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	Harry Bensley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Harry Bensley (?, 1876 or 1877 - May 21, 1956) was an English rake and adventurer, best remembered as the subject of an extraordinary wager between John Pierpoint Morgan and Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale.
		Harry Bensley was from Thetford in Norfolk, England.
		Bensley served in the British army in the first year of the War, was severely wounded and eventually invalided out of the army in 1915.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harry_Bensley (774 words)

	Harry Bensley -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Harry Bensley was from (additional info and facts about Thetford) Thetford in (Port city located in southeastern Virginia on the Elizabeth River at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay; headquarters of the Atlantic fleet of the United States Navy) Norfolk, (A division of the United Kingdom) England.
		Bensley lost his fortune in the (additional info and facts about Bolshevik revolution) Bolshevik revolution when his investments in Russia became worthless and he was left destitute.
		Harry Bensley died in a bed-sitting room in (A city in East Sussex in southern England that is a popular resort; site of the University of Sussex) Brighton, (A division of the United Kingdom) England in May 21 1956.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/ha/harry_bensley.htm (932 words)

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	mask (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Harry Bensley, a picture postcard seller from Thetford, Norfolk, in eastern England, set off on January 1, 1908 with the goal of circumnavigating the globe, with only one pound in his pocket.
		But on August 14, 1914, just as Bensley was nearing the home straight, having reached Genoa, in Italy, Morgan reneged on the bet because of the outbreak of World War I. The American tycoon, founder of the US Steel Corporation, is thought to have become worried about the value of his assets.
		A disconsolate Bensley returned to England, and eventually received $4000 (R24000 today) from Morgan in compensation, which he claimed to have given in disgust to charity.
	www.dispatch.co.za /1998/09/28/foreign/MASK.HTM (297 words)

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		This is the extraordinary true life tale of Harry Bensley, the Thetford man who agreed to walk around the world on a $100,000 wager with eccentric American millionaire John Morgan.
		Mr Bensley agreed to complete his walk while pushing a baby’s pram and while wearing a full faced iron mask, which he was prohibited from taking off when soliciting marriage proposals from women across the globe.
		Yet is is surely the newly-revealed story of Bensley that will have the greatest impact among those otherwise indifferent to the call and charm of history, and for whom the Thetford luminaries such as Paine and Charles Burrelll, the great engineers, remain figures of shadows and remoteness.
	www.petersteward.org.uk /mask.htm (726 words)

	PUBLICATION LIST - John C. Crelling
		Bensley, David F. and Crelling, John C., 1994, The presence of remanent cell structure in vitrinite and its influence on reflectance properties: In, Mukhopadhyay, Prasanta K. and Dow, Wallace G. eds., ACS Symposium Series 570 - Reevaluation of Vitrinite Reflectance as a Maturity Indicator, Am.
		Bensley, D. and Crelling, J. C., 1993, The use of rotational polarization reflectance in the characterization of fine particulate macerals: Proceedings of the IEA Int.
		Bensley, David F. and Crelling, John C., 1992, Low intensity spectral analysis (LISA) of coal macerals and the assessment of DGC fractions: Organic Geochemistry, v.
	mccoy.lib.siu.edu /projects/crelling/pubs.html (3215 words)

	EDP24 Features - Around the world in an iron mask
		Bensley would have to walk and push a perambulator all the way, wearing an iron mask.
		Common consensus agrees that Bensley was born and brought up in Thetford and as a young man he joined the Army, serving in India.
		He was told by Jim Beasley (who according to Mr McNaught is Harry’s illegitimate son) that Bensley was not a hero when he took up the round the world bet but was forced into it after gambling with Morgan and Lord Lonsdale.
	www.edp24.co.uk /Content/Features/HarryBensley/HarryBensley.asp (1233 words)

	Harry Bensley - The OTHER man in the Iron Mask. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Harry arrived at his trial wearing the mask, and the angry magistrate insisted that he remove it.
		Harry was said to be devastated when Morgan's messenger (or telegram in one report) reached him with the news, and he returned to England, a devastated man. He was never to leave our shores again.
		The story that Harry agreed to settle the argument was a face-saving device for Harry's sake.
	mcnaught.orpheusweb.co.uk /HarryB/ironm.html (3892 words)

	Harry Bensley - TheBestLinks.com - Britain, Gambling, Italy, January 1, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Harry Bensley - TheBestLinks.com - Britain, Gambling, Italy, January 1,...
		There is some dispute about to what extent Bensley had actually complied with the terms of the wager when, in August 1914, he found himself in Genoa, Italy, claiming to have completed 30,000 miles of the journey and having only seven countries remaining on his itinerary.
		Invalided out of the army in 1915, Bensley lost his fortune in the Bolshevik revolution and was left destitute.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Harry_Bensley.html (384 words)

	Culture UK - what makes the Britsh so ... British!- The other man in the iron mask!
		Bensley would push a perambulator wearing an iron mask, which was not to be removed for any reason.
		Harry met King Edward VII at Newmarket races and sold him a postcard for £5, but at Bexley Heath he was arrested for selling postcards without a licence.
		He was ordered to remove his mask by the magistrate of the court, but when the reason for his wearing of the mask was explained, the magistrate fined him only 2/6d and he was released.
	www.historic-uk.com /CultureUK/maninMask.htm (397 words)

