Benoni
Encyclopedia
Places
- Benoni, GautengBenoni, GautengBenoni is a city with 654,509 inhabitants on the East Rand in the South African province of Gauteng. Since 2000, it has been part of the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality.- History :...
, a city on the East Rand in South Africa- the Benoni meteorite of 1943, which landed in Gauteng, South Africa
- St. Benoni, Nova ScotiaSt. Benoni, Nova ScotiaSt. Benoni is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the District of Clare in Digby County .-References:**...
- Benoni Ross HouseBenoni Ross HouseBenoni Ross House is an historic house at 97 Lafayette Road in North Kingstown, Rhode Island.The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 28, 2008....
People
- Benoni BeheytBenoni BeheytBenoni Beheyt is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer who raced from 1962 to 1968. Beheyt won 22 races and is most famous for winning the 1963 World Cycling Championships Road Race and stage win of the 1964 Tour de France.- Major achievements :1962 – Wiel's-Groene Leeuw* 1964:...
- Benoni WhittenBenoni WhittenBenoni Whitten was an American attorney and judge in Oregon. He was the 19th Associate Justice on the Oregon Supreme Court in the United States...
- Benoni IrwinBenoni IrwinBenoni Irwin was an American portraitist.A pupil of the National Academy of Design in New York City, USA, he trained in Paris with the famous French portraitist Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran . His work was shown in the Exposition Universelle at Paris in 1889, and the Chicago World's Fair in 1893...
- Sydenham Benoni AlexanderSydenham Benoni AlexanderSydenham Benoni Alexander was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1891 and 1895.Alexander, born near Charlotte, North Carolina in 1840, attended preparatory schools in Rocky River and Wadesboro and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1860.At the...
- Benoni S. FullerBenoni S. FullerBenoni Stinson Fuller was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.Born near Boonville, Indiana, Fuller attended the common schools, and later taught school in Warrick County...
- Benoni DanksBenoni DanksBenoni Danks was a New England Ranger and political figure in Nova Scotia. He represented Cumberland County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1765 to 1770....
- Giuseppe BenoniGiuseppe BenoniGiuseppe Benoni was an Italian architect, active during the Baroque period, mainly in Venice.He worked on a number of engineering problems for the Venetian Republic. In 1675, he directed the renovation of the Dogana da Mar, the customs house across the canal from the Doge's palace...
- Benoit Benoni-AuranBenoit Benoni-AuranBenoît Benoni-Auran was a Provençal master painter.-Works:A number of his works are displayed in the Town Hall of Monteux....
- Arthur Benoni EvansArthur Benoni EvansArthur Benoni Evans was a British writer.Evans was born at Compton Beauchamp in the English county of Berkshire , on 25 March 1781. His father, the Rev. Lewis Evans, vicar of Froxfield, Wiltshire, was a well-known astronomer, and held for many years the professorship of mathematics at the Royal...
- Benoni W. FinchBenoni W. FinchBenoni W. Finch was an American pioneer.Finch served as the first sheriff of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, being appointed to that office by the governor of Michigan Territory in 1835. In an election on September 19, 1835, he was also elected commissioner of roads, director of the poor, and fence...
- Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph PétainPhilippe PétainHenri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain , generally known as Philippe Pétain or Marshal Pétain , was a French general who reached the distinction of Marshal of France, and was later Chief of State of Vichy France , from 1940 to 1944...
Other meanings
- Benoni or Ben Oni, meaning son of my sorrow, or pain, original name of BenjaminBenjaminBenjamin was the last-born of Jacob's twelve sons, and the second and last son of Rachel in Jewish, Christian and Islamic tradition. He was the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Benjamin. In the Biblical account, unlike Rachel's first son, Joseph, Benjamin was born in Canaan. He died in Egypt on...
- Benoni, the 'intermediate one'; see TanyaTanyaThe Tanya is an early work of Hasidic philosophy, by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of Chabad Hasidism, first published in 1797. Its formal title is Likkutei Amarim , but is more commonly known by its opening word, Tanya, which means "it was taught in a beraita"...