In 1495, Basel was incorporated in the Upper Rhenish Imperial Circle ; the Bishop of Basel was added to the Bench of the Ecclesiastical Princes.

Bench, a 14-time All-Star selection and a two-time National League Most Valuable Player, was a key member of The Big Red Machine, which won six division titles, four National League pennants, and two World Series championships.

Bench played baseball and basketball and was class valedictorian at Binger High School in Binger, Oklahoma.

During a spring training game in 1968, Bench was catching the eight-year veteran right-hander Jim Maloney.

Bench was the Reds ' catcher on April 30, 1969 when Maloney pitched a no hitter against the Houston Astros.

Bench led the Reds to the world championship and was awarded the World Series Most Valuable Player Award for his performance.

At the post-World Series press conference, Reds manager Sparky Anderson was asked by a journalist to compare Munson with his catcher, Johnny Bench.

In his career, Bench earned 10 Gold Gloves, was named to the National League All-Star team 14 times, and won two Most Valuable Player Awards.

Bench was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, in 1989 alongside Carl Yastrzemski.

Three years earlier, Bench had been inducted into the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame in and his uniform # 5 was retired by the team.

Bench was also elected to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team as the top vote-receiving catcher.

As part of the Golden Anniversary of the Rawlings Gold Glove Award, Bench was selected to the All-Time Rawlings Gold Glove Team.

In a September interview with Heidi Watney of the New England Sports Network, Johnny Bench, who was watching a Cleveland Indians / Boston Red Sox game at Fenway Park, did an impression of late Chicago Cubs announcer Harry Caray after Red Sox third baseman Kevin Youkilis, a native of Cincinnati, made a tough play.

Bench was fitted with a Stryker ceramic hip and has since become a spokesman for the company.

The young Owain ap Gruffydd was possibly fostered at the home of David Hanmer, a rising lawyer shortly to be a justice of the Kings Bench, or at the home of Richard FitzAlan, 3rd Earl of Arundel.

Again in 2011 a public interest litigation petition caused the Madras High Court Bench to grant permission to villagers of Kodaioor village to conduct a rooster fight during Deepavali coinciding with a local temple festival from the claims that the " villagers ' religious sentiments would be hurt if the cockfight was not allowed ".

This was further undermined by the ruling in Beckford v Hood, where the Court of King's Bench confirmed that, even without registration, copyright could be enforced against infringers.

After consulting with the judges of the King's Bench, Common Pleas and Exchequer of Pleas, the Lords concluded that there was no copyright at common law-certainly not perpetual copyright-and as such, that the term permitted by the Statute of Anne was the maximum length of legal protection for publishers and authors alike.

But Whitelocke J, speaking for the Court of the King's Bench, said that because the water supply was contaminated, it was better that the neighbor's documents were risked.

Members of Parliament then explained in August 1689 that “ the Commons had a particular regard … when that Declaration was first made ” to punishments like the one that had been inflicted by the King's Bench against Titus Oates.

This bill was supported by some of the most able and learned men in England, including the Earl of Northumberland, the Bishop of Lincoln, the Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, the Attorney General for England and Wales, the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and the Chief Justice of the King's Bench.

File: WLA metmuseum Camille Monet on a Garden Bench by Claude Monet. jpg | Camille Monet on a Garden Bench, 1873, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Bench won the National League Rookie of the Year Award, batting. 275 with 15 home runs and 82 RBIs, marking the first time the award had been won by a catcher.

Bench popularized the hinged catcher's mitt, first introduced by Randy Hundley of the Chicago Cubs.

Having huge hands ( a famous photograph features him holding seven baseballs in his right hand ), Bench also tended to block breaking balls in the dirt by scooping them with one hand instead of the more common and fundamentally proper way: dropping to both knees and blocking the ball using the chest protector to keep the ball in front.

In, Bench co-wrote the book Catch Every Ball: How to Handle Life's Pitches with Paul Daugherty, published by Orange Frazer Press.

The larger-than-life bronze statue by Tom Tsuchiya, shows Bench in the act of throwing out a base runner.

Between the Christian Center and Murrah Hall, which houses the Else School of Management, is the tomb of Major Millsaps and the " M " Bench, erected by the classes of 1926, 1927, and 1928.

