To BEN, in egyptian mythology the god by the way herons, is known from geliopolskogo legends on creation of the world.

BENUA DE the SENT-PEST (Benoit de Sainte-Maure), the norman poet at a yard of the English king Genriha II, the writer of the poetic chronicle of Normandy and " Roman about Troy " (between 1180 and 1190), one of which sequences (about Troile and Kresside) has was a source of scenes for Dzh. Bokkachcho, Dzh. CHosera and U.Shakespeare.

BENUA Leonty Nikolaevich (1856-1928), the architect, the honored worker of arts of Russia (1927). Son N.L.Benua, brother A.N.Benua. Kept traditions of a classicism (a western body of Russian museum in Petrograd, 1914-16).

BENUA Nikolay Aleksandrovich (1901-88), the italian artist. The son and pupil A.N.Benua was born and has received education in Russia. From 1925 cable cores in Italy. Has issued opera performances of many theatres of the world (in 1936-71 was the director postanovochnoj parts of theatre of Ac the Rock), fruitfully prolonging traditions of " picturesque theatre " times of " the World of art ".

BENUA Nikolay Leontjevich (1813-98), the Russian architect. It is masterful imitated historical styles (frejlinskie at home in Petrodvorets, 1858; spirit of Baroque). Has constructed a number of railroad stations (in Petrodvorets, 1855-57) where has played back Gothic forms of a hackberry in metalworks.

BOXES (frants. baignoire), than lie at theatre on both parties of front stalls at a level of the scene or is a little bit lower.

BENUE (Benue), the river in Cameroon and Nigeria, the left-handed in-leak of Niger. 1300 kms, the area of basin of 441 thousand êì2. Average discharge of water 3170 m3 / with. It is navigable from. Ibi, in a flush period - from Garua.

BENUE - KONGOLEZSKIE TONGUES, podsemja nigero-kongolezskih tongues.

BENKOV Paul Petrovich (1879-1949), the painter, the honored worker of arts of Uzbekistan (1939). The master of plein-air painting (" the Girl with dutarom ", 1947). Has played a major role in education of national artists in Tatarii and Uzbekistan.

BENJAN (Bunyan) John (1628-88), the English writer, the religious ecclesiast. In the allegorical novel " Traveling of the pilgrim " (1678-84) parasitism and korystoljubiju the maximum social layers is stood up to with virtues of simple people. In " Life and morses of Mr Bedmana " (1680) - the first mode in the English literature of the bourgeois grabber.

BENJUK (Beniuc) Mihaj (r. 1907), the Romanian writer. The Revoljutsionno-romantic collection " Songs of perdition " (1938). The statement of new attitudes in lyrical collections " the Apple tree at a road " (1954), " the Night patrol " (1975.) Roman " Dull explosion " (1971) about communists of 40th.

"BEOVULF" (Beowulf), the ancient Anglo-Saxon epos. It is called named the protagonist, legendary king of the Scandinavian nation in the south of Sweden. In the basis of a poem the national legends which are going back to 1-st floor. 6 century and informing echoes of historical events. A list nach. 10 century - in the British museum.

BEOLKO (Beolco) Angelo (scenic name Rudzante) (1502-42), the italian playwright and the actor. Has expanded capabilities t. n. A scientific comedy of Revitalization, having entered into it dialects and features of a national household activities (comedy "Ankonitanka", "Cow", "Pjovana").

BEOTARHI, in Other. Greeces the maximum magistrates in Boeotia.

BEOTIJSKY the UNION, federation of the ancient greek states in Boeotia (range in Compare. Greeces) led by Thebes since 6 century up to n. e. In 4 century at Pelopide and Epaminonde - the largest political force in Greece. In 338 it dissolved, in 3-2 centuries it recovered, in 146 up to n. e. Has stopped existence after seizure of Greece by Rome.

BEPPU, city and a port in Japan, on about. Kyushu. 130 thousand inhabitants (1990). Nonferrous machine industry, a chemical and textile industry. Balneoklimatichesky a health resort; the centre of tourism. Research institutes of a volcanology, a balneology.

BAIRE (Baer) Pol (1833-86), the French doctor, the physiologist, the public figure. In 1882-86 - minister for enlightenment of France. Conducted probes on replanting organs and tissues from one animal to other and on a cross circulation. His classical transactionses on physiology of respiration (1869) and to influence of a barometric pressure on an organism (1878) have been appreciated as basic for air and submerged medicine later. For the first time has studied hyperbaric oxygenation, symptoms of an oxygen poisoning.