Seventy-five delegates assembled: from Great Britain, the 6 members of the General Council, Applegarth, Eccarius, Cowell Stepney, Lessner, Lucraft, and Jung ; from France, which sent 26 delegates, among whom we may mention Dereure, Landrin, Chémalé, Murat, Aubry, Tolain, A. Richard, Palix, Varlin, and Bakunin: Belgium sent 5 delegates, among whom were Hins, Brismée, and De Paepe ; Austria 2 delegates, Neumayer and Oberwinder ; Germany sent 10 delegates, among whom were Becker, Liebknecht, Rittinghausen, and Hess ; Switzerland had 22 representatives, among whom were Burkly, Greulich, Fritz Robert, Guillaume, Schwitzguébel, and Perret ; Italy sent but one delegate, Caporusso ; from Spain there came Farga-Pellicer and Sentinon ; and the United States of America was represented by Cameron.

Edelweiss is a protected plant in many countries, including Mongolia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Switzerland ( since 1878 ), France, Norway, Iran, India ( Zanskar region ), Italy, Serbia, Malaysia ( In Genting and Cameron Highlands ), Indonesia ( In Semeru Mountain ), Germany, Spain ( Ordesa National Park ), Poland and Slovakia ( Tatra National Park ), Slovenia ( in Gorizia and Gradisca since 1896, in Carniola since 1898 ), Austria ( since 1886 ) and Romania ( since 1933 ).

In early 1988, the Turkish and Greek Prime Ministers met at Davos, Switzerland, and later in Brussels.

In January 2008 Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak met with former Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalifa al-Thani in Switzerland, at the Davos Economic Forum.

Accompanied by two girls from California that she ’ d never met, Katherine Norton and Elizabeth Atsatt, she traveled through France, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, and England for one year, having the opportunity of various home stays throughout the trip.

Before returning to Bhutan from Switzerland, Jigme Dorji met with the Indian Secretary General and Foreign Secretary in Calcutta who offered Indian support, including paratroopers if necessary, to help the Druk Gyalpo restore order in the kingdom.

Five years after the payments began, Mulroney and Schreiber met again in a suite at the Hotel Savoy in Zurich, Switzerland.

The rainbow flag has been the cooperative emblem since 1921 when the International Co-operative Congress of World Co-op Leaders met in Basel, Switzerland to identify and define the growing cooperative movement ’ s common values and ideals to help unite co-ops around the world.

He first moved to Switzerland under an assumed name, and met up with the Countess of Genlis and his sister Adélaïde at Schaffhausen.

On July 18, 2002, Zakayev also met with the former Secretary of Security Council of Russia Ivan Rybkin in Zürich, Switzerland.

The family father, tired with the cramped space at home, may rejoice in taking care of his family in the open air, and feel responsible if the little plot of earth bestows a very special interest upon life. Anna Lindhagen is said to have met Lenin when he passed through Stockholm from the exile in Switzerland on their return trip to Russia after the February Revolution in 1917.

During his studies at Cambridge, Jacobi played many parts including Hamlet, which was taken on a tour to Switzerland where he met Richard Burton.

Kästner did travel to Meran and to Switzerland just after the Nazis assumed power, and he met with exiled fellow writers there.

In the spring of 1912, Manuel visited Switzerland, where he met Princess Augusta Victoria and was deeply impressed by her.

Carbon-14 dating of the remaining central European regions shows that Corded Ware appeared after 2880 BC It spread to the Lüneburger Heide and then further to the North European Plain, Rhineland, Switzerland, Scandinavia, the Baltic region and Russia to Moscow, where the culture met with the pastoralists considered indigenous to the steppes.

While tutoring in Switzerland, Herbart met and came to know Pestalozzi, the German educator involved with issues of reform in the schools.

Canaris arranged for appointment of Gisevius as Vice Consul in Switzerland, where Gisevius met with Allen Dulles in 1943, and agreed to serve as a liaison with the German opposition to Hitler, including General Ludwig Beck, Canaris, and Mayor Carl Goerdeler of Leipzig.

In Switzerland, he met Charlotte Cox, the wife of a London city alderman.

In less than a year he was compelled to seek relaxation ; and ‘ going to Switzerland he there met and married Helen, third daughter of Sir George William Denys, Bart.

His attention was directed to the question of the flow of glaciers in 1840 when he met Louis Agassiz at the Glasgow meeting of the British Association, and in subsequent years he made several visits to Switzerland, where he was particularly impressed by Bernhard Studer's theories, and also to Norway for the purpose of obtaining accurate data.

Takraw really began to take off, however, in the late 1980s when Kurt Sonderegger, an American working in Switzerland, met a fellow American who showed him a bouncy ball made of woven strips of rattan.

He played the Montreux Jazz festival in Switzerland in 1981 and met Michael Brecker who introduced him to John McLaughlin, Billy Cobham and other fusion stars.

