Paris – Brest – Paris ( PBP ), which began in 1891, is the oldest bicycling event still run on a regular basis on the open road, covers over and imposes a 90-hour time limit.

Chomsky (,,,, " from ( Vyoska ) Khomsk ( nearby Brest, now Belarus )") is a Belarus '- origin surname, and may refer to:

The Daily Universal Register of 11 November 1786 had stated: " the Botany Bay scheme is laid aside, as there is a strong presumption that a squadron from Brest are now, or soon will be, in possession of the very spot we meant to occupy in New Holland ".

Elsewhere, ethnic Poles constitute large minorities in Lithuania, Belarus, and Ukraine: Polish is the most widely used minority language in Lithuania's Vilnius County ( 26 % of the population, according to the 2001 census results ) and is found elsewhere in southeastern Lithuania ; in Ukraine it is most common in the Lviv and Lutsk regions, while in Western Belarus it is used by the significant Polish minority especially in the Brest and Grodno regions and in areas along the Lithuanian border.

The oldest known oxygen rebreather was patented on June 17, 1808 by Sieur Touboulic from Brest, mechanic in Napoleon's Imperial Navy, but there is no evidence of any prototype having been manufactured.

* June 13 – The wreck of the German battleship Bismarck, which was sunk in 1941, is located west of Brest, France.

It was built in 2003 in Norway, is based in Brest, France | Brest, belongs to SURF and is used by the French Navy.

It lies along the western coast of France from Brest south to the Spanish border, and the northern coast of Spain west to Cape Ortegal, and is named in English after the province of Biscay, in the Spanish Basque Country.

Brest (; ) is a city in the Finistère département in Brittany in northwestern France.

Located in a sheltered position not far from the western tip of the Breton peninsula, and the western extremity of metropolitan France, Brest is an important harbour and the second French military port after Toulon.

The city is located on the western edge of continental Europe, hence the expression « Europe from Brest to Brest ».

With 142, 722 inhabitants in a 2007 census, Brest is at the centre of Western Brittany's largest metropolitan area ( with a population of 300, 300 in total ), ranking third behind only Nantes and Rennes in the whole of historic Brittany, and the 22nd most populous city in France ; moreover, Brest provides services to the one million inhabitants of Western Brittany.

Although Brest is by far the largest city in Finistère, the préfecture ( regional capital ) of the department is the much smaller Quimper.

Nowadays, Brest is an important university town with 23, 000 students.

Brest is also an important research centre, mainly focused on the sea, with among others the largest Ifremer ( French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea ) centre, le Cedre ( Centre of Documentation, Research and Experimentation on Accidental Water Pollution ) and the French Polar Institute.

The best known modern performers are Djiboudjep and Cabestan, along with numerous but less known bands as Tonnerre de Brest, L ' Echo, Les Boucaniers or Taillevent.

Sarac ' h received the best album award of the Breton newspaper, Le Télégramme de Brest.

Claire, Duchess of Duras ( née de Kersaint ; 1777, Brest, France – 1828 ) was a French writer best known for her 1823 novel called Ourika, which examines issues of racial and sexual equality, and which inspired the 1969 John Fowles novel The French Lieutenant's Woman.

His outdoor personal best of 2. 33 metres was set in July 2001 in Brest.

Menachem Begin was born to Zeev Dov and Hassia Biegun in Brest-Litovsk ( Brest ), a town then part of the Russian Empire which was known for its Talmudic scholars.

* October 8 – October 10 – The Union of Brest: The Ukrainian Church west of the Dnipro becomes known as the Ukrainian rite of Catholicism, whereas the East officially renounces the authority of the Pope.

* link = European route E50-: Brest – Rennes – Le Mans – Paris – Reims – Metz – Saarbrücken – Mannheim – Heilbronn – Nuremberg – Rozvadov – Plzeň – Prague – Jihlava – Brno – Trenčín – Prešov – Košice – Vyšné Nemecké – Uzhhorod – Mukachevo – Stryj – Ternopil – Khmelnytskyi – Vinnytsia – Uman – Kirovohrad – Dnipropetrovsk – Donetsk – Rostov-on-Don – Armavir – Mineralnye Vody – Makhachkala ... also known as " Via Caroli "

Nothing definite is known of Brest before about 1240, when a count of Léon ceded it to John I, Duke of Brittany.

The part of the town on the left bank is regarded as Brest proper, while the part on the right is known as Recouvrance.

* 1715: the chevalier ( sir ) Pierre Rémy de Beauve, a French aristocrat who serves as garde de la marine in Brest, builds one of the oldest known diving dresses.

* 1808: on June 17, Sieur Touboulic from Brest, mechanic in the Napoleon's Imperial Navy, patents the oldest known oxygen rebreather ( but there is no evidence of any prototype having been manufactured ).

Another promising venture seemed to be what has become known as the " Brest Affair.

Historians such as John Paget and C. T. Atkinson conclude that he probably did write the letter, but did so only when he knew that it would be received too late for its information to be of any practical use ( the plan of the attack on Brest was widely known, and the French had already begun to strengthen their defences in April ).

