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8 unusual facts about Benton


Benton-C Bainbridge

Their projects include visuals for one week of concerts at the gate of Daming Palace in Xi'an and "One Step Beyond" an immersive audio visual event in the "Hall Of The Universe" at American Museum of Natural History, at which they are the resident visual designers and live visualists.

Benton, Arkansas

Billy Bob Thornton, writer, director, and star of the 1996 American drama film ‘’Sling Blade’’ used Benton as the location for many scenes.

Kim Hammer - Baptist clergyman from Benton and Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from District 28 in Saline County

Benton, Illinois

Noble Threewitt, thoroughbred race horse trainer, born here in 1911

Benton, Kentucky

Shape-note singers gather annually at Benton on the fourth Sunday in May to sing from a tunebook called The Southern Harmony.

Benton, Mississippi

It is home to Benton Academy, one of only two major private schools in Yazoo County.

Benton, Tennessee

Benton is centered around the junction of U.S. Route 411, which connects the town to Etowah to the north and Tennga, Georgia to the south, and Tennessee State Route 314, which connects Benton to Parksville and the Ocoee Dam area to the southeast.

U.S. Route 6 in Nevada

US 6 enters Nevada near the town of Benton, where it is signed east–west for the first time on its journey.


Alfred Morrison Lay

Born in Lewis County, Missouri, Lay moved with his parents to Benton County in 1842.

American Type Founders

While Phinney often used free-lance designers, like Will Bradley, T.M. Cleland, Walter Dorwin Teague, Frederic Goudy, and Oz Cooper, the bulk of ATF’s catalog through the 1930s was the creation of Morris Fuller Benton.

Annabelle Jaramillo

The Benton County Commission decided to stop issuing all marriage licenses—straight and gay—in response to a demand by Attorney General Hardy Myers that they not issue licenses to same-sex couples.

Anthea Benton

Benton began her career as a Fashion Designer, and moved into directing in 1982 as half of the directing duo Vaughan and Anthea (with Vaughan Arnell).

Arthur Bigge, 1st Baron Stamfordham

Bigge was the son of John Frederic Bigge (1814–1885) Vicar of Stamfordham, Northumberland and the grandson of Charles William Bigge (1773–1849) of Benton House, Little Benton, Newcastle on Tyne and Linden Hall, Longhorsley, Northumberland, High Sheriff of Northumberland and a prominent merchant and banker in Newcastle on Tyne.

Bauer Pottery

In 1934, Fred Johnson, Matt Carlton's nephew and an accomplished hand-thrower formerly with the Niloak Pottery in Benton, Arkansas, joined the company.

Benton Airport

Benton Field (Benton Airpark) in Redding, California, United States (FAA: O85)

Lloyd Stearman Field (Benton Airpark) in Benton, Kansas, United States (FAA: 1K1)

Benton Ridge, Ohio

Benton Ridge is the setting of David Foster Wallace's short story "Asset", published in the June 21, 1999 issue of The New Yorker.

Bentonville, Arkansas

Bart Hester, Arkansas state senator from Benton County; real estate businessman in Bentonville; resident of Cave Springs

BFCS

Bob Brooks, a Creative Group Head with Benton & Bowles Inc, New York, came to London in 1961 as Co-Creative Director for Benton & Bowles Ltd.

Billy the Exterminator

The show follows the professional life of Billy Bretherton, an expert in the field of pest control and the proprietor of Vexcon Animal and Pest Control in Benton, Louisiana, which serves the Shreveport-Bossier metropolitan area.

Blackfoot mythology

Red Coulee is an actual place located between Mcleod and Benton next to the Marias River in Montana.

Central Station Metro station

Metro services from this station replaced some routes that had formerly been operated from the mainline station towards Benton and Tynemouth via the North Tyneside Loop.

Charles B. Moores

Charles Moores was born to John H. Moores and Virginia Lafayette Lamon on August 6, 1849, in Benton, Missouri.

Compromise of 1850

During the heated debates, Compromise floor leader Henry S. Foote of Mississippi drew a pistol on Senator Benton.

Convict Lake

A posse, from Benton, led by Deputy Sheriff George Hightower, encountered the convicts near the head of what is now Convict Creek.

Earl Park

Earl Park, Indiana, a town in Richland Township, Benton County, Indiana, United States.

Elizabeth Corday

During her first trauma surgery, she completely baffles the rest of the staff by using lots of British terms not used in America - for example, she asks them to "bleep Benton" (page Dr. Peter Benton), order an "FBC" (US term "CBC"), and perform a "tube thoracostomy" (US term "chest tube").

