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Catalogue of the Benjamin P. Cheney Academy, 1889-1890
No full textThe Benjamin P. Cheney Academy catalog for the 1889-1890 school year, it\u27s last year of operation. In fall of 1890, the building was repurposed to house Washington\u27s State Normal School. The Academy did not hold the Spring term in 1890.
The catalog was donated by Washington state governor Clarence D. Martin, who signed the cover in May 1952.https://dc.ewu.edu/catalogs/1021/thumbnail.jp
Abécédaire Benjamin
No full textComposer à la manière des abécédaires illustrés du XIXe siècle, un abécédaire Benjamin, telle est notre intention. Quelques entrées dans un Work in progress. A comme Auteur. Voir → P. B comme Bakounine. « Depuis Bakounine, l’Europe ne disposait plus d’une idée radicale de la liberté. Les surréalistes ont cette idée. Les premiers, ils se sont débarrassés de l'idéal sclérosé cher aux humanistes libéraux et moralisateurs, car ils savent que "la liberté, acquise ici-bas au prix de mille et d..
Past and future sea-level rise along the coast of North Carolina, USA
No full textWe evaluate relative sea level (RSL) trajectories for North Carolina, USA, in the context of tide-gauge measurements and geological sea-level proxy reconstructions spanning the last ∼11,000 years. RSL rise was fastest (∼7 mm/yr) during the early Holocene and slowed over time with the end of the deglaciation. During the pre-Industrial Common Era (i.e., 0–1800 CE), RSL rise (∼0.7 to 1.1 mm/yr) was driven primarily by glacio-isostatic adjustment, though dampened by tectonic uplift along the Cape Fear Arch. Ocean/atmosphere dynamics caused centennial variability of up to ∼0.6 mm/yr around the long-term rate. It is extremely likely (probability P = 0.95) that 20th century RSL rise at Sand Point, NC, (2.8 ± 0.5 mm/yr) was faster than during any other century in at least 2,900 years. Projections based on a fusion of process models, statistical models, expert elicitation, and expert assessment indicate that RSL at Wilmington, NC, is very likely (P = 0.90) to rise by 42–132 cm between 2000 and 2100 under the high-emissions RCP 8.5 pathway. Under all emission pathways, 21st century RSL rise is very likely (P > 0.90) to be faster than during the 20th century. Due to RSL rise, under RCP 8.5, the current ‘1-in-100 year’ flood is expected at Wilmington in ∼30 of the 50 years between 2050-2100.The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-015-1451-xPeer reviewe
Public worship and practical theology in the work of Benjamin Keach (1640-1704)
No full textThe late seventeenth century was a critical and fruitful period
for the Particular Baptists of England. Severely persecuted following
the Restoration, toleration in 1689 brought its own perils.
Particular Baptists were fortunate in having several strong leaders,
especially the London trio of Hanserd Knollys, William Kiffin, and
Benjamin Keach. Such a small and severely persecuted group as the
Baptists could afford little time for academic pursuits, thus of
necessity most of their theology was practical in nature.
Benjamin Keach (1640-1704) was the most outstanding practical
theologian among the English Particular Baptists of the late
seventeenth century. This dissertation is a study of Keach, in
particular his writings on public worship and practical theology.
Although Keach was a prolific author, he has been almost completely
neglected by scholars.
After a biographical sketch of Keach, this study considers his
writings on public worship and practical theology. In the area of
worship, Keach made two outstanding contributions: First, he was the
most vocal apologist for Baptist views on Baptism of his period.
Secondly, and more importantly, his hymn writing and defense of hymn
singing broke new ground, not just for Baptists, but for English
Protestantism, in general. In addition to his contributions in these
areas, he also dealt with the laying on of hands and the sabbath day
worship controversy.
Keach's contributions to practical theology fall into two main
groups: his writings that concern religious education and those that
deal with polity. In addition to these, Keach's vigorous advocacy of
a high Calvinist soteriology are also considered under the rubric of
practical theology. Keach's most important (although not his most
positive) contribution in this area were his soteriological writings.
Although well within the bounds of orthodoxy, some of the tendencies
in Keach's soteriology were taken up by the following generation of
Baptist leaders and developed into a stultifying hyper-Calvinism that
handicapped Baptist evangelism and missions.
In the conclusion, Keach's contributions to a theory of practical
theology are considered
Solomon Benjamin collection 1834, 1864
No full textCollection contains 2 items: an 1864 letter by Calvin --- depicting New Orleans under Union control and describing Solomon Benjamin, brother of Judah P. Benjamin; and an 1834 letter by John M. Clapp of Beaufort, SC, concerning an S. BenjaminGift, in part, of Elsie O. and Philip D. Sang Foundatio
Onomastus rattotensis Benjamin 2010, SP. NOV.
