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Bent Bjørn
Bent may refer to: Places * Bent, Iran, a city in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran * Bent District, an administrative subdivision of Iran * Bent, Netherlands, a village in the municipality of Rijnwoude, the Netherlands * Bent County, Colorado, United States * Bents, Saskatchewan, an unincorporated community in Canada * Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site, frontier trading post, in La Junta, Colorado Arts and entertainment * ''Bent'' (play), a 1979 play by Martin Sherman ** ''Bent'' (1997 film), a 1997 film by Sean Mathias based on the play * ''Bent'' (2018 film) * ''Bent'' (TV series), an NBC romantic television comedy series * Bent (band), an electronica duo from England * "Bent" (Matchbox Twenty song), 2000 * "Bent" (41 song), 2023 * ''Bent'' (magazine), a UK magazine * ''Bent'' (Ssion album), 2012 * ''Bent'' (Stonefield album), 2019 Science * Bent molecular geometry, in chemistry * Bent's rule, about atomic orbital hybridization * Bent grass or bent, the plan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bent, Iran
Bent () is a city in, and the capital of, Bent District of Nik Shahr County, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. It also serves as the administrative center for Bent Rural District. Demographics Population At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 4,302 in 822 households. The following census in 2011 counted 5,294 people in 1,245 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 5,822 people in 1,503 households. See also Notes References Cities in Sistan and Baluchestan province Populated places in Nik Shahr County {{SistanBaluchestan-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bent (Stonefield Album)
''Bent '' is the fourth studio album by Australian rock band Stonefield, released on June 14, 2019. Background The album was announced on April 30, 2019, alongside the release of the song "Sleep" as a promotional single. Amy, the drummer, said that the album was "inspired by the concept of floating in the in-between" and was "an ode to the darkness of not wanting to cross to the other side." The album was conceived during the band's 2018 tour of the United States, and released shortly before Stonefield travelled to North America as the opening act to King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. The album was released on June 14, 2019. Reception '' Impose'' described the album as "a doomier slice of tunes" when compared to their earlier albums with "heavier grooves and decidedly more ominous vibes." ''The Austin Chronicle'' gave the album four out of five stars, calling it a "showcase fthe natural majesty and brute force of hard rock." ''The Music The Music was an English alternative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bend (other)
Bend may refer to: Places Canada * Bend, British Columbia, a railway point United States * Bend, California * Bend, Missouri * Bend, Oregon * Bend, South Dakota * Bend, Texas Science, technology and engineering * Bending, the deformation of an object due to an applied load * Bend, a curvature in a pipe, tube, sheet, cable or hose; see Bend radius * Bend (knot), a type of knot used to tie two ropes together Music Techniques * Bend (guitar), a guitar technique * Note bending, a glide from one pitch to another Albums and songs * Bend (8stops7 album), ''Bend'' (8stops7 album), 2006 * Bend (The Origin album), ''Bend'' (The Origin album), 1992 * Bend (song), "Bend" (song), a 2015 song by Chet Faker People with the surname Bend * George H. Bend (1838–1900), American banker and financier * Lin Bend (1922–1978), Canadian ice hockey player * Robert Bend (1914–1999), Manitoba politician Other uses * Bend (heraldry), a diagonal band used as a heraldic charge * Curl (association f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tau Beta Pi
The Tau Beta Pi Association (commonly Tau Beta Pi, , or TBP) is the oldest engineering honor society and the second oldest collegiate honor society in the United States. It honors engineering students in American universities who have shown a history of academic achievement as well as a commitment to personal and professional integrity. Specifically, the association was founded "to mark in a fitting manner those who have conferred honor upon their Alma Mater by distinguished scholarship and exemplary character as students in engineering, or by their attainments as alumni in the field of engineering, and to foster a spirit of liberal culture in engineering colleges". History When academic honor society Phi Beta Kappa sought to restrict its membership to students of the liberal arts in the late 19th century, Edward H. Williams Jr., a member of Phi Beta Kappa and head of the mining department at Lehigh University, formulated the idea of an honor society for those studying technica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bent (structural)
A bent in American English is a transverse rigid frame (or similar structures such as three-hinged arches). Historically, bents were a common way of making a timber frame; they are still often used for such, and are also seen in small steel-frame buildings, where the term portal frame is more commonly used. The term is also used for the cross-ways support structures in a trestle. In British English this assembly is called a "cross frame". The term ''bent'' is probably an archaic past tense of the verb ''to bind'', referring to the way the timbers of a bent are joined together. The Dutch word is ''bint'' (past participle ''gebint''), the West Frisian is , and the German is . Compare this with the term bend for a class of knots. Bents are the building blocks that define the overall shape and character of a structure. They do not have any sort of pre-defined configuration in the way that a Pratt truss does. Rather, bents are simply cross-sectional templates of structural member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bent (surname)
