Benjamin Franklin and the Politics of Improvement ( 2009 )

* Newman, Simon P. " Benjamin Franklin and the Leather-Apron Men: The Politics of Class in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia ," Journal of American Studies, August 2009, Vol.

" When Words Fail: William Pitt, Benjamin Franklin and the Imperial Crisis of 1766 ," Parliamentary History, October 2009, Vol.

* Raymond Benjamin ( France ) ( 2009 – present )

As of 2009, the WordNet team includes the following members of the Cognitive Science Laboratory: George Armitage Miller, Christiane Fellbaum, Randee Tengi, Pamela Wakefield, Helen Langone and Benjamin R. Haskell.

In 2009, Benjamin Szumskyj's Strange Wonders, included the first few chapters of " The Tale of the Grain Ships ," written in the 1930s.

The Benjamin Franklin Gates House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

In the most recent municipal election on November 3, 2009, Tony Allen was defeated in his bid for a fourth term as supervisor by Democrat Benjamin Bamford in a very close race.

Some residents made a request in February 2009 to make Benjamin an incorporated town, in an effort to prevent annexation by the neighboring cities of Salem, Spanish Fork, and Payson.

; 2009 March: Benjamin Netanyahu becomes Prime Minister of Israel ( also, continues as the Chairman of the Likud Party ).

The full ASO Chorus has thrice visited Berlin, giving three performances on each occasion of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem ( 2003 ), Hector Berlioz's Grande Messe des Morts ( 2008 ), and Johannes Brahms's Ein Deutsches Requiem ( 2009 ) with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under ASO Principal Guest Conductor Donald Runnicles.

* Benjamin figures prominently in the award-winning writer Dara Horn's short story " Passover in New Orleans " and her mystery novel, All Other Nights ( 2009 ).

The current Surgeon General is Regina Benjamin, who was confirmed by the U. S. Senate on October 29, 2009.

A Medal of Honor plaque for Ames's gravesite was dedicated at a ceremony honoring Benjamin Butler's 191st birthday, held at the Hildreth family cemetery — the only time of the year it is open to the public — on November 1, 2009.

In January 2009, prior to the February 2009 Israeli elections, the then election front-runner and leader of Israel's right-wing Likud party, Benjamin Netanyahu, informed Middle East envoy Tony Blair that he would continue the policy of the Israeli governments of Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert by allowing " natural " growth of settlements in the West Bank, in contravention of the Road Map, but not building new ones

Lyrics written by Dušan Šestić, the original composer, and Benjamin Isović were accepted by a parliamentary commission in February 2009.

Grave of Benjamin Stoddert, September 2009

They have since had three children: Jett ( April 13, 1992-January, 2, 2009 ), Ella Bleu ( born April 3, 2000 ) and Benjamin Hunter Kaleo ( born November 23, 2010 ).

Following the 2009 elections in which Shas won 11 seats, it joined Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition government and holds four cabinet posts.

The 2009 film La Mission, starring Benjamin Bratt, is an authentic representation of the style, language, cars and music associated with the Cholo culture.

In the late 1950s, Langsner and Peter Selz, then professor at the Claremont Colleges, observed a common link among the recent work of John McLaughlin ( 1898 – 1976 ), Lorser Feitelson, Karl Benjamin, Frederick Hammersley ( 1919 – 2009 ) and Feitelson's wife Helen Lundeberg.

In 2009 Peter wrote and directed the independent film La Mission also starring Benjamin as Che Rivera, an inhabitant of the Mission District.

* Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, ' 96, actor, nominated for 2009 Screen Actors Guild Award " Outstanding Performance by a Cast " for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

* Left in Dark Times: A Stand Against the New Barbarism, translated by Benjamin Moser, Random House Publishing Group, 2009, 256 pages, ISBN 0-8129-7472-7 ; paperback, ISBN 978-0-8129-7472-0

Named after Benjamin Franklin, the station pioneered a " Playing Anything We Feel Like " radio format, a concept which originated in Canada with the Jack FM concept.

Across the Atlantic Ocean, ambassadors John Adams and Benjamin Franklin held a dinner for their fellow Americans in Paris, France.

* 1998 – Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a " land for peace " agreement.

A Musical Thriller ( 1979 ), the acclaimed musical adaptation of Bond's play by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler starring Len Cariou as Sweeney Todd ( here christened Benjamin Barker ) and Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Lovett.

The East Texas Convention was modeled after the older ( now defunct ) Southern Musical Convention established in 1845 by Benjamin Franklin White, the compiler of The Sacred Harp.

Notable roles include The Club, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, ART, Born Yesterday, The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin, Chess ( the musical ), Love Letters, Blood Relations ( 1987 ), The Real Inspector Hound ’’, Strange Bedfellow The Musical and Stephen Sewell's It Just Stopped ( 2006 ).

Pudding actor and composer Laurence O ' Keefe wrote the music and lyrics for the Off-Broadway show Bat Boy: The Musical ; and he and his wife, Pudding librettist Nell Benjamin co-wrote the score to the Broadway musical Legally Blonde.

While there, he was briefly the music director of Weisgall's Hilltop Musical Company, which Weisgall founded as a sort of answer to Benjamin Britten's festival at Aldeburgh-a venue for local composers ( particularly Weisgall himself ) to present new work.

