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	Belgian Tourist Office - official website - your definitive source of travel information on Belgium
		The belfries of Belgium are exceptional examples of a form of urban architecture adapted to the political and spiritual requirements of their age.
		The belfries are imposing bell-towers of medieval origin, generally attached to the town hall and occasionally to a church.
		centuries, the belfry tower is incorporated in the elevation of the main façade of the town hall.
	www.visitbelgium.com /belfrybeg.htm (539 words)

	Pisa - history, art and architecture of Pisa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The central body of the structure is composed of a hollow cylinder, formed by an external wall facing of shaped ashlars in white and grey San Giuliano limestone, an inner wall facing also of worked limestone and, between these two wall facings, an annular masonry area.
		The belfry is reached via a narrow spiral stair, and in turn allows access to the top of the tower by way of a stair cut into the wall.
		The octagonal belfry is from the second half of the 13th century.
	www.pisa-info.com (1232 words)

	Belfry (architecture) - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		A belfry is a building (also known as a bell tower) - or a part of a building - in which bells are hung.
		In the Middle Ages cities sometimes kept their important documents in belfries.
		Belfries occur in England, in the western provinces of Flanders, and in the north of France along the Belgian border.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Belfry_(architecture) (191 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Belfry
		Originally it denoted a tower in which sentinels were placed to ring bells and thus give notice of the approach of the enemy, or a tower used in besieging a fortified place; it was of wood and movable.
		In Belgium, one of the earliest architectural expressions of the newly acquired independence (12th century) was the erection of a belfry.
		FERGUSSON History of Architecture, I, 600, 601; II, 101; PARKER, Glossary of Architecture, I, 53: NICHOLSON, Glossary of Architecture, I. Dictionary of Architecture and Archaeology, 82; Dictionary of Architecture, Architectural Publication Society, I, 57; STURGIS, Dictionary of Architecture, I, 268, 272.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02394d.htm (420 words)

	Architecture - MSN Encarta
		In early Renaissance and even Mannerist architecture, elements were combined in rather static compositions; classic design implies a serene balance among the several components, and spaces locked into the geometry of perspective.
		In England the rebuilding of London after the 1666 fire brought to prominence the many-talented Sir Christopher Wren, whose masterpiece is Saint Paul’s Cathedral (1675-1710).
		Among other innovations, Wren introduced the single square tower belfry with tall spire that became the hallmark of church architecture in England and the United States.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761578082_8/Architecture_(building).html (691 words)

	Bell tower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 2005 this list was extended with one Belgian and twenty-three French belfries and is since known as Belfries of Belgium and France.
		Most of these were attached to civil buildings, mainly city halls, as symbols of the greater power the cities in the region got in the Middle Ages; a small number of buildings not connected with a belfry, such as bell towers of - or with their - churches, occur also on this same list (details).
		The word belfry comes from Old French berfrei which is derived from Germanic bergan "to protect" and frithuz "peace"; that is, it was originally a watch tower providing protection against hostile incursions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Belfry_(architecture) (475 words)

	Ethnopark at Bardejov' Spa
		The exhibition of the folk architecture of upper Saris and northern Zemplin includes a rare technical relic from Bardjov, a borer for wooden water pipes.
		A combination of both types covers the side and back wall of the house from Hutja, which is far outside the sightseeing circle-like the belfry of 1700 from Janovce, the house from Richvald, and the Bardejov timber house with carriage-way, which are in the unfinished second part of the museum above the road.
		The little belfry from Nemcovice is of the most widespread type of belfry in the environs of Bardejov, where they were built in villages which did not have church.
	www.carpatho-rusyn.org /bard (1493 words)

	ArchitectureWeek - Building - Tree Play - 2004.0121
		Bucciero explains: "With its geometric forms, curves, and structural elements, this tree house is an expression of the dialectic balance between nature and architecture.
		Tree Tectonics was intended as a study of three-dimensional movement and form.
		It had operable doors at the bottom that opened to pull-chains that visitors could use to ring bells mounted in the belfry.
	www.architectureweek.com /2004/0121/building_1-2.html (496 words)

	What is a Cupola?
		A light structure on a dome or roof, serving as a belfry, lantern, or belvedere.
		It states that a belfry is the upper room or story of a tower from which bells are hung.
		The Cupola Picture section of this website has many examples of buildings with cupolas, domes, lanterns, belvederes, gazebos, and belfries.
	www.cupola.com /whatscu1.htm (477 words)

	Architecture in Belgium: Ghent
		Jan Van Haelst and Filips van Beergine: Belfry, Ghent.
		The belfry at Ghent is a fortified guard tower; the lowest chamber was used to store the city charters at one time.
		It has been rebuilt six times since it was first constructed; the current spire dates from 1911-1913 restoration by Valentin Vaerewijck.
	www.bc.edu /bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/arch/ghent_arch.html (237 words)

