Article 58. 1 of the April 18, 1999, Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation ( official, French version ) provides that " Switzerland has an army.

Source: * Article Antistes in the Historical Lexicon of Switzerland ( German )

The freedom to roam is guaranteed in Switzerland by the Swiss Civil Code.

Today, Alemannic is a linguistic term, referring to Alemannic German, encompassing the dialects of the southern two thirds of Baden-Württemberg ( German State ), in western Bavaria ( German State ), in Vorarlberg ( Austrian State ), Swiss German in Switzerland and the Alsatian language of the Alsace ( France ).

* He married, on October 9, 1944, in Geneva, Switzerland, Yvonne Blanche Labrousse ( February 15, 1906-July 1, 2000 ).

Fort Dodge Animal Health has their vaccines available for multiple European Countries ( vaccination will start in 2008 in Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain and Italy ).

The team at the Paul Scherrer Institute ( PSI ) in Bern, Switzerland later synthesized 6 atoms of < sup > 267 </ sup > Bh in the first definitive study of the chemistry of bohrium ( see below ).

The bank is controlled by a board of directors, which is composed of the elite central bankers of 11 different countries ( US, UK, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Sweden ).

Centime ( from Latin centesimus ) is French for " cent ", and is used in English as the name of the fraction currency in several Francophone countries ( including Switzerland, Algeria, Belgium, Morocco and France ).

As a sport, cycling is governed internationally by the Union Cycliste Internationale in Switzerland, USA Cycling ( merged with the United States Cycling Federation in 1995 ) in the United States, ( for upright bicycles ) and by the International Human Powered Vehicle Association ( for other HPVs, or human-powered vehicles ).

Sabinus himself amassed further wealth and possible equestrian status through his services as tax collector in Asia and banker in Helvetia ( modern Switzerland ).

The game of floorball is also known by many other names, such as salibandy ( in Finland ), innebandy ( in Sweden and Norway ), and unihockey ( in Switzerland and Germany ).

In Switzerland this form of playing is called " smallcourt " ( Kleinfeld ), opposed to the usual style of playing on a bigger court, which is called " bigcourt " ( Grossfeld ).

In Switzerland, most residential shelters are no longer stocked with the food and water required for prolonged habitation and a large number have been converted by the owners to other uses ( e. g., wine cellars, ski rooms, gyms ).

One notable exception to this general trend, Switzerland, mandates the possession of a personal, government-issued firearm by members of the militia ( typically males between 20 and 30 ).

Other local stations broadcast from the city, including YesFM ( FM 91. 8 MHz ), Radio Cité ( Non-commercial radio, FM 92. 2 MHz ), OneFM ( FM 107. 0 MHz, also broadcast in Vaud ), and World Radio Switzerland ( FM 88. 4 MHz ).

* Vladimir Nabokov and his wife Vera lived in the Montreux Palace Hotel in Montreux, Switzerland ( 1961-his death in 1977 ).

The stores spread to other parts of Europe in the 1970s, with the first store outside Scandinavia opening in Switzerland ( 1973 ), followed by Germany ( 1974 ).

Patents were eventually granted in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, (, filed May 16, 1991, issued June 22, 1994 and expiring not later than May 16, 2011 ), the United States (, issued May 25, 1993 and expiring not later than January 7, 2012 ) and Japan ( JP 3225440 ).

Unions may organize a particular section of skilled workers ( craft unionism, traditionally found in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the USA ), a cross-section of workers from various trades ( general unionism, traditionally found in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Netherlands, the UK and the USA ), or attempt to organize all workers within a particular industry ( industrial unionism, found in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Finland, Norway, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, and the USA ).

Liechtenstein's foreign economic policy has been dominated by its customs union with Switzerland ( and with Austria-Hungary until World War I ).

It is available in Europe through Nitrochemie Wimmis ( Wimmis, Switzerland ) under the name of Papersave Swiss and the Zentrum für Bucherhaltung ( Leipzig, Germany ).

His trademark style can be seen widely in Switzerland particularly the Ticino region and also in the Mediatheque in Villeurbanne ( 1988 ), a cathedral in Évry ( 1995 ), and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art or SFMOMA ( 1994 ).

Nordea International private banking has its headquarters in Luxembourg with branches in Belgium ( Brussels ), France ( Cannes ), Luxembourg, Spain ( Fuengirola-Málaga ) and Switzerland ( Zurich ).

Punk rock scenes also grew in other countries such as Belgium ( The Kids, Chainsaw ), the Netherlands ( The Suzannes, The Ex ), Spain ( La Banda Trapera Del Río, Kaka De Luxe ), Sweden ( Ebba Grön, KSMB ), and Switzerland ( Nasal Boys, Kleenex ).

* Switzerland, where the headship of state is collectively vested in the seven-member Swiss Federal Council, although there is also a President of the Confederation, who is a member of the Federal Council elected by the Federal Assembly ( the Swiss Parliament ) for a year ( constitutional convention mandates that the post rotates every New Year's Day ).

John Knox, a Scotsman who studied with Calvin in Geneva, Switzerland, took Calvin's teachings back to Scotland ( see Scottish Reformation ).