Ben Keneally 2003. However, Labor's affirmative action rules required a female candidate, so he stood down in favour of Kristina. Since retiring from council, Keneally has been an Associate Director for The Boston Consulting Group. Ben Keneally Ben Keneally is an Australian Labor Party politician. He was the Mayor of Botany Bay from 2012–2016. He is the husband of former NSW Premier Kristina Keneally. Keneally grew up in Gladesville, New South Wales. Educated at Holy Cross College, Ryde and the University of Sydney, Keneally previously worked as a management consultant, for Medical Imaging Australia Limited (MIA), as a director within the NSW
Ark of the Covenant radio-carbon dated to about 1350, which coincided with the sudden end of the Great Zimbabwe civilization. French author Louis Charpentier claimed that the Ark was taken to the Chartres Cathedral by the Knights Templar. One author has theorised that the Ark was taken from Jerusalem to the village of Rennes-le-Château in Southern France. Karen Ralls has cited Freemason Patrick Byrne, who believes the Ark was moved from Rennes-le-Château at the outbreak of World War I to the United States. The Ark of the Covenant was said to have been kept in the Basilica of St. John Lateran, surviving the pillages