Although it appears clear that Badminton House, Gloucestershire, owned by the Duke of Beaufort, has given its name to the sports, it is unclear when and why the name was adopted.

As well as Jahangir's white cheetah at Agra, a report of " incipient albinism " has come from Beaufort West according to Guggisberg.

The breakup of the Ellesmere Ice Shelves has continued in the 21st century: the Ward Ice Shelf experienced a major breakup during summer 2002 ; the Ayles Ice Shelf calved entirely on August 13, 2005 ; the largest breakoff of the ice shelf in 25 years, it may pose a threat to the oil industry in the Beaufort Sea.

The project involved over-wintering the Amundsen in the Banks Island flaw lead in the Southern Beaufort Sea, the first time this has ever been done.

The city has also annexed lands across the Beaufort River on Lady's Island.

Beyond shopping and dining, Ribaut Road has numerous medical offices clustered near Beaufort Memorial Hospital.

The Beaufort area has several printed publications.

Beaufort has one local television station, WJWJ-TV ( PBS ).

Beaufort has been named by some sources as one of " America's Best Art Towns ", including being ranked the No. 14 Small City Arts Destination by American Style Magazine in 2008 and one of America's top 100 art towns by author John Villani in his 2005 book The 100 Best Art Towns in America: A Guide to Galleries, Museums, Festivals, Lodging and Dining.

The University of South Carolina – Beaufort has a performing arts center which attracts regional and national acts to the community.

Beaufort has several geographic areas of economic activity.

The remains of Civil War field fortifications can be observed along U. S. 21 and 17A between Yemassee and Pocotaligo ( that section of highway is now a part of Yemassee, as the town has now greatly expanded into Beaufort County of 2006 ).

The Festival has hosted over 1800 artists from across Canada's north, and from as far away as Japan and Australia over 22 years and is the largest annual tourism event in the Beaufort Delta.

Having signed away his rights old Philpot offers to marry her, but the lawyer reveals himself as Beaufort, and explains that he has swapped the deeds, so that Philpot has unwittingly signed his agreement for Maria to marry Beaufort.

Due to Tudor propaganda efforts, it was long believed that they were both murdered not long afterward on Richard III's orders ; however, the lack of any conclusive proof of their fate has led to alternative scenarios being proposed, for instance that that both boys were murdered on the orders of one of Margaret Beaufort, Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, John Morton or Henry VII, or that Richard survived.

Beaufort, like other patrons of exploration, has had his name applied to many geographical places.

The new Beaufort Bar has an Art Deco interior of jet-black and gold, serves champagne and cocktails and offers nightly cabaret.

The University of South Carolina Beaufort has numerous student organizations.

USC Beaufort has a branch in Bluffton, USC Union has a branch in Laurens and USC Salkehatchie has its main campus in Allendale with a branch in Walterboro.

With the deaths of Somerset and his younger brother, the House of Beaufort, who were distant cousins of Henry VI and had a remote claim to succeed him, had been almost exterminated.

Her surname probably reflects her father's lordship of Beaufort in Champagne, France, where she might also have been born.

She had a dispute over land with Henry VIII in 1518 ; he awarded the contested lands to the Duchy of Somerset, which had been held by his Beaufort grandfather — and were now in the possession of the Crown.

This may have been the start of the hatred that York felt for the Beaufort family, that would later turn into civil war.

Portions of Lady's Island have been annexed by Beaufort, though the city does not have complete jurisdiction of the entire island.

Jews have been residents of Beaufort and Charleston since the 18th century.

For three years consecutively, Israeli films have been nominated for Academy Awards, namely, " Beaufort " ( 2008 ), " Waltz with Bashir " ( 2009 ) and " Ajami " ( 2010 ).

However, he found the city had been occupied by Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort, and the men of the Gloucester Militia.

Margaret Beaufort had previously been married to Edmund Tudor, the eldest half-brother of Henry VI, and had given birth to the future Henry VII two months after Edmund's death.

* Raglan Lodge-a Regency building in the town centre, Beaufort Square, built above a vaulted stone cellar which may have been a town hall or administrative centre for the mediaeval lordship

Francis Beaufort had a lifelong keen awareness of the value of accurate charts for those risking the seas, having been shipwrecked himself at age fifteen due to a faulty chart, and his life's biggest accomplishments were in nautical charting.

Beaufort converted what had been a minor chart repository into the finest surveying and charting institution in the world.

Along its northern coast the seagoing commerce of the state has, in consequence, been restricted ; Beaufort Harbor and the Cape Fear River, however, furnish excellent ports.

It had been used as a supporter for the arms of John, Duke of Bedford, and by England's House of Beaufort.

The original Duke of Montmorency title was transferred to the duchy of Beaufort, which had been conferred on Charles François Frederic of Montmorency-Luxembourg, Prince de Tingry, in 1688.

