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Benevolence or Benevolent may refer to: Benevolent (band) Benevolence (phrenology), a faculty in the discredited theory of phrenology "Benevolent" (song), a song by ...
Thomas Bayes (/ b eɪ z / BAYZ, audio ⓘ; c. 1701 – 7 April 1761 [2] [4] [note 1]) was an English statistician, philosopher and Presbyterian minister who is known for formulating a specific case of the theorem that bears his name: Bayes' theorem.
A benevolence, also called a loving contribution, voluntary contribution or free gift, was a type of tax imposed by several English monarchs from the 15th to the 17th century. Although taken under the guise of a charitable contribution to the King, the money was in fact extorted from the king's subjects.
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What was left of the Benevolence International Corporation allegedly gave logistical support to terrorists, [12] and has been accused of assisting the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the Bojinka plot (of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ramzi Yousef to blow up 11 American jetliners killing 4,000 people in early 1995). [2]
The Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association, Inc. (PBMA) is a non-sectarian and non-profit charitable religious fraternal organization for men and women in the Philippines founded by Ruben Edera Ecleo Sr. (December 9, 1934 – December 20, 1987) in 1965 on the Philippine island of Dinagat, off the coast of Mindanao.
Benevolence had established her reign in all hearts: and yet in so short a period as within fifty years, violence, oppression, falsehood, misery, every hateful vice, and every form of distress, which degrade and sadden the present state of society, seem to have been generated by the most imperious circumstances, by laws inherent in the nature ...
These organs include Benevolence, which said to be the area just above the forehead. [2] If its measurement is large in an individual, the phrenologist would conclude that he is highly benevolent. [1] Divining benevolence in this manner does not only allow one to gauge the extent of an individual's benevolence but also allows him to arouse it. [3]