Sometime in the early 1850s, the original plaque marking Allen's grave disappeared ; its original text was preserved by early war historian Benson Lossing in the 1840s.

Benson Lossing claimed it was used by all the Presidents of the Congress after 1782, probably to seal envelopes on correspondence sent to the Congress, though only examples from Thomas Mifflin are documented.

This first exposure to explosive powder and metal was met with " superstitious awe ," in the words of Lossing, who added:

Benson Lossing ( writing in 1856 ) claimed it was used by all the Presidents of the Congress after 1782, though only two examples from Thomas Mifflin are documented today: Lossing described a 1784 letter, and Commodore Byron McCandless ( while doing research for the 1945 seal redesign ) photographed a seal on a November 17, 1783 Mifflin letter to the Governor of Rhode Island.

The president's seal was described by Benson Lossing in 1856 as " round, with an eagle upon it " ( contrasting it to the seal used during the Continental Congress ).

Benson John Lossing ( February 12, 1813 – June 3, 1891 ) was a prolific and popular American historian, known best for his illustrated books on the American Revolution and American Civil War and features in Harper's Magazine.

Lossing was born February 12, 1813 in Beekman, New York.

A written reminiscence of the Lossing family and life in 19th century New York was assembled by his son, Thomas Sweet Lossing ; edited by his great-nephew, Peter Hannaford, it was published as My Heart Goes Home in 1997 ( Purple Mountain Press, Fleischmanns, New York ).

Out of that publication grew a semi-monthly literary paper, the Poughkeepsie Casket, which Lossing helped illustrate with wood engravings.

In 1835, Lossing became part owner and editor of the Poughkeepsie Telegraph.

According to Benson Lossing in 1856, who claimed to have a wax impression, Congress later ordered a version half the size to impress wax and paper.

In the July 1856 Harper's New Monthly Magazine, historian Benson John Lossing wrote an article on the Great Seal.

* Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, I, by Benson J. Lossing, 1850.

* Lossing, Benson John ( 1866 / 1997 ), Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War, reprint, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins.

* Lossing, Benson John Pictoral Fieldbook of the Revolution.

* Lossing, B. J.

In the words of historian Benjamin Lossing, Canonicus " regarded the advent of the white men with a jealous fear " and in 1622 he challenged the Plymouth colony, in front of a force of about 5, 000 men.

Sketch of the Vechte House, made in 1850 by Benson J. Lossing

* Lossing, Benson John.

* Maniak, Peter J., Lossing, Ryan D., and Sorenson, Peter W. " Injured Eurasian ruffe, Gymnocephalus cernuus, release an alarm pheromone that could be used to control their dispersal.

Tecumseh, by Benson Lossing in 1848 based on 1808 drawing.

Tecumseh, by Benson Lossing in 1848 based on 1808 drawing.

* Lossing, Benson John and William Barritt.

* Lossing, Benson John, The Pictorial Field-book of the Revolution.

* Lossing, Benson John, The Pictorial Field-book of the Revolution.

* Lossing, Benson John, The Pictorial Field-book of the Revolution.

Benson J. Lossing.

* Melanchrus-he was overthrown sometime between 612 BC and 609 BC by a faction that, in addition to the brothers of Alcaeus, included Pittacus ( later renowned as one of the Seven Sages of Greece ); Alcaeus at that time was too young to be actively involved ;

In the years before the Tokugawa shogunate, that innovative daimyo from Western Japan had been actively involved in negotiating trade and diplomatic treaties with Spain and with the colonies of New Spain ( Mexico ) and the Philippines ; and it was anticipated that the mere presence of the Princess could serve to underscore the range of possibilities which could be inferred from that little-known history.

With the establishment of the Soviet system and the entrenchment of a proletarian cultural direction — the culture of the working classes, which included that of village labourers — was actively supported by the Soviet establishment.

A second edition of Bunnies & Burrows was printed in 1982 by Fantasy Games Unlimited, although the continuing popularity of the first edition is evidenced by how it was still being actively played in 2008.

Parking nightmares had plagued the city as far back as the 1950s, the little park lacked modern amenities, and New York City, which in 1957 had lost both its National League teams ( the Dodgers and the Giants ) to Los Angeles and San Francisco, respectively, was actively courting Reds owner Powel Crosley.

Cheka was actively and openly utilizing kidnapping methods.

Because of the strength of the Communist Party of China and the importance of the Marxist interpretation of history in legitimizing its rule, it was for many years difficult for historians within the PRC to actively argue in favor of non-Marxist and anti-Marxist interpretations of history.

Watson finds that rigid caste strata system continued after China's communist revolution, and was actively exploited in rural regions by party officials for control, at least through 1960s.

Parliament was actively hostile towards the Spanish throne, and thus, when called by James, hoped for a crusade under the leadership of the king to rescue Protestants on the continent from Habsburg rule.

Classical deism held that a human's relationship with God was impersonal: God created the world and set it in motion but does not actively intervene in individual human affairs but rather through Divine Providence.

In 1970s and early 1980s, a subculture of C / SCSC analysis grew, but the technique was often ignored or even actively resisted by project managers in both government and industry.

He took vows as a canon regular at the canonry of Stein, in South Holland, and was ordained to the Catholic priesthood at about the age of 25, but he never seemed to have actively worked as a priest for a longer time, and certain tenets of life in Religious Orders were among the chief objects of his attack in his lifelong assault upon Church excesses.

The exclusion of all but one god was a radical departure from Egyptian tradition and some see Akhenaten as a practitioner of monolatry rather than monotheism, as he did not actively deny the existence of other gods ; he simply refrained from worshipping any but the Aten.

Mostly popularist in a rococo style, the cartoons were completed early in his career, when he was largely unknown and actively seeking commissions.

At the time the Futurians were formed, Donald Wollheim was strongly attracted by communism and believed that followers of science fiction " should actively work for the realization of the scientific world-state as the only genuine justification for their activities and existence ".

In version 0. 4 of the protocol, the number of actively connected nodes for a client was quite small ( around 5 ), so each node then forwarded the request to all its actively connected nodes, and they in turn forwarded the request, and so on, until the packet reached a predetermined number of hops from the sender ( maximum 7 ).

Finally, when a user disconnects, the client software saves the list of nodes that it was actively connected to and those collected from pong packets for use the next time it attempts to connect so that it becomes independent from any kind of bootstrap services.

Moreover, the US military was actively developing technologies to deny GPS service to potential adversaries on a regional basis.

Mullan was actively involved in the scheme to create the first monument to a goalkeeper in the Western World with the assistance of Banks ' legendary teammate Terry Conroy and emerging local sculptor Andrew Edwards.

The influence of the grateful new queen being actively exerted on Alberoni's behalf — the princesse des Ursins having been chased out — within not much more than a year Alberoni was made a duke and grandee of Spain, a member of the king's council, appointed bishop of Málaga, and in 1715 prime minister, and was made cardinal by Pope Clement XI, under pressure from the court of Spain, in July 1717.

The CDH subsystem was actively redundant, with two parallel data system buses running at all times.