In 1962 Rosewall completely dominated the pro circuit ; not only did he retain his Wembley and Roland Garros crowns, still the two biggest events by far in 1962, but he also won five ( Adelaide, Melbourne, Geneva, Milan and Stockholm ) of the next six biggest tournaments ( in 1962 there were only small tours of lesser importance ).

During these visits Shelley wrote the poem " Mont Blanc ", Byron wrote " The Prisoner of Chillon " and the dramatic poem Manfred, and Mary Shelley, who found the scenery overwhelming, conceived the idea for the novel Frankenstein in her villa on the shores of Lake Geneva in the midst of a thunderstorm.

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.

By the 18th century, however, Geneva had come under the influence of Catholic France, which cultivated the city elite, who tended to be at odds with the ordinary townsfolk – to the point that an abortive revolution took place in 1782.

Geneva is the home of the Genève-Servette HC, who play in the Swiss National League A, and is the main sport team of the city.

William Farel was the reformer who convinced Calvin to stay in Geneva.

The Geneva council refused to readmit the two men, who took refuge in Basel.

A few months later Ami Perrin, the man who had brought Calvin to Geneva, moved into open opposition.

Jean-Jacques was left with his maternal uncle, who packed him, along with his own son, Abraham Bernard, away to board for two years with a Calvinist minister in a hamlet outside Geneva.

The office is headed by the High Commissioner for Human Rights, who co-ordinates human rights activities throughout the UN System and supervises the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland.

The German forces captured 3 million Soviet POWs, who did not enjoy the protection stipulated in the Geneva Conventions.

The first full preterist exposition was finally written in 1730 by the Protestant and Arian, Frenchman Firmin Abauzit (‘ Essai sur l ' Apocalypse ’), who worked in the those time independent Republic of Geneva as a librarian.

Presbyterianism was especially influenced by the French / Swiss theologian, John Calvin, who is credited with the development of Reformed theology and the work of John Knox, a Scotsman who studied with Calvin in Geneva, Switzerland and brought his teachings back to Scotland.

John Knox, a Scotsman who studied with Calvin in Geneva, Switzerland, took Calvin's teachings back to Scotland ( see Scottish Reformation ).

Initially agreement had been reached for him to marry Margaret of Geneva, daughter of William I, Count of Geneva, but the young bride's journey to Paris was interrupted by Thomas I of Savoy, who kidnapped Philip's intended new queen and married her instead, claiming that Philip was already bound in marriage.

*" We train our people to obey the Geneva Conventions, it's not even a matter of whether it is reciprocated-it's a matter of who we are ".

* Khmer Viet Minh Cambodian communists who lived in exile in North Vietnam after the 1954 Geneva Conference.

Set in a post-apocalyptic Seattle, the show chronicles the life of Max Guevara ( X5-452 ), a genetically enhanced super-soldier, portrayed by Jessica Alba as an adult and Geneva Locke as a child, who, after escaping from a covert government biotech / military facility as a child, tries to lead some semblance of a normal life and constantly tries to elude capture by government agents, while searching for her genetically-enhanced brothers and sisters scattered in the aftermath of their escape.

The four Geneva Conventions provide protection for people who fall into enemy hands.

The protocol also broadens the definition of a lawful combatant in wars against " alien occupation, colonial domination and racist regimes " to include those who carry arms openly but are not wearing uniforms, so that they are now lawful combatants and protected by the Geneva Conventions — although only if the Occupying Power has ratified Protocol I.

However, Protocol I, Article 42 of the Geneva Conventions explicitly forbids attacking parachutists who eject from damaged airplanes, and surrendering parachutists once landed.

Realising Diệm's popularity among American policymakers, he chose Diệm's youngest brother Ngô Đình Luyện, who was studying in Europe at the time, to be part of his delegation at the 1954 Geneva Conference to determine the future of Indochina.

The Geneva Convention requires that POWs who are on trial for war crimes be subject to the same procedures as would be the holding army's own soldiers.

His father was a Mercedarian " commendator " and religious refugee who converted to Calvinism in Geneva.

There in Geneva, he died past the age of 87, in 1767.

Coubertin remained Honorary President of the IOC until he died in 1937 in Geneva, Switzerland.

He died in Geneva.

He died in Geneva.

She was married at Rome, Italy on 8 January 1930 to Prince Umberto Nicola Tommaso Giovanni Maria, Prince of Piemonte ( born 15 September 1904 and died on 18 March 1983 at Geneva, Switzerland ).

Ultimately, however, he died in Geneva and was interred in Hautecombe Abbey.

The nickname may have been a combined reference to the Swiss politician Besançon Hugues ( died 1532 ) and the religiously conflicted nature of Swiss republicanism in his time, using a clever derogatory pun on the name Hugues by way of the Flemish word Huisgenoten ( literally housemates ), referring to the connotations of a somewhat related word in German Eidgenosse ( Confederates: i. e. A Citizen of Switzerland ) Geneva was John Calvin's adopted home and the center of the Calvinist movement.

He died in Geneva at the age of 81.

He died in Naarden, the Netherlands, and was buried in Geneva at the Cimetière des Rois.

Scheener married but had no children and returned to Geneva, perhaps significantly in 1837, where he later died.

Walter de Lacy's son died in 1230, so his daughters ( Maud and Margaret ) were set to inherit, however they were most likely underage in 1241 so the property was taken over by the crown and Henry III arranged for Maud to marry Peter de Geneva.

The Lacy lands were divided between the sisters and Ludlow was given to Peter de Geneva through right of his wife, but he died in 1249.

The last twenty five years of his life he spent quietly in the country, at Genthod, near Geneva, where he died after a long and painful illness on 20 May 1793.

He died at Geneva.

Gaston Frommel ( born November 25, 1862, Altkirch, France died May 17, 1906, Geneva ), French theologian, professor of theology in the University of Geneva from 1894 to 1906.

After the war of 1870 he settled down in Switzerland, spending his summers at his beloved Gryon, and died at Geneva on 7 January 1876.

He died in Geneva at the age of 101 .. Jacques and Arnold were enshrined into the Professional Skaters Association's Coaches Hall of Fame in 2004.

Later she moved to Geneva in France to live with a family friend, but returned home to help her mother raise the rest of the children when her father died in 1898.

He died in Geneva and is buried in Paris at the Père Lachaise Cemetery.

On 26 February 1997, on the evening of the Geneva Motor Show, Nuccio Bertone died, leaving the world to grieve " one of the greatest coachbuilders of the century, and international Maestro of Italian style " in the touching words of Fulvio Cinti, motoring journalist and car historian.

He retired to Switzerland, where he died in Geneva on December 19, 1944.

Augustin de Candolle died on 9 September 1841 in Geneva, after being sick for many years.

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.