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- an outstanding violinist of 18th-century Germany whose playing was celebrated for its cantabile (singing) quality and sophisticated embellishments.
- Benda, Friedrich Ludwig
- (from the article "Benda, Georg") Benda's son Friedrich Ludwig Benda (1752-92) was a composer of theatrical music, cantatas, and instrumental works.
- Benda, Friedrich William Heinrich
- (from the article "Benda, Frantisek") ...him in 1742. He became concertmaster of the royal orchestra in 1771. His compositions include 17 violin concerti, 17 symphonies, and numerous violin solos, trio sonatas, and violin sonatas. His son Friedrich William Heinrich Benda (1745-1814) also became well known ...
- Benda, Georg
- composer widely admired during his lifetime for his stage works. [2 Related Articles]
- Benda, Julien
- novelist and philosopher, leader of the anti-Romantic movement in French criticism, persistent defender of reason and intellect against the philosophical intuitionism of Henri Bergson. [1 Related Articles]
- Benda, Vaclav
- Czech philosopher, mathematician, writer, and politician who was a prominent member of the dissident group Charter 77, which played a leading role in the Velvet Revolution, a popular upheaval that ended communist control of Czechoslovakia in late 1989; a conservative ...
- Benda, Wladyslaw Theodor
- Polish-American painter, illustrator, and designer.
- bendahara
- in the traditional Malay states, the chief minister, second only to the sultan in rank, power, and authority; the office of bendahara (a Sanskrit title) grew in importance during the Malacca sultanate after 1400. Its functions included executing the sultan's ... [1 Related Articles]
- Bendall, Fay
- (from the article "photosynthesis") ...features of a widely accepted mechanism for photoelectron transfer, in which two light reactions occur during the transfer of electrons from water to carbon dioxide, were proposed by Robert Hill and Fay Bendall in 1960. A modified scheme for this ...
- benday process
- (from the article "photoengraving") An entirely mechanical procedure for production of a halftone image on a metal printing plate is the benday process (1879), named after its inventor, Benjamin Day, a New York newspaper engraver. This process utilizes a series of celluloid screens bearing ...
- Bendel
- (from the article "Edo") Edo state was formed in 1991 from the northern portion of Bendel state, the southern portion becoming Delta state. Prior to this, in 1963, the citizens of the territory had voted to separate from what was then the Western region, ...
- Bender, Charles Albert
- American professional baseball player, a right-handed pitcher. He is credited with the invention of the pitch known as the slider.
- Bendideia
- (from the article "Bendis") ...gained prominence only in Athens. At the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, the Athenians allowed the founding of a sanctuary for the goddess and shortly afterward created a state festival, the Bendideia, for her. The first celebration was held on ...
- Bendigo
- English bare-knuckle boxer who became a Methodist evangelist and who is one of the few athletes whose name is borne by a city-Bendigo in Victoria, Australia. His nickname apparently is a corruption of the Old Testament name Abednego. Thompson was ... [1 Related Articles]
- Bendigo
- city, central Victoria, Australia, in the central upland area of the state; it is about 93 miles (150 km) northwest of Melbourne by road.
- bending
- (from the article "Properties of Certain Species of Wood") ...of a beam treated as a linear elastic line may also be considered. Let the line along the 1-axis (see Figure 7), have properties that are uniform along its length and have sufficient symmetry that bending it by applying a ...
- bending moment
- (from the article "solids, mechanics of") ...of decreasing X1 be denoted as a shear force V in the positive 2-direction, an axial force P in the positive 1-direction, and torque M, commonly called a bending moment, about the positive 3-direction. The linear and angular momentum principles ...
- bending moment curve
- (from the article "ship") ...along the hull, and the resulting curve is integrated over the entire ship's length to give what is known as the shear curve. In turn, the shear curve is integrated over the length to give the bending moment curve-a curve ...
- bending structure
- (from the article "building construction") ...which experience either pure tension or pure compression. Since bridges are a common type of long-span structure, there has been an interplay of development between bridges and long-span buildings. Bending structures include the girder, the two-way grid, the truss, the ...
- bending test
- (from the article "papermaking") The resistance of paper to a bending force is evident in the various operations of its manufacture and in its many uses. The range in this property extends from very soft, flexible tissues to rigid boards. Thicker and heavier sheets ...
- bending vibration
- (from the article "chemical compound") ...as the line directly joining two bonded atoms) of one bond may rock back and forth within the plane it shares with another bond or bend back and forth outside that plane. These movements are called bending vibrations. Both stretching ...
- Bendis
- Thracian goddess of the moon; the Greeks usually identified her with the goddess Artemis. She is often represented holding two spears.
- Bendix Corporation
- former American corporation founded in 1924 to manufacture automobile brake systems. In 1983 it became a subsidiary of Allied Corporation (see AlliedSignal), which merged with Honeywell in 1999. For much of the 20th century, Bendix was a leading manufacturer and ... [2 Related Articles]
- Bendix, Reinhard
- (from the article "monarchy") ...the monarchs' traditional supremacy, anchored in their lineage as descendants of war heroes and of leading notables, gradually weakened in favour of what the German-born American sociologist Reinhard Bendix called "a mandate of the people." Thus, a society's "sovereignty," or ...
- Bendix, Vincent
- American inventor and industrialist who contributed to the development of automobiles and aircraft. [1 Related Articles]
- Bendjedid, Chadli
- (from the article "National Liberation Front") Despite the convening of various congresses throughout the 1980s, the role of the FLN was not significantly increased under the presidency of Col. Chadli Bendjedid. A new constitution approved in February 1989 eliminated both the country's socialist ideology and its ...
