Ownership has changed many times, past owners including the Scottish publisher A & C Black, Horace Everett Hooper, Sears Roebuck and William Benton.

While much of the growth in Benton and Yakima counties has been in and around the incorporated areas, most of the growth in Kittitas County has been in unincorporated areas.

The area of south-central Washington occupied by Benton County has been known primarily as an agricultural hub since its settlement by white Americans.

Named for Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto, whose name has also been honored in De Soto County, Hernando County was briefly renamed Benton County in 1844 for Missouri Senator Thomas Hart Benton, a strong supporter of territorial expansion who aided in the county's creation.

This section of I-57 has been the site of several interstate closing accidents in the past 10 years, including an incident involving a train derailment over the interstate near Benton in July 2004 and several fatal accidents in various construction zones.

Benton County has the lowest church attendance per capita of any county in the nation ( 25 % attendance ).

Since then, it has since become a pop standard, recorded hundreds of times by artists including Cliff Richard, The Four Tops, Isaac Hayes, Jackie DeShannon, Van Morrison, Nat " King " Cole, Brook Benton, Elton John, Mel Carter, Barry Manilow, and Keith Jarrett.

Local lore has it that residents convinced the reconstruction government that Benton County was to be named for U. S. Senator Thomas Hart Benton, but the name was actually chosen to honor Confederate General Samuel Benton from nearby Holly Springs.

As Benton ( 1986, 58 ) has pointed out, " To eyes unaccustomed to the architecture of Barcelona, the impression of a riot of ornament lacking any logic or control seems overwhelming.

Students attend Otterbein Elementary School and then move to Benton Central Jr-Sr School which has an Oxford, Indiana address.

Since the end of 2008 the railroad right-of-way has been used for the placement of poles that carry electric power from the wind turbines in western Benton County to the substation at Montmorenci.

Whirlpool has its world headquarters outside Benton Harbor.

Jerusalem has been divided to form other towns in the county: in 1803, the Town of Benton was taken from Jerusalem, and itself later divided to make other towns.

Debbie Benton ( Bambi Woods ) is the captain of her high school cheerleading squad, and has been accepted to try out for the Texas Cowgirls.

Wallis has speculated that the Dolan faction created the Kid's image to distract the public's attention from their activities and those of their influential supporters in Santa Fe, notably the regional political leader Thomas Benton Catron.

Among the four-shape systems, the Southern Harmony has remained in continuous use at one singing in Benton, Kentucky, and is now experiencing a small amount of regrowth.

Uniquely, Benton has been the subject of biographical study by two men who later became presidents of the United States.

Poe scholar Richard P. Benton has stated his belief that " Poe's protagonist is an Englished version of the French Montrésor " and has argued forcefully that Poe's model for Montresor " was Claude de Bourdeille, Count of Montrésor, the 17th-century political conspirator in the entourage of King Louis XIII's weak-willed brother, Gaston d ' Orléans ".

Chamorro language has suffered from suppression by the Americans who banned Chamorro language completely in schools in 1922 and collected all Chamorro dictionaries and burned them ( Skutnabb-Kangas 2000: 206 ; Mühlhäusler 1996: 109 ; Benton 1981: 122 ).

Whatever the result, during the 1980s and 1990s Little Rock teachers repeatedly went on strike, and many residents relocated to the smaller communities around Little Rock, including Cabot, Benton, Bryant, Conway, and Maumelle.

Benton reportedly stormed into Roadrunner Records ' A & R man Monte Connors ' office and presented him with the demo, saying, " Sign us, you fucking asshole!

The county is divided into thirty-seven townships: Antelope, Athol, Belle Plaine, Belmont, Benton, Beotia, Buffalo, Capitola, Clifton, Conde, Cornwall, Crandon, Exline, Frankfort, Garfield, Great Bend, Groveland, Harmony, Harrison, Jefferson, Lake, La Prairie, Lincoln, Lodi, Mellette, Northville, Olean, Prairie Center, Redfield, Richfield, Spring, Sumner, Tetonka, Three Rivers, Tulare, Turton, Union.

