* Benjamin Gibbard – vocals, guitar, piano, bass, drums ( 1997 – present )

Benjamin " Ben " Gibbard ( born August 11, 1976 ) is an American musician known as a member of several successful indie rock bands.

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All songs written by Benjamin Gibbard.

All songs written by Benjamin Gibbard, Nick Harmer and Christopher Walla except as otherwise noted.

Speaking of McGerr in 2003, Benjamin Gibbard notes that he " definitely believe this will be the last drummer we'll ever have.

* Jay Farrar & Benjamin Gibbard

Benjamin West, " The Death of General Wolfe " ( 1770 ), an early example of the vogue for painting scenes from recent history.

When, in 1770, Benjamin West proposed to paint " The Death of General Wolfe " in contemporary dress, he was firmly instructed to use classical costume by many people.

Dowland's song, " Come Heavy Sleepe, the Image of True Death ", was the inspiration for Benjamin Britten's " Nocturnal after John Dowland for guitar ", written in 1964 for the guitarist Julian Bream.

A detail from Benjamin West's heroic, neoclassicism | neoclassical history painting, The Death of General Wolfe ( 1771 ), depicting an idealized indigenous peoples of the Americas | Native American.

" Rereading the Indian in Benjamin West's ' Death of General Wolfe.

Hawn is known for her roles in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Private Benjamin, Foul Play, Shampoo, Overboard, Bird on a Wire, Death Becomes Her, The First Wives Club, and Cactus Flower, for which she won the 1969 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Benjamin Britten wrote the leading role of Oberon in his setting of A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1960 ) especially for him ; the countertenor role of Apollo in Britten's Death in Venice ( 1973 ) was created by James Bowman, the best-known amongst the next generation of English countertenors.

Death of Epaminondas, as painted by Benjamin West.

However the Americans Copley and Benjamin West led the artists who successfully showed that trousers could be used in heroic scenes, with works like West's The Death of General Wolfe ( 1770 ) and Copley's The Death of Major Peirson, 6 January 1781 ( 1783 ), although the trouser was still being carefully avoided in The Raft of the Medusa, completed in 1819.

Boydell eventually made £ 15, 000 from William Woollett | William Woollett's 1776 print of Benjamin West | Benjamin West's Death of General Wolfe ( 1770 ), much of it from exports.

Most notable among these was the Death of General Wolfe a 1770 painting by Benjamin West, engraved by Woollett for Boydell in 1776.

* The Mysterious Death of Walter Benjamin, Stephen Schwartz, The Weekly Standard, Volume 006, Issue 37, 11 June 2001

In Thomas Mann's 1912 novella Death in Venice ( as well as the opera by Benjamin Britten and the film by Luchino Visconti ) a fop is derided by the main character, Gustave von Aschenbach ; ironically so, as Aschenbach ultimately dresses in this manner himself.

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( The Death of General Wolfe is a well-known 1770 painting by artist Benjamin West depicting the final moments of Wolfe.

* Benjamin West: The Death of General Wolfe ( 1770 )

* 1820 – Death of Benjamin Latrobe.

* Benjamin Cheever 1967 – Author of The Plagiarist, The Partisan, Famous After Death

The Death of General Wolfe ( 1771 ) by Benjamin West, The Death of Captain James Cook ( 1779 ) by Johann Zoffany, The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782 and The Death of Major Pierson ( 1784 ) by John Singleton Copley are leading examples of the new type, which ignored complaints about the unsuitability of modern dress for heroic subjects.

3 / 5 " Serenade " ( Janáček Quartet ); Benjamin Britten, Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings ( soloist Peter Pears, Dennis Brain ; Boyd Neel String Orchestra, conductor Benjamin Britten ); Henry Purcell, " When I am laid in earth " (" Dido's Lament "), from Dido and Aeneas ( soloist Victoria de los Ángeles ; English Chamber Orchestra, conductor John Barbirolli ); Joseph Haydn, " She never told her love " ( Canzonetta ) ( soloist Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten )-picked as Grigson's favourite ; Joseph Haydn, String Quartet in D major ( Tátrai Quartet ); Georges Bizet, Jeux d ' enfants ( Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, conductor Jean Martinon ); Benjamin Britten, " Death be not proud " ( from The Holy Sonnets of John Donne ), soloist Peter Pears, Zorian String Quartet, conductor Benjamin Britten ; Giuseppe Verdi, " Va, pensiero, sull ' ali dorate " ( Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves ) from Nabucco ( La Scala Chorus and Orchestra ).