The judicial arm is exercised by the Supreme Court, the Bench and Judges nationwide.

The members of the Supreme Court are elected by the General Assembly ; the members of the Bench by the Supreme Court with the consent of the Senate ; and the judges are directly assigned by the Supreme Court.

Both the clause in Magna Carta and the later statute of 1354 were again explained in 1704 ( during the reign of Queen Anne ) by the Queen's Bench, in the case of Regina v. Paty.

The Queen's Bench, in an opinion by Justice Powys, explained the meaning of " due process of law " as follows:

Although the Queen's Bench held that the House of Commons had not infringed or overturned due process, John Paty was ultimately freed by Queen Anne when she prorogued Parliament.

Also in that year he and other young Welsh Liberals founded a monthly paper Udgorn Rhyddid ( Bugle of Freedom ) and won on appeal to the Divisional Court of Queen's Bench the Llanfrothen burial case ; this established the right of Nonconformists to be buried according to their own denominational rites in parish burial grounds, a right given by the Burial Act 1880 that had up to then been ignored by the Anglican clergy.

He plainly told them, when witnesses were produced against him, that he came not thither with an intention to deny anything he had done, but rather to bring it to light, owning his name subscribed to the warrant for executing the King, to be written by himself ; charging divers of those who sat on the Bench, as his judges, to have been formerly as active for the cause, in which he had engaged, as himself or any other person ; affirming that he had not acted by any other motive than the principles of conscience and justice ; for proof of which he said it was well known, he had chosen to be separated from his family, and to suffer a long imprisonment rather than to comply with those who had abused the power they had assumed to the oppression of the people.

Johnny Lee Bench ( born December 7, 1947 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma ) is a former professional baseball catcher who played in the Major Leagues for the Cincinnati Reds from 1967 to 1983 and is a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

The Cincinnati Reds proclaimed September 17, 1983, " Johnny Bench Night " at Riverfront Stadium.

In, Bench starred as Joe Boyd / Joe Hardy in a Cincinnati stage production of the musical Damn Yankees, which also included Gwen Verdon and Gary Sandy.

On September 17, 2011, the Cincinnati Reds unveiled a statue of Bench at the entrance way of the Reds Hall of Fame at Great American Ball Park.

" He also said Johnny Bench ( who played for him in Cincinnati ) " will never throw a baseball as hard as Mike Heath " ( a catcher who played for him in Detroit ).

He came in third in the Most Valuable Player voting behind Billy Williams and winner Johnny Bench, his Cincinnati Reds teammate who had one of the best offensive seasons in the history of catchers that year (. 293 / 45 / 148 ), in addition to winning a Gold Glove.

* Johnny Bench, a former Major League Baseball player for the Cincinnati Reds from 1967 to 1983

Ray Knight replaced Pete Rose at third base for Cincinnati in 1979 and the rest of the Reds starting lineup still included six of the great eight: Bench, Morgan, Foster, Concepcion, Griffey and Geronimo.

After the 1970 World Series upon seeing him receive his World Series MVP award ceremony in which he received a brand new Toyota as part of his award, Cincinnati Reds catcher Johnny Bench said, " Gee!

Former Cincinnati catcher Johnny Bench, who by some is considered to be the best defensive catcher in baseball history, agreed to be the namesake for the annual award.

He is one of three Baseball Hall of Famers, along with Johnny Bench and Barry Larkin, who played their entire career in Cincinnati.

** Johnny Bench ( Cincinnati NL, C )

In attendance was Cincinnati Reds Hall of Famer Johnny Bench, who caught the ceremonial first pitch.

During this same period, he worked as the television play-by-play announcer for the Cincinnati Reds along side Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Bench.

He finished second only to the Cincinnati Reds ' Johnny Bench ( 40 ) in home runs that year.

Bench would become a star and a key player of the Cincinnati Reds ' 1975 and 1976 World Series championship teams and be widely regarded as one of the greatest catchers in Major League Baseball history.

** Johnny Bench, Cincinnati Reds, C ( NL )

* World Series: Cincinnati Reds over New York Yankees ( 4-0 ); Johnny Bench, MVP

** Johnny Bench, Cincinnati Reds, C ( NL )