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Benes
Czechoslovakian statesman. A disciple of T. Masaryk, Benes was a founder of modern Czechoslovakia. He served as its first foreign minister (1918-35) and president (1935-38). Forced to capitulate to A. Hitler's demands over the Sudetenland, he resigned. He headed the Czech government-in-exile in England (1940-45), then reestablished a government on his native soil in 1945. Recognizing the need to cooperate with the Soviet Union, he nevertheless refused to sign a new communist constitution and resigned in 1948 shortly before his death.


Berenson
U.S. (Lithuanian-born) art historian, critic, and connoisseur. Born in Vilnius, he grew up in Boston and attended Harvard Univ. He lived in Italy most of his life, where he built a reputation as an authority on Italian Renaissance painting. He was adviser to the art dealer Joseph Duveen (1869-1939) and to Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924), founder of Boston's Gardner Museum. He bequeathed his villa, I Tatti, near Florence, with its art collection and outstanding library, to Harvard to be administered as the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. His books include The Drawings of the Florentine Painters (1903, 1938, 1961) and Italian Painters of the Renaissance (1952).


Ceres
Largest known asteroid in the solar system and the first discovered, in 1801. Named after the goddess Ceres, it revolves around the sun in 4.6 terrestrial years and is about 580 mi (930 km) across.

In Roman religion, the goddess of the growth of food plants, sometimes worshiped in association with the earth goddess Tellus. Her cult was overlaid by that of Demeter, who was worshiped in Greece and Sicily. According to tradition, her cult was introduced into Rome in 496 BC to check a famine. Her temple on Aventine Hill was known as a center of plebeian religious and political activities and for its artwork.

Largest known asteroid in the solar system and the first discovered, in 1801. Named after the goddess Ceres, it revolves around the sun in 4.6 terrestrial years and is about 580 mi (930 km) across.

In Roman religion, the goddess of the growth of food plants, sometimes worshiped in association with the earth goddess Tellus. Her cult was overlaid by that of Demeter, who was worshiped in Greece and Sicily. According to tradition, her cult was introduced into Rome in 496 BC to check a famine. Her temple on Aventine Hill was known as a center of plebeian religious and political activities and for its artwork.


Iberians
Prehistoric people of S and E Spain. They were largely untouched by the migrations of Celtic peoples to N and central Spain from the 8th cent. BC on. Culturally they were influenced by Greek and Phoenician trading colonies. On the E coast, tribes seem to have formed independent city-states; in the south, they formed monarchies. Their economy was based on agriculture, mining, and metallurgy. Their non-Indo-European language continued ...

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