goon Show" on BBC radio and went on to such television programs as the children’s shows "The Bumblies" and "The Potties" as well as the outrageous "It’s a Square World"; he was appointed CBE in 1995 (b. Jan. 26, 1922--d. Nov. 26, 1996)....
Bentivoglio family (Italian family)
Italian family that controlled Bologna during the second half of the 15th century....
Bentivoglio, Giovanni II (Italian leader)
...body, Sante, in fact, ruled Bologna. He reached an extremely important agreement with the papacy (Capitula, 1447) defining the extent of Bologna’s independence from papal control. Sante Bentivoglio established his family’s close relationship with the Sforza family of Milan, often an important ally during wars....
Bentivoglio, Guido (Italian historian)
Italian churchman, diplomat, and historian, whose writings give precise accounts of his diplomatic activities and of affairs in the countries he visited. Pope Paul V sent him as nuncio to Flanders (1607–15) and to France (1616–21) and created him cardinal (January 1621)....
Bentivoglio, Sante (Italian leader)
...until Annibale (d. 1445), son of Anton Galeazzo, returned from exile (1438) to become virtual signore from 1443 to 1445. Upon Annibale’s assassination, the Bentivogli chose as his successor Sante (1424–63), a little-known member of the family who had been reared in Florence. Nominally only a member of the Sixteen, the city’s ruling body, Sante, in fact, ruled Bologna...
Bentley, Arthur F. (American political scientist)
American political scientist and philosopher known for his work in epistemology, logic, and linguistics and for his contributions to the development of a behavioral methodology of political science....
Bentley, Arthur Fisher (American political scientist)
American political scientist and philosopher known for his work in epistemology, logic, and linguistics and for his contributions to the development of a behavioral methodology of political science....
Bentley College (college, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States)
private, coeducational institution of higher education in Waltham, Massachusetts, U.S. Although the college specializes in business-related education and training, it also offers a curriculum in the liberal arts an...
Bentley, E. C. (British author)
British journalist and man of letters who is remembered as the inventor of the clerihew and for his other light verse and as the author of Trent’s Last Case (1913), a classic detective story that remains a best-seller....
Bentley, Edmund Clerihew (British author)
British journalist and man of letters who is remembered as the inventor of the clerihew and for his other light verse and as the author of Trent’s Last Case (1913), a classic detective story that remains a best-seller....
Bentley, Eric (American critic, translator, and stage director)
British-born American critic, translator, and stage director responsible for introducing the works of many European playwrights to the United States and known for his original, literate reviews of theatre and critical works on drama....
Bentley, Eric Russell (American critic, translator, and stage director)
British-born American critic, translator, and stage director responsible for introducing the works of many European playwrights to the United States and known for his original, literate reviews of theatre and critical works on drama....
Bentley Motors Ltd. (British automobile manufacturer)
...Wraith (introduced in 1947), and the Silver Dawn (1949) and, later, with models that included the Silver Cloud (1955), Silver Shadow (1965), and Silver Seraph (1998). In 1931 Rolls-Royce acquired Bentley Motors Ltd. (founded in 1920 by Walter Owen Bentley), a maker of fine cars, whose models thereafter gradually took on mechanical and design characteristics identical, except for minor......
Bentley, Nicolas (British caricaturist)
...peevishness, it warmed up during the 19th century with John Leech, Charles Keene, George Du Maurier, and in the 20th century with George Belcher, “Fougasse” (Kenneth Bird), H.M. Bateman, Nicolas Bentley, E.H. Shepard, and Osbert Lancaster. Leech was in a sense the pictorial equivalent of Thackeray (Thackeray was an excellent comic draftsman but better at getting the feel of past t...
Bentley, Richard (British scholar)
British clergyman, one of the great figures in the history of classical scholarship, who combined wide learning with critical acuteness. Gifted with a powerful and logical mind, he was able to do much to restore ancient texts and to point the way to new developments in textual criticism and scholarship....
Bentley Subglacial Trench (trench, Antarctica)
...ranging from 16,066 feet (4,897 metres) at Vinson Massif in the Sentinel Range, the highest point in Antarctica, to more than 8,200 feet below sea level in an adjoining marine trough to the west (Bentley Subglacial Trench). Areas that are now called “lands,” including most of Ellsworth Land and Marie Byrd Land, would be beneath the sea....