* Benjamin Beilman ( Winner of 2010 Montreal International Musical Competition, 3rd Prize 2010 Indianapolis Violin Competition, 1st Prize Young Concert Artists International Auditions, Grand Prize 2009 Corpus Christi International Competition, Astral Artist Competition and Stulberg International String Competition )

Musical compositions by Benjamin Britten.

Eldest of the seven, Benjamin Franklin, a New Englander transplanted to Philadelphia, wrote the most dazzling success story in our history.

* Bronson Alcott at Alcott house, England, and Fruitlands, New England ( 1842-1844 ) ( 1908 ) by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn

Common meter hymns were interchangeable with a variety of tunes ; more than twenty musical settings of " Amazing Grace " circulated with varying popularity until 1835 when William Walker assigned Newton's words to a traditional song named " New Britain ", which was itself an amalgamation of two melodies (" Gallaher " and " St. Mary ") first published in the Columbian Harmony by Charles H. Spilman and Benjamin Shaw ( Cincinnati, 1829 ).

** The Benjamin Franklin Bridge across the Delaware River between Philadelphia and Camden, New Jersey

Lancaster was born in Manhattan, New York City, at his parents ' home at 209 East 106th Street, between Second and Third Avenues, today the site of Benjamin Franklin Plaza.

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.

Possibly about 1716, he joined the crew of Captain Benjamin Hornigold, a renowned pirate who operated from New Providence's safe waters.

Finally, in the famous case of MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co., in 1916, Judge Benjamin Cardozo for New York's highest court pulled a broader principle out of these predecessor cases.

* Schmidt, Benjamin, Innocence Abroad: The Dutch Imagination and the New World, 1570-1670, Cambridge: University Press, 2001.

The Concept of Dhimma in Early Islam In Benjamin Braude and B. Lewis, eds., Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire: The Functioning of a Plural Society 2 vols., New York: Holmes & Meier Publishing.

The Britannica has an Editorial Board of Advisors, which includes 12 distinguished scholars: author Nicholas Carr, religion scholar Wendy Doniger, political economist Benjamin M. Friedman, Council on Foreign Relations President Emeritus Leslie H. Gelb, computer scientist David Gelernter, Physics Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann, Carnegie Corporation of New York President Vartan Gregorian, philosopher Thomas Nagel, cognitive scientist Donald Norman, musicologist Don Michael Randel, Stewart Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood, President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch.

* Benjamin Walker, Man and the Beasts Within: The Encyclopedia of the Occult, the Esoteric, and the Supernatural, New York: Stein and Day, 1978, 343 p. ISBN 0-8128-1900-4

After New York Giants ' manager John McGraw told reporters that Philadelphia manufacturer Benjamin Shibe, who owned the controlling interest in the new team, had a " white elephant on his hands ," Mack defiantly adopted the white elephant as the team mascot, and presented McGraw with a stuffed toy elephant at the start of the 1905 World Series.

It is the strictest test of causation, made famous by Benjamin Cardozo in Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co. case under New York state law.

In addition to helping with the Zeitschrift Adorno was expected to be the Institute's liaison with Benjamin, who soon passed on to New York the study of Charles Baudelaire he hoped would serve as a model of the larger Arcades Project.

“ In view of what is now threatening to engulf Europe ,” Horkheimer wrote, “ our present work is essentially destined to pass things down through the night that is approaching: a kind of message in a bottle ” As Adorno continued his work in New York with radio talks on music and a lecture on Soren Kierkegaard's doctrine of love, Benjamin fled Paris and attempted to make an illegal border crossing.

On June 11, 1776, Congress appointed a " Committee of Five ", consisting of John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Robert R. Livingston of New York, and Roger Sherman of Connecticut, to draft a declaration.

Benjamin Franklin, in 1772, after examining the wretched hovels in Scotland surrounding the opulent mansions of the land owners, said that in New England " every man " is a property owner, " has a Vote in public Affairs, lives in a tidy, warm House, has plenty of good Food and Fuel, with whole clothes from Head to Foot, the Manufacture perhaps of his own family.

* December 5 – In New York City, Benjamin Spock and Allen Ginsberg are arrested for protesting against the Vietnam War.

* August 12 – King Philip ( Metacomet ), the chief of the Wampanoags that had waged war throughout southern New England in a war that bore his name, is killed by an Indian named Alderman, a soldier led by Captain Benjamin Church.

Andrew Johnson was nominated over three other War Democrats: former New York Senator Daniel S. Dickinson, Buchanan cabinet member Joseph Holt, and General Benjamin F. Butler.

The 1888 election for President of the United States saw Grover Cleveland of New York, the incumbent president and a Democrat, try to secure a second term against the Republican nominee Benjamin Harrison, a former U. S. Senator from Indiana.

In the 1950s Harvard University economist Benjamin Chinitz predicted that containerization would benefit New York by allowing it to ship its industrial goods more cheaply to the Southern United States than other areas, but did not anticipate that containerization might make it cheaper to import such goods from abroad.

Benjamin McLane Spock was born May 2, 1903, in New Haven, Connecticut ; his parents were Benjamin Ives Spock, a Yale graduate and long-time general counsel of the New Haven Railroad, and Mildred Louise Stoughton Spock.