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	BREST - LoveToKnow Article on BREST
		The chief street of Brest bears the name of rue de Siam, in honor of the Siamese embassy sent to Louis XIV., and terminates at the remarkable swing-bridge, constructed in 1861, which crosses the mouth of the Penfeld.
		Brest is the capital of one of the five naval arrondissements of France.
		Brest is the seat of a sub-prefect and has tribunals of first instance and of commerce, a chamber of commerce, a board of trade-arbitrators, two naval tribunals, and a tribunal of maritime commerce.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BR/BREST.htm (774 words)

	Brest, Belarus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Bieraście, Brest; also known as Brest-Litovsk and in Polish as Brześć Litewski, Brześć nad Bugiem or Brześć Białoruski; Russian: Брест, Lithuanian: Lietuvos Brasta (litterally meaning "shallows of Lithuania") is a city (population 290,000 in 2004) in Belarus close to the Polish border where the Western Bug and Mukhavets Rivers meet.
		In Brest the rail cars had to be transferred between the Russian broad gauge and the European standard gauge.
		In March 1918, in a fortress on the western outskirts of Brest at the confluence of the Western Bug and Mukhavets Rivers, the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed, ending the war between Russia and the Central Powers and transferring the city and its surrounding region to the sphere of influence of the German Empire.
	www.kernersville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Brest,_Belarus (882 words)

	Brest Region
		Brest Region is the western gate of Belarus and the center of Belarus Polesye.
		The symbol of Brest is the Brest Fortress.
		Brest Region, particularly the cities of Brest, Baranovichi and Pinsk have a large automobile fleet (some 500 vehicles, of which 115 are in the Big Brest, 65 in Baranovichi, and 55 in Pinsk).
	www.belarusembassy.org /economic/investments/brest_region.htm (1078 words)

	History of Brest
		Brest has always had adequate fortifications which were constantly modernized but the tsarist government decided to build up a big fortress in the city to have strongpoint for the Russian army on the newly acquired territories.
		The Brest fortress was located on the four islands consisting of the central enforcement and three before-bridge enforcements.
		Brest was under the German rule untill the end of 1918.
	www.geocities.com /Paris/3430/bh4.html (1761 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - BREST-LITOVSK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Brest was the largest and the most important of the first five Jewish settlements in Lithuania, dating from the second half of the fourteenth century, and continued in that leading position till the rise of Wilna in the seventeenth century.
		On one occasion the rector and the superintendent of the Jesuit college of Brest asked that a formal protest might be recorded against the unbelieving Jews of the city of Brest, who, it was stated, had, "in their hatred of Christian blood," insulted and beaten the students on many occasions.
		Loeb, rabbi of Brest and of all Lithuania.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=1460&letter=B (4107 words)

	Brest, France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Brest (population of the city: 146,000 inhabitants as of 2004 estimates; population of the metropolitan area: 303,484 inhabitants as of 1999 census) is a city in the Bretagne région, north-west France, subprefecture of the Finistère département.
		Due to its location, Brest is regarded as the first French port that can be accessed from the Americas, and hence shipping is big business, although Nantes and St.
		Brest is located amidst dramatic landscape at the end of the natural Bay of Douarnenez, at the west end of the Brittany peninsula.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brest,_France (561 words)

	Untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The unification of Catholic and Orthodox was proclaimed in Brest at the end of the XVI century in the territory of Rzechpospolita under supremacy of Catholic.
		The town was transformed into a fortress for defence of the western boards of Russia in 1836 and it was transfered from the banks of the Bug to the Muhavets River.
		At the middle of the 19-th century Brest was famous as a trade town.
	www.belarustourist.minsk.by /english/city/brest.htm (491 words)

	AllRefer.com - Brest, city, Belarus (CIS And Baltic Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		258,016), capital of Brest region, W Belarus, at the confluence of the Western Bug and Mukhavets rivers near the Polish border.
		Brest passed to Russia in the third partition of Poland (1795).
		Held by Poland between the world wars, Brest was regained by the USSR in 1939, occupied by Germany from 1941–44, and finally liberated by the Soviet army.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BrestByel.html (286 words)

	Port de Brest - France
		The port is a gateway to France, Europe and a connection to ongoing worldwide sailings.
		Brest it is also a port, which serves Europe's number one food industrial area.
		Founder member of the Association of Ports of the Atlantic Arc (APAA), Brest is an ideal port for transhipment in the case of the development of inter-european sea links and trans-european transport networks.
	www.port.cci-brest.fr /indexen.htm (122 words)

	Brest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the 15th and 16th century it was a busy market town; during the second half of the 17th century it fell into decline.
		In 1831 the population of the town was resettled a few kilometers to the east, and Brest was turned into a fortress to defend the highways leading to Kyiv and Moscow from the west.
		In 1939 the Brest region became part of the Belorussian SSR, although its inhabitants were Ukrainian.
	www.encyclopediaofukraine.com /pages/B/R/Brest.htm (284 words)

