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Switzerland and 1968
Switzerland built an extensive network of fallout shelters, not only through extra hardening of government buildings such as schools, but also through a building regulation that ensured that all residential building built after 1968 contained a nuclear shelter able to withstand a blast from a 50 megaton explosion at a distance of 700 metres.
In 1968 Burton's elder brother, Ifor, slipped and fell, breaking his neck, after a lengthy drinking session with Burton at the actor's second home in Céligny, Switzerland.
From 1963 to 1968, Bartholomew pursued his postgraduate studies at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome, the Ecumenical Institute of Bossey in Switzerland and the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich in Germany.
Tsuguharu Foujita died of cancer on January 29, 1968 in Zürich, Switzerland and was interred in the Cimetière de Villiers-le-Bâcle, Essonne département, France.
After completing what amounted to guest roles in two 1968 films, The Power and The Devil's Brigade, as well as top guest-starring roles in two episodes of the ABC / Quinn Martin Productions series The F. B. I., Michael Rennie moved from Los Angeles to Switzerland in the latter part of that year.
In 1968, the Maharishi announced that he would stop his " public activities " and instead begin the training of TM teachers at his new global headquarters in Seelisberg, Switzerland.
Benny Carter visited Australia in 1960 with his own quartet, performed at the 1968 Newport Jazz Festival with Dizzy Gillespie, and recorded with a Scandinavian band in Switzerland the same year.
In 1968, " Papelucho the Missionary " was a candidate for the Hans Christian Andersen award from the International Board on Books for Young People ( IBBY ) in Amrisville, Switzerland.
He studied for a year at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, before enrolling at the Sorbonne University in Paris, where he studied philosophy under Vladimir Jankélévitch He participated in the 1968 student riots in Paris against the Charles de Gaulle government, and was hit in the head by a police baton, causing a permanent disfigurement above his right eye.
Sponsored by Representative Les Aspin, the bill added the fourth paragraph to Title 10 § 1128 and authorized the POW Medal for those captured “ by foreign armed forces that are hostile to the United States, under circumstances which the Secretary concerned finds to have been comparable to those under which persons have generally been held captive by enemy armed forces during periods of armed conflict .” This amendment was the result of congressional recognition of multiple groups of individuals who were not originally authorized to receive the medal after Department of Defense review, such as the < i > USS Pueblo </ i > crew detained in North Korea in 1968, the US Navy and US Army Air Force crews interned in neutral Russia during World War II, the US Army Air Force crews interned in neutral Switzerland during World War II, US Marine Corps Col. William R. Higgins who was kidnapped in 1988 and executed by Hezbollah-affiliated terrorists, and the U. S. Marines from the U. S. Embassy in Teheran, Iran who were held hostage by terrorists from 1979 – 1981 in the Iran Hostage Crisis.
Thompson returned to New York, then lived in Lausanne, Switzerland from 1968 until 1970, and recorded several albums there including A Lucky Songbook in Europe.
In Switzerland Károly Kerényi wrote and published between 1945 and 1968 the substantial body of his work.
The International Baccalaureate ( IB ), formerly the International Baccalaureate Organization ( IBO ), is an international educational foundation headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland and founded in 1968.
The IB headquarters were officially established in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1968 for the development and maintenance of the Diploma Programme which would " provide an internationally acceptable university admissions qualification suitable for the growing mobile population of young people whose parents were part of the world of diplomacy, international and multi-national organizations ," and offer internationally standardized courses and assessments for students ages 16 to 19. International Baccalaureate North America ( IBNA ) was established in 1975, by Peter Nehr, International Baccalaureate Africa, Europe and Middle-East ( IBAEM ) was established in 1986, and International Baccalaureate Asia Pacific ( IBAP ) established during the same period.
Between 1960 and 1968, Tanner returned to Switzerland, and he made more than 40 films as well as documentaries for French-language television there.
Bure comes from an athletic family ; his father Vladimir, who is of Swiss descent ( his side of the family originated from Furna, Switzerland ), was an Olympic swimmer who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1968, 1972, and 1976 Olympic Games.
The Ascona took its name from the lakeside resort of that name in Ticino, Switzerland, and already in the 1950s a special edition of the Opel Rekord P1 was sold as an Opel Ascona in Switzerland, where the name was again used in 1968 for a locally adapted version of the Opel Kadett B into which the manufacturers had persuaded a 1. 7-litre engine borrowed from the larger Rekord model of the time.
On 17 February 1968 Cyprus recorded their first competitive win, beating Switzerland 2 – 1 in a European Championship qualifying match in Nicosia.
After completion of training at the Barcelona Conservatory of Music ( 1959 – 65 ), he specialised in early music, collaborating with Ars Musicae Barcelona of Enric Gispert and studying under August Wenzinger at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland ( 1968 – 70 ).
In 1968, a chaotic period began in which Gary Stevens disappeared to Switzerland and Harry Harrison moved to WABC.
Named for the American patriot and inventor who was one of the first to chart the Gulf Stream, the 50-foot Ben Franklin was built between 1966 and 1968 in Switzerland for Piccard and the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation.
He was also U. S. representative to the NATO Conference in 1967, and United Nations Representative to Geneva, Switzerland, in 1968.
Fisher was graduated from Stanford University in 1968, and later served as an Instructor in Mountaineering in Leysin, Switzerland.

