Geneva, instead of becoming the City of God, as John had dreamed, had in the two years since he had been there, continued to be a godless place where all manner of vice flourished.

Gygax spent his early childhood in Chicago, but in 1946 ( after he was involved in a brawl with a large group of boys ), his father decided to move the family to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, where Gary's mother's family had settled in the early 19th century.

The oude ( old ) style of jenever remained very popular throughout the 19th century, where it was referred to as " Holland " or " Geneva " gin in popular, American, pre-Prohibition bartender guides.

Because of this, Geneva was a busy trading center for steam-powered riverboats in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The late 18th-early 19th century New Geneva / Greensboro glassmakingoperations proved that quality glass, natural resources, and transportation networks could be effectively harnessed.

Some cities — though also members of different confederacies at that time — officially became sovereign city-states in the 19th century — such as the Canton of Basel City ( 1833 – 48 ), the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen ( 1806 – 11 and again 1813 – 71 ), the Free City of Frankfurt upon Main ( 1815 – 66 ), the Canton of Geneva ( 1813 – 48 ), the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg ( 1806 – 11 and again 1814 – 71 ) and the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck ( 1806 – 11 and again 1813 – 71 ).

The Western tradition of thinking on just war continues into Christendom and then Modernity, and from the late 19th century becomes codified in international conventions, most notably those of Geneva and the Hague, then said to express laws of war.

* Briquet's, a famous 19th century private school at Plain Palais, Geneva, Switzerland

The 19th session was held in Geneva from May 8 to July 14, 1967.

In the 19th century, written accounts of the barbaric treatment accorded prisoners on both sides during the Napoleonic and Crimean wars helped lead to the founding of the Red Cross and the promulgation of the Geneva Conventions.

This represented a genuine return to roots in more than one way: a return to production in the Jura, the cradle of the Baume company ( although the Baume & Mercier headquarters remained in Geneva ), and a return to a production mode known as établissage ( or project management ) and used by the “ Frères Baume ” throughout the 19th century, but combined with a full set of modern advantages.

The end of the 20th century witnessed the beginnings of an ambitious project aiming at greater co-operation and development among the French-speaking universities of Lausanne, Geneva, and Neuchâtel, together with the EPFL.

The Coalition held a series of protests during November 2003 climaxing in a march on the 20th protesting against what it claimed is the aggressive foreign policy of U. S. President George W. Bush, and against the continued U. S. detention of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, which protesters claim is an illegal infringement of human rights and the Geneva conventions.

), Isfahan, Iran – November 7, 1997, Geneva, Switzerland ), was one of the most prominent writers of Iran in the 20th century, best known for his unique style of humour.

The 20th session was held in Geneva from May 27 to August 2, 1968.

Within this region is Aurora, Illinois, the second largest city in the state, Elgin, Illinois, and the nearby cities of Batavia, Illinois, St. Charles, Illinois, and Geneva, Illinois, which have been known as " the Tri-City area " since the early 20th century.

Thus began the Press's tradition of publishing the Bible, a tradition that has endured for over four centuries, beginning with the Geneva Bible, and continuing with the Authorized Version, the Revised Version, the New English Bible and the Revised English Bible.

Geneva, in Switzerland, was known for its active market in tontines in the 17th and 18th centuries.

An elite holiday resort and spa town on the shores of Lake Geneva (), for two centuries, it has hosted many Royals such as Kings Edward VII and George V of the United Kingdom and King Farouk of Egypt, and celebrities such as countess Anna de Noailles and Marcel Proust.

The Dukes of Savoy had tried already for centuries to gain sovereignty over the city of Geneva, surrounded by Savoyard territory, for the Vaud in the north of Lake Geneva belonged to the duchy.

Over the centuries, its importance has developed from its location on the main route between Lyon and Geneva, and it now lies on the Autoroute 42 from Lyon.

The late Secretary of State John Foster Dulles considered the 1954 Geneva agreement a specimen of appeasement, saw that resolution would be needed to keep it from becoming a calamity for the West.

by the Geneva Medical College of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States ' first female doctor.

Papert worked as a researcher in a variety of places, including St. John's College, Cambridge, the Henri Poincare Institute at the University of Paris, the University of Geneva and the National Physical Laboratory in London before becoming a research associate at MIT in 1963.

by the Medical Institute of Geneva, New York, thus becoming the United States ' first woman doctor.

