On flowing out of the lake it passes through Thun, and then flows through the city of Bern, passing beneath eighteen bridges and around the steeply-flanked peninsula on which the Old City is located.

There, in one of the major Swiss engineering feats of the 19th century, the Jura water correction, the river, which had previously rendered the countryside north of Bern a swampland through frequent flooding, was diverted by the Hagneck Canal into Lake of Bienne.

The northern part, the so-called Unteren Freie Ämter ( lower Freie Ämter ), which included the districts of Boswil ( in part ) and Hermetschwil and the Niederamt, were ruled by Zurich, Bern and Glarus.

He married three times: to Daphne Harvey in 1945, producing daughter Georgina ( Gina ) Campbell in 1946 ; to Dorothy McKegg in 1952 ; and to Tonia Bern in 1958, which lasted until his death in 1967.

The first was offered by the International Federation of Trade Unions ( IFTU ), which called for a meeting in Bern in July 1919.

The Bern meeting would consider both the future of the IFTU and the various proposals which had been made in the previous few years.

The Bern agglomeration, which includes 43 municipalities, has a population of 353, 300.

It has long been considered likely that the city was named after the Italian city of Verona, which at the time was known as Bern in Middle High German.

Bern imagines a world in which Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and various other well-known musicians do stints as members of the band.

Zschokke retired from public life when the central government at Bern proposed to re-establish the federal system, but after the changes effected by Napoleon Bonaparte he entered the service of the canton of Aargau, with which he remained connected.

An agreement, the Berne Convention, was reached at Bern, Switzerland, in September 1906, which banned the use of white phosphorus in matches.

They once had claims on the modern canton of Vaud, where they occupied the Château of Chillon in Switzerland, but their access to it was cut by Geneva during the Protestant Reformation, after which it was conquered by Bern.

The four pitches he later named the " Dream chord ", on which he based many of his mature works, came from his early age appreciation of the continuous sound made by the telephone poles in Bern.

The regional Norfolk Southern ( one of the predecessors of the modern system which adopted the same name ) had lines between Norfolk, Virginia and Charlotte and served many locations in southestern Virginia ( including branches to Virginia Beach and Suffolk ) and most of eastern and central North Carolina, including Elizabeth City, New Bern, Morehead City, Goldsboro, Raleigh, Durham, Fayetteville, North Carolina and Asheville.

Morehead City is part of the Greenville – New Bern – Jacksonville Designated market area, which is the 109th largest in 2007 ( according to Nielsen Media Research ).

The competitive nature of the lumber barons, the abundance of lumber and craftsmen, led to the construction in New Bern of some of the finest homes in the South, many of which have survived.

The community which has grown into the Town of Clayton was built on a road cut blazed by Governor Tryon ’ s troops around 1770 as they marched North from New Bern to Hillsborough against the Regulators.

Smith Paul, born in 1809 in New Bern, North Carolina, discovered the fertile bottom land which is now Pauls Valley while a member of a wagon train traveling to California.

Bern Township is the location of the Berks County Prison System, which held 1545 prisoners, 22. 7 % of the township's population.

Bucer provided strong support for Zwingli's leading role in the disputation, which finally brought the Reformation to Bern.

By the mid-1990s he had his first solo museum exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bern in Switzerland, which traveled to Paris.

Soon thereafter, the Catholic cantons refused to help the Three Leagues ( Drei Bünde ) in Graubünden in the Musso war against the Duchy of Milan, Zürich promptly considered this a breach of contracts between the confederacy and the Three Leagues and declared an embargo against the five alpine Catholic cantons, in which Bern also participated.

In January 1528 Oecolampadius and Zwingli took part in the disputation at Bern which led to the adoption of the new faith in that canton, and in the following year to the discontinuance of the Mass at Basel.

The most recently created canton is the Canton of Jura, which separated from the Canton of Bern in 1979.

Although Portugal had been a republic since 1910, Dom Duarte's parents sought to assure the child's eventual rights of succession to the Portuguese throne, which required Portuguese nationality, by arranging for his birth to take place in the Portuguese embassy in Bern.

