Nazi German complex of concentration camps and an extermination camp in and near the village of Belzec along the Lublin-Lviv railway line in the Lublin province of German-occupied Poland. At ...
(Greek bema, "step"), raised platform; in antiquity it was probably made of stone, but in modern times it is usually a rectangular wooden platform approached by steps. Originally used in ...
Bantu-speaking people inhabiting the northeastern plateau of Zambia and neighbouring areas of Congo (Kinshasa) and Zimbabwe. The Bantu language of the Bemba has become the lingua franca of Zambia.
city, seat (1897) of Beltrami county, north-central Minnesota, U.S. It lies on Lake Bemidji, about 150 miles (240 km) northwest of Duluth. Bemidji was established in 1888. Its name, first ...
coeducational institution of higher learning, situated on Lake Bemidji in Bemidji, Minnesota, U.S. It is one of seven institutions in the Minnesota State University system. Bemidji State University was founded ...
Moroccan revolutionary politician exiled to Paris whose abduction and presumed murder in October 1965 caused a political crisis for the government of French President Charles de Gaulle and led to ...
principal leader of the Algerian War of Independence against France, the first prime minister (1962-63) and first elected president (1963-65) of the Algerian republic, who steered his country toward a ...
mountain mass in northeastern Tasmania, Australia, comprising a plateau of 30 square miles (78 square km) made up of igneous rock. It mostly lies above 4,500 feet (1,400 m), making ...
highest mountain of the British Isles, in the Highland council area, Scotland. Its summit, reaching an elevation of 4,406 feet (1,343 metres), is a plateau of about 100 acres (40 ...
mountain in the Moray council area, Scotland, situated 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Keith and about 5 miles (8 km) east of the confluence of the Rivers Avon and ...
town, north-central Morocco. The town, a local market centre, is situated 12 miles (20 km) inland from the Atlantic Ocean between the cities of Rabat and Casablanca. It lies at ...
town, northern Vietnam, on the Ca River, just southeast of the urban centre of Vinh. Just upstream from where the Ca River enters the Gulf of Tonkin where it meets ...
city on the flat Mekong River delta, southern Vietnam. Ben Tre is linked by highway and ferry boat to Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) 53 miles (85 km) to ...
mountain in the northern Highlands, Highland council area, Scotland, whose summit stands some 9 miles (14 km) northwest of Dingwall on the Cromarty Firth, which is an inlet of the ...
original name David Gruen Zionist statesman and political leader, the first prime minister (1948-53, 1955-63) and defense minister (1948-53; 1955-63) of Israel. It was Ben-Gurion who, on May 14, 1948, ...
king of Damascus who led a coalition against the invading forces of the Assyrian king Shalmaneser III, repulsing them at Karkar in 853. In a battle with him King Ahab ...
second president of Israel (1952-63) and an early Zionist leader in Palestine, who helped create the political, economic, and military institutions basic to the formation of the state of Israel.
Venezuelan-born American pathologist and immunologist who shared (with George Snell and Jean Dausset) the 1980 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of genes that regulate immune responses ...
traditional coastal region, southern Somalia, on the Horn of Africa. The name, from Persian bandar, "port," refers to the voyages of Persian and Arab traders to eastern Africa across the ...
city, central Victoria, Australia, on the Broken River. Founded in 1848 on an overland stock route after Sir Thomas Mitchell's exploration of the area, its name is derived from an ...
cricketer who is best remembered as one of Australia's most imaginative captains. Benaud made his debut in first-class cricket at the age of 18 and first appeared in Test (international) ...
one of the foremost Spanish dramatists of the 20th century, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1922. He returned drama to reality by way of social criticism: ...
island of the Outer Hebrides, Western Isles council area, historic county of Inverness-shire, Scotland. Benbecula, whose name means "Mountain of the Fords" in Gaelic, lies between the islands of North ...
long seat that may be freestanding, fixed to the wall, or placed against the wall. Paneled benches were used by the Romans, and they were the most common form of ...
American professional baseball player who, in 17 seasons with the Cincinnati Reds of the National League, established himself as one of the game's finest catchers. He won 10 consecutive Gold ...
American humorist, actor, and drama critic, whose main persona, that of a slightly confused, ineffectual, socially awkward bumbler, served in his essays and short films to gain him the sobriquet ...
city, seat (1916) of Deschutes county, central Oregon, U.S. It lies along the Deschutes River, in the eastern foothills of the Cascade Range (west), and is bordered by Pilot Butte ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
American corporation founded in 1924 to manufacture automobile brake systems. Since 1982 it has been a subsidiary of Allied Corporation. The company is now an international manufacturer and supplier of ...
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 ...
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 ...
(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 ...
antipope from 1394 to 1423. 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
pope from 900 to 903. Benedict reigned during one of the darkest periods of papal history, and little is known of his life or acts. He excommunicated Baldwin II, count ...
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 ...
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 ...
pope, or antipope, from May 22, 964, to July 4, 966. His election by the Romans on the death of Pope John XII infuriated the Holy Roman emperor Otto I, ...
pope from 974 to 983. He furthered the cause of monasticism and acted against simony, specifically in an encyclical letter in 981 forbidding the exaction of money for the conferring ...
pope from 1303 to 1304. His brief reign was taken up with problems he inherited from the quarrel of his predecessor, Boniface VIII, with King Philip IV the Fair of ...
original name Jacques Fournier pope from 1334 to 1342; he was the third pontiff to reign at Avignon, where he devoted himself to reform of the church and its religious ...
original name Prospero Lambertini pope from 1740 to 1758; his intelligence and moderation won praise even among deprecators of the Roman Church at a time when it was beset by ...
the bishop of Rome and the head of the Roman Catholic church from 2005. Prior to his election as pope, Benedict led a distinguished career as a theologian and as ...
the confederated congregations of monks and lay brothers who follow the rule of life of St. Benedict (c. 480-c. 547) and who are descendants of the traditional monasticism of the ...
a verbal blessing of persons or things, commonly applied to invocations pronounced in God's name by a priest or minister, usually at the conclusion of a religious service. The Aaronic ...