A number of countries submitted reservations when becoming parties to the Geneva Protocol, declaring that they only regarded the non-use obligations as applying to other parties and that these obligations would cease to apply if the prohibited weapons were used against them.

The area is becoming increasingly popular for agritourism: there are over 100 wineries in the Finger Lakes Region, and the Seneca Lake wine trail provides easy access to many of these from Geneva.

However, weapons of warfare have one limitation in becoming fully autonomous: there remain intervention points which requires human input to ensure that targets are not within restricted fire areas as defined by Geneva Conventions for the laws of war.

The Republic of Geneva reinforced its alliance to the Protestant cantons of the Swiss Confederacy, becoming an " everlasting ally " in 1584.

He sang at Notre-Dame de Chartres from 9 August 1483 until 1486, and subsequently held posts at St Peter's in Geneva ( until 1492 ) and Laon ( around 1497 ) before becoming choirmaster to the boys at Notre-Dame de Paris from 1498 to 1500, and choirmaster to Alfonso I d ' Este at Ferrara from 1506, replacing the famous composer Jacob Obrecht who had died of the plague there the previous year.

After the Geneva Conference of 1954, as well as becoming fully independent with its departure from the French Union, the State of Vietnam became territorially confined to those lands of Vietnam south of the 17th parallel, and as such became commonly known as South Vietnam.

While at high school Fischer was admitted to the Geneva Conservatory of Music, he also considered becoming a professional musician.

NY 14, however, continues on a northerly track as it enters Wayne County and Lyons, becoming Geneva Street upon crossing into the latter.

He studied in Geneva, Leiden, and Paris, before becoming professor of philosophy and mathematics at the academy of Lausanne in 1700.

Press launch was on October 15, 1985, but the 480 was first put on show at Geneva in 1986, becoming available to the public in 1987.

For a decade he lived on the Lake of Geneva in Switzerland, becoming a Bohemian with boat-building fancies, painting only now and then.

In 1621 he became tutor in the house of Jean de Bonne, Baron de Vitrolle, governor of Embrun in Dauphiné, and after three years he visited Geneva, and Paris, and England, returning to Geneva in 1626 and becoming professor of philosophy.

Since 1536, Geneva had been a Huguenot republic and the seat of Calvinism.

The Permanent Secretariat, established at the seat of the League at Geneva, comprised a body of experts in various spheres under the direction of the General Secretary.

The seat of the district of Lausanne, the city is situated on the shores of Lake Geneva ().

* In Kane County, Illinois, the county seat of Geneva and the nearby cities of Batavia, and St. Charles,

WMO seat in Geneva shared with the GICHD, the GCSP and the Group on Earth Observations

The Hague was chosen as the location for the seat of the organization after a successful lobby of the Dutch government, competing against Vienna and Geneva.

Here it remained until 1870 when, following a courthouse fire in 1869 and the formation of Geneva County ( which took the southern third of Dale County ), the county seat was moved to the town of Ozark, where it remains.

Its county seat is Geneva.

The county was named after its county seat, which in turn was named after Geneva, New York which was named after Geneva, Switzerland, by Walter H. Yonge, an early town resident and Swiss native.

Its county seat is Geneva.

Its county seat is Geneva, and its largest city is Aurora.

In recent years, average temperatures in the county seat of Geneva have ranged from a low of in January to a high of in July, although a record low of was recorded in January 1985 and a record high of was recorded in July 1936.

The county seat is Geneva.

Following a fire which destroyed the courthouse in March 1869, and the formation of Geneva County in 1870 from the southern third of Dale and Coffee Counties, votors relocated the county seat to Ozark, which was more centralized.

Geneva is a city in and the county seat of Geneva County, Alabama, United States.

It was the county seat of Henry County which then comprised portions of present day Covington, Dale, Barbour, Coffee, Crenshaw, Bullock, Geneva, and Houston counties.

Today it is the seat of the Diocese of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg.

Ronald L. Alcock is the current Mayor of the City of Geneva, winning the seat after having served as councilor-at-large for a 4-year term immediately preceding the November 2011 city-wide election.

** Geneva, Alabama, its county seat

He lost his seat in 1931, but remained Baker's assistant while Baker was president of the World Disarmament Conference in Geneva in 1932 to 1933.

It lies on the shores of Lake Geneva, and is the seat of the district of Nyon.

Geneva became the center and seat of the diocese which initially fought to administer the territory that had been part of the Colonia.