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(Encyclopedia) Shahn, Ben (Benjamin Shahn), 1898–1969, American painter and graphic artist, b. Lithuania. Shahn emigrated to the United States in 1906. After working in lithography until 1930, his style crystalliz...

(Encyclopedia) Macdui, Ben, or Ben Macdhui, peak: see Ben Macdui, Scotland. ...

(Encyclopedia) Ben, in the Bible, Levite porter under David.

(Encyclopedia) Ben Macdui or Ben Macdhui măkdo͞oˈē [key], Gaelic Beinn Muic Duibhe, peak, 4,296 ft (1,309 m) high, Moray, Scotland, in the Cairngorm Mts.; second highest peak in Scotland. ...

(Encyclopedia) Ben Nevis nēˈvĭs, nĕvˈĭs [key], peak, 4,411 ft (1,345 m) high, Highland, W Scotland, overlooking Glen Nevis; highest peak of Great Britain. Ben Nevis is the remnant of a geologically ancient vol...

(Encyclopedia) Nevis, Ben, peak: see Ben Nevis, Scotland. ...

(Encyclopedia) Ben Ezra: see Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meir. ...

(Encyclopedia) Ben-hail bēn-hāˈĭl [key], in the Bible, one of Jehoshaphat's princes. ...

(Encyclopedia) Ben-ammi bĕn-ămˈī [key], in the Bible, son of Lot by his younger daughter; eponym of the Ammonites. ...

(Encyclopedia) Hogan, Ben hōˈgən [key], 1912–97, American golfer, b. Dublin, Tex. A former caddie, Hogan began his professional playing career in 1937. One of the game's great money winners, he won the Professi...