The first time was in 1955 when a full-dress Big Four summit meeting produced the `` spirit of Geneva ''.

The President was especially concerned about the deadlock in the nuclear test ban negotiations at Geneva.

Mr. Kennedy was less troubled by that possibility than by the belief that a Geneva breakdown, or even continued stalemate, would mean an unchecked spread of nuclear weapons to other countries as well as a fatal blow to any hope for disarmament.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau of Geneva was the first of many to present the Alps as a place of allure and beauty, banishing the prevalent conception of the mountains as a hellish wasteland inhabited by demons.

As early as 1966, resolutions were introduced to the United Nations charging that the U. S. was violating the 1925 Geneva Protocol, which regulated the use of chemical and biological weapons.

At the age of twelve he was sent to the Haxius School in Geneva,

Use of such bioweapons was banned in international law by the Geneva Protocol of 1925.

As a result of the Geneva Conference on Indochina, Cambodia was able to bring about the withdrawal of the Viet Minh troops from its territory and to withstand any residual impingement upon its sovereignty by external powers.

The National Speleological Society of the USA was later founded in 1941 ( originally formed as the Speleological Society of the District of Columbia on May 6, 1939 ) and the Swiss Society of Speleology created in 1939 in Geneva, but the first speleological institute in the world was founded in 1920 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, by Emil Racovita, a Romanian biologist, zoologist, speleologist and explorer of Antarctica.

Calvin was a French exile in Geneva.

Although much of Calvin's practice was in Geneva, his publications spread his ideas of a " correctly " reformed church to many parts of Europe.

Ancillon studied law at Marburg, Geneva, and Paris, where he was called to the bar.

The earliest hymn book published was the " Sacred Melodist " which was published by Benjamin Wilson in Geneva, Illinois in 1860.

Piron was a psychotherapist and taught from 1973 to 1994 in the psychology department at the University of Geneva in Switzerland.

Eisenhower met and fell in love with Mamie Geneva Doud of Boone, Iowa, six years his junior, while he was stationed in Texas.

He grew up on the campus of Stanford University, where his father was a professor, and he attended the International School of Geneva in 1958 – 1959.

An illustrated history of smallpox eradication, Smallpox Zero, was published with the support of Sanofi Pasteur and distributed on May 17, 2010, in Geneva during an event sponsored by the World Health Organization.

In an interview with Eurostar's Chief Executive Nicolas Petrovic in the Financial Times in May 2012, an intention for Eurostar to serve ten new destinations was expressed, including Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Cologne, Lyon, Marseille and Geneva, along with a likely second hub to be created in Brussels.

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.

Firmin Abauzit ( 1679 – 1767 ) was a French scholar who worked on physics, theology and philosophy, and served as librarian in Geneva ( Switzerland ) during his final 40 years.

For two years his brother and he lived as fugitives in the mountains of the Cévennes, but they at last reached Geneva, where their mother afterwards joined them on escaping from the imprisonment in which she was held from the time of their flight.

A collection of his writings was published at Geneva in 1770 ( Oeuvres de feu M. Abauzit ), and another at London in 1773 ( Oeuvres diverses de M. Abauzit ).

" In 2009 and 2011, Geneva was ranked as, respectively, the fourth and fifth most expensive city in the world.

Based on per capita income, Geneva ranks 85th of 522 areas in the state of Washington to be ranked.

The world's first recorded college basketball game occurred in the city on April 8, 1893 when the intramural team from Geneva College defeated the New Brighton YMCA.

The definition of the world's busiest airport has been specified by the Airports Council International in Geneva, Switzerland.

It is the world's most energetic collider upon completion, it is located at CERN, on the French-Swiss border near Geneva.

It is the world's largest particle physics laboratory, situated in the northwest suburbs of Geneva on the Franco – Swiss border, established in 1954.

That same year she became the first American singer to win the first prize at the International Music Competition in Geneva, which raised Rankin's profile in the opera world ; she soon received invitations to perform at many of the world's best opera houses.

Geneva hosts the world's largest particle physics laboratory, the CERN.