- Bendorf Bridge
- (from the article "bridge") During the years after World War II, a German engineer and builder, Ulrich Finsterwalder, developed the cantilever method of construction with prestressed concrete. Finsterwalder's Bendorf Bridge over the Rhine at Koblenz, Germany, was completed in 1962 with thin piers and ...
- Bene Beraq
- city, northeastern suburb of Tel Aviv-Yafo, west central Israel, in the southern Plain of Sharon. In Assyrian texts, Bene Beraq is listed as a city that fell to Sennacherib, king of Assyria, in 701 BC. It is also mentioned in ... [1 Related Articles]
- Bene Israel
- the largest and oldest of several groups of Jews of India. Believed by tradition to have shipwrecked on the Konkan coast of western India more than 2,100 years ago, they were absorbed into Indian society, maintaining many Jewish observances while ... [1 Related Articles]
- Bene, Carmelo
- (from the article "Italian literature") ...the commedia dell'arte Dario Fo, whose 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature knocked the conservative Italian literary world on its ear. Those with the necessary stamina can admire the intense presence of Carmelo Bene (who died prematurely in 2002) in the ...
- Benedek, Ludwig August, Ritter von
- (knight of) Austrian field marshal whose defeat at the Battle of Koniggratz (Battle of Sadowa) on July 3, 1866, was decisive in the emergence of Prussia as the predominant German power and the creation of a Prussian-dominated German Empire. [1 Related Articles]
- Beneden, Edouard van
- Belgian embryologist and cytologist best known for his discoveries concerning fertilization and chromosome numbers in sex cells and body cells. [1 Related Articles]
- Beneden, Pierre-Joseph van
- parasitologist and paleontologist best known for his discovery of the life cycle of tapeworms (Cestoda). [2 Related Articles]
- Benedetti, Mario
- Uruguayan writer who is best known for his short stories.
- Benedetti, Vincent, Comte
- (Count) French diplomat remembered chiefly for his role in the events leading up to the Franco-German War in 1870. [1 Related Articles]
- Benedetto da Maiano
- early Renaissance sculptor, whose work is characterized by its decorative elegance and realistic detail.
- Benedick
- the young lord of Padua in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Together, Benedick and Beatrice wage a "merry war" of wits in which love triumphs over all. [2 Related Articles]
- Benedicks, Michael
- (from the article "Carleson, Lennart") ...of the 2006 Abel Prize "for his profound and seminal contributions to harmonic analysis and the theory of smooth dynamical systems." These include his work with Swedish mathematician Michael Benedicks in 1991, which gave one of the first rigorous proofs ...
- Benedict (X)
- antipope from April 1058 to January 1059. His expulsion from the papal throne, on which he had been placed through the efforts of the powerful Tusculani family of Rome, was followed by a reform in the law governing papal elections. ... [3 Related Articles]
- Benedict (XIII)
- antipope from 1394 to 1417. He reigned in Avignon, Provence, in opposition to the reigning popes in Rome, during the Western Schism (1378-1417), when the Roman Catholic Church was split by national rivalries claiming the papal throne. [10 Related Articles]
- Benedict (XIV)
- counter-antipope from 1425 to c. 1430.
- Benedict Biscop, Saint
- founder and first abbot of the celebrated twin monasteries of SS. Peter (at Wearmouth) and Paul (at Jarrow on Tyne, nearby); he is considered to be the father of Benedictine monasticism in England. [3 Related Articles]
- Benedict I
- pope from 575 to 579.
- Benedict II, Saint
- pope from 684 to 685.
- Benedict III
- pope from 855 to 858, who was chosen as successor to Leo IV in July 855. The election was not immediately confirmed by the Holy Roman emperor Louis II the Bavarian, who set up Anastasius the Librarian as antipope. Benedict ...
- Benedict IV
- pope from 900 to 903. Benedict reigned during one of the darkest periods of papal history, when Rome was torn by partisan conflict over the memory of the posthumously excommunicated pope Formosus. Little is known of his life or acts. ...
- Benedict IX
- pope three times, from 1032 to 1044, from April to May 1045, and from 1047 to 1048. The last of the popes from the powerful Tusculani family, he was notorious for selling the papacy and then reclaiming the office twice. [4 Related Articles]
- Benedict of Albano
- (from the article "Sergius II") Sergius' pontificate was dominated by his brother, Bishop Benedict of Albano, to whom, partly because of his severe gout, he delegated most of the papal business. Benedict proved opportunistic, however, usurping power and finagling money while executing a large building ...
- Benedict of Aniane, Saint
- (from the article "France") ...originated in Italy. The monasteries suffered from the upheavals affecting the church in the 8th century, and the Carolingians attempted to reform them. Louis the Pious, acting on the advice of St. Benedict of Aniane, imposed the Benedictine rule, which ...
- Benedict of Nursia, Saint
- founder of the Benedictine monastery at Monte Cassino and father of Western monasticism; the rule that he established became the norm for monastic living throughout Europe. In 1964, in view of the work of monks following the Benedictine Rule in ... [13 Related Articles]
- Benedict the Pole
- (from the article "Giovanni Da Pian Del Carpini") ...by Stephen of Bohemia, another friar, who was subsequently to be left behind at Kiev. After seeking counsel of Wenceslaus, king of Bohemia, the friars were joined at Breslau (now Wroclaw) by Benedict the Pole, another Franciscan appointed to act ...
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