No full textONOMASTUS RATTOTENSIS SP. NOV. <p>(FIGS 26A–D, 27A–E, 28A–G)</p> <p> <i>Holotype:</i> ♂ from Sri Lanka. Central Province, Knuckles range, along Rattota-Ilukkumbura Road, 900 m, 03–04.ix.2003, leg. Suresh P. Benjamin. Deposited in MHNG.</p> <p> <i>Paratype:</i> ♀ from Sri Lanka. Data as above. Deposited in MHNG.</p> <p> <i>Etymology:</i> Adjective, ‘from Rattota’, after the type locality.</p> <p> <i>Diagnosis:</i> Males of <i>O. rattotensis</i> are readily separated from those of <i>O. patellari</i> s and <i>O. indra</i> by the absence of TA2. Separated from <i>O. complexipalpis</i>, <i>O. kanoi</i>, <i>O. kaharian</i>, and <i>O. nigrimaculatus</i> by the filiform conductor. Separated from <i>O. pethiyagodai</i> and <i>O. quinquenotatus</i> by the shape of the MA. Separated from <i>O. nigricauda</i> by the presence of a</p> <p> REVISION AND CLADISTICS OF <i>ONOMASTUS</i> 743</p> <p>well-developed, pleated MA. Females are difficult to diagnose, but may be separated by details of the internal genitalia.</p> <p> <i>Male holotype:</i> Total length: 2.8; prosoma length: 1.4, width: 1.1. Legs I: femur 1.1, patella 0.5, tibia 3.2, metatarsus 2.3, tarsus 1.3. The spiders are green in nature. They turn whitish to pale yellow in alcohol. Prosoma oval, longer than wide. Opisthosoma longer than wide, lighter in colour. Leg I yellowish brown, leg II–IV light yellow. Legs are laterally without dark markings. Eyes surrounded by dark rings. Chelicerae yellow, with seven retromarginal and three promarginal teeth. Leg formula 1432. Leg spination: metatarsus V 4-2-2; tibia D 1-0-0, V 4-2-4; patella D 1-0-0; femur D 0-2-2. Palp: cymbium oval. Retrolateral tibial apophysis stout, tapering blunt end (Figs 26A, 27B).</p> <p> <i>Female paratype:</i> Total length: 3.2; prosoma length: 1.4, width: 1.2. Legs 1: femur 1.3, patella 0.8, tibia 1.8, metatarsus 1.0, tarsus 0.4. Morphology similar to the male except for the following. Leg spination: metatarsus V 2-2-2; tibia V 2-2-2; femur D 0-1-0, P 2-3-1, R 2-3-1. Epigynum and vulva as in Figure 26C–E.</p> <p> <i>Distribution:</i> Sri Lanka, central province, known only from the type locality. Probably endemic to Sri Lanka.</p> <p> <i>Other material examined:</i> SRI LANKA: Central Province, Knuckles range, along Rattota-Ilukkumbura Road, 900 m, 03–04.ix.2003, 9♂, leg. Suresh P. Benjamin. Deposited in MHNG.</p>Published as part of <i>Benjamin, Suresh P., 2010, Revision and cladistic analysis of the jumping spider genus Onomastus (Araneae: Salticidae), pp. 711-745 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 159 (3)</i> on pages 739-744, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00580.x, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/10114688">http://zenodo.org/record/10114688</a>
Cebrenninus srivijaya Benjamin 2011, sp. nov.
No full textCebrenninus srivijaya Benjamin, 2011 Figs 70-80 Cebrenninus srivijaya Benjamin, 2011: 13, figs 6 d, 30 a-e, 31 a- f, 32 a-f. Material examined: RMNH.ARA. 15931; 11 males, 23 females; Indonesia, Sumatra, Mt Singgalang, 400- 520 m, secondary forest, leaf litter; 7.-4.07.1994, leg. Suharto Djojosudharmo; collection Deeleman. – RMNH. ARA. 17179; 2 males, 2 females; same data as previous sample; 7.- 24.06.1994. – RMNH.ARA. 15932; 29 males, 27 females; Indonesia, Sumatra, Kerinci Seblat National Park, 2 ° 25 ′’S 101 ° 29 ′E, 800 m, nr., river, leaf litter; 21.- 30.07. 1988, leg. Suharto Djojosudharmo, collection Deeleman. – RMNH.ARA. 17180; 1 female, 1 juvenile; Indonesia, N. Sumatra, Gunung Leuser, Ketambe, litter; 26.06. 1985, leg. Suharto Djojosudharmo, (with label: 6 eyed “Hedenna”). Diagnosis: Similar to C. berau sp. nov. and C. phaedrae sp. nov., distinguished from these and other known congeners by distinctive shape of E (posterior half cylindrical, anterior half filiform, partly surrounding its base; Figs 70 -71, 75, 78), C (posterior half broad, anterior half a stout hook; Figs 70 -71, 75, 79) and RTA (pointed, ventrally slanted tip; Figs 71, 76).Published as part of Suresh P. Benjamin, 2016, Revision of Cebrenninus Simon, 1887 with description of one new genus and six new species (Araneae: Thomisidae), pp. 179-200 in Revue suisse de Zoologie 123 (1) on pages 192-194, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4630
Myrmarachne morningside Benjamin 2015, sp. nov.