Church attendance had dwindled and the political climate had changed ; as Bern and Geneva quarrelled over land, their alliance frayed.

By 1353, the three original cantons had been joined by the cantons of Glarus and Zug and the city states of Lucerne, Zürich, and Bern, forming the " Old Federation " of eight states that persisted during much of the 15th century.

His faithful wife Claudine had died childless in 1588, a few days before he went to the Bern Disputation.

Turning to the west, in 1281 he compelled Count Philip I of Savoy to cede some territory to him, then forced the citizens of Bern to pay the tribute that they had been refusing, and in 1289 marched against Count Philip's successor, Otto IV, compelling him to do homage.

Bath was the first nominal capital of North Carolina, but the colony had no permanent institutions of government until their establishment in New Bern.

By 1890 New Bern had become the largest lumber center in North Carolina and one of the largest in all of the South.

At the OSS office in Bern, Switzerland, Allen Dulles had made working contact with Fritz Kolbe, " a disaffected member of the Nazi foreign office in Berlin ".

However later, on folio 327r, the Domesday Book states of Oakworth lands that " Gamal Bern had them ; Gilbert Tison has them " for in the Harrying of the North all lands were taken from Anglo-Scandinavians and given to Norman Lords.

He married Marguerite Jeanne Disqué, born c. 1880, and had a daughter Nelly Marguerite Jeanne Schulthess, born in Switzerland on 13 August 1903, who married as his first wife at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Bern on 30 November 1933 Portuguese Vasco Francisco Caetano de Castro Coutinho de Quevedo Pessanha, born in Lisbon, Coração de Jesus, on 3 July 1909 ), and had issue.

He was born at Bern, of a noble family, and was extremely proud of his lineage, particularly his descent from Thomas Wyttenbach, professor of theology in Basel at the end of the 15th and beginning of the 16th century, who had taught Huldrych Zwingli and other distinguished pupils.

Meanwhile Wyttenbach received invitations from his native city, Bern, and from Leiden, where vacancies had been created by the refusal of professors to swear allegiance to the new Dutch republic set up in 1795, to which Wyttenbach had made submission.

After a few months, however, Bodmer felt himself as little in sympathy with Wieland as, two years earlier, he had felt himself with Klopstock, and the friends parted ; but Wieland remained in Switzerland until 1760, spending the last year, at Bern where he obtained a position as private tutor.

Also, when the Old Swiss Confederacy gained its formal independence from the Empire in 1648 ( it had been de facto independent since 1499 ), the independence of the Imperial Cities of Basel, Bern, Lucerne, St. Gallen, Schaffhausen, Solothurn, and Zürich was formally recognized.

For this change to be possible, large parts of the infrastructure had to be modified and many stations were rebuilt, for instance the line from Ziegelbrücke to Sargans or Bern main station which got the " wave of Bern ", a platform over the tracks to provide better access to the platforms and the city centre.

In 1917 he transferred to the University of Bern ; there, he met Ernst Bloch, and Dora Sophie Pollak ( née Kellner ) ( 1890 – 1964 ), whom he later married, and they had a son, Stefan Rafael ( 1918 – 1972 ).

As an ally of Bern, Fribourg participated in the war against Charles I of Burgundy, thereby bringing more land under its control.

He participated in the Battle of New Bern in March 1863.

In September, 1986, soloists from the KKB participated in a production of The Magic Flute for the first time at the Theater Basel, and later in Bern and in Freiburg im Breisgau.

As the Catholic cantons refused to help the Three Leagues ( Drei Bünde ) in the Grisons in the Musso war against the Duchy of Milan, Zürich promptly considered this a breach of contracts between the confederacy and the Three Leagues and declared an embargo against the five alpine Catholic cantons, in which Bern also participated.

He participated in the 1971 Ice Hockey World Championships in Bern, Switzerland where he scored seven goals in ten games for Team USA.