Colonel Benjamin Ford wrote to Morgan from Wilmington that he understood a Mrs. Sanderson from Maryland had obtained permission from Smallwood to visit Philadelphia, and would return on May 26th, escorted by several officers from Maryland `` belonging to the new levies in the British service ''.

Aug. 4, 1821, nearly a century after Benjamin Franklin founded the Pennsylvania Gazette -- a century during which it had undergone several changes in ownership and a few brief suspensions in publication -- this paper made its first appearance as the Saturday Evening Post.

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.

At the suggestion of his friend Benjamin Ruff, Carnegie's partner Henry Clay Frick had formed the exclusive South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club high above Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

The Ark was again set up by Joshua at Shiloh, but when the Israelites fought against Benjamin at Gibeah, they had the Ark with them and consulted it after their defeat.

His father had Benjamin baptised in July 1817 following a dispute with their synagogue.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The description of Benjamin being born after the arrival in Canaan is thought by some scholars to refer to the tribe of Benjamin coming into existence by branching from the Joseph group after the tribe had settled in Canaan.

A number of biblical scholars suspect that the distinction of the Joseph tribes ( including Benjamin ) is that they were the only Israelites which went to Egypt and returned, while the main Israelite tribes simply emerged as a subculture from the Canaanites and had remained in Canaan throughout.

According to, Benjamin had ten sons: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.

Charles and Georgiana had eight children, but only four — Benjamin Herschel, Georgiana Whitmore, Dugald Bromhead and Henry Prevost — survived childhood.

Theologian Benjamin Wiker argues that Aristotle had ideas similar to those of some modern conservatives.

Though fascinated by the narrative elements of some of the pictures, particularly the Biblical themes of the massive paintings of Benjamin West, at this point Beaux had no aspirations of becoming an artist.

In this desire to seek to establish Biblical truth and test out orthodox Christian beliefs through independent scriptural study he was not alone and, amongst other churches, he also had links with Adventist movement and with Benjamin Wilson ( who later set up the Church of God of the Abrahamic Faith in the 1860s ).

Mariners had noticed that lightning strikes had the ability to disturb a compass needle, but the link between lightning and electricity was not confirmed until Benjamin Franklin's proposed experiments in 1752.

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 ).

His two Stanford teams went 9 – 3 in 1977 with a win in the Sun Bowl, and 8 – 4 in 1978 with a win in the Bluebonnet Bowl ; his notable players at Stanford included quarterbacks Guy Benjamin and Steve Dils, wide receivers James Lofton and Ken Margerum, and running back Darrin Nelson.

The etymology of the name Benjamin is a matter of dispute, though most agree that it is composed of two parts-ben and jamin-the former meaning son of.

Frances Benjamin Johnston ( right ) poses with two cross-dressing friends, the " lady " is identified by Johnston as the illustrator Mills Thompson

For example, Dorset farmer Benjamin Jesty successfully vaccinated and presumably induced immunity with cowpox in his wife and two children during a smallpox epidemic in 1774, but it was not until Jenner's work some twenty years later that the procedure became widely understood.

" Scenes from Ellis Island " ( for guitar ensemble, piano, double bass, two violins and percussion ) was composed by American classical guitarist Benjamin Verdery, and was inspired by a visit to Ellis Island.

It focuses on two couples, Buddy and Sally Durant Plummer and Benjamin and Phyllis Rogers Stone, who are attending the reunion.

Benjamin Z. Kedar estimates that there were between three hundred thousand and three hundred and sixty thousand non-Franks in the Kingdom, two hundred and fifty thousand of whom were villagers in the countryside, and " one may assume that Muslims were in the majority in some, possibly most parts of the kingdom of Jerusalem …" As Ronnie Ellenblum points out, there simply is not enough existing evidence to accurately count the population and any estimate is inherently unreliable.

* L. S. Benjamin, Life and Letters ( two volumes, 1912 )

Professor Benjamin Ward Richardson stated in Disciples of Aesculapius that " the true student of medicine reads Laennec's treatise on mediate auscultation and the use of the stethoscope once in two years at least as long as he is in practice.

Richard Rush of Pennsylvania, a representative of President Jackson who helped to present a compromise to both governors. On April 3, 1835, Jackson sent two representatives from Washington, D. C., Richard Rush of Pennsylvania and Benjamin Chew Howard of Maryland, to Toledo to arbitrate the conflict and present a compromise to both governments.

Grant's two Attorney Generals Amos T. Akerman and George H. Williams, in addition to Solicitor General Benjamin Bristow, effectively prosecuted and shut down the Ku Klux Klan by 1872 through the use of the Force Acts passed by President Grant and Congress.

When Thomas Jefferson moved into the house in 1801, he ( with architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe ) expanded the building outward, creating two colonnades that were meant to conceal stables and storage.

* May 1 – Benjamin LaGuer, American prisoner proclaiming innocence for more than two decades

* November – Crews on two ships commanded by Benjamin Hornigold and Edward Teach attack and capture the British-built French guineyman " Concorde " in the eastern Caribbean.

Sousa's band played at two Inaugural Balls, those of James A. Garfield in 1881, and Benjamin Harrison in 1889.

Benjamin Franklin and Henry Tucker Sr. ( a colonel of the Bermuda Militia, and a former President of the Privy Council, whose son, Henry Tucker, was then President of the Privy Council and son-in-law to Governor Breure, and whose other two sons were a colonel in the Virginia Militia and a politician in the rebel administration ), orchestrated the theft of a hundred barrels of gunpowder from a magazine in St. George's, which was supplied to the Americans.

