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    Benjamin Banneker (November 9, 1731 – October 19, 1806) was an American naturalist, mathematician, astronomer and almanac author. A landowner, he also...
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  • earlier, a substantial mythology has exaggerated the accomplishments of Benjamin Banneker (1731–1806), an African-American naturalist, mathematician, astronomer...
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    Line Number 9 Trail. Benjamin Banneker: scientist, surveyor, almanac author and farmer. A park commemorating Benjamin Banneker is located in a stream...
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  • commemorated Benjamin Banneker's documented and mythical accomplishments throughout the years since he lived (1731–1806) (see Mythology of Benjamin Banneker). Among...
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    Benjamin Banneker Academic High School is a magnet high school located in Washington, D.C., that was originally built to serve as a neighborhood Junior...
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  • Banneker High School (also known as Benjamin Banneker High School) is a public high school in Union City, Georgia, United States, with a College Park...
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    renamed Benjamin Banneker Park in 1971 by the NPS, though the area has no specific connection to Banneker himself, ... "BENJAMIN BANNEKER PARK, BANNEKER CIRCLE:...
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  • Benjamin Banneker High School can refer to schools in the United States: Benjamin Banneker High School (Georgia) in unincorporated Fulton County, Georgia...
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  • Benjamin Banneker Institute was a literary society for African Americans established in Philadelphia in 1854. Members lectured and debated on various...
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  • Benjamin Banneker Academy for Community Development (usually called Banneker) is a public high school located in the Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn,...
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    1977), Canadian legal scholar, law professor, and entrepreneur Benjamin Banneker (1731–1806), American author and surveyor Ben Barnes (actor) (born 1981)...
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    Angela Alsobrooks (category Benjamin Banneker Academic High School alumni)
    origin. Alsobrooks was raised in Camp Springs, Maryland, and attended Benjamin Banneker High School in Washington, D.C. She earned her bachelor's degree in...
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    silver screen. July 11, 1975. OCLC 4186675 – via Open WorldCat. "Benjamin Banneker: The Man Who Loved the Stars". Baltimore, Maryland: Enoch Pratt Free...
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    eggs in the small twigs of trees while above ground. In April 1800, Benjamin Banneker, who lived near Ellicott's Mills, Maryland, wrote in his record book...
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    The Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum, formerly known as the Banneker-Douglass Museum, is the state of Maryland's official museum for African American history...
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    Benjamin Banneker School is a historic one-room school building located at Parkville, Platte County, Missouri. It was built in 1885, and is a one-story...
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  • Secrets and Lies Dr. Greg Young Recurring role 2017 Sleepy Hollow Benjamin Banneker 4 episodes 2017–2018 Six Robert Chase Main cast, 18 episodes 2018–2019...
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    115, Fig. 3: Image of page in Benjamin Banneker's Astronomical Journal, 1791-1806. Manuscript written by Benjamin Banneker (MS 2700). Special Collection...
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    brothers Joseph and Benjamin Ellicott, Isaac Roberdeau, George Fenwick, Isaac Briggs and an African American astronomer, Benjamin Banneker. Today, 36 of the...
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    Latrobe read a memoir of Benjamin Banneker at a meeting of the Maryland Historical Society. Latrobe reported that Banneker had in April 1800 described...
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    each having literary significance. Early African American scientist Benjamin Banneker describes a dream in which he is asked to measure the shape of the...
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    others had reportedly found them 30 feet (9 m) deep. In April 1800, Benjamin Banneker, who lived near Ellicott's Mills, Maryland, wrote in his record book...
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  • peace in the United States. First published in a 1793 almanac that Benjamin Banneker authored, the plan stated: 1. Let a Secretary of Peace be appointed...
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  • intelligence when he was presented with a letter and almanac from Benjamin Banneker, an educated black mathematician. Delighted to have discovered scientific...
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    Almanack, the earliest known copy of which bears the date of 1782. Benjamin Banneker, a free African American living near Ellicott's Mills, composed a...
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    Concert Hall Lurman Woodland Theatre Retriever Activities Center Benjamin Banneker Museum Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture at the University...
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    (PDF) on May 2, 2013. Retrieved January 6, 2013. "The Benjamin Banneker Charter Public School". Banneker.org. March 1, 2012. Archived from the original on...
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    Studies, Cs635). (1999) The Life of Benjamin Banneker: The First African-American Man of Science. (1999) "Banneker, Benjamin (1731–1806), farmer and astronomer"...
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  • and books and studies about African-American mathematicians. 1792: Benjamin Banneker calculated planetary movements and predicted eclipses in his Almanac...
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    for a staircase and ramp that will travel through a grassy slope in Benjamin Banneker Park to connect L'Enfant Plaza to the Southwest Waterfront and to...
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