With the resumption of Soviet testing and their intransigence at the Geneva talks, however, the hope that this third choice would prove viable has been shaken.

A 2008 quantum physics experiment performed in Geneva, Switzerland has determined that in any hypothetical nonlocal hidden-variables theory the speed of the quantum non-local connection would have to be at least 10, 000 times the speed of light.

Nevertheless the International Committee of the Red Cross has sought to provide some clarification through its commentaries on the Geneva Conventions, noting that the Conventions are " so general, so vague, that many of the delegations feared that it might be taken to cover any act committed by force of arms ".

Four years later, four nations met in Geneva and formed the organization which has grown into the Red Cross, with a key stated aim of " aid to sick and wounded soldiers in the field ".

The part of the lake that is attached to Geneva has an area of and is sometimes referred to as Petit lac ( small lake ).

Since 1818, a particular chestnut tree has been used as the official " herald of the spring " in Geneva.

Geneva has a population () of.

The alleged mistreatment of prisoners, the proven mistreatment of some prisoners, and their denial of protection under the Geneva Conventions, has been a source of international controversy.

A district court has since held that the " Geneva Conventions applied to the Taliban detainees, but not to members of Al-Qaeda terrorist organization.

Geneva also established the Center for Urban Theological Studies in Philadelphia and has sister colleges in Taiwan ( Christ College ) and Korea ( Chong Shin College and Theological Seminary ).

Geneva also has one of the oldest basketball courts in collegiate sports in the Johnson Gymnasium.

ITU-T has a permanent secretariat, the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau ( TSB ), based at the ITU HQ in Geneva, Switzerland.

The IAEA also has two liaison offices which are located in New York City, United States, and in Geneva, Switzerland.

The United Nations has repeatedly upheld the view that Israel's construction of settlements constitutes violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention.

ITU-R has a permanent secretariat, the Radiocommunication Bureau, based at the ITU HQ in Geneva, Switzerland.

It has jurisdiction over four clusters of crimes committed on the territory of the former Yugoslavia since 1991: grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, violations of the laws or customs of war, genocide, and crimes against humanity.

From 1978 to 1983, he was a representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, and he has worked on various other disarmament committees and commissions.

The project is not likely to be realized in the near future but a license for application has been deposited for a pilot-line between Geneva and Lausanne.

The Geneva Office of UPEACE, established in 2001, has continued to support the development of the overall activities of the University, in particular its regional programmes in Africa and Central Asia.

UNL was created at the Institute of Advanced Studies of the United Nations University, in Tokyo, and it has been developed at the UNDL Foundation, in Geneva, Switzerland, along with a large community of researchers all over the world ( the so-called UNL Society ).

It has its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, and is a member of the United Nations Development Group.

* King Chilperic I dies and is succeeded by his nephew Gundobad, whose realm covers much of eastern Gaul and has two capitals, at Lyon and Geneva.

The Conference has its permanent secretariat in Geneva.

Currently, UNCTAD has 194 member States and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

The International Telecommunications Union's World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva and Tunis ( 2003 and 2005 ) has led to a number of policy and application areas where action is required.

The third edition of 1522 was probably used by Tyndale for the first English New Testament ( Worms, 1526 ) and was the basis for the 1550 Robert Stephanus edition used by the translators of the Geneva Bible and King James Version of the English Bible.

* In the Geneva Bible and the King James Bible, an asterisk is used to indicate a marginal comment or scripture reference.

Fortunately James Mason had just finished filming Doctor Fischer of Geneva for the BBC and the schedule was changed to allow him to take over the part of Sir Randolph Nettleby six weeks later.

El Monte was also briefly the home to author James Ellroy until his mother Geneva was murdered there in 1958.

Judge James Robertson of the U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld that no competent tribunal had found that Hamdan was not a prisoner of war under the Geneva Conventions.

World AIDS Day was first conceived in August 1987 by James W. Bunn and Thomas Netter, two public information officers for the Global Programme on AIDS at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.

upon which later editions were based, including the Geneva Bible and King James Version.

The Geneva Bible is one of the most historically significant translations of the Bible into the English language, preceding the King James translation by 51 years.

The annotations which are an important part of the Geneva Bible were Calvinist and Puritan in character, and as such they were disliked by the ruling pro-government Anglicans of the Church of England, as well as King James I, who commissioned the " Authorized Version ", or King James Bible, in order to replace it.

The Geneva notes were surprisingly included in a few editions of the King James version, even as late as 1715.

To compare the Geneva Bible with the King James, here is in both versions ( with spelling modernized ).

Examination of the differences shows that the earlier Geneva version is often more direct and modern in style than the later King James, e. g.

“ and the moon was like blood ” ( Geneva ) versus “ and the moon became as blood ” ( King James )

“ as a fig tree casteth her green figs ” ( Geneva ) versus “ even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs ” ( King James )

He was in Geneva with James Zouche in the summer of 1635 and subsequently travelled to Rome where on 14 January 1636 he dined at the Jesuit-run English College with Zouche and perhaps Henry Neville or his elder brother Richard ..

The Church of England disputed some of the statements made in the Geneva Bible annotations ; this led to the creation of the King James Bible, which was typically printed with a much less extensive apparatus or none at all.

Several commentators have supplied annotated King James Bibles containing their own points of view, but unlike the Geneva Bible, these commentaries are not as thoroughly integrated into the text.

Freeman Thorp ( 1844 – 1922 ), born in Geneva, Ohio, was an American painter who painted portraits of many notable people such as Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, Grover Cleveland, Ulysses Grant, Simon Cameron, Salmon Chase, Robert Smith, Horace Greeley, Walter Forward and Robert E. Lee.

Benjamin and James moved their families to Geneva, Illinois in 1844.

Rees Hall is named for Major James Rees, an early settler and landowner in Geneva and an acquaintance of George Washington.

Other intellectuals who have taught the world view component at the institute include Dick Keyes ( L ' Abri ), Vishal Mangalwadi, James Kurth ( Swarthmore College ), David Clyde Jones ( Covenant Theological Seminary ), Jeff Myers ( Bryan College ), William Dennison ( Covenant College ), Jack White ( Geneva College ), Guenther Haas ( Redeemer University College ), and R. Albert Mohler, Jr. ( Southern Baptist Theological Seminary ).