Based on these two men's reports, two French astronomers, Benjamin Valz and Rodolphe Radau, independently calculated the object ’ s supposed orbital period, with Valz deriving a figure of 17 days and 13 hours, and Radau a figure of 19 days and 22 hours.

His creations include such masterpieces as Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony-Concerto, Dmitri Shostakovich's two cello concertos, Benjamin Britten's Cello-Symphony ( which emphasizes, as its title suggests, the equal importance of soloist and orchestra ), Henri Dutilleux ' Tout un monde lointain, Witold Lutosławski's cello concerto, Dmitri Kabalevsky's two cello concertos, Aram Khachaturian's Concerto-Rhapsody, Arvo Pärt's Pro et Contra, Alfred Schnittke, André Jolivet and Krzysztof Penderecki second cello concertos, Sofia Gubaidulina's Canticles of the Sun, Luciano Berio's Ritorno degli Snovidenia, Leonard Bernstein's Three Meditations, James MacMillan's cello concerto and Olivier Messiaen's Concert à quatre ( a quadruple concerto for cello, piano, oboe, flute and orchestra ).

In the spring of 1875 he applied for the Archaeological Travelling Studentship offered by Oxford, but, as he says in a letter to Freeman later in life, he was turned down thanks to the efforts of Benjamin Jowett and Charles Thomas Newton, two Oxford dons having a low opinion of his work there.

Among the graduates from this campus are two former U. S. Vice Presidents, Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale, former NAACP president Roy Wilkins, several Nobel prize winners, several athletes such as Ric Flair, Kevin McHale, Dave Winfield, Patty Berg, Brock Lesnar, Curt Hennig, Shelton Benjamin, Bobby Jackson of the NBA, and composer Yanni.

Jacob's twelve sons ( in order of birth ), Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph and Benjamin, become the ancestors of twelve tribes, with the exception of Joseph, whose two sons Mannasseh and Ephraim become tribal eponyms.

A younger Benjamin Davis Wilson ca.

Benjamin and Gabriel resolve to fight the British, leaving the younger children in the care of Benjamin's sister-in-law, Charlotte ( Joely Richardson ).

Among younger men under Owen's leadership and influence include: Benjamin Shumard Franklin, for whom the Shumard oak is named, was appointed state geologist of Texas by Governor Hardin R. Runnels ; Amos Henry Worthen was the second state geologist of Illinois and the first curator of the Illinois State Museum ; and Fielding Bradford Meek became the first full-time paleontologist in lier of salary at the Smithsonian Institution.

In Bliss's later years, his work was respected but was thought old-fashioned, and it was eclipsed by the music of younger colleagues such as William Walton and Benjamin Britten.

The deputy sheriff of Monroe County, Joseph Wood, was commissioned to arrest Two Stickney of Toledo ( son of Major Benjamin Stickney, younger brother of One Stickney ; see above ) for allegedly having resisted two Michigan officers by force.

Benjamin and his younger siblings, Georg ( 1895 – 1942 ) and Dora ( 1901 – 1946 ) were born to a wealthy business family of assimilated Ashkenazi Jews in the Berlin of the German Empire ( 1871 – 1918 ).

His business was continued after his death by his younger brother, Benjamin Edward Reina Newlands ( 1842 – 1912 ).

Henry was the third of seven children, one of whom ( his younger brother, Benjamin Dale ) became an accomplished composer and warden of the Royal Academy of Music.

This last war ( famous for the defence of La Rochelle by Benjamin de Rohan-Soubise, Henri's younger brother ) was one of considerable danger for Henri.

When Prince Justin ( the King's younger brother ) goes missing while searching for Wizard Suliman ( Benjamin Sullivan, also from Wales ), the King orders Howl to find Suliman and Justin and kill the Witch of the Waste.

One of them, Sayid Jarrah, encounters the younger version of Benjamin Linus, the leader of the Others, and a man who has committed various acts such as betraying the Dharma Initiative and causing their complete genocide by the Others, the manipulation and deceit towards various people on the show and caused much strife to Sayid personally including recruiting him to become an assassin during his wife's funeral.

Benjamin has been a teacher and mentor to such younger composers as Luke Bedford and Dai Fujikura.

Benjamin Netanyahu's younger brother.

It is believed Kollwitz suffered from anxiety during her childhood due to the death of her siblings, including the early death of her younger brother, Benjamin.

However, his younger brother Benjamin Mildmay successfully petitioned for the peerage in 1667 and was summoned to the House of Lords as the seventeenth Baron FitzWalter.

Benjamin Bathurst, younger son of the second Earl, was a diplomat best known for his sudden disappearance in 1809.

The politician Charles Bathurst ( who was born Charles Bragge and assumed the surname of Bathurst in 1804 ), was the son of Anne Bathurst, granddaughter of Sir Benjamin Bathurst, younger brother of the first Earl Bathurst.

Shortly after Saucedo's ruling, Edwards left to recruit more settlers from the United States, leaving his younger brother Benjamin in charge of the colony.

His younger son was Montagu Corry, 1st Baron Rowton, private secretary to Benjamin Disraeli.

The latter was the son of Charles Bragge and Anne Bathurst, granddaughter of Sir Benjamin Bathurst, younger brother of Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst.

Benjamin Hall the younger married Augusta Waddington of Llanover.

Ann Prentiss, younger sister of actress Paula and sister-in-law of actor Richard Benjamin, played Candy.

Through his business he became acquainted with Alexander Henry the younger, Simon McTavish and the brothers Thomas, Benjamin and Joseph Frobisher.

Born Charles Bragge, Bathurst was the son of Charles Bragge, of Cleve Hill in Gloucestershire, and his wife Anne Bathurst, the granddaughter of Sir Benjamin Bathurst, younger brother of Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst.