81. WEST COST REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORP OF BENIN ClickAfrique Forum ORIGINAL MESSAGE WEST COST regional DEVELOPMENT CORP OF benin http://www.clickafrique.com/forum/SingleResponse.asp?ResponseNo=88

82. History, Mission And Objectives Of SWAPHEP The entire benin metropolis is still terribly flooded. SWAPHEP at the African RegionalMinisterial Conference On Water (ARMCOW), Abuja April 29th30th 2002. http://swaphep.virtualactivism.org/about.htm

83. POPs In Regional Seas regional Workshop on Management of Persistent Organic Pollutants. Angola, benin, Cameroon,Cape Verde, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon http://pops.gpa.unep.org/05regsea.htm

What are POPs? Effects on humans Marine Environment: Sources of POPs Fate of POPs History POPs Chemicals: Aldrin and Dieldrin Endrin Chlordane DDT ... Regulatory framework Implementation and Enforcement: Management: Regulations and Procedures Operational Measures: Best Management Practices Alternatives Best Agriculture Practices Best Industrial Practices ... Regional Seas Bibliography: General Specialized Glossary The Relevance of the Problem in Regional Seas Mediterranean ROPME Sea Area, (Regional Organization for the Protection of the Marine Environment) Wider Caribbean East Asian Seas South-East Pacific South Pacific ... Eastern Africa Black Sea North-West Pacific South Asian Seas IN DEVELOPMENT North-East Pacific Upper South West Atlantic PARTNER SEAS Baltic North-East Atlantic (OSPAR, Oslo-Paris, Convention) Arctic Antarctic ... Links Mediterranean Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Libya, Malta, Monaco, Morocco, Slovenia, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey and the European Union

84. 24th Photo Regional 24th Annual Photo regional of the Capital District. include Divine Inspirations fromBenin to Bahia Spirits, Smithsonian Museum of Natural history, Washington DC http://www.fultonstreetgallery.org/exhibits/24regional/photoregionalawards.html

24th Annual Photo Regional of the Capital District For the past 24 years, Phyllis Galembo has been an inspirational teacher and accomplished photographer. Presently she is working on her up and coming book, Halloween/Masquerade Costumes. Her previous publications include: Divine Inspirations from Benin to Bahia , University of New Mexico Press, 1993; Voodoo, Visions and Voices of Haiti , Ten Speed Press, 1998; and Pale Pink , Visual Studies Workshop, 1982. A brief selection of her one person exhibits reads as a list of some of the country's most important galleries and museums. 2001: Manifestations of the Spirits , Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Washington D C; 1999: Kings, Chiefs, Women of Power, Nigeria , American Museum of Natural History New York City; 1995: Inspiration from Benin to Bahia Divine Inspiration from Benin to Bahia , International Center for Photography, New York City.

85. Met Timeline | Guinea Coast, 1400-1600 A.D. The complex trading relationships and artistic exchanges that grow out ofthis first contact will determine benin history for the next 200 years. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/08/sfg/ht08sfg.htm

See also Central Africa Eastern and Southern Africa and Western and Central Sudan The increase in size, centralization, and prosperity of the Owo and Benin kingdoms during this period is partially the result of their participation in trans-Saharan trade routes and trade with the Portuguese . Artistic production responds to refinements in metallurgic technologies and an intensified use of symbolic and ritualistic emblems of kingship. Artists of the Guinea coast are influenced aesthetically through contact with Islamic traders and the Portuguese, who often directly commission the carving of ivory objects. Additionally, the Akan (in what is now Ghana) develop an elaborate system of cast brass gold weights to measure the precious gold dust being traded to North Africa and then to Europe; the design of these gold weights is heavily influenced first by abstract Islamic visual motifs and later indigenous Akan aesthetics. The royal court of Benin is believed to have originated in the thirteenth century. According to Edo oral tradition, the kingdom was governed by the thirty-one "Rulers of the Sky," or Ogiso kings. The Ada ceremonial sword, which in contemporary Benin court ritual remains an important emblem of kingship, is believed to date to this period. Eweka I, who may have been from the neighboring Yoruba dynasty, is the first Benin oba (king), succeeding the Ogiso kings around 1300. Eweka's authority is undermined by conflict with autochthonous chiefs. Oba Ewedo of the kingdom of Benin reorganizes the

86. World Alliance Of YMCAs -- Global Structure--Regional Distribution Of YMCAs FM) benin Union Chrétienne de Jeunes Gens du benin (AM) Burundi YMCA-IKE Királyhágómellék/Federation(RM) Russia - The Inter-regional Association of http://www.ymca.int/global_structure/regional_distribution.htm

Home Global Structure document.write(months[month]+" "+today+", "+year); About us Mission History Global Structure Resolutions ... Help Search Search our web site: Overview Executive Committee members 2002-2006 Strategic directions Governance policy ... Area contact and addresses Regional distribution of YMCAs FM = Full Member of the World Alliance of YMCAs (72 movements) Movements whose candidature has been accepted by the World Council of YMCAs. Being a "Full Member" gives a National Movement the right to vote at World Council meetings. AM = Associate Member of the World Alliance of YMCAs (18 movements) The World Council has the power to elect Associates of the World Alliance, to enable those YMCAs in the process of formation to enter into the fellowship of the World Alliance of YMCAs. Associates have no right to vote at World Council meetings. RM = Related Movements : not members of the World Alliance of YMCAs (35 movements) Movements which do not yet have a constitutional relationship with the World Alliance of YMCAs Africa Angola - Aliança Nacional das ACM's de Angola (FM) Benin - Union Chrétienne de Jeunes Gens du Benin (AM) Burundi - Burundi YMCA/YWCA (RM) Cameroon - Union Chrétienne de Jeunes Gens du Cameroun (AM) Congo, Dem.Rep

87. Benin Vacation Guide Romantic Benin Vacations, Honeymoons, This is for folks with a very limited budget. Try our easy to use, highlyrecommended self booking engine. regional Travel and Vacation Guides. http://www.africavacationguide.com/Benin_History.html

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88. The Globalist | Global History -- The New Triple Alliance Web Community Global history The New Triple Alliance, Beyond regional influence. http://www.theglobalist.com/DBWeb/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=2823

89. Benin - Countrywatch.com benin. Compare this section with another country from below Selecta country . http://www.countrywatch.com/cw_topic.asp?vCOUNTRY=19

90. Met Timeline | Guinea Coast, 1000–1400 A.D. Encompasses presentday Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau, coastal Guinea, Liberia,Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Republic of benin, and Nigeria. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/07/sfg/ht07sfg.htm

See also Eastern and Southern Africa and Western and Central Sudan Artistic production in the towns and regions of Igbo-Ukwu , Ife, and the kingdom of Benin flourishes in this period just prior to extensive European contact. The refined, naturalistic style of Ife art is applied to the production of both terracotta and bronze works. Among the best known of these is a copper-cast sculpture of a seated man known as the Tada figure . The kingdom of Benin traces its origins to the thirteenth century. Metal-casting techniques, likely introduced by Benin's Yoruba neighbors, generated an extensive body of royal art produced over a period of nearly 500 years. During the Pavement period , named for the meticulous mosaics that decorate Ife's sacred courtyards, Ife is transformed into an urban center with extraordinarily refined arts. The pavement of Ife consists of pottery shards and small stones interwoven to produce a herringbone pattern unique to the Yoruba. Architecture flourishes, along with one of Africa's foremost naturalistic sculptural traditions. Terracotta heads and metal ones cast using the lost-wax technique clearly depict individuals, with minor idealizing touches in the facial features. The heads, approximately lifesize, probably commemorate Ife royalty. Curiously, highly abstract cone-shaped terracotta heads are produced at the same time, perhaps intended to be used in conjunction with the naturalistic heads, with both types being mounted upon an altar to represent Yoruba concepts of the "inner head,"

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