Bentley, Thomas (English merchant)
On one of his frequent visits to Liverpool, he met the merchant Thomas Bentley in 1762. Because his enterprise had spread from the British Isles to the Continent, Wedgwood expanded his business to the nearby Brick House (or Bell Works) factory. In 1768 Bentley became his partner in the manufacture of ornamental items that were primarily unglazed stonewares in various colours, formed and......
Bentley’s Miscellany (British magazine)
...(1808–80), edited by the radical essayist Leigh Hunt, who introduced the poetry of Shelley and Keats to the public through its columns; the New Monthly Magazine (1814–84); Bentley’s Miscellany (1837), which had Dickens as its first editor and Oliver Twist as one of its serials; and the Cornhill (1860–1975), first edited by William Thackera...
Bento Gonçalves (Brazil)
city, northeastern Rio Grande do Sul estado (state), southern Brazil. Situated in the hills overlooking the Jaguari River valley, Bento Gonçalves is a commercial centre in a fertile agricultural region settled by Italians in the late 19th century. Viticulture is the primary economic activity. The city is the hub of Brazil’s wineries, and the National Wine Fe...
Bentol (Liberia)
city, northwestern Liberia. Bentol is a marketing and commercial centre for the surrounding agricultural area. Prior to the outbreak of civil war in the 1990s, its industrial activity included the production of milled rice, sawn wood, soap, plastics, paints, furniture and fixtures, cement blocks, oils, processed fish, and co...
Benton (Arkansas, United States)
city, seat (1835) of Saline county, central Arkansas, U.S. It lies along the Saline River, 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Little Rock. The site, on the old Military Road (a main Missouri-Texas route), was settled about 1815 and originally called Saline. The community was later renamed in honour of Missouri statesman Thomas Hart Benton....
Benton (county, Arkansas, United States)
city, seat (1835) of Saline county, central Arkansas, U.S. It lies along the Saline River, 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Little Rock. The site, on the old Military Road (a main Missouri-Texas route), was settled about 1815 and originally called Saline. The community was later renamed in honour of Missouri statesman Thomas Hart Benton.......
Benton Harbor (Michigan, United States)
city, Berrien county, southwestern Michigan, U.S. It lies on Lake Michigan near the mouth of the St. Joseph River, opposite its twin city of St. Joseph, 50 miles (80 km) west-southwest of Kalamazoo. Originally called Brunson Harbor ...
Benton hologram (holography)
city, Berrien county, southwestern Michigan, U.S. It lies on Lake Michigan near the mouth of the St. Joseph River, opposite its twin city of St. Joseph, 50 miles (80 km) west-southwest of Kalamazoo. Originally called Brunson Harbor ...
Benton, Robert (American author, screenwriter, and director)
...K. Long in Blaze. At age 70 he was nominated yet again, for his depiction of an unemployed construction worker in Nobody’s Fool (1994), directed by Robert Benton and based on the novel by Richard Russo. That same year Newman gave a broadly satirical performance as an unscrupulous tycoon in Joel and Ethan Coen’s Th...
Benton, Stephen Anthony (American inventor)
American inventor (b. Dec. 1, 1941, San Francisco, Calif.—d. Nov. 9, 2003, Boston, Mass.), became fascinated with holograms the first time he saw one and went on to invent the rainbow hologram, the type used on credit cards, which was named the Benton hologram. He was a founding member of the Media Laboratory at the ...
Benton, Thomas Hart (American writer and politician)
American writer and Democratic Party leader who championed agrarian interests and westward expansion during his 30-year tenure as a senator from Missouri....
Benton, Thomas Hart (American painter)
one of the foremost painters and muralists associated with the American Regionalists of the 1930s....
Benton v. Maryland (law case)
...constitutional litigation than would a specific standard, this test was retained by the court through the 1960s. In 1969, however, the Supreme Court reversed the Palko ruling, holding in Benton v. Maryland that the rule against double jeopardy was so fundamental to justice as to be a requirement of due process of law....
Benton, William (United States senator and publisher)
American publisher of Encyclopædia Britannica (1943–73), advertising executive, and government official....
Benton, William Burnett (United States senator and publisher)
American publisher of Encyclopædia Britannica (1943–73), advertising executive, and government official....
Bentong (Malaysia)
town, West Malaysia. It lies on the Bentong River, northeast of Kuala Lumpur, across the Main Range. It is a commercial centre for local rubber estates and alluvial tin mines. Genting Highlands is a nearby hill resort, and Genting Pass provides a spectacular panorama of hills and valleys...