A film version of the book, starring Morgan Freeman, Fred Ward and Greg Kinnear and directed by Robert Benton, was released in 2007.

Glen Benton, 2009 Deicide was formed in Tampa, Florida on July 21, 1987, after guitarist Brian Hoffman called Glen Benton, replying to an advertisement the latter had placed in a local music magazine.

After a number of lineup changes, Benton assumed the additional role of vocals and the band was renamed Carnage.

As the record was coming out, Benton considered retiring from music, in the midst of personal matters including a custody battle.

In June 2010, Glen Benton revealed that the next Deicide album was to be titled To Hell with God.

Benton had professed beliefs in theistic satanism during Deicide's early years, claimed to slaughter rodents for fun, and that he held beliefs in demonic possession and that he was possessed.

At first, Benton blamed that attack on the Norwegian black metal scene, where Deicide's brand of death metal was despised.

In January 1996, the Britannica was purchased from the Benton Foundation by billionaire Swiss financier Jacqui Safra, who serves as its current Chair of the Board.

Thomas Hart Benton was among those speaking forcibly against the measure.

On April 25 in a house speech that biographer William Nisbet Chambers called “ long, passionate, historical, polemical ,” Benton attacked the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, which he “ had stood upon ... above thirty years, and intended to stand upon it to the end -- solitary and alone, if need be ; but preferring company .” The speech was distributed afterwards as a pamphlet when opposition to the act moved outside the walls of congress.

This village's focal point was the Benton House, a 4-story hotel which opened in 1848.

Brook Benton was at the top of the R & B charts in 1959 and 1960 with one # 1 and two # 2 hits.

The tempera medium was used by American artists such as the Regionalists Andrew Wyeth, Thomas Hart Benton and his student Roger Medearis ; expressionists Ben Shahn, Mitchell Siporin and John Langley Howard, magic realists George Tooker, Paul Cadmus, Jared French, Julia Thecla and Louise E. Marianetti ; Art Students League of New York instructors Kenneth Hayes Miller and William C. Palmer, Social Realists Isabel Bishop, Reginald Marsh, and Noel Rockmore, Edward Laning, Anton Refregier, Jacob Lawrence, Rudolph F. Zallinger, Robert Vickrey, Peter Hurd, and science fiction artist John Schoenherr, notable as the cover artist of Dune.

Originally stemmed from ideas of Sierra's adventure game Softporn Adventure created by designer Chuck Benton, the " Larry " games were one of Sierra's most popular game series during the genre's heyday when it was first released in the mid 1980s.

In the Senate, led by Thomas Hart Benton ( Democrat ), the bill was passed without the proviso.

Population growth for the 1990s was projected at 7. 9 % in Kittitas County, 19. 7 % in Yakima County, and 22. 7 % in Benton County.

It was named after Missouri Senator Thomas Hart Benton.

Benton County was created out of Klickitat County and Yakima County on March 8, 1905.

The outline was then traced by a Benton pantograph-based engraving machine with a pointer at the hand-held vertex and a cutting tool at the opposite vertex down to a size usually less than a quarter-inch ( 6 mm ).

Arguably the first superfamily was created when Morris Fuller Benton created Clearface Gothic for ATF in 1910, a sans serif companion to the existing ( serifed ) Clearface.

The screenplay was written by David Newman and Robert Benton.

Some sources claim Godard didn't trust Hollywood and refused ; Richard Benton claimed that Godard wanted to shoot the film in New Jersey in January and took offense when would-be producer Norah Wright objected that was unreasonable considering the story took place in Texas with its year round warm environment while her partner, Elinor Jones, claimed they did not believe Godard was right for the project in the first place.

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.

Thomas Hart Benton ( March 14, 1782April 10, 1858 ), nicknamed " Old Bullion ", was a U. S. Senator from Missouri and a staunch advocate of westward expansion of the United States.

In 1914, Hooper was defeated in his bid for a third term in offie by Democrat Thomas Clarke Rye, a Prohibition advocate from Benton County in western Tennessee.

Benton declared himself to be against slavery in 1849, and in 1851 Atchison allied with the Whigs to defeat Benton for re-election.

Benton, intending to challenge Atchison in 1854, began to agitate for territorial organization of the area west of Missouri ( now the states of Kansas and Nebraska ) so it could be opened to settlement.

Most of the controversy surrounded frontman Benton for a rash of shocking interviews and wild statements.

During the senate adjournment, the issues of the railroad and the repeal of the Missouri Compromise became entangled in Missouri politics as Atchison campaigned for re-election against the forces of Thomas Hart Benton.

Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri -- " What is the excuse for all this turmoil and mischief?

As chair of the Judiciary Committee, he brought forward a number of measures for the improvement of judicial procedure and, in May 1826, joined with Senator Thomas Hart Benton in reporting on executive patronage.

The Disneys remained in Marceline for four years, before moving to Kansas City in 1911 where Walt and his younger sister Ruth attended the Benton Grammar School.

* 2008: A September 2008 report revealed that Benton County, of which Corvallis makes up the majority of the population, is ranked 5th for longest life expectancy at birth of all counties in the United States, at 80. 93 years.

* Best Writing, Story and Screenplay-Written Directly for the Screen-David Newman and Robert Benton

Benton County was established on December 18, 1832, named for Thomas Hart Benton, a member of the United States Senate from Missouri, with its county seat at Jacksonville.

( Jessie Street, in the town of Mariposa, is named for Fremont's wife, Jessie Benton Frémont, who came to Mariposa to live with him.

Benton and Frederick Streets ( the name changes at the intersection with King Street in the foreground ) form one of the most important corridors for traffic and public transit routes entering Downtown Kitchener.

Benton, Democratic Party leader for more than 30 years in the Senate, championed the expansionist movement, a political cause that became known as Manifest Destiny.

This movement became a crusade for politicians such as Benton and his new son-in-law.

Benton pushed appropriations through Congress for national surveys of the Oregon Trail ( 1842 ), the Oregon Territory ( 1844 ), the Great Basin, and Sierra Mountains to California ( 1845 ).

He is assigned to Benton, who proceeds to give Carter a hard time.

A Jacksonian Democrat and follower of Missouri Senator Thomas Hart Benton, Reynolds generally adhered to their limited-government, hard currency viewpoints.