During the start of the Arab Spring, Gaddafi condemned the Tunisian revolution in January 2011, saying protesters were misled by WikiLeaks and voicing solidarity with ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

* 1987 – In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

* 1936 – Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisian politician, 2nd President of Tunisia

Former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has maintained Tunisia's long-time policy of seeking good relations with the West, while playing an active role in Arab and African regional bodies.

* September 3 – Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, 2nd President of Tunisia

* November 7 – Zine El Abidine Ben Ali assumes the Presidency of Tunisia.

* Chalid Ben Abdulmelik and Ali Ben Isa measure the size of the Earth.

* Moorish exiles from Spain, led by Moulay Ali Ben Moussa Ben Rached El Alami, found the city of Chefchaouen in the north of Morocco.

* July 26 – Battle of Siffin: Ali Ben Abu Talib fights Muawiyah over the Caliphate of Islam and captures Anbar.

* Professional basketball players Steve Nash ( who was an award winning player " MP3 " according to Ali G and unable to speak proper English due to being Canadian ), Ben Wallace ( who he accuses of " playa-hating "), Shaquille O ' Neal ( who he argued with about the meaning of the NBA, Ali thinking it stood for Nationwide Basketball Society ), Tim Duncan ( from whom tried to get a pair of free sneakers ), Robert Horry, Dwyane Wade ( who he didn't realise was an NBA player, claiming he had snuck in to " hang with mah man Shaquille O ' Neal "), Richard Jefferson ( whom he called Thomas Jefferson his son ), Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Reggie Miller

Between 1956 and 2011, Tunisia operated as a de-facto single party state, with politics dominated by the secular Constitutional Democratic Rally ( RCD ) under former Presidents Habib Bourgiba and then Zine el Abidine Ben Ali.

In the presidential vote, Ben Ali soundly defeated his challengers, Mohamed Bouchiha ( PUP ), Ahmed Inoubli ( UDU ) and Ahmed Ibrahim ( Ettajdid Movement ) for a fifth term in office.

Following the 2010 – 2011 protests and the vacation of the Presidency by President Ben Ali, elections for a Constituent Assembly were held on 23 October 2011.

Trade unionists initially arrested for protesting working conditions were released on the order of President Ben Ali and officially pardoned in October 2009 in a move that was welcomed by Amnesty International.

Protests in 2010 – 2011 led to President Ben Ali fleeing Tunisia, his presidency being declared vacant by the Constitutional Council, and Fouad Mebazaa becoming acting President for up to 60 days.

In 1987 the departure from power in Tunisia of President Habib Bourguiba and his replacement by the more diplomatic Zine el Abidine Ben Ali brought the two nations closer again.

A comic ballet in four sections: Madame Upanova and her ostriches ( Morning ); Hyacinth Hippo and her servants ( Afternoon ); Elephanchine and her bubble-blowing elephant troupe ( Evening ); and Ben Ali Gator and his troop of alligators ( Night ).

alt = The cartoon depicts Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak as the next to fall after the Tunisian revolution forced President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to flee the country.

Under owner James Ben Ali Haggin, the Rancho was famous for its horse breeding ; one of the horses bred on the Rancho won the Ben Ali Stakes, also known as the Kentucky Derby.

In 1965, he became the first horse to ever be voted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame, an honour he held for thirty-one years and now shares with Canadian Equestrian Champion Big Ben ( inducted 1996 ).

Near the town is the home of world show jumping champion Ian Millar and Millar Brooke Farm where his great horse Big Ben ( 1976 – 1999 ) is buried.

The title alludes to Paul Revere's Ride, as does the subplot in which the town drunk ( Ben Blue ) rides his horse to warn people of the ' invasion '.

* Ben A. Jones, thoroughbred horse trainer

* Ben Jones -- Thoroughbred horse trainer.

Big Ben ( April 20, 1976 – December 11, 1999 ) was a world champion show jumping horse.

Although his dam was only 15 hh, Big Ben grew to be a very large horse of 17. 3 hands high.