Switzerland and revealed
In the season 2 episode " Back to the Vulture ", it is revealed that he was really born in Cleveland and spoke in a Swiss accent because he moved to Switzerland in his youth.
The Sobles revealed that they had traveled to Russia, Lithuania, Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, Japan, Canada, and the United States on behalf of Soviet intelligence.

Switzerland and language
With German being a pluricentric language, Austrian dialects should not be confused with the variety of Standard German spoken by most Austrians, which is distinct from that of Germany or Switzerland.
Romansh, spoken by two percent of the population in southeast Switzerland, is an ancient Rheato-Romanic language derived from Latin, remnants of ancient Celtic languages and perhaps Etruscan.
First mentioned by the Romans in 213, the Alamanni captured the Agri Decumates in 260, and later expanded into present-day Alsace, and northern Switzerland, establishing the German language in those regions.
Today, Alemannic is a linguistic term, referring to Alemannic German, encompassing the dialects of the southern two thirds of Baden-Württemberg ( German State ), in western Bavaria ( German State ), in Vorarlberg ( Austrian State ), Swiss German in Switzerland and the Alsatian language of the Alsace ( France ).
Italian ( or lingua italiana ) is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia.
Italian is the least spoken among the major three official languages of Switzerland ( the others being German and French ), and the language has seen a modest decline since the 1970s.
Oberon is a programming language created in 1986 by Professor Niklaus Wirth ( creator of the Pascal, Modula, and Modula-2 programming languages ) and his associates at ETH Zurich in Switzerland.
Spoken by around 0. 9 % of Switzerland's 7. 7 million inhabitants, Romansh is Switzerland's least-used national language in terms of number of speakers and the tenth most spoken language in Switzerland overall.
The issue of language choice has become a major influence in the Swiss hip hop scene: As author Pascale Hofmeier notes, the creation of " Mundartrap " ( dialect rap ) has enabled Switzerland to develop a unique scene that, due to the lingual choice, is immediately identifiable as a distinctly Swiss product.
The importance of language in Swiss hip hop can also create tension, however: Although the members of the Italian speaking group Stoffunita live in Switzerland and consider it their home, their choice of language combined with their lack of Swiss citizenship earmark them as " Secondo ", a term used to indicate people of foreign descent born in Switzerland.
In Switzerland however, the condiment powder made from capsicum is called " paprika " ( German language regions ) and " paprica " ( French and Italian language region ).
Some of them provide a language certificate upon graduation, while the 9th French Language School has exchange programs with a number of lycées in France and Switzerland, such as the Parisian Collège-lycée Jacques-Decour.
* List of newspapers in Switzerland # Italian language
In Europe, the French language is spoken natively not only in France but also by about 40 % of the population of Belgium and about 20 % of the population of Switzerland.
The social aspects of language were in the modern sense first studied by Indian and Japanese linguists in the 1930s, and also by Gauchat in Switzerland in the early 1900s, but none received much attention in the West until much later.
* The current Lombard language, a Romance language spoken in parts of Switzerland and Northern Italy
Graubünden is the only canton of Switzerland with three official languages: German in the northwest ( 68 %), Romansh in the Engadin and around Disentis / Mustér ( 15 %), and Italian in the Italian Graubünden ( 10 %) with the remaining 7 % speaking another language.
Romansh is an umbrella term covering a group of closely related dialects, spoken in southern Switzerland and all belonging to the Rhaeto-Romance language family.
Literature written in French language, by citizens of other nations such as Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, Senegal, Algeria, Morocco, etc.

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