In 1657, and again in 1706, the town and castle were captured by the Swedes during their invasions of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ; on January 13, 1660 the invading Muscovite Russian army under Ivan Andreyevich Khovansky took the Brest castle in a surprise early morning attack, the town having been captured earlier, and massacred the 1700 defenders and their families ( according to captain Rosestein, Austrian observer ); on July 23, 1792 a battle was fought between the regiments of Duchy of Lithuania ( part of Polish Army ) defending the town and the invading Russian Imperial Army ; on September 19, 1794 the area between Brest and Terespol was the scene of a victorious battle won by the invading Russian Imperial army under Suvorov over the Kościuszko Uprising army division under general Karol Sierakowski known in Russian sources as ( Battle of Brest ).

Brest lies astride the Mukhavets River, that is known to Bresters as " the river ".

Geographically, the Brest Voblast belongs to the area known as Polesia.

Kosava, also known as Kossovo (, formerly Kosava-Paleskaje,, ) is a small town in the Ivatsevichy Raion in the Brest Province of Belarus, located at.

* 1808: The oldest known rebreather based on carbon dioxide absorption was patented in France by Sieur Touboulic from Brest, a mechanic in Napoleon's Imperial Navy.

David Isaac Dobnievski, known to history as David Dubinsky, was born February 22, 1892 in Brest-Litovsk ( currently Brest, Belarus ), the youngest of five boys and three girls.

Battle of Brześć Litewski ( also known as the Siege of Brześć, Battle of Brest-Litovsk or simply Battle of Brześć ) was a World War II battle involving German and Polish forces that took place between 14 and 17 September 1939, near the town of Brześć Litewski ( now Brest, Belarus ).

Mikołaj " the Black " funded the printing of a second version, and first completed, Polish translation of a Protestant bible, titled the " Radziwill Bible " ( also known as " Biblia Brzeska "), which was published in the town of Brest in 1564.

The Pinsk Marshes (), also known as the Pripyat or Pripet Marshes () and the Rokitno Marshes, are a vast natural region of wetlands along the Pripyat River and its tributaries from Brest, Belarus ( west ) to Mogilev ( northeast ) and Kiev ( southeast ).

On its becoming known that Napoleon intended to break the blockade of Ferrol, as a prelude to his invasion, the Admiralty ordered Rear-Admiral Charles Stirling to join Calder and intercept the Franco-Spanish fleet on their passage to Brest.

They visited the shipyards at Brest and Pierre had to sign the register, vouching for the integrity of the visiting foreigner.

He briefly reported from Cherbourg and Brest, sailing for Plymouth less than twenty-four hours before the French surrender.

By 1913 the French and British had plans in place for joint naval action against Germany, and France moved its Atlantic fleet from Brest to Toulon, replacing British ships.

Fréminet called his invention machine hydrostatergatique and used it successfully for more than ten years in the harbors of Le Havre and Brest, as stated in the explanatory text of a 1784 painting.

They would then return, assist the fleet in Brest to emerge from the blockade, and together clear the English Channel of Royal Navy ships, ensuring a safe passage for the invasion barges.

Unlike William Cornwallis, who maintained a tight blockade of Brest with the Channel Fleet, Nelson adopted a loose blockade in hopes of luring the French out for a major battle.

In 1917, during the First World War, Brest was used as the disembarking port for many of the troops coming from the United States.

In 1944, after the Allied invasion of Normandy, the city was almost totally destroyed during the Battle for Brest, with only a tiny number of buildings left standing.

After the war, the West German government paid several billion deutschemarks in reparations to the homeless and destitute civilians of Brest in compensation for the destruction of their city.

File: StLouisSiam. jpg | Saint-Louis church of Brest, rebuilt after the Second World War, between 1953 and 1958 in a modernist style, is worth seeing for its stained glass.

Brest also hosts headquarters for many subsidiaries like the banking group Arkéa ... Brest has the 9th French commercial harbour including ship repairs and maintenance.

Brest claims to be the largest European centre for sciences and techniques linked to the sea: 60 % of the French research in the maritime field is based in Brest.

Since 1901 Brest has served as the midpoint for the bicycle endurance event, Paris – Brest – Paris.

** To be noted that Brest is one of the hosts for the Indiana University Honors Foreign Language Program

** the largest Ifremer ( French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea ) centre ( in Plouzané next to Brest ); about 1000 people work there.

* Battle for Brest

Early in 1797, the Spanish fleet of 27 ships of the line, which were supposed to join the French fleet at Brest lay at Cartagena, on the Mediterranean Sea, with the intention of sailing to Cádiz as an escort of a 57 merchant convoy, carrying mainly mercury — necessary for gold and silver production — which would eventually enter that Spanish harbour along with warships Neptuno, Terrible and Bahama, prior to running into the British force.

Fréminet called his invention machine hydrostatergatique and used it successfully for more than ten years in the harbours of Le Havre and Brest, as states the explaining text of a 1784 painting.

* 1974: Pierre Lelong – Secretary of State for the PTT ( literally Postal Telegraph and Telephone ) – decides to establish a second school of telecommunications that will be located in the Brest area.