Bent is a surname common in English speaking countries. It may refer to: * Alex Bent (born 1993), percussionist for American heavy metal band Trivium * Amel Bent (born 1985), French singer * Arthur Cleveland Bent (1866–1954), American ornithologist * Bruce R. Bent, American financier * Charles Bent (1799–1847), first American Governor of the New Mexico Territory * Charles Bent (1919–2004), composer of chess endgame studies * Cory Bent (born 1997), English footballer * Dan Bent (born 1996), Gibraltarian footballer * Darren Bent (born 1984), English football (soccer) player * Desharne Bent-Ashmeil (born 2004), British diver * Ellis Bent (1783–1815), Deputy Judge Advocate for New South Wales, Australia * Geoff Bent (1932–1958), English football (soccer) player * George Bent (1843–1918), a son of William Bent, American Civil War soldier and Cheyenne warrior * Henry A. Bent (1926/1927–2015), physical chemist * James Theodore Bent (1852–1897), English explorer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bent Melchior
Bent Melchior (24 June 1929 – 28 July 2021) was a chief rabbi of Denmark. Life and career Melchior was born to Danish parents in the German city of Beuthen (now Bytom in Poland), where his father, Marcus Melchior, was rabbi. In 1943, during the Nazi occupation of Denmark, Marcus Melchior was instrumental in saving Danish Jews, and became chief rabbi of Denmark in 1947. From October 1943 to mid-1945, Melchior and his family lived as refugees in Sweden. Melchior served as a soldier in the 1947–1949 Palestine war, beginning in pre-statehood battles in 1947.Chief Rabbi of Denmark Speaker for Synagogue Council Dinner . ''The Jewish Floridian'' (Miami, Florida). 28 January 1972.p. 5A. Via |
Bent Mejding
Bent Mejding (14 January 1937 – 12 November 2024) was a Danish actor, stage director, and theatre manager. He won a Danish Film Academy Award in 1985 and 2007. He was married to actress Susse Wold. Life and career Mejding had his debut at Folketeatret in Copenhagen, and later appeared in several productions at Det Ny Teater Det Ny Teater (English: The New Theatre) is an established theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, first opened in 1908. It is based in a building which spans a passage between Vesterbrogade and Gammel Kongevej in Copenhagen's theatre district on the borde ... up through the 1960s. In 1961, he founded Ungdommens Teater which from 1964 was based at Frederiksberg-Scenen. From 1992 until 1997, together with Niels-Bo Valbro, he managed Det Ny Teater which reopened after a major refurbishment in 1994. Mejding died from severe pneumonia on 12 November 2024, at the age of 87. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bent Larsen
Jørgen Bent Larsen (4 March 1935 – 9 September 2010) was a Danish chess Grandmaster (chess), grandmaster and author. Known for his imaginative and unorthodox style of play, he was the second-strongest non-Soviet Union, Soviet player, behind only Bobby Fischer, for much of the 1960s and 1970s. He is considered to be the strongest player born in Denmark and the strongest from Scandinavia until the emergence of Magnus Carlsen. Larsen was a six-time Danish Chess Championship, Danish Champion and a Candidates Tournament, Candidate for the World Chess Championship on four occasions, reaching the semifinal three times. He had multiple wins over all seven World Champions who held the title from 1948 to 1985: Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, Mikhail Tal, Tigran Petrosian, Boris Spassky, Bobby Fischer, and Anatoly Karpov, but lifetime negative scores against them. From the early 1970s onward, he divided his years between Las Palmas and Buenos Aires with his Argentine people, Argenti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bent Hegna
Bent Hegna (born 10 June 1959 in Oslo) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Telemark in 1993, and was re-elected on one occasion. On the local level Hegna was a member of Porsgrunn is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Grenland. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Porsgrunn (town), city ... city council from 1991 to 1993. External links * 1959 births Living people Labour Party (Norway) politicians Politicians from Oslo Politicians from Porsgrunn Members of the Storting 1997–2001 Members of the Storting 1993–1997 {{Norway-politician-1950s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bent Flyvbjerg
Bent Flyvbjerg is a Danish economic geographer. He is the Villum Kann Rasmussen Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. Education and career Flyvbjerg received his Ph.D. in urban geography and planning from Aarhus University, Denmark, with parts done at the University of California at Los Angeles. He was the first BT Professor and inaugural chair of major programme management at Oxford University's Saïd Business School (retiring from the post in 2021) before coming to IT University of Copenhagen and becoming the chair of major program management there. He was previously a professor of planning at Aalborg University, Denmark and chair of the department of infrastructure policy and planning at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. He is a fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. He was a member of the Danish Infrastructure Commission and a director of the Danish Court Administration. He has written extensively about megaprojects, decision making, city manag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bent Fabric
Bent Fabricius-Bjerre (7 December 1924 – 28 July 2020), better known internationally as Bent Fabric, was a Danish pianist and composer. Biography Bent Fabricius-Bjerre was born in Frederiksberg, Denmark. He started a jazz ensemble after World War II and founded a label, Metronome Records, in 1950. He released a series of ten inch albums on the Metronome label entitled 50 Years Of Evergreens in 1955, under the pseudonym Frank Barcley. However, he is best known for his 1961 instrumental "Omkring et flygel" (literally, "Around a Grand Piano") which became a hit in Denmark. The song was re-released worldwide under the name "Alley Cat" on Atco Records the following year, and went to #1 in Australia and #49 in Germany. The tune also became a hit in the United States; the song hit #2 on the AC chart and #7 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, Billboard Singles Allmusic.com and the LP of the same name hit #13 on the ''Billboard'' 200. "Alley Cat" also won a Grammy Award for Best ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