While a Senator, Kennedy had unsuccessfully pushed a bill to preserve the Belasco Theater, as well as the Dolley Madison and the Benjamin Taylor houses, all scheduled for razing.

Benjamin Lundy ( 1789-1839 ), a Quaker, was a pioneer in preparing the way for anti-slavery societies.

In 1740, Benjamin Huntsman began melting blister steel in a crucible to even out the carbon content, creating the first process for the mass production of tool steel.

On January 19, 1879, Alcott and Franklin Benjamin Sanborn wrote a prospectus for a new school which they distributed to potentially interested people throughout the country.

On March 5, 1868, the impeachment trial began in the Senate and lasted almost three months ; Reps. George S. Boutwell, Ben Butler and Thaddeus Stevens acted as managers ( prosecutors ) for the House and William M. Evarts, Benjamin R. Curtis and Attorney General Henry Stanberry served as Johnson's counsel ; Chief Justice Chase served as presiding judge.

The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.

He discovered methane after reading a paper by Benjamin Franklin on " flammable air " and carefully searched for it in Italy.

The artist for whom he showed particular sympathy and regard in London was Benjamin Haydon, who might at the time be counted the sole representative of historical painting there, and whom he especially honored for his championship of the then recently transported to England and ignorantly depreciated by polite connoisseurs Parthenon's marbles.

Examples include Edward Elgar's Great is the Lord ( 1912 ) and Give unto the Lord ( 1914 ) ( both with orchestral accompaniment ), Benjamin Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb ( 1943 ) ( a modern example of a multi-movement anthem and today heard mainly as a concert piece ), and, on a much smaller scale, Ralph Vaughan Williams ' O taste and see ( 1952 ) ( written for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II ).

* Mathews, L. K. “ Benjamin Franklin ’ s Plans for a Colonial Union, 1750 – 1775 .” American Political Science Review 8 ( August 1914 ): 393 – 412.

* McCoy, Drew R. " Benjamin Franklin's Vision of a Republican Political Economy for America.

* Benjamin Franklin and Electrostatics experiments and Franklin's electrical writings from Wright Center for Science Education, Tufts University

* The Historical Society of Pennsylvania Collection of Benjamin Franklin Papers, including correspondence, government documents, writings and a copy of his will, are available for research use at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

This is, however, not the only literal translation, as the root for right is identical to that for south, hence Benjamin also literally translates as son of the south.

According to classical rabbinical sources, Benjamin was only born after Rachel had fasted for a long time, as a religious devotion with the hope of a new child as a reward.

The Torah's Joseph narrative, at a stage when Joseph is unrecognised by his brothers, describes Joseph as testing whether his brothers have reformed, by secretly planting a silver cup in Benjamin's bag, then publicly searching the bags for it, and after finding it in Benjamin's possession, demanding that Benjamin become his slave as a punishment.

In the narrative, just prior to this test, when Joseph had first met all of his brothers ( but not identified himself to them ), he had held a feast for them ; the narrative heavily implies that Benjamin was Joseph's favorite brother, since he is overcome with tears when he first meets Benjamin in particular, and he gives Benjamin five times as much food as he apportions to the others.

He may have been a sailor on privateer ships during Queen Anne's War before settling on the Caribbean island of New Providence, a base for Captain Benjamin Hornigold, whose crew Teach joined sometime around 1716.

Included in the Museum & Gallery collection are seven very large canvases, part of a series by Benjamin West painted for George III, called " The Progress of Revealed Religion ," which are displayed in the War Memorial Chapel.

Francis Jennings noted that the statement made by Benjamin Franklin frequently quoted by proponents of the thesis does not support for this idea as it is advocating for a union against these " ignorant savages " and called the idea " absurd ".