She was a " social outlaw " ( as a friend described her ) by refusing to marry, by converting to Catholicism, by moving out of her older brother Benjamin's house in order to live alone, by suing him for complete control over her share of their father's estate, by moving to Rome, and, foremost, by continuing to write through it all, first as a dilettante and then as a self-supporting professional.

Benjamin's colleague Arthur Koestler, also fleeing Europe, attempted suicide by taking some of the morphine tablets, but he survived.

In these sources, Benjamin swore an oath, on the memory of Joseph, that he was innocent of theft, and, when challenged about how believable the oath would be, explained that remembering Joseph was so important to him that he had named his sons in Joseph's honour ; these sources go on to state that Benjamin's oath touched Joseph so deeply that Joseph was no longer able to pretend to be a stranger.

Wayne then pulls off Benjamin's face, revealing that he is actually Old Man Withers, who then remarks, true to Scooby-Doo form, " And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn't been for you snooping kids!

The Jewish refugee group he was travelling with were told by the Spanish police that they would be deported back to France, which would have destroyed Benjamin's plans to travel to the United States.

In correspondence, the two men discussed the difference in their conceptions of the relationship between critique and artworks which had become manifest through Benjamin's " The Work of Art in the Age of its Technical Reproducibility.

Adorno was chiefly influenced by Max Weber's critique of disenchantment, Georg Lukács's Hegelian interpretation of Marxism, as well as Walter Benjamin's philosophy of history.

* Robert D. Abrahams ', Mr. Benjamin's Sword ( 1948 ) is juvenile historical fiction which covers the period of Benjamin's escape from Union forces after the loss of Richmond.

This interpretation of Benjamin's place in history is based on the historical study, " Come Retribution ", a study of the Abraham Lincoln assassination.

According to the Torah, Benjamin's ( or in some countries, Biniam's ) name arose when Jacob deliberately corrupted the name Benoni, the original name of Benjamin, since Benoni was an allusion to Rachel's dying just after she had given birth, as it means son of my pain.

Some biographers contend that Benjamin's mother Mary was the daughter of Molly Walsh and Banneka.

Once he was old enough to help on his parents ' farm, Benjamin's formal education ended.

At the same time, the popular appetite for the Greek was sustained by architectural pattern books, the most important of which was Asher Benjamin's The Practical House Carpenter ( 1830 ).

Benjamin's father, a prosperous printer, stationer and publisher, was well known in Plymouth.

By 1852, Benjamin's reputation as an eloquent speaker with a subtle legal mind was sufficient to win him selection by the state legislature to the U. S. Senate.

William was raised by Benjamin Franklin and Deborah Read, Benjamin's common-law wife, whom he always referred to as his mother.

A manuscript of Benjamin's " On the Concept of History " was passed to Theodor Adorno by Hannah Arendt, who crossed the French-Spanish border at Portbou a few months later, and was subsequently published by the Institute for Social Research ( temporarily relocated to New York ) in 1942.

Bratt's paternal grandfather, George Cleveland Bratt ( March 5, 1893 – March 29, 1984 ), was a Broadway actor who married Benjamin's grandmother, Wiltrude Hildner, on August 6, 1920, in Detroit, Michigan.

It was originally supported by urban radio, but then crossed over to pop charts and became almost as big a pop hit as Benjamin's " Hey Ya !".

According to Agamben, Schmitt's conceptualization of the " state of exception " as belonging to the core-concept of sovereignty was a response to Walter Benjamin's concept of a " pure " or " revolutionary " violence, which did not enter into any relationship whatsoever with right.

In the scene when Richard Benjamin's character splashes the Gunslinger in the face with acid, Brynner's face was covered with an oil-based makeup mixed with ground Alka-Seltzer.

Benjamin's was first named the Farmers Inn and was for many years, also known as the Dominion Hotel.

A second recording of the trio ( also with Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn on piano ) performing with Sathima as vocalist was recorded, but remained unreleased until 1996 ( A Morning in Paris under Benjamin's name ).

This was the result of Benjamin's intention to have Elmira College "... rest upon a noble, broad and Catholic basis ” ( 85 ).

Benjamin was dragged away by security, and although her protest aired live on C-SPAN, the Wilson Center deleted the history of the incident from their records by editing the video and transcript so as to make it appear as though Benjamin's protest never occurred.

However, he found Arthur Benjamin's cantata Storm Clouds from the original 1934 film to be so well suited to the film that he declined.

Everyone in Miss Zarves ' class thinks his name is Benjamin Nushmutt, mirroring the fact that everyone in Mrs. Jewls's class thinks Benjamin's name is Mark Miller.

The work's current edition remains authoritative under the name Benjamin's Sale of Goods.

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.

Muslim tradition, however, fleshes out the details regarding Benjamin and refers to him as being born from Jacob's wife Rachel, and further links a connection, as does Jewish tradition, between the names of Benjamin's children and Joseph.

In hopes of retrieving Simeon and ensuring Benjamin's return, Israel told them to bring the best fruits of their land, including: balm, honey, spices, myrrh, pistachio nuts and almonds.

" In line with Benjamin's The Origin of German Tragic Drama and preliminary sketches of the Arcades Project, Adorno likened philosophical interpretation to experiments which should be conducted " until they arrive at figurations in which the answers are legible, while the questions themselves vanish.

Bea takes in boarders to defray expenses and assumes Benjamin's trade of door-to-door maple syrup sales, using his " B. Pullman " business cards to avoid the ubiquitous sexism of 1910s ' America.

A supporting vote is nonetheless passed and against his father's wishes, Benjamin's eldest son Gabriel ( Heath Ledger ) joins the Continental Army.

When Benjamin's young son Thomas tries to free Gabriel, he is shot and killed by Tavington, who orders the Martins ' house burned and wounded American regulars executed.

Benjamin's militia harass British supply lines, capture goods including some of Cornwallis ' belongings, and burn half the bridges and ferries leading to Charleston.

Irritated at his lack of progress and insulted by Benjamin's clever ploy to free some of the captured militia, Cornwallis reluctantly allows Tavington to use whatever means necessary.

Benjamin's family flees Charlotte's plantation as it is burned and settle on the coast in a Gullah settlement with former black slaves.

* Heath Ledger as Gabriel Martin: Benjamin's eldest son and child, he decides to join up with the Continental Army against his father's wishes.

* Joely Richardson as Charlotte Selton: Benjamin's sister-in-law and owner of a plantation.

She looks after Benjamin's children while he is fighting.

* Chris Cooper as Colonel Harry Burwell: One of Benjamin's commanding officers in the French and Indian War and a colonel of the Continental Army.

When his wife gives birth to their firstborn son, they name him after Benjamin's late eldest son, Gabriel.

* Donal Logue as Dan Scott: One of Benjamin's men.

* Leon Rippy as John Billings: One of Benjamin's neighbors and oldest friends who joins the militia.