No full textMyrmarachne morningside sp. nov. (Figures 20A–D, 21A–D, 22A–D) Type material Holotype. male from Sri Lanka, Sabaragamuuwa Province, Ratnapura District, Eastern Sinharaja, Morningside section, 23 February 2007, SP. Benjamin and Z. Jaleel, MHNG. Paratype Male from Sri Lanka, same data as holotype. Etymology The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the type locality. Diagnosis Very similar in outward appearance to M. spissa. Separated from it by the diskshaped tegulum and shiny appearance, mostly of the dorsal parts of the prosoma. In addition M. spissa has a pair of long whitish setae at about the centre of its prosoma, which are absent in M. morningside. Very similar in size, habitat preference and genital morphology to M. paludosa comb. nov. and M. aurantiaca sp. nov. M. paludosa comb. nov. has an upward pointing, tapering RTA and M. aurantiaca sp. nov. has an RTA with a curved base. It is predicted that females of this species would have an elongated S similar to other endemic Myrmarachne of the island. Description Male holotype from Morningside: total length: 5.6; prosoma length: 3.5, width: 1.0. Leg I: femur 1.1, patella 0.4, tibia 1.1, metatarsus 1.0, tarsus 0.4. Prosoma oval, 1.5× long than wide. Opisthosoma oval, 2× longer than wide, constricted at the centre of the anterior half. Uniformly black in colour, legs a lighter yellow-brown. Prosoma and opisthosoma are both covered with fine whitish hairs. Chelicerae, somewhat longer than carapace, anteriorly bulb-like, tapering towards the base, dentition not examined. Leg formula 4132. Leg spination not examined. Male palps as in Figures 21C, D, 22A–D. Female unknown. Distribution Endemic to Sri Lanka. Natural history Collected together with ants of the genus Camponotus – probably the same species collected with M. paludosa comb. nov. However, it is not the Camponotus species found with M. prava. Other material examined Sri Lanka, Sabaragamuwa province, 1 male, Ratnapura District, Gilimale Forest Reserve, 23 February 2007, SP. Benjamin and Z. Jaleel, MHNG.Published as part of Benjamin, Suresh P., 2015, Model mimics: antlike jumping spiders of the genus Myrmarachne from Sri Lanka, pp. 2609-2666 in Journal of Natural History 49 (43) on pages 2628-2629, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1034209, http://zenodo.org/record/400086
The modernist angel: Art at the Limits of the Human in D. H. Lawrence, H. D. and Mina Loy
No full textPhDThe subject of this thesis is a figure that might provisionally be called the *modemist
angel'. Focusing on modernist literature, and more particularly on the work of D. H.