	Sky Cars Brest
		Brest is situated on the western tip of the Brittany peninsula, and is an important port and naval base.
		Musée de la Marine de Brest traces the history of Brest’s maritime tradition and is situated in an old castle, one of the few historical buildings that survived the bombing raids.
		Brest is surrounded by smaller towns and villages which were not so heavily damaged by bombing, and these areas are rich with beautiful old Breton architecture.
	www.skycars.com /car_rental_Brest.asp (359 words)

	History of Brest
		The King rejected the request of the orthodox faction, and in October 11, 1596 the Brest Union was concluded.
		The opponents of the Brest-Litovsk union felt that their tradition and autonomy were being given away and feared that the union would breed hybridism or the tendency toward Latinization and hence a betrayal of ancient and nationalistic tradition.
		Brest owes its educational development in the 16-18th centuries to one of those schools.
	www.geocities.com /Paris/3430/bh3.html (1985 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Union of Brest
		Brest is a city in Lithuania, with some 50,000 inhabitants, famous in the history of the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church of Russia for the union of the Ruthenians with Catholicism.
		In 1590 the metropolitan, Rahosa, convoked a synod at Brest for 24 June.
		On 24 June, 1594, the Ruthenian bishops again assembled at Brest, but their meeting had no synodal character, as Sigismund III was in Sweden, and no synod could be held in the absence of the sovereign.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15130a.htm (2079 words)

	Brest
		The garden of Stangalard is located on the east side of town and is a great place to spend an afternoon walking on the many paths that weave their way around small ponds practically all the way to the harbor.
		Connected to Brest by the first concrete bridge in Europe (now a pedestrian bridge) and by a contemporary bridge, Plougastel is not only the home of several Brest host-families, it is also the launch pad of adventures into the peninsula.
		Brest is special for many reasons, one of which is the fact that American tourists are somewhat rare, making it an ideal location to avoid speaking English.
	www.indiana.edu /~iuhpfl/brest.htm (1504 words)

	brest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Brest is a harbor, on the tip of Britany -the westmost part of continental France- and the European capital of marine science and technology.
		Coming to Brest will also be an opportunity to visit France, and take home some souvenirs and French products such as wine, cheese, clothes or perfumes together with the conference proceedings.
		Brest is the venue city for ISOPE 99.
	www.ifremer.fr /isope99/brest/brest.htm (597 words)

	Economic Zone "Brest"
		The Republic of Belarus, Brest Region and city of Brest welcomes everybody to the heart of Europe, to the East-West crossroads, to a land with ancient history and a modern industrious people surrounded by wonderful natural countryside.
		Brest Region and city are willing and eager to make their contribution to this process.
		The Brest FEZ is a pilot project for Belarus and it would have been rather difficult to create attractive conditions meeting all the investors requirements without competent Western experts.
	www.belarusembassy.org /economic/foreign_trade/fez_brest.htm (1564 words)

	The heroic Brest Fortress complex
		The Heroic Brest Fortress memorial complex was unveiled at an official ceremony on the fortress grounds on September 25, 1971.
		The main part of the memorial complex is the Square of Ceremonies where of the most important meetings take place and young soldiers swear an oath to be worthy of their fathers' and grandfathers' glory and to be loyal to their country on this sacred land.
		In a temple of the Brest Fortress, which is in a process of restoration since 1995 on June 22, on the Day of Memory and Grief, there has been a funeral service in honour of the killed during World War II.
	www.brest.by /ct/page4e.html (610 words)

	Paul Brest
		Paul Brest is the President of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in Menlo Park, California.
		Brest received an A.B. from Swarthmore College in 1962 and an LL.B from Harvard Law School in 1965.
		Brest is coauthor of Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking (4th ed., 2000), and currently teaches a law school course on Problem-solving, Decisionmaking, and Professional Judgment.
	www.hewlett.org /Initiatives/Staff/paulBrestBio.htm (207 words)

	4th EuroGOOS conference at Brest, France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Brest, a french maritime regional capital is an international reference in the field of oceanography and marine technologies with more than 2000 researchers and engineers representing 60% of the national community in this field.
		Brest and its urban community is definitely the French city for oceanographic research and oceanic engineering with the largest number of researchers in the domain with the French research center for oceanography (
		Brest is a harbor, on the tip of Britany the westmost part of continental France and the European capital of marine science and technology.
	www.eurogoos2005.org (307 words)

	Mill Pond Press Companies
		Brest van KempenÂ’s subjects, while untraditional, are no less threatened than those more commonly seen in wildlife art, and they are just as essential in the grand scheme of nature.
		Brest van KempenÂ’s work can also be found in the permanent collections of The Springville Art Museum in Utah, The Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, WI, The World Center for Birds of Prey in Boise, Idaho, and The Bennington Center for the Arts in Vermont.
		Brest van Kempen takes at least one trip per year out of the country to explore and spend time in the habitats of his subjects.
	www.millpond.com /site/artistbio.cfm?DocumentID=24 (680 words)