Ewell Ross McCright

Ewell Ross McCright, (4 December 1917 - 24 April 1990) of Benton, Saline County, Arkansas was a captain in the United States Air Force during World War II who was famous for maintaining secret journals detailing information about fellow prisoners of war while held captive in a German prison camp.

Jack Benton

From 1893 to 1904 Benton was enlisted in the army in the 4th Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment.

John Geiser McHenry

McHenry was elected as a Democrat to the Sixtieth, Sixty-first, and Sixty-second Congresses and served until his death in Benton, Pennsylvania.

Kansas City Art Institute

Among the artists Benton influenced as a teacher at KCAI were Frederic James, Margot Peet, Jackson Lee Nesbitt, Roger Medearis, Glenn Gant, and Delmer J. Yoakum.

Karen Graffeo

It showed the work of artists Emma Amos and Willie Birch and writer bell hooks, as well as Ann Benton, Priscilla Hancock Cooper, Karen Graffeo, Lee Isaacs, Janice Kluge, Mary Ann Sampson, J. M. Walker and Marie Weaver.

KJCD

KVMO, a radio station (95.9 FM) licensed to serve Fort Benton, Montana, United States, which held the call sign KJCD from 2008 to 2013

Lafayette Square, St. Louis

The tornado uprooted nearly all of the trees in the Park as well as the trees on Benton Place, damaged the fence, destroyed the bandstand, destroyed the Union Club and the Methodist church at Jefferson and Lafayette Avenues, crippled the Presbyterian and Methodist churches, tore the roof off the Unitarian church, and crippled or destroyed many homes on the Square.

Macleod-Benton Trail

The Macleod-Benton Trail was a wagon road that connected Fort Benton in Montana to Fort Macleod, Alberta.

Nicholas F. Benton

Nicholas F. Benton is the founder, owner, and editor of the Falls Church News-Press, a weekly merchandiser distributed in Falls Church, Virginia, and in parts of Fairfax County, Arlington County, and Washington D.C.

North Tyneside Loop

The North Tyneside Loop refers to the railway lines in North Tyneside from Newcastle upon Tyne via Wallsend, North Shields, Whitley Bay, Backworth, Benton and South Gosforth back to Newcastle.

Roger Medearis

Benton introduced Medearis to the Associated American Artists Gallery in New York City, from which he sold a portrait of his grandmother, Godly Susan, now in the collection of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.

Roy Kuhlman

Later he was hired by the public relations firm Ruder & Finn to establish an in-house art department, then joined Benton & Bowles, where he designed the award-winning Mathematics Serving Man campaign for IBM, which appeared in Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report in May 1960.

St. Vincent Williamsport Hospital

St. Vincent Williamsport Hospital primarily serves residents in Warren and Benton counties, and maintains a 24-hour emergency service as well as surgical facilities, diagnostic services and clinics.

Stearman

Lloyd Stearman Field, also known as Benton Airpark, is an airport in Benton, Kansas, USA

This Morning Summer

Various features were presented by Jenni Falconer, Brian Dowling, Stephen Mulhern, Adam and Charlie Benton, Darren Kennedy, Mikey Phillips, Mark Woolley, Lisa Fitzpatrick, Laura Jackson, Paul Manktelow, Tracey Martin, Christian Howes, Denise Robertson, Anna Williamson, Dr Chris Steele, Dr Ranj Singh, Sharon Marshall and Sue Hill.

Thomas Benton

William Pannapacker (born 1968), American English professor who has written under the pen name "Thomas H. Benton"

WBHC

WBHC-LP, a low-power radio station (96.5 FM) licensed to Benton Harbor, Michigan, United States

WBIN

WSAA, a radio station (93.1 FM) licensed to Benton, Tennessee, United States, known as WBIN-FM from 1996 to 1998

William Duane Benton

Benton was director of the Missouri Department of Revenue in the administration of then-Governor John Ashcroft from 1989 to 1991, and served as an administrative aide to a United States Congressman Wendell Bailey from 1981 to 1982.

Benton served as a captain in the U.S. Navy/Naval Reserve from 1972 to 2002, and as judge advocate in the U.S. Navy from 1975 to 1979.

William H. Worthington

After three days at Cairo, he and his men crossed the Mississippi and marched to Benton, Missouri and from there accompanied General Pope to New Madrid.

William Plummer Benton

When Benton was 18 years old, he enlisted as a private in the Mexican War, and fought with gallantry in the mounted infantry at Contreras, Churubusco, Chapultepec and Mexico City.

WVBH

WVBH-LP, a low-power radio station (105.3 FM) licensed to Benton Harbor, Michigan, United States


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