The Beaufort Road ran through the center of this line, and here General Foster placed the howitzers that had been dragged along.

Beaufort, are situated on the sea-shore, a little to the eastward of the river Xanthus, and consist of a theatre excavated in the northern side of a small hill, a ruined temple on the side of the same hill, and a deep circular pit, of singular appearance, which may have been the seat of the oracle.

Badminton House is a large country house in Gloucestershire, England, and has been the principal seat of the Dukes of Beaufort since the late 17th century, when the family moved from Raglan Castle, which had been ruined in the English Civil War.

Successive Dukes of Beaufort have been masters of the Beaufort Hunt, which is probably one of the two most famous hunts in the United Kingdom alongside the Quorn Hunt.

Recent gouging activity has been documented at much shallower depth, for instance in the Beaufort Sea, where they occur at water depths ranging from ( Weeks 2010, p. 395 ).

San Francisco Bay is a mecca for sailors ( boats, as well as windsurfing and kitesurfing ), due to consistent strong westerly / northwesterly thermally-generated winds ( Beaufort force 6 ( 15-25 knots ) is common on summer afternoons ) and protection from large open ocean swells.

William Jones was born in London at Beaufort Buildings, Westminster ; his father ( also named William Jones ) was a mathematician from Anglesey in Wales, noted for devising the use of the symbol pi.

After his sponsors stopped paying him before the 2005 German Grand Prix, Patrick Friesacher was to be replaced by Dutch Jordan test driver Robert Doornbos to create the first all-Dutch driver line-up in Formula one since Carel Godin de Beaufort and Ben Pon drove together for the Ecurie Maarsbergen team at the 1962 Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort.

J Stevens & Son & J Dixon & sons made police whistles from around the 1840s, T Yates made Beaufort whistles for the Liverpool Police in the 1870s.

While she was attempting to raise further support for the Lancastrian cause in Scotland, her principal commander, Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset, gained a major victory for her at the Battle of Wakefield on 30 December 1460 by defeating the combined armies of the Duke of York and the Earl of Salisbury.

* North Carolina: Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Camden, Caswell, Chowan, Cleveland ( except for the city of Kings Mountain ), Craven, Cumberland, Edgecombe, Franklin, Gaston, Gates, Granville, Greene, Guilford, Halifax, Harnett, Hertford, Hoke, Jackson, Lee, Lenoir, Martin, Nash, Northampton, Onslow, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Person, Pitt, Robeson, Rockingham, Scotland, Union, Vance, Washington, Wayne, Wilson

The second son of John of Gaunt and his mistress Katherine Swynford, Beaufort was born in Anjou, an English domain in France, in about 1374 and educated for a career in the Church.

Between 1411 and 1413, Bishop Beaufort was in political disgrace for siding with his nephew, the Prince of Wales, against the King, but when King Henry IV died and the Prince became Henry V of England, he made his uncle Chancellor again in 1413 ; however, Beaufort resigned the position in 1417.

Beaufort continued to be active in English politics for years, fighting with the other powerful advisors to the King and always managing to extricate himself from the snares they set for him.

During this time Henry V had a policy of creating Norman titles for his aristocrats, and thus Beaufort was created Count of Harcourt in 1418.

Shortly thereafter, probably in November 1487, Henry VII gave Margaret in marriage to his cousin, Sir Richard Pole, whose mother was half-sister of the king's mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort ; this would make it more difficult for plotters to use her as a figurehead.

* Land-based maritime patrol aircraft were named for naval explorers-Avro Anson ( George Anson, 1st Baron Anson ), Lockheed Hudson ( Henry Hudson ), Avro Shackleton ( Ernest Shackleton ), Bristol Beaufort ( Francis Beaufort ).

However, in 1443 Henry put the newly-created John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset in charge of an army of 8, 000 men, initially intended for the relief of Gascony.

His Queen consort, Margaret of Anjou, was pregnant, and even if she should miscarry, the marriage of the newly ennobled Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond to Margaret Beaufort provided for an alternative line of succession.

Carte bought the freehold of the site, then known as " Beaufort Buildings ", early in 1880 for £ 11, 000, but had begun planning his theatre several years before.

In 1940 he moved into the bed-sitting room he would occupy for the next four decades, the first floor apartment at 129 Beaufort Street.

Beaufort County is one of the proposed sites for a Navy outlying landing field.

Subsequent monarchs were regular visitors, with Henry IV making his will here, and Henry V granting the manor ( for life ) to Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter, who died at Greenwich in 1417.

It is famed for its chained library and the tombs of King Ethelred, the brother of Alfred the Great, as well as the tombs of John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, and his duchess, the maternal grandparents of King Henry VII of England.

It is named for nearby Lake Ruth, Lake George, and Beaufort Lake.