	Belfry Inne & Bistro bed and breakfast inn - Sandwich, Massachusetts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Belfry Inne & Bistro bed and breakfast inn - Sandwich, Massachusetts
		In a timeless Sandwich, Cape Cod setting, four architectural masterpieces, comprising The Belfry Inne & Bistro, each from a different time, grace Jarves and Main Streets.
		The Belfry Bistro specializes in intimate dinners for two or an elegant "affair" for 120.
	www.lanierbb.com /inns/bb16852.html (242 words)

	Bartolomeo Rastrelli sculptors and architects information
		His ambition was to combine the latest Italian architectural fashion with traditons of the Muscovite baroque style.
		The projected belfry (architecture)bell-tower was to become the tallest building in St Petersburg and all of Russia.
		The new empress Catherine II of RussiaCatherine dismissed baroque architecture as an old-fashioned "whipped cream", and the aged architect had to retire to Courland where he supervised decoration of the ducal palaces.
	www.artbrain.co.uk /sculptors-architects/bartolomeo-rastrelli.htm (318 words)

	Belfry, Ghent
		On the west side of Sint-Baafsplein stands the 91m/298ft-high belfry, symbol of the city's independence, where the charters of the privileges of Ghent were kept.
		The tower was begun about 1300 and by 1338 was mainly completed.
		Unauthorized duplication in part or whole without prior written consent prohibited by law.
	www.planetware.com /ghent/belfry-b-ov-gbelf.htm (140 words)

	New York Architecture Images- Chelsea-Church of the Holy Apostles (Episc)
		New York Architecture Images- Chelsea-Church of the Holy Apostles (Episc)
		Although the cornerstone for the church was laid in 1846 and the church completed in 1848, it wasn’t until 1908 that the copper was added to the base and belfry.
		Following the fire at the church, the copper, by then pitted with age, was removed and samples stored against the time the Church could raise the money to replace it.
	www.nyc-architecture.com /CHE/CHE022-ChurchoftheHolyApostles.htm (292 words)

	NATS in the IPv6 Belfry
		WASHINGTON -- Cost savings methods to conserve IP addresses and security precautions are potential stumbling blocks to the deployment of IPv6 (define) which, ironically, is designed to provide a far greater number of addresses and better security than the current IPv4.
		A NAT (define) box is a hardware device often placed between a private network and the Internet to allow a large number of hosts on a private network to share a smaller number of globally routable, public IP addresses.
		Cerf said when the Internet Architectural Board was debating the introduction of IPv6, it was suggested that NATs might serve as transitional devices from IPv4 to IPv6.
	www.internetnews.com /infra/article.php/3387681 (964 words)

	Belfry - William G. Belfry Memorial / SAE Grant - Awards & Scholarships
		The term "Belfry" has a variety of uses:.
		The belfry built in the late XVIII century by a peasant, self educated The belfry is distinguished by its slender-elegant silhouette observed from a far
		The applications for the University of Toronto Belfry grant will be judged The Canada-wide Belfry grant will be judged by the SAE Scholarship Committee.
	dealprogram.com /darr/belfry.htm (395 words)

	Town Hall and Belfry, Lier
		Lier - Town Hall and Belfry; Stadhuis and Belfry
		The adjoining Gothic belfry (1369) is all that remains of the medieval cloth hall.
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	www.planetware.com /lier/town-hall-and-belfry-b-a-thb.htm (77 words)

	Images of the Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, by Leon Krier
		Designed by Leon Krier, theorist and innovator in traditional architecture and urbanism, this addition to the architecture school houses a lecture hall, an exhibition space, and multimedia classroom.
		The School of Architecture at the University of Miami is known for its interest in New Urbanism, a movement which supports traditional ideas about planning and design that many Modernist architects have rejected.
		Krier himself is most famous for his design of the English model town of Poundbury for the Prince of Wales.
	www.bluffton.edu /~sullivanm/florida/coralgables/krier/krier.html (252 words)

	Flickr: Photos tagged with belfry
		Unlimited access to an over 1,300,000 song library including all Belfry tracks.
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		You can give your photos a "tag", which is like a keyword.
	www.flickr.com /photos/tags/belfry (130 words)

	MCP 2.1 Specification
		MCP has little notion of state; instead, maintenance of state beyond the existence of a MCP-capable connection between the server and client is assumed to be the job of application-specific protocols.
		Much of MCP is described in terms which require some understanding of the typical MUD architecture (that is, a central server reflecting messages among, and generating messages to, multiple clients).
		For the reader who is unfamiliar with MUDs, the terms used may be somewhat unclear.
	www.belfry.com /fuzzball/trebuchet/mcp.html (5508 words)

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