	BrestOnline.com -- Internet Guide to Brest Belarus
		Today Brest is greeting passengers of the Russian-Belarusian Echelon of Victory, BelTA was informed by head of the ideology department of the Brest oblast executive committee Alexander Rogachuk.
		Brest was the first town to rebuff the enemy.
		The issues of refugees and international migration are on the agenda of the workshop in Brest which united more than two dozens of state and private Belarusian mass media, public relations manager of the international association on UN studies and information and educational programs Olga Grandinar told BelTA.
	www.brestonline.com (1096 words)

	AllRefer.com - Brest, city, France, France (French Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		It is a commercial port, an important naval station, and the seat of the French Naval Academy.
		There is a national engineering school in Brest and nearby is the Oceanographic Center of Brittany.
		In 1683, during the reign of Louis XIV, Marshal Vauban built the ramparts and a castle.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BrestFr.html (276 words)

	SWAP \| Tales to Tell - Carel Brest van Kempen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Carel Brest van Kempen was born in Murray, Utah, in 1958.
		Although Brest van Kempen is a wildlife artist, he's not the typical western wildlife artist: more than half his work is of tropical animals.
		Share some of the BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION with the students, including Brest van Kempen's comment that he enjoys watching people see his paintings and be interested in them from across the room and be drawn in close because their attention is caught and they want to see the details.
	www.swap.shs.nebo.edu /ttvankempenact.html (4420 words)

	Brest-Litovsk - from the Jewish Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		When, in 1472, merchandise belonging to Itzek (Isaac) of Brest, collector of taxes, was arbitrarily seized in Prussia, the bishop of Wilna and six secular councilors of the king interceded in his behalf before the grand master Henry Richtenberg (ib.
		During the banishment the synagogue of Brest was presented by Alexander to the Christian inhabitants of Brest to be used as a hospital (“Slownik Geographiczny,” s.v.); but when the Jews returned it was given back to them.
		In 1507 the community of Brest was the object of the special attention of Sigismund I.; and its history of the period is intimately connected with the brothers JESOFOVICH.
	www.jewishgen.org /belarus/je_brest_litovsk.htm (4119 words)

	Parks and Recreation: Parks - Denver's Sister Cities Parks - Brest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Brest and Denver immediately proceeded with the contract of “jumelage” or “twinning”, as the affiliation is known in other countries.
		Brest, France is Denver’s first sister city, with the affiliation becoming final in 1948.
		When Brest, France had their “Brest ‘96” Festival of Tall Ships, hosting over one million people and 300,000 ships in the harbor, Denver sent a representative from the Sister City committee.
	www.denvergov.org /Parks/template21705.asp (328 words)

	Paris-Brest-Paris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Paris-Brest-Paris (PBP) is an approximately 1200km randonnée bicycle ride held on an out-and-back course between Paris and Brest, France, every four years.
		Begun in 1891, it is the oldest bicycling event that is still regularly run.
		He won his first PBP in 1987 by breaking away in Brest, aided by a strong tailwind and a few strong riders from the "touring" group, which that year started many hours before the "racing" group.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paris-Brest_et_retour (1349 words)

	Brest Environmental Information Center (BEIC) is a regional division of the national environmental non-profit ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In 1998 BEIC organized participation of a group of environmentally active youth from the Brest region at an environmental camp in Germany.
		In 1999 BEIC actively participated in conducting a public ecological expertise of the planned landfill in the Ivanovo district of the Brest region; as the result of that serious changes in the project were made.
		BEIC's desire to establish a VF Consortium Member in Brest is based on the fact that in the age of information revolution it does not matter where an institution is located in geographical terms.
	www.virtualfoundation.org /support/consortium/brestinfo.html (383 words)

	Brest France - French Holidays - IndigoGuide
		Brest is located in a wide natural harbour, the Rade de Brest, which shelters it from the riotous seas that lash the coastline of Finistère, the westernmost part of Brittany.
		As for hotels in Brest, there is a conglomeration of them around the place de la Liberté and station areas, but not many have their own restaurants.
		The town of Brest has little to charm the tourist, but the impressive 15th-century Chateau de Brest on the headland is a good thing to see from a distance, if a little dull inside.
	www.indigoguide.com /france/brest.htm (522 words)

	The defence of the Brest Fortress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Fascist headquarters planned to seize Brest and the Brest Fortress which was located in the direction of the main attack of the Army Group Centre during the first hours of the War.
		Redstandard Brest Frontierguard detachment, the 33 Separate Engineering Regiment, a part of the 132 Battalion of the troops of CGB (headquarters of the divisions and the 28 Infantry Cops were located in Brest).
		Since the first minutes of the war Brest and Brest Fortress were bombed and fired from artillery guns.
	www.brest.by /ct/page3e.html (2176 words)

	Brest, Belarus, streets
		In 1911 there were 36 streets and lanes in Brest with the total length 30 km.
		The boundary line was formed by railway lines, the river and the Brest Fortress.
		In 2001 the tradition changed, when a street in Brest was named after the late entrepreneur Mikhail Moshensky.
	yogi161.tripod.com /breststreets.html (243 words)

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