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	Belfort - LoveToKnow 1911
		Belfort is the seat of a prefect; its public institutions include tribunals of first instance and of commerce, a chamber of commerce, a lycee, a training-college and a branch of the Bank of France.
		The construction of locomotives and machinery, carried on by the Societe Alsacienne, wire-drawing, and the spinning and weaving of cotton are included among its industries, which together with the population increased greatly owing to the Alsacian immigration after 1871.
		Belfort was besieged in 1814 by the troops of the allies and in 1815 by the Austrians.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BE/BELFORT.htm (1899 words)

	Fortified Places > Fortresses > Belfort
		Belfort lies just the north of the Jura Mountains and the south-east of the Vosges Mountains, controlling the “Gateway of Burgundy”, a natural route between Alsace and Franche-Comte.
		Belfort belonged to the Austrian Habsburgs from 1360 to 1636 when the city was taken over by Gaspard de Champagne, Count de la Suze, on behalf of Louis XIII, king of France.
		Belfort is easily accessible by TGV from Paris via Besançon or by car along the A36 motorway.
	www.fortified-places.com /belfort.html (858 words)

	Belfort Territoire de - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Belfort, Territoire de, department in the region of Franche-Comté, in northeastern France.
		Belfort, city in east central France, capital of Territoire de Belfort Department, on the Savoureuse River, in the Franche-Comté region, near...
		Doubs is bounded by Haute-Saône and Territoire de Belfort...
	encarta.msn.com /Belfort_Territoire_de.html (149 words)

	Belfort to Receive Honorary Hebrew University Degree
		Belfort is director of the Division of Genetic Disorders at the Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, as well as a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
		She is scheduled to accept the Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa at the annual convocation on June 11 at the Rothberg Amphitheater on the Hebrew University's Mount Scopus campus.
		Belfort, who joined the University in 1985, is world renowned for her path-breaking contributions to the field of molecular biology.
	www.albany.edu /news/campus_news/2006/mar2006/belfort.shtml?page=print (425 words)

	Interfrance: City of Belfort (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		On the doorsteps of Alsace, Germany and Switzerland, the Territory of Belfort is a land rich in history and heritage.
		The city of Belfort is divided by the Savoureuse river into 2 distinct parts: on the river's west bank there are extensive industrial and commercial areas and housing estates; on the east bank, lies the old town dominated by the fortified castle and citadel and the famous "Lion", symbol of Belfort.
		Place d'Armes, the center of the old town, attracts people with its bars and restaurants as well as St Christophe Church, the Town Hall, the music kiosque built in 1905 and the "Quand Même" statue, erected in 1884 on the square in memory of the siege of 1870-71.
	www.interfrance.com.cob-web.org:8888 /en/fc/fc_belfort.html (573 words)

	Belfort's Biomolecular Separations Research Group
		Belfort has delivered plenary or main lectures at many international meetings and forums and has been an invited lecturer at several industrial (Novo Nordisk, Denmark, DSM, The Netherlands, Merck, West Point, PA) and academic ("Professore a Contrare" at the University of Bologna, Italy) short courses on membranes for biotechnology and separations engineering.
		Belfort was a guest of the Soviet Academy of Science (1991) (one of the last!), the Finnish Academy (1994) and the Chemistry Section of the Swedish Academy (1995).
		Georges Belfort is one of the premier academic scientists/engineers in the field of bioseparations engineering and is a leading academic chemical engineer in liquid-phase pressure-driven membrane-based processes.
	www.rpi.edu /dept/chem-eng/WWW/faculty/belfort/georges.html (2136 words)

	Belfort - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Belfort's strategic location, in a natural gap between the Vosges and the Jura, on a route linking the Rhine and the Rhone, has attracted human settlement and made it a target for armies.
		The site of Belfort was inhabited in Gallo-Roman times and was subsequently recorded in the 13th century as a possession of the counts of Montbéliard, who granted it a charter in 1307.
		The Siege of Belfort, between November 3, 1870 and February 18, 1871, was successfully resisted until the garrison was ordered to surrender 21 days after the armistice between France and Prussia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Belfort (614 words)

	BELFORT - Online Information article about BELFORT
		Belfort was besieged in 1814 by the troops of the See also:
		CORPS (pronounced as in French, from which it is taken, being a late spelling of tors, from Lat.
		Some damage was done to the houses of Belfort, but the garrison was not intimidated, and their artillery replied with such spirit that after some days the German See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /BEC_BER/BELFORT.html (2574 words)

	Belfort's Biomolecular Separations Research Group
		Several members of the Belfort group will be travelling to New Haven to participate in the forthcoming 78th ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium,Biocolloids and Biointerfaces, New Haven, CT, June 20-23, 2004.
		Dr Mina Han, minahjp@yahoo.co.kr, ex-post-doc from the Belfort group, has temporarily joined Yonsei University while she is waiting for papers to enter Japan as a scientist at RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), Wako Main Campus, Wako, Saitama, Japan where she will conduct chemical research.
		Belfort also received a medal as part of his investiture of the Russell Sage Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering Endowed Chair to which he was named by the Board of Trustees,
	www.rpi.edu /dept/chem-eng/WWW/faculty/belfort/news.html (1643 words)

