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{series} 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{influx} 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{countered;resisted} with virtues of simple people. In " Life and morses of Mr Bedmana " (1680) - the first mode{image} 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{confirmation} of new attitudes{relations} 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{fundamentals} 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{her} 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{restored}, 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{its} 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.

BERARDIUSY, the same, that plavuny.

BERBANK (Burbank) Luther (1849-1926), the American selector. The writer of many grades of fruit, vegetable, field and decorative crops.

BERBEDZH (Burbage) Richard (ok. 1567-1619), the English actor. The representative of theatre of Renaissance. Friend U.Shakespeare who for Berbedzha has created roles of Hamlet, Otello, Makbeta, etc.

BERBERA, city and port in Somalia, on coast Adenos a hall. 65 thousand inhabitants (1981). Fishery. Cement plant.

BERBERINE, the alkaloid keeping in leaves of a barberry and other plants of different sets. A sulphate of a berberine - a cholagogue means.