Lawrence, H. D. and Mina Loy, it aims to isolate from the many angels found in all periods
and all types of art a historically specific and intellectually coherent paradigm: an angel of
and for its modernist times. A figure of precisely this type could be said to exist in the
form of Walter Benjamin's 'angel of history'. Critics who address the question of the
modern angel in texts by Franz Kafka and Rainer Maria Rilke often do so in conjunction
with the problem posed by the angel of history. Beginning with a chapter on Benjamin,
this thesis nevertheless follows a different trajectory. Over five chapters, it explores a
modernist landscape formed not only by Lawrence, H. D. and Loy, but also by European
and American writers such as A. R. Orage, Allen Upward, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens,
Havelock Ellis, Edward Carpenter, Sigmund Freud and Friedrich Nietzsche. Although the
angel that emerges from this investigation might, in some respects, be said to anticipate
Benjamin's later version, this figure is also very different, standing for a project that is
distinctively, and recognisably, modernist in nature. He/she (the sex of the modernist
angel is often open to question) represents an attempt to reconcile the divine
responsibilities of the artist with the material and gendered conditions of being,
specifically of being human, in the modem world. This thesis looks again at the clash of
intellectual paradigms in the early-twentieth century - notably, the confrontation of the
Romantic view of art as a superhuman or sacred undertaking with the psychoanalytical or
evolutionary idea that all human endeavour is underpinned by sub-human motives - and
suggests the angel as a new and instructive figure through which to think the perilous
limits between the human and the divine in modernist literature
Synthesis and coordination chemistry of hybrid polydentate and halide-substituted stibines and bismuthines
No full textHalostibines and halobismuthines EMenX3-n (E = Sb, Bi; X = Cl, Br; n = 1, 2) display both Lewis acidic and Lewis basic characteristics. A series of adducts with neutral N- and O-donor ligands, [EMeX2(L)] (L = 2,2’-bipyridine, 1,10-phenanthroline, tetramethylethylenediamine) and [SbMeX2(L)2] (L = Ph3PO, Me3PO) were isolated and characterised by X-ray crystallography, 1H (and where appropriate 31P{1H}) NMR spectroscopy and microanalysis. Each complex is monomeric, displaying a distorted square pyramidal geometry around E, with two basal cis halides and the Me group apical. Combination of EMe2X with neutral ligands results in rearrangement at E to yield [EMeX2(L)] or [SbMeX2(L)2] once again as the isolable products. Reaction of SbMenBr3-n (n = 1, 2) with transition metal acceptors gives complexes in which the halostibines behave as Lewis bases. Examination of trends in the crystallographic and spectroscopic data of [M(CO)5(SbMenBr3-n)] (M = Cr, W; n = 1-3) from this work and the literature concluded that the halostibines have a significant ?-acceptor ability, which increases with increased halide substitution. Other transition metal complexes with L = SbMe2Br, [CpFe(CO)2(L)][BF4], [CpFe(CO)(L)2]Br (Cp = cyclopentadienyl) and [Mn(CO)6-n(L)n][CF3SO3] (n = 1, 3) were isolated and contain hypervalent, Sb···O, Sb···F or Sb···Br contacts between ions. Reaction of BiMe2Br with transition metal acceptors results in rearrangement at Bi; the only bismuthine complexes isolated contained the BiMe3 ligand.The hybrid distibine S(CH2-2-C6H4SbMe2)2 and its methiodide [S(CH2-2-C6H4SbMe3)2][I]2 were synthesised and the X-ray structure of the latter determined. Systematic investigations into transition metal complexes of this and other hybrid distibine ligands were undertaken. These ligands coordinate in a bidentate bridging mode in the 1:2 complexes [{CpFe(CO)2}2(L)][BF4] (L = O{(CH2)2SbR2}2 (R = Me, Ph), MeN(CH2-2-C6H4SbMe2)2, S(CH2-2-C6H4SbMe2)2) and [{M(CO)5}2(L)] (M = Cr, W; L = O{(CH2)2SbR2}2 (R = Me, Ph)), a bidentate chelating mode in [M(CO)4(L)] (M = Cr, W; L = O{(CH2)2SbMe2}2, MeN(CH2-2-C6H4SbMe2)2) or a tridentate mode in [M(CO)3(S(CH2-2-C6H4SbMe2)2)] (M = Cr, Mo) and [Mn(CO)3(L)] [CF3SO3] (L = MeN(CH2-2-C6H4SbMe2)2, S(CH2-2-C6H4SbMe2)2). In the latter examples the central hetero-atom of the ligand is coordinated to the transition metal centre. In those cases where it is not, hypervalent interactions between this hetero-atom and one or both coordinated Sb atoms are sometimes, but not always, observed. Comparisons have been drawn with the chemistry of the corresponding hybrid dibismuthine ligands. The hybrid tristibine ligand N(CH2-2-C6H4SbMe2)3 was synthesised and preliminary investigations of its coordination chemistry carried out. It acts as a tridentate ligand via the three Sb donors in [Mn(CO)3(L)][CF3SO3] and [Cu4Br4(L)2], with the ligand fixed in a propeller-like conformation. In the latter, a Cu2Br4 core with a short Cu···Cu distance is observed. [Cu(L)] [BF4] was isolated, in which tetradentate coordination of the ligand has been proposed.Transition metal complexes were characterised by 1H and 13C{1H} NMR spectroscopy and microanalysis, and where appropriate infrared and 55Mn or 63Cu NMR spectroscopies and mass spectrometry. The majority of these complexes have also been structurally characterised by single crystal X-ray diffraction
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