In 1934, Silvia and Jean Monnet met in Moscow ; he had come from China via the Trans-Siberian, she from Switzerland.

While on the train, quite by chance, he met the headmaster of a progressive school in Zurich, Switzerland, and Liebknecht impulsively decided to accept an offer to be an unpaid teacher at that school.

After the revolutionaries ' defeat, he escaped to Switzerland and became a leading member of the Genfer Arbeiterverein ( Worker's Association of Geneva ), where he met Friedrich Engels.

She met Paul Éluard while in Switzerland and fell in love with him.

While staffing one of the Navy awards, the Assistant Vice Chief of Naval Operations, Rear Admiral Raymond M. Walsh, explained that an internee of the Soviet Union was previously denied the POW Medal under the older version of 10 USC § 1128 “ because he was not a prisoner of an enemy of the United States .” However, he could now be considered for the medal because “ The 1989 change to the law permits the Secretary of the Navy to determine if the circumstances under which internee was held captive were ‘ comparable to those under which persons have generally been held captive by enemy armed forces during periods of armed conflict .’” While staffing the Air Force award, the Air Force Directorate of Personnel Services ( AFPC / DPS ) concluded that “ In 1989, Title 10, Section 1128, regarding Prisoner of War Medals changed and allowed Service secretaries to determine eligibility for the POW Medal for personnel held captive in countries not directly involved in armed conflict with the United States, provided the treatment of the prisoners was similar to the treatment received by prisoners held by enemy forces .” AFPC / DPS determined that the internees in Siberia met the statutory criteria because “ the conditions of this detainment were comparable, if not worse, than those experienced in Germany, and therefore, should be eligible for the POW Medal .” In 1996 and 2006 the USAF awarded POW Medals to USAAF T / Sgt Daniel Culler and Lt. Richard Pettit for illegal incarceration during World War II in prison camp Wauwilermoos, in neutral Switzerland.

Even as Paraguayan export revenue has fluctuated, Brazil remained Paraguay ’ s principal export destination ( 27. 8 percent in 2004 ), followed by Uruguay ( 15. 9 percent ), Italy ( 7. 1 percent ), Switzerland ( 5. 6 percent ), Argentina

ISO 3166-2: CH is the entry for Switzerland in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions ( e. g., provinces or states ) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

Santiago Calatrava Valls (, born 28 July 1951 ) is a Spanish architect, sculptor and structural engineer whose principal office is in Zürich, Switzerland.

The SSPX's principal seminary in Écône ( Switzerland ).

Peter Sauber ( born 13 October 1943 in Zurich, Switzerland ) is the team principal and owner of various motorsports teams, most visibly the eponymous Sauber Formula One team.

In the 1960s, Cornfeld formed his own mutual fund sales company, Investors Overseas Services ( IOS ), with principal offices in Geneva, Switzerland, although it was incorporated in Panama.

In addition, the area to the north of the principal fortifications was organized as the Defensive Sector of the Rhône, with virtually no fixed fortifications, since it faced neutral Switzerland.

In the Iron Age ( 750-15 BC ) spelt became a principal wheat species in southern Germany and Switzerland ; by 500 BC it was in common use in southern Britain.

Known locally as the " Portuguese Switzerland " due to its landscape that includes a principal settlement nestled in the mountains of the Serra da Estrela Natural Park.

Though sporadic efforts to procure an alteration in the treaty and the establishment of the rights not only of American Jews but of the Jews of all nations in Switzerland continued to be made in the United States, the principal scene of negotiations shifted to the former country, and the principal actor was Theodore Fay, the American minister.

Her play, Switzerland ( 1819 ), which had Edmund Kean and Charles Kemble in the principal roles, closed after one performance.

* July 1 – Opening of the Albula line of the Rhaetian Railway ( RhB ) ( metre gauge ) in Switzerland, passing through the Albula Tunnel, the highest of the principal Alpine tunnels at 1370 m.

After occupying the principal flute positions of the Opera de Lille ( France ), in the Stadtorchester Winterthur ( Switzerland ), and the Bern Symphony Orchestra ( Switzerland ), Jaunet moved to Zürich, Switzerland, where he was principal flutist in the Tonhalle Orchestra from 1938 to 1978.

He also taught at the John Mack Oboe Camp, a yearly summer event established by Mack's student and former principal oboe of the New York Philharmonic, Joseph Robinson, in Little Switzerland, North Carolina.

Hurlimann was one of the principal brewing companies of Switzerland ( the other big ones being Haldengut, Feldschlosschen and Cardinal Brewery ).

Pfäffikon is the principal town of the Municipality of Freienbach in canton Schwyz in Switzerland.

At the age of twelve he was sent abroad to complete his education, and resided at the principal universities of Germany, the Netherlands, France, Italy, and Switzerland for seventeen years.