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 Benjamin Lee Whorf Encyclopedia Articles @ ColorFool.com (Color Fool)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Benjamin Lee Whorf (April 24, 1897 – July 26, 1941) was an American linguist.
He is best known as one of the creators of the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis.
Born in Winthrop, Massachusetts, the son of Harry and Sarah (Lee) Whorf, Benjamin Lee Whorf graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1918 with a degree in chemical engineering and shortly afterwards began work as a fire prevention engineer (inspector) for the Hartford Fire Insurance Company, pursuing linguistic and anthropological studies as an avocation.
www.colorfool.com /encyclopedia/Benjamin_Lee_Whorf   (756 words)

  
 Bat Creek Inscription
A modern example of such a name is that of Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel from 1996-1999.
The January/February 2006 Biblical Archaeology Review happens to contain a photograph of a bulla (seal impression) that was recently excavated from Jersualem's City of David under the supervision of Hebrew University archaeologist Eilat Mazar.
Gordon, Cyrus, "The Bat Creek Inscription," in C.H. Gordon, ed., The Book of the Descendants of Doctor Benjamin Lee and Dorothy Gordon, pp.
www.econ.ohio-state.edu /jhm/arch/batcrk.html   (2233 words)

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