	BBC - Beyond the Broadcast - Making History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bensley was to walk around the world, first passing through 169 towns and cities in Britain, all specified and in a set order.
		Bensley set off on 1 January 1908 wearing a mediaeval-style iron helmet over his head and pushing a pram.
		In six years Bensley would have covered about 30,000 miles, though documentary evidence, especially of the overseas part of his journey, is at best sketchy.
	www.bbc.co.uk /education/beyond/factsheets/makhist/printable/makhist6_print9c.html (609 words)

	Welcome to Sac County, Iowa
		It was moved by Kroeger and seconded by Bensley to adopt a resolution directing the County Auditor to disburse the assigned proceeds of $55,094.38 on a pro rata share of $36,729.58 to General Fund and $18364.80 to the Mental Health Fund.
		It was moved by Bensley and seconded by Crampton to remove the bridge on 160th Street between Quincy and Perkins avenues, and to close and vacate 160' of 160th Street where the bridge is currently located.
		It was moved by Kroeger and seconded by Bensley to approve the transfers of $20,510.25 from the General Basic fund to Secondary Roads fund and $210,739.75 from the Rural Basic fund to Secondary Roads fund for the fourth quarter of the fiscal year ending June 30, 2001.
	www.saccounty.org /supervisors/minutes.asp?minutesID=58 (792 words)

	Welcome to Sac County, Iowa
		It was moved by Bensley and seconded by Stock to approve an amended easement for a water line in the right of way of Rohlfe Ave from the Sac City city limits North to 235th Street.
		It was moved by Stock and seconded by Bensley to accept a proposal from the City of Sac City to replace a section of concrete sidewalk in the northwest corner of the former Schultz property.
		It was moved by Stock and seconded by Bensley to approve a work order to remove a beaver dam in the main open ditch in DD 57 located in Section 12, Viola Twp.
	www.saccounty.org /supervisors/minutes.asp?minutesID=185 (509 words)

	Waterlogged (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		On January 1st 1908 Harry Bensley, a 31-year-old playboy, set off to walk round the world wearing a 4 ½lb iron mask and pushing a pram.
		He had undertaken to attempt this feat for a wager of $100,000, and a strict set of rules had been laid down.
		For six years, until the outbreak of World War I, Harry Bensley pushed his pram across 12 countries, never once showing his face.
	www.geocities.com /cisumtixe/page19.html (138 words)

	Thetford, Norfolk â“ Places to Stay, Visit, Eat and Drink in Thetford
		Harry Bensley was a local character who met an eccentric American millionaire called John Morgan in a bar and took on a $100,000 bet to walk around the world.
		The conditions were that he also had to push a pram, wear an iron mask, find a wife without removing the mask, only take Â£1 in money and then pay his way by selling postcards.
		Bensley took almost seven years to cover 30,000 miles through America, Japan, China, India, Persia, Egypt and Turkey with more than 200 women proposing marriage.
	www.explorethetford.co.uk /thetford-famous-figures.aspx (980 words)

	Bensley Construction: Publicity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		When he asked if Bensley would like to work on the project, it was Bensley's turn to "know better," and he refused.
		Schiller and Jensen decided to put their main living space on the second floor, with bedrooms for themselves and their young son, Harry, on the third.
		For Bensley, the challenge was to build a project that tripled in scope as it proceeded, but to compete it within the original time frame sand to the exacting specifications of Ashkar and Paul.
	www.bensleyconstruction.com /publicity/globe.html (419 words)

	Camping in Norfolk - Thetford
		It came to light not that long ago that Thetford also had another claim to fame, that of being the birth place of Harry Bensley known as the man in the iron mask.
		Bensley undertook a wager with American millionaire John Morgan.
		In 1979 there was a major find of Roman artefacts found in Gallows Hill which lies to the north of the town.
	www.norfolkcoast.co.uk /location_norfolk/vp_thetford.htm (791 words)

	wager on Harry Vardon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		turn Harry Vardon and the temptation to Britain's The must have been extraordinary over the next by the great English golfer, Harry Vardon, early in the 20th century.
		Harry Browne Bensley Harry Crews quotes terms Vardon quotes dispute about to what extent quotes actually complied with the Harry of the wager.
		The Complete Golfer (Golf Digest Classic Series) Harry Vardon Hardcover Golf Rich The We Games Side Play and Wager Games Ussak Paperback grips Harry the "Vardon grip, " (or overlapping) after golfer are Vardon, Players establish a wager on front the nine, back nine and the entire 18.
	www.officialsportsbetting.com /golf/wager-on-Harry-Vardon.php (682 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> la:1908 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		January 1 - British Harry Bensley leaves for his would-be trip around the world pushing a pram and wearing an iron mask, beginning from the Trafalgar Square
		November 12 - Harry Blackmun, American Judge (d.
		August 30 - Harry Solter & Florence Lawrence
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/la:1908 (1884 words)