	Belfort (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Belfort est une commune française, située dans le département du Territoire de Belfort et la région Franche-Comté.
		Belfort, traversé par la Savoureuse, une rivière torrentueuse domestiquée par des quais en grès rose, est situé au cœur de la trouée de Belfort (plaine entre les Vosges au nord et le Jura au sud, également nommée Porte de Bourgogne, voir Géographie du Territoire de Belfort).
		Belfort est entouré de collines : La Miotte, La Justice, Les Perches, Bellevue, Le Mont et enfin le Salbert, couverte d'une forêt de feuillus qui constitue un lieu de promenade pour les citadins.
	fr.askmore.net /Belfort.htm (1544 words)

	Vitor Belfort - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vitor Belfort (born April 1, 1978 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian mixed martial artist, who has fought both in Japan and the United States.
		Belfort was upset by TKO 8:16 into the match, his boxing skills negated by Couture's clinch and pound tactics.
		Despite recent setbacks due to injuries and the emotional toll of his sister's kidnapping, Belfort is still considered to be a world-class fighter and is a favorite among MMA fans, with many people hoping he can make a run at the Pride Middleweight Championship in the near future.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vitor_Belfort (846 words)

	Belfort
		This was Belfort, a city that survived not one, but three major sieges in the 19th Century.
		The first photograph shows the Citadelle Belfort with the famous red lion in front, located as the base of the white rocky cliff directly under the French flag).
		Belfort's center of activity was in the new city, the pedestrian districts across the canal.
	www.tompgalvin.com /places/fr/belfort.htm (911 words)

	Municipal Theater Belfort by Jean Nouvel
		This plan reorients the theater towards the river and the town, attempting to re-engage with a population that had deserted the previous theater, making a virtue of the contrast between new and old.
		The theater is in the center of Belfort on the west bank of the river, a few minutes walk southwest of the old town along boulevard Carnot.
		Belfort is only a short drive from Le Corbusier's chapel at Ronchamp.
	www.galinsky.com /buildings/belfort (230 words)

	Investigators and Program Directors (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Belfort has elucidated the different molecular pathways whereby introns splice and move by recruiting proteins of unusual structure and function.
		Their practical applications are being explored, too, and Dr. Belfort holds patents for the use of both introns and inteins in biotechnology.
		Mohr, G., Smith, D., Belfort, M., and Lambowitz, A.M. Rules for DNA target-site recognition by a lactococcal group II intron enable retargeting of the intron to specific DNA sequences.
	www.wadsworth.org.cob-web.org:8888 /resnres/bios/belfort.htm (1379 words)

	AllRefer.com - Belfort, France (French Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		A major fortress town since the 17th cent., it commands the Belfort Gap, or Burgundy Gate, between the Vosges and the Jura mts., thus dominating the roads from France, Switzerland, and Germany.
		An Austrian possession, Belfort passed to France by the Peace of Westphalia (1648) and was fortified by Vauban.
		Partly in acknowledgment of this heroism, the Germans left Belfort and the surrounding territory to France when they annexed the rest of Alsace.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BelfrtCit.html (263 words)

	Belfort Capital Corp.
		Belfort Capital Corp. was established in 1992 to provide independent, success-oriented and cost-effective investment banking and consulting services to companies with transactional needs of $5 to $50 million or management expertise in finance and corporate development.
		Through a best-in-class “virtual practice” of affiliated senior executives, Belfort Capital Corp. distinguishes itself by providing midsize companies (or larger companies with smaller transactions)responsive quality senior-level investment banking, strategic advisory, and private capital markets access normally afforded only to major corporations.
		Unlike many competitors, Belfort Capital Corp. acts only as an intermediary or advisor-undertaking engagements with no conflicts of interest arising from competing principal activities.
	www.belfortcapital.com (145 words)

	MMAFighting.com - The Return(s) of Vitor Belfort
		The genesis of Vitor Belfort’s mixed martial arts career is one of the more attractive and colorful in the history of the sport.
		Here’s an idea of how Belfort functions: he claimed in his fight against Ortiz that he felt he had won the first two rounds and decided to take it easier in the third, a tactic that contributed to his loss.
		But responsibility for his performances lies solely on Belfort, who entered MMA and NHB as a contender destined for fame and regressed into the inconsistent fighter whose ability to deal with tough competition is questionable.
	www.mmafighting.com /columns/harder/the_return_of_vitor_belfort.html (876 words)