A ceremony honoring the recipient is held annually in Geneva, the world's humanitarian capital and home to the seat of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

She has sung in the world's major theatres: Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Washington Opera, Covent Garden in London, the Deutsche Oper of Berlin, the Munich State Opera, the Hamburg State Opera, the Staatstheater in Stuttgart, the Tonhalle Düsseldorf, Oper der Stadt Köln, Konzerthaus Die Glocke Bremen, Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Staatsoper Wien, Graz, Gebouw in Amsterdam, La Scala in Milan, Rome the Opera Theatre, the S. Carlo Naples, Theatre M. Bellini in Catania, the Grand Opera in Geneva, Lausanne, the Opernhaus in Zurich, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Seoul, the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, the Stockholm Opera in Oslo, the Bolshoi in Moscow, in National Theatre Kiev, Colón Theatre in Buenos Aires, Budapest Erkel Theatre, Warsaw National Opera, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, Toulouse, Saint Étienne, Montpellier Festivals, Teatro Real Madrid, Valencia, Bilbao, the Philarmonia in Zagreb, Dubrovnik Festivals, Split, Tivoli Festival Copenhagen, Grosse Festspielhaus Salzburg, BangkokPhilarmonia.

United Methodist clergy are not required to be vested when celebrating the Eucharist, though it is most often the case that they are vested either in a Geneva gown and stole or an alb and stole.

Geneva (;, ;, ) is the second most populous city in Switzerland ( after Zurich ) and is the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland.

Geneva is a global city, a financial centre, and worldwide centre for diplomacy and the most important UN international co-operation centre with New York thanks to the presence of numerous international organizations, including the headquarters of many of the agencies of the United Nations and the Red Cross.

Geneva Gin or Holland Gin is the most prominent gin of this class.

The synod in Zurich placed most of the blame on Calvin for not being sympathetic enough toward the people of Geneva.

Louis Bourgeois, also a refugee, lived and taught music in Geneva for sixteen years and Calvin took the opportunity to add his hymns, the most famous being the Old Hundredth.

The most important geographical feature of the area surrounding Lausanne is Lake Geneva ( Lac Léman in French ).

One of the most important early works dedicated to criticism of Machiavelli, especially The Prince, was that of the Huguenot, Innocent Gentillet, whose work commonly referred to as Discourse against Machiavelli or Anti Machiavel was published in Geneva in 1576.

Calvin did most of his writing from Geneva, Switzerland.

Papert worked with Jean Piaget at the University of Geneva from 1958 to 1963 and is widely considered the most brilliant and successful of Piaget's protégés ; Piaget once said that " no one understands my ideas as well as Papert.

One of the most significant revisions is the Declaration of Geneva, first drafted in 1948 by the World Medical Association ; it has since been revised several times.

Geneva is indebted to him for the founding of a law school in which François Hotman, Jules Pacius, and Denys Godefroy, the most eminent jurists of the century, lectured in turn ( cf.

The third ( GCIII ) and fourth ( GCIV ) Geneva Conventions are the two most relevant for the treatment of the victims of conflicts.

One of the most considerable Alpine ranges, the Bernese Alps extend from the gorge of Saint-Maurice, through which the Rhone finds its way to Lake Geneva, to the Grimsel Pass or, depending on the definition, to the river Reuss ( thus including the Urner Alps ).

The most recent championships were held in Faro ( 2000 ), Monaco ( 2001 ), Grenoble ( 2002, 2004 and 2006 ), Geneva ( 2003 ), Brussels ( 2005 ), and Pattaya / Thailand ( 2007 ).

Khmer Viet Minh were the 3, 000 to 5, 000 Cambodian communist cadres, left-wing members of the Khmer Issarak movement regrouped in the United Issarak Front after 1950, most of whom lived in exile in North Vietnam after the 1954 Geneva Conference.

Although it is headquartered just across the border in Geneva, Switzerland, most of CERN's Large Hadron Collider lies in parts of several communes in the Arrondissement of Gex in Ain.

The most commonly accepted version runs as follows: around the year 1370, at the time of Bishop Robert, Count of Geneva, Martin, a blacksmith of Moorish descent established in Cambrai, was among the burghers who left the city to fight the lord of Thun-Lévêque, who was then reputed to ransom the population around the city and generally to afflict the region.

One of the most important early works dedicated to criticism of Machiavelli, especially The Prince, was that of the Huguenot, Innocent Gentillet, Discourse against Machiavelli, commonly also referred to as Anti Machiavel, published in Geneva in 1576.

The library serves most of Batavia Township ( Kane County ) and portions of Winfield Township ( DuPage County ), Geneva Township ( Kane County ), and Blackberry Township ( Kane County ).

When the allies retreated, they left behind most of their wounded and the French respected the agreement, a precursor of the Geneva Convention.

In 1872, the northeast part of the town was used to form the Town of Geneva, taking with it most of the historic Seneca communities and sites.