Benga had been freed from slave traders in the Congo by the missionary Samuel Phillips Verner, who had taken him to Missouri.

Verner was unable to persuade any villagers to join him until Benga spoke of how the muzungu had saved his life, the bond that had grown between them, and his own curiosity about the world Verner came from.

The group arrived in St. Louis, Missouri without Verner, who had been taken ill with malaria, in late June 1904, after the Louisiana Purchase Exposition had already begun.

Meanwhile, Verner was struggling financially and had made little progress in his negotiations with the museum.

When Verner first moved to the United States, the male member of a popular ice-skating pair had the surname Vernon ; Americans continually mistook Verner's last name to be the same as the popular ice skater, and eventually the magician became fed up with correcting people and simply adopted " Vernon " as well.

The Czech Egyptologist Miroslav Verner who has been excavating the Old Kingdom pyramids on behalf of the University of Prague in Egypt since 1976 concurs with the view that Nyuserre had a reign in excess of 30 years.

Verner posited that the labor was organized into a hierarchy, consisting of two gangs of 100, 000 men, divided into five zaa or phyle of 20, 000 men each, which may have been further divided according to the skills of the workers.

This law reinstated the Sherbert Test, which was set forth by Sherbert v. Verner, and Wisconsin v. Yoder, mandating that strict scrutiny be used when determining if the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, guaranteeing religious freedom, has been violated.

Previous Ministers have been Josée Verner and Mauril Bélanger.

The Czech Egyptologist Miroslav Verner maintains, however, that it cannot have been as long as 20 years due to the unfinished state of Neferirkare's Abusir pyramid complex.

It has been stated by Prentice during a confrontation with the public demanding details on the bill that " When Canadian Heritage Minister Josée Verner and I have reached a consensus and we're satisfied, we will introduce a bill.

The first member of the family is speculated to have been Verner Braghde from Halland.

The Czech Egyptologist, Miroslav Verner, who has been excavating at Abusir since 1976, states in a 2001 journal article that:

The only artifacts known for Shepseskare's reign are several clay sealings from Abusir, where the king may have been buried, and two cylinder seals, according to the respected Czech Egyptologist Miroslav Verner.

* 1956 Towards Zero ( dramatised by Gerald Verner )

Key contributions were made by the Danish scholars Rasmus Rask and Karl Verner and the German scholar Jacob Grimm.

* Sverige ( hymn ), a hymn with lyrics by Verner von Heidenstam and music by Wilhelm Stenhammar

Verner's law, stated by Karl Verner in 1875, describes a historical sound change in the Proto-Germanic language whereby voiceless fricatives * f, * þ, * s, * h, * hʷ, when immediately following an unstressed syllable in the same word, underwent voicing and became respectively the fricatives * b, * d, * z, * g, * gʷ.

Verner, whose interest in languages was stimulated by reading about the work of Rasmus Christian Rask, began his university studies in 1864.

S Chair, Designed by Verner Panton

The Badly Drawn Boy band throughout this successful period consisted of musicians Matt Wardle ( Keyboards / Vocals ), Robin File ( Guitar ), Sean Mcann ( Bass ) latterly replaced by ex Smiths bassist Andy Rourke, Dave Verner ( Drums ).

* More than 120 items designed by Verner Panton on architonic. com: with images, informations and auction results

This was won in 1925 by Morley Horder and Verner Rees who located the main entrance in Keppel Street.

Brought from the Kasai River, Congo Free State, South Central Africa, by Dr. Samuel P. Verner.

* Verner E. Suomi Award by the American Meteorological Society

The Hall of Fame Museum Building is designed by the museum architecture specialist firm of E. Verner Johnson and Associates of Boston, Massachusetts.

tral Africa, by Dr. Samuel P. Verner.

The display is still labeled " Pygmy ", rather than indicating Benga's name, despite objections beginning a century ago from Verner and repeated by others.

* 2002, Ota Benga was the subject of the short documentary Ota Benga: A Pygmy in America directed by the Brazilian Alfeu França, who incorporated original movies recorded by Verner in the early 20th century.

The 428 seat Matthew and Marcia Simons IMAX ® Theatre opened in 2001 in a separate building designed by E. Verner Johnson and Associates.

The inflectional type is usually accepted to reach back into Proto-Indo-European times, with an exact correspondence of Sanskrit and Old Norse ylgr, both meaning " she-wolf ", first described by Karl Verner in 1877 ( see Verner's law ).

After losing her seat in the House of Commons in the 2011 election, Verner was appointed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to the Canadian Senate on May 18, 2011.

Designed by E. Verner Johnson and Associates, the new building included an Omnimax, now called IMAX Dome theater, as well as a pedestrian bridge over 64 / 40.

However, the lead government scientist, Dr. Susan Verner, is killed by the children after being forced to show them the preserved stillborn corpse who was intended to be David's partner.

" Verner von Heidenstam however, one of his opponents in the feud, in his book Karolinerna instead " emphasized the heroic steadfastness of the Swedish people in the somber years of trial during the long-drawn-out campaigns of Karl XII " ( Scott ).

Verner Panton ( 13 February 1926 – 5 September 1998 ) is considered one of Denmark's most influential 20th-century furniture and interior designers.

Karl Verner identified the principle that these instead become the voiced consonants * b, * d, * g, * gʷ if they were word-internal and immediately preceded by an unaccented vowel in PIE.

Verner wrote, " We can conclude that although the ancient Egyptians could not precisely define the value of π, in practice they used it ".

* 1968: Verner E. Suomi for his imagination, ingenuity, and versatility in conceiving and designing diverse meteorological sensors which have helped to transform the satellite as a meteorological probe from a dream to a reality.

One example was Sherbert v. Verner, where the Court overturned the state Employment Security Commission's decision to deny unemployment benefits to a practicing member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church who was forced out of a job after her employer adopted a 6 day work week, which would have required her to work on Saturdays against the dictates of her religion.

According to Miroslav Verner, Djedkare Isesi's highest known date is a Year 22 IV Akhet day 12 papyrus, which would belong anywhere from Year 32 to Year 44 of his reign depending on whether the Cattle Count was Bi-annual ( 2 times ) or semi-annual ( 1. 5 times ).

Industry Minister Jim Prentice and Josée Verner are currently working on a Copyright Act amendment bill which is set to be introduced ( at least in part ) on June 12, 2008.

In this paper Hamilton discusses sex ratios as strategies in a game, and cites Verner as using this language in his 1965 paper which " claims to show that, given factors causing fluctuations of the population's primary sex ratio, a 1: 1 sex-ratio production proves the best overall genotypic strategy ".

Verner concludes that based on the position of a mason's inscribed Year 1 date from Neferefre's reign which was found " on a large corner block situated at the end of the tunnel for the descending corridor ... at about two thirds of the height of the extant core of the monument ", Neferefre reign lasted " not longer than about two years.

Verner advocates the hypothesis that Shepseskare succeeded, rather than preceded, Neferefre based upon the archaeological context of the 1982 discovery of several new clay seal impressions bearing this king's name -- Horus Sekhemkau --" in the oldest part of Neferere's mortuary temple Abusir, which was not built " until Neferefre's death.

Verner stresses that the progress of Shepseskare's intended pyramid at Abusir, which is unfinished and is situated just north of Sahure's own pyramid,