	Obituaries for February 12, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He is survived by a son, Kenneth (Sarah) Bensley of Radnor; a daughter, Jackie (Bill) Blair of Radnor; six grandchildren, Scott, Angie, Wendy, Brad, Billiejo and Tammy; seven great-grandchildren; three nephews, Jim Stiffler, Bob and Bill Bensley; and two nieces, Jan Benn and Carol Wheeler.
		In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by his wife, Cora “Jean” (Smothers) Bensley, whom he married Dec. 18, 1961, she died Dec. 15, 1988; a brother, Robert T. Bensley Sr.; and two sisters, Rhea Belle Day and Zona Stiffler.
		Besides her parents she was preceded in death by her husband, Harry Santee Sr.; a sister, Clara Graham; and six brothers, Edwin Stockwell, Gillis Stockwell, Gilbert Stockwell, Alvie Stockwell, Wilmer Stockwell and Jessie Stockwell.
	www.mountvernonnews.com /obits/021204.html (1173 words)

	Bensley, Virginia Florist and Flower Shops (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		If you take a picture of one of these flower arrangements to your florist they should be able to match it, and perhaps even do better.
		Decorations by Harry O. death by cholera of a member of a Virginia company: "The first use made of the spade that and Colonel Joseph Watkins of Virginia, who knew Jefferson and Marshall in
		Decorations by Harry O. death by cholera of a member of a Virginia company: andldquo;The first use made of the spade and Colonel Joseph Watkins of Virginia, who knew Jefferson and Marshall in
	www.flowers-alltowns.com /Virginia/Bensley.html (357 words)

	The Man With The Iron Mask Walking Round The World For A £21,000 Wager on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
		He wrote: "On January 1st 1908 Harry Bensley, a 31 year old playboy, set off to walk round the world wearing a 4 1/2lb iron mask and pushing a pram.
		He had undertaken to attempt this feat for a wager of 100,000 dollars, and a strict set of rules had been laid down.
		For six years, until the outbreak of World War 1, Harry Bensley pushed his pram across 12 countries, never once showing his face.
	www.flickr.com /photos/trevira/49050023 (551 words)

	BENSLEY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Search the BENSLEY Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
		Search the BENSLEY Family Resource Center at RootsWeb.com (if available).
		Find graves of people named BENSLEY at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know).
	www.worldhistory.com /surname/US/B/BENSLEY.htm (73 words)

	Bobby Bensley - Band page with free MP3 music downloads on SoundClick
		Bobby Bensley is a Colorado based singer songwriter who is not afraid to tackle the tough issues and faces them with the Courage of his Convictions.
		James Taylor, Jim Croce, Harry Chappin, Van Morrison, and all the great singer songwriters have had an influence on my music.
		The internet though has helped me to develop very openminded and diverse tastes in music and introduced me to genres which previously I would not have given a second chance.
	www.soundclick.com /bands/1/bobbybensley.htm (325 words)

	UK Casino Times - Guide For UK Casino Players - Articles - You Bet On What? Novelty Bets Part 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Businessman and playboy Harry Bensley was bet £21,000 in 1907 at the National Sporting Club in London that he couldn't walk around the world unidentified.
		There were lots of bizarre conditions attached to the bet, which was made between Bensley, John Pierpoint Morgan and Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale.
		These included Bensley only being allowed one change of underwear and having to complete the journey wearing an iron mask from a suit of armour.
	www.casinotimes.co.uk /articles/2005-07/novelty-bets-220705.htm (529 words)

	Futility Closet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		If there were a Nobel Prize for chutzpah, it would belong to British playboy Harry Bensley.
		Bensley would have to walk the entire distance, pushing a baby carriage and wearing an iron mask.
		Bensley gamely set out on New Year's Day 1908, wearing a four-pound mask and pushing a perambulator.
	www.futilitycloset.com /2005_06_01_archive.html (3213 words)

	Powell's Books - Critical Thinking in Psychology: A Unified Skills Approach by D. Alan Bensley
		These are but a few of the fascinating questions that are addressed in D. Alan Bensley's engaging new book, Critical Thinking in Psychology: A Unified Schools Approach.
		With each question illustrating the need for critical thinking, Bensley piques student interest and inspires them to think more effectively and critically about both the common and uncommon.
		And while obtaining answers to the above questions is important, Bensley shows readers how the process of drawing sound conclusions to these queries is even more important.
	www.powells.com /biblio?&cgi=product&isbn=0534256201 (189 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		BENJAMIN2 BENSLEY (WILLIAM1) was born March 15, 1800 in Gorleston Suffolk England, and died February 3, 1891.
		EDWARD HANDLEY3 BENSLEY (BENJAMIN2, WILLIAM1) was born November 5, 1834 in Gorleston Suffolk England, and died June 11, 1930 in Cheltenham Victoria Australia.
		EDITH4 BENSLEY (EDWARD HANDLEY3, BENJAMIN2, WILLIAM1) was born August 10, 1879 in Christchurch Newzealand, and died July 7, 1953 in Hamilton Vic Australia.
	familytreemaker.genealogy.com /users/o/l/l/David-I-Ollerton/FILE/0097text.txt (2398 words)

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