The county is divided into twenty-four townships: Brandon, Benton, Buffalo, Burk, Clear Lake, Dell Rapids, Edison, Grand Meadow, Hartford, Highland, Humboldt, Logan, Lyons, Mapleton, Palisade, Red Rock, Sioux Falls, Split Rock, Sverdrup, Taopi, Valley Springs, Wall Lake, Wayne, Wellington.

The county is divided into sixteen townships: Benton, Bridgewater, Brookfield, Canistota, Emery, Grant, Greenland, Jefferson, Pearl, Montrose, Union, Ramsey, Richland, Salem, Spring Valley, Sun Prairie.

Gregor Benton compiled and translated into English the last of Chen Duxiu's writings, publishing them under the title " Chen Duxiu's last articles and letters, 1937-1942 ".

The headwaters of the Wolf River meander and braid their way north and west across northern Benton County from Baker's Pond, the river's source spring ( highest origin of continuous flow ) in the Holly Springs National Forest approximately one mile southwest of where U. S. Highway 72 passes into Tippah County, Mississippi.

* Lake Benton: about two thirds of the lake is in Diamond Lake Township ; a small part stretches eastward into Marshfield Township and the southern third is in Lake Benton Township

Another line, part of the New York Central Railroad, was built through the area in 1903 ; locally, it ran northeast from Danville into Warren County, then turned north through the small towns of Sloan and Stewart and continued north into Benton County.

After 1881, with the building of the railroad through nearby Garfield and Avoca, and with the rise of the new city of Rogers ( all in Benton County ), the area ’ s apple industry grew quite strong, supplying an economic boon to Pea Ridge and the county during the late nineteenth century and into the 1920s.

Shannahan and Joe Enright bought of land from Lem Benton and had it divided into 12 lots.

It occupies mostly flat, open farm land on the eastern border of Benton County in Bolivar Township, with eastern sections of the community extending into Tippecanoe County.

" In the mid-1960s, the Fair Plain School District, together with others, was consolidated into the School District of the City of Benton Harbor.

The location was steered by a plan to develop freight hauling up Alkali Creek to Ft Benton and beyond into the productive Judith and Musselshell Basins.

* Kashong Point – A projection into Seneca Lake, partly in the northeast of Benton.

North Abington is home to part of Lackawanna State Park, which also stretches into Benton Township.

The village is located mostly within the Town of Hazel Green in Grant County ; only a small portion extends into the Town of Benton in Lafayette County.

When Lucas ran into him at the voting polls he accused Benton of being delinquent in paying his taxes and thus should not be allowed to vote.

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 made the territory into a state, and Benton was elected as one of its first senators.

As a result of boundary revisions for the 2010 general election the Crosby constituency was abolished and Crosby town was divided between two constituencies, with the two electoral wards of southern Crosby, Church and Victoria, containing the urbanised bulk of the town which includes the areas of Great Crosby, Waterloo and Seaforth, being absorbed into the expanded Bootle constituency, represented by the Labour MP Joe Benton, and the two electoral wards of northern Crosby, Blundellsands and Manor, which contains residential suburban areas such as, Blundellsands, Brighton-Le-Sands, Little Crosby, Thornton, and Hightown, forming part of the new Sefton Central constituency represented by Bill Esterson, also a Labour MP.

Sergeant Benton lets the Doctor escape, and when he is recaptured the Brigadier asserts his authority to take the Doctor into UNIT custody rather than the regular Army ’ s.

Some taxonomists, such as Benton ( 2004 ), have co-opted the term to fit into traditional rank-based classifications, making Sauropsida and Synapsida class-level taxa to replace the traditional Class Reptilia, while Modesto and Anderson ( 2004 ), using the PhyloCode standard, have suggested replacing the name Sauropsida with their redefinition of Reptilia, arguing that the latter is by far better known and should have priority.

Large numbers of Media Lab-developed technologies made it into products, such as the LEGO Mindstorms and the LEGO WeDo and the pointing stick in IBM laptops, the Benton hologram used in most credit cards, the Fisher-Price's Symphony Painter, the Nortel Wireless Mesh Network, the NTT Comware Sensetable, the Taito ’ s Karaoke-on-Demand Machine.