* Swiss arrow

* Swiss arrow

A historically plausible legend tells of the Knight of Huenenberg who shot an arrow into the camp of the Confederates with the attached message that the Austrians would advance through Morgarten on November 15 and that the Swiss rabble should return to their homes.

* A YouTube video of a Swiss arrow being thrown

* Swiss arrow

The addition of the cord turns the spear in to a large Swiss arrow.

Using the spear thus equipped as a Swiss arrow resulted in a 43 % increase in range, compared to a hand thrown spear.

The length of the bâton percé serves to increase the thrower's leverage, providing more speed, and the cord acts as it does in a Swiss arrow, extending the leverage further.

A Swiss arrow ( also known as a Yorkshire arrow ) is a dart thrown using a cord to make the dart go farther with the same power.

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At Fort Garry some of the Swiss also decided to cast their lot with the United States, and in 1823 several families paid guides to take them to Fort Snelling.

Nevertheless, there was also a migratory flow of German, Swiss, and Middle-Eastern immigrants arriving in Argentina.

The Bahamas has a few notable industrial firms: the Freeport pharmaceutical firm, PFC Bahamas ( formerly Syntex ), which recently streamlined its production and was purchased by the Swiss pharmaceutical firm Roche ; the BORCO oil facility, also in Freeport, which transships oil in the region ; the Commonwealth Brewery in Nassau, which produces Heineken, Guinness, and Kalik beers ; and Bacardi Corp., which distills rum in Nassau for shipment to the U. S. and European markets.

Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany.

The Swiss chemical industry operates largely from Basel, and Basel also has a large pharmaceutical industry.

Fife-and-drum corps of Swiss mercenary foot soldiers also used drums.

Already during the high medieval period, and increasingly during the Late Middle Ages, city states and communes such as those of the Old Swiss Confederacy also began to use flags as field signs.

The 2012 Swiss Federal Council, the seven-member collective Head of State of the Switzerland | Swiss Confederation ( the Federal Chancellor of Switzerland | Federal Chancellor is also depicted, at the right )

The Swiss popular musician Andreas Vollenweider also plays electro-acoustic harps.

The darning needle is used in duplicate stitch ( also known as Swiss darning ), while the crochet hook is also essential for repairing dropped stitches and some specialty stitches such as tufting.

The officers were also recruited from Europe – not from the American colonies – and consisted of English, Scots, Irish, Dutch, Swiss and Germans.

The country also uses the Swiss franc as its national currency, and Swiss customs officers secure its border with Austria.

Hoffmann-La Roche then licensed the invention to the Swiss manufacturer Brown, Boveri & Cie who produced displays for wristwatches during the 1970s and also to Japanese electronics industry, which soon produced the first digital quartz wrist watches with TN-LCDs and numerous other products.

In recent years, online loyalty programs have also started to target the Swiss.

The inductive hypothesis was also employed by the Swiss Jakob Bernoulli, and from then on it became more or less well known.

For example, Switzerland is constitutionally a confederation of cantons, and has four official languages, but it has also a ' Swiss ' national identity, a national history and a classic national hero, Wilhelm Tell.

Soon psychedelic rock clubs like the UFO Club in Tottenham Court Road, Middle Earth Club in Covent Garden, The Roundhouse in Chalk Farm, the Country Club ( Swiss Cottage ) and the Art Lab ( also in Covent Garden ) were drawing capacity audiences with psychedelic rock and ground-breaking liquid light shows.

* 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 ).

In the 2000 Swiss census, 35, 095 people ( of which 27, 038 in the canton of Grisons ) indicated Romansh as the language of " best command ", and 61, 815 also as a " regularly spoken " language.

Rousseau most commonly refers to 18th-century Swiss author and philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and it may also refer to:

At this time, Valais, Neuchatel and Geneva also joined Switzerland as new cantons, thereby extending Swiss territory for the last time.

Swiss naturalist Conrad Gesner used the words lituum alpinum for the first known detailed description of the alphorn in his De raris et admirandis herbis in 1555.

Her mother was born Countess Maria-Luisa Yvonne Radha de Wendt de Kerlor, better known as Gogo Schiaparelli, a socialite of Italian, Swiss, French, and Egyptian ancestry.

In 1958, two Swiss alpinists, Juesi and Marti teamed together, creating the first rope ascender known as the Jumar.

The cylinder head design was known as the " May Fireball " head ; it was developed by a Swiss engineer Michael May.

A similar figure was the Swiss magician known as Paracelsus ( 1493 – 1541 ), who published Of the Supreme Mysteries of Nature in which he emphasised the distinction between good and bad magic.

Johann August Sutter ( February 15, 1803 – June 18, 1880 ) was a Swiss pioneer of California known for his association with the California Gold Rush by the discovery of gold by James W. Marshall and the mill making team at Sutter's Mill, and for establishing Sutter's Fort in the area that would eventually become Sacramento, the state's capital.

In 1810, Böttiger with Swiss painter Heinrich Meyer released a monograph on the painting in the Vatican known as the " Aldobrandini marriage ".

The building serves as the London headquarters for Swiss Re and is informally known as ' The Gherkin '.

Niklaus Emil Wirth ( born February 15, 1934 ) is a Swiss computer scientist, best known for designing several programming languages, including Pascal, and for pioneering several classic topics in software engineering.

Jean Piaget was a Swiss developmental psychologist known for his epistemological studies with children.

Some types of Swiss cheese have a distinctive appearance, as the blocks of the cheese are riddled with holes known as " eyes ".

Swiss cheese without eyes is known as " blind ".

Under General Henri Guisan, the Swiss army prepared for mass mobilization of militia forces against invasion, and prepared strong, well-stockpiled positions high in the Alps known as the Réduit.

Upgraded Swiss PzHb ( Panzerhaubitze ) 79 and 88 ( M109A1 ) are known as respectively PzHb 79 / 95 and PzHb 88 / 95.

Albanian asphalt from Selenice in Southern Albania is well known for its durability as it has been used on some Swiss motorways.

Later on, the Swiss added the pike to better repel knightly attacks and roll over enemy infantry formations, with the halberd, hand-and-a-half sword, or the dagger known as the Schweizerdolch being used for closer combat.

The German Landsknechte, who imitated Swiss warfare methods, also used the pike, supplemented by the halberd, but their side arm of choice was the short sword known as the Katzbalger.

Franz Krienbühl ( 24 March 1929 – 16 April 2002 ) was a Swiss speed skater who is mostly known for his inventions that changed the sport.

Several country districts ( e. g., Baar, Menzingen, and Aegeri ) each had its own " Landsgemeinde " but were governed by one bailiff, also appointed by the Habsburgs ; these were known as the " Aeusser Amt ," and were always favorably disposed to the Swiss Confederation.

One of their best known fonts is Swiss 721 BT, which is a Helvetica clone with condensed versions and a rounded version.

* Swiss Cottage ( formerly known as Lurline Cottage ): this Federation Queen Anne cottage was built in 1898 on the east side of Lurline Street.

Other contenders for the highest " HiFi " quality on this medium were two companies already widely known for their excellent quality reel-to-reel tape recorders: Tandberg and Revox ( consumer brand of the Swiss professional Studer company for studio equipment ).

German soldiers known as Landsknechts later adopted Swiss methods of pike handling.