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Beaufort

American  
[boh-fert] / ˈboʊ fərt /

noun

  1. a first name.


Beaufort British  
/ ˈbəʊfət /

noun

  1. Henry . ?1374–1447, English cardinal, half-brother of Henry IV; chancellor (1403–04, 1413–17, 1424–26)

  2. Lady Margaret , Countess of Richmond and Derby. ?1443–1509, mother of Henry VII. She helped to found two Cambridge colleges and was a patron of Caxton

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It’s there that the baleen filter feeders spend the summer gorging on tiny crustaceans from the muddy bottom of the Bering, Chuckchi and Beaufort seas, creating shallow pits or potholes in the process.

From Los Angeles Times

To examine chemical activity in the Arctic boundary layer, the research team collected air samples over snow-covered and newly frozen sea ice in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas.

From Science Daily

The atlas project proceeded in fits and starts, with meeting minutes from 1831 recording, “the Committee was summoned for this day but Capt. Beaufort alone attended.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Like his father and grandfather, Randolph served as the solicitor of the 14th judicial circuit in South Carolina, which serves Allendale, Colleton, Hampton, Beaufort and Jasper counties.

From Los Angeles Times

She and her boyfriend, Anthony Cook, were friends with Paul, and in February 2019 the couple boarded the Murdaugh family boat with a few other friends before it crashed into a bridge in Beaufort, S.C.

From Los Angeles Times