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(Encyclopedia) Hooks, Benjamin Lawson, 1925–2010, African-American civil-rights leader, b. Memphis, Tenn. In 1972 President Nixon named Hooks, a lawyer, Baptist minister, and former Tennessee county criminal court...

(Encyclopedia) Day, Benjamin Henry, 1810–89, American journalist. He learned the printer's trade in the office of the Springfield (Mass.) Republican and opened a printing office in New York City. Lack of work duri...

(Encyclopedia) Estournelles de Constant, Paul Henri Benjamin, baron d' pōl äNrēˈ bäNzhämăNˈ bärôNˈ dāto͞ornĕlˈ də kôNstäNˈ [key], 1852–1924, French diplomat and pacifist. He wrote and spoke tire...

(Encyclopedia) West Hempstead, uninc. city (1990 pop. 17,689, including Lakeview), Nassau co., SE N.Y., on Long Island. It is chiefly residential.

(Encyclopedia) Middle West: see Midwest.

(Encyclopedia) West Bengal: see Bengal.

(Encyclopedia) West Berlin: see Berlin.

(Encyclopedia) West Germany: see Germany.

(Encyclopedia) West Malaysia: see Malaysia.

(Encyclopedia) West Papua: see Papua.