	MMA WEEKLY - Your #1 Source for Daily MMA News, Interviews, Multimedia, and More (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Belfort has lost four of his last five fights, with the lone victory coming against Anthony Rea, and the losses coming at the hands of Alistair Overeem (twice), Randy Couture, and Tito Ortiz.
		Also, Belfort's main event fight against Overeem in San Jose last weekend was regarded as so bad that more than half of the crowd left the arena before the fight was over, which is usually not something that leads to a new contract with a major MMA promotion.
		Belfort's opponent, the 37-year-old Yoshiki Takahashi, lost to Heath Herring in early 2004 and then lost to Igor Vovchanchyn via brutal knockout in early 2005.
	mmaweekly.com /absolutenm/templates/dailynews.asp?articleid=2234&... (517 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| Military History Quarterly \| World War I: The Belfort Ruse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Belfort region had been a quiet zone since the initial bloody battles of 1914-15 and was one of the few places where the French had driven the Germans back on their own soil.
		At the time of his visit to Belfort, he was an order-of-battle officer whose prime duty was to keep track of German units.
		The event, later referred to as the "Belfort Ruse," stemmed from a suggestion of General Henri Philippe Pétain, commander of the French armies.
	historynet.com /mhq/blbelfortruse (2002 words)

	Gladius Map Tour - Belfort (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		There is a distinct class separation in Belfort with descendants of famous Centurions, Legionnaires, and other war heroes living the high life while everyone else struggles just to get by.
		The arena in Belfort is located in the center of town and frequented by commoners and those from the north who've made it across the border, legally or otherwise.
		The marketplace in the center of Belfort was a busy, bustling meeting place for all Imperials traveling the land.
	www.lucasarts.com /products/gladius/belfort.html (557 words)

	Belfort and Hannan Named Distinguished Professors
		Marlene Belfort and Edward Hannan, both from the School of Public Health, are UAlbany’s newest Distinguished Professors.
		Appointment to the rank of Distinguished Professor, the highest academic rank in the State University of New York system, is conferred upon individuals who have achieved national or international prominence and a distinguished reputation within a chosen field.
		Belfort, who joined the University in 1985, is a professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences.
	www.albany.edu /news/campus_news/2003/dec2003/belfort_hannan.htm (865 words)

	BELFORT TO PROVIDE WEATHER INSTRUMENTATION SUPPORT FOR WRIGHT EXPERIENCE FLIGHT OPERATIONS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Belfort's support on this event is fitting as Belfort's revolutionary recording weather station was operational at Weather Station #6 in Kitty Hawk, NC as part of a national network for the U.S. Weather Bureau.
		Belfort will also be donating a replica of its U. Weather Bureau Station (circa 1897-1913) for inclusion in the First Flight Centennial Pavillion collection early this summer.
		Belfort is a leading supplier of advanced environmental sensors to clients world-wide and is located in Baltimore, MD where the company was founded in 1876.
	www.wrightexperience.com /news/belfort.htm (373 words)

	John Culme's Footlight Notes — May Belfort (1872-1929), Irish variety singer - Week ending 24 July 2004 ...
		The result was his creation of five paintings, one poster, and six lithographs, including an oil portrait on board of her in a pink pinafore and baby bonnet, which is now in the Cleveland Museum of Art.
		The poster, a more familiar image showing Miss Belfort in a red costume and white bonnet and holding a small fl cat, has ensured that her name is rather better known to us than might otherwise have been the case.
		Miss Belfort, who has travelled nearly all over the world, speaks several languages besides her own, and appreciates and can sing some of the best and most difficult music.
	www.gabrielleray.150m.com /ArchiveTextB/MayBelfort.html (583 words)

	Interfrance: Photo selection from Belfort
		The city of Belfort is divided by the Savoureuse river.
		On the east bank, lies the old town dominated by the fortified castle and citadel and the famous "Lion", symbol of Belfort.
		Located at the doorstep of Belfort city, the Malsaucy area is one of the most beautiful natural settings of the Southern Vosges Mountains.
	www.interfrance.net /photobank/fc/cities/pb_belfort.html (284 words)

	Fortified Places > Fortresses > Belfort (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The fortifications of Belfort are in very good condition indeed despite the destruction of the front of the “Porte de France” removed in 1891 not by the bombs and the shells but by the picks and shovels for unclear reasons.
		The north to south east side of the fortification are almost intact with the beautifully renovated front of the “Porte Brisach” with the tower bastions and their counterguards, two gates in the demi-lune and the curtain, all the works being built in pink sandstone from the Vosges Mountains.
		The suggested routes are very well signposted and documented with explanation panels and schematics written in French, English and German in front of the key fortification elements.
	www.fortified-places.com.cob-web.org:8888 /belfort.html (867 words)

	Welcome to Belfort Holding Group
		Belfort Holding Group is one of the leading global investment companies which is operating currently throughout North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia.Our Investment Portfolio includes investments in several parts of the global economy, which are in real estate, multimedia, electronical, Energy and other corporate investments.
		Belfort Holding Group operates with a investment volume of over $20 Billion and about 500 Employees in more then 10 countries.Through the Headquarter in Miami, Florida we are flexible to invest all around the world and increase our Portfolio.
		Belfort Holding Group launches his new website in a new look.
	www.belfort-group.com (145 words)

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