In 1992 Big Ben survived two bouts with colic and an accident in which his horse trailer overturned on a highway after a head-on collision with a car.

Big Ben was inducted into the Ontario Sports Legends Hall of Fame and joined thoroughbred racehorse Northern Dancer as the only other horse in the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame.

Babieca, his horse, tramples on and kills Ben Yusuf, who is too terrified to fight.

Lester Ben " Benny " Binion ( November 20, 1904 – December 25, 1989 ) was a well-known American casino owner, mobster, poker enthusiast, cutting horse owner and convicted felon.

In 2011, Ben Maher won the Martin Collins Eraser Stakes at London Olympia horse show while wearing a helmet camera.

* Horse-A transdimensional being that resembles a large children's rocking horse, Horse arrives to whisk Scud and Sussudio away from the battle between Voodoo Ben and Captain Jack Jones, seconds before the two are about to be annihilated.

* Ben A. Jones ( 1882 – 1961 ), American thoroughbred horse trainer

The son of Hall of Fame horse trainer Ben A. Jones, Jimmy Jones was born in Parnell, Missouri.

His best operas of this period are La Rosaura ( 1690, printed by the Gesellschaft für Musikforschung ), and Pirro e Demetrio ( 1694 ), in which occur the arias " Le Violette ", and " Ben ti sta, traditor ".

Encouraged, however, by letters signed by the rabbis of Argentière and Lunel, and particularly by the support of Kalonymus ben Todros, the nasi of Narbonne, and of the eminent Talmudist Asheri of Toledo, Ben Adret issued a decree, signed by thirty-three rabbis of Barcelona, excommunicating those who should, within the next fifty years, study physics or metaphysics before their thirtieth year of age ( basing his action on the principle laid down by Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed part one chapter 34 ), and had the order promulgated in the synagogue on Sabbath, July 26, 1305.

At the close of the work are added several eulogies written by Abba Mari on Ben Adret ( who died in 1310 ), and on Don Vidal, Solomon of Perpignan, and Don Bonet Crescas of Lunel.

He is specifically mentioned by Ben Sirah ( a writer of the Hellenistic period who listed the " great sages " of Israel ) and 4 Maccabees ( 1st century CE ), and by the 1st century CE historian Josephus, says that the prophet wrote two books.

The main relief presenters are Martine Croxall, Gavin Esler ( BBC News at Five ), Sophie Long ( mainly weekday afternoons ), Rachel Schofield ( Monday mornings ), Tim Willcox and Julian Worricker ( Friday afternoons ), while Fiona Armstrong, Ellie Crisell, Ben Geoghagen, Roger Johnson, Kasia Madera, Chris Rogers, Babita Sharma, Julia Somerville, Sue Thearle and Carole Walker also fill in for regular presenters.

The world's top 10 association croquet players as of May 2012 are Reg Bamford ( South Africa ), Robert Fulford ( England ), Robert Fletcher ( Australia ), David Maugham ( England ), Toby Garrison ( New Zealand ), Aaron Westerby ( New Zealand ), Paddy Chapman ( New Zealand ), Jamie Burch ( England ), Greg Bryant ( New Zealand ) and Ben Rothman ( USA ).

# Ben M ' Sick ( بن مسيك )-Ben M ' Sick ( بن مسيك ), Sbata ( سباته ).

* Ben Darwin ( born 1976 ), Australian international Rugby player

The cast combined professional actors such as Daniel Thorndike ( the author's son ), Michael Fields, Steven Povey and Ben Barton, along with various amateurs from the marshes.

* Ben Ammi ( born 1939 ), Anointed Spiritual Leader of the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem ( Shomrei Hashalom )

Ben Bernanke ( lower-right ), Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, at a House Financial Services Committee hearing on February 10, 2009.

* Mercury ( novel ), by Ben Bova

* " Underground " ( Ben Folds Five song ), 199

Early novels in this renaissance were Jack Williamson's novel Beachhead and Ben Bova's novel Mars ( both 1992 ), which envisioned large-scale expeditions to Mars according to the thinking of the 1990s.