The prize for the earliest picture goes to Benjamin West's "The Golden Age" (1776), a sentimental portrait of a mother and her sleeping child.

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"My reading is rather too eclectic for a specialist and my coursework was too broad to give me any depth, " he wrote in a 1970 letter to W. Benjamin Kennedy, who then led West Georgia's history department.

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Benjamin Herdman, 20, from Worth, West Sussex, and George Hollands, 22, from Reigate, Surrey, are all accused of serious assault.

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He plans to meet Friday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before talking with Palestinian leaders in the West Bank.

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He also accompanied President Barack Obama on a trip to the Middle East last month and then held one-on-one talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah in the West Bank.

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Also Thursday, the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised to withdraw from 10 percent of the West Bank, a much larger area than expected, if Arafat's self-rule government quietly accepted construction of the Jewish housing development.

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