Today, only three roads lead to the town, two from Switzerland, through the Forcola di Livigno ( 2, 315 m, open in summer only ) and the Munt La Schera tunnel, and one from Italy, through the Foscagno Pass ( 2, 291 m ).

In the summer of 1786, the Empress Catherine, in the context of tense negotiations on a renewed treaty of commerce, had emphasised her control over this vital commodity by asking the merchants who supplied it to restrict sales to English buyers: “ the Empress has contrary to Custom speculated on this Commodity ”, complained the author of a subsequent memorandum to the Home Secretary.

* Wien. info: Schönbrunn Palace — " Empress Sisi ’ s former summer residence "

It served as a summer resort for Empress Dowager Cixi, who diverted 30 million taels of silver, said to be originally designated for the Chinese navy ( Beiyang Fleet ), into the reconstruction and enlargement of the Summer Palace.

In summer 496, Emperor Xiaowen deposed Empress Feng, who then went to Yaoguang Temple ( 瑤光寺 ) and became a Buddhist nun.

By summer 306, Sima Yong was forced to abandon both Chang ' an and Emperor Hui, and Sima Yue's forces welcomed Emperor Hui back to Luoyang and restored Empress Yang.

In summer 366, Empress Yu died.

In summer 349, Shi Zun defeated Shi Shi's forces and deposed and killed him, along with Empress Dowager Liu and Zhang Chai.

In 1743, Oranienbaum became the summer residence of Grand Duke Peter Fedorovitch, the heir of Empress Elizabeth ( the future Emperor Peter III ).

Although Count Waleran valiantly continued the royalist fight in England into the summer, he eventually capitulated to the Empress and crossed back to Normandy to make his peace with the Empress's husband, Geoffrey of Anjou.

This successful diplomacy led to his promotion in the summer of 1783 to the post of envoy extraordinary to the Empress Catherine of Russia, and he accompanied her in her tour round the Crimea in 1787.

Empress Anna died the following year and the castle did not survive the next summer.

In the summer of 686 his father, Emperor Temmu, fell ill and gave the imperial authority to his wife Empress Jitō and the crown prince Kusakabe.

) Northern Wei's regent Empress Dowager Hu ( who became regent over Emperor Xiaoming after Emperor Xuanwu's death in 515 ) sent armies commanded by Li Ping ( 李平 ) to attack Kang's escort forces, but could not damage the dam, which was finally completed in summer 516. it was described to be four and a half kilometers long, and the army pitched camp on the dam itself.

The current structure of the Saint Andrew's Church began when Russian Empress Elizabeth decided to construct a summer residence for herself in Kiev, consisting of a palace and a church.

Meanwhile, Dou, against the advice of his strategist Ling Jing ( 凌敬 ) and his wife Empress Cao, advanced to Hulao in summer 621.

By the summer of 1976, Asbury Park was in a state of decline, albeit the Empress Hotel remained a popular establishment.

In summer of 180 BC, Grand Empress Dowager Lü died.

The other three members made their appearances one after another in the later half of the summer holidays: Jason Hsu co-starred with " Prince-Frog Couple " Ming Dao and Joe Chen in idol drama Ying Ye 3 Jia 1 ( Ying Ye 3 + 1 ); Tony Sun starred in the Taiwan-Mainland-Hong Kong collaboration martial arts drama The Sword and the Chess of Death ; and Sam Wang starred in idol drama E Nü Ah Chu ( Mean Girl A Chu ).

The pavilions symbolize the four seasons ( spring, summer, autumn, winter ) and are named ( from east to west ): Liu Jia (, " retaining the goodness "), Ji Lan (, " living with the ripples "), Qiu Shui (, " autumn water "), and Qing Yao (, " clear and far ").

By summer 713, it was said that Princess Taiping, Dou, Cen, Xiao, Cui ; along with other officials Xue Ji, Li Jin ( 李晉 ) the Prince of Xinxing ( a grandson of Li Deliang ( 李德良 ), a cousin of Tang's founder Emperor Gaozu ), Li You ( 李猷 ), Jia Yingfu ( 賈膺福 ), Tang Jun ( 唐晙 ); the generals Chang Yuankai ( 常元楷 ), Li Ci ( 李慈 ), and Li Qin ( 李欽 ); and the monk Huifan, were plotting to overthrow Emperor Xuanzong.

Cheng is currently working on her debut album, produced by Liu Jia Chang, which is planned to be released before summer 2008.

Meanwhile spring had passed well into summer.

They had for cover both darkness and a summer storm.

And, as a matter of fact, Nicolas had slept in the park only part of one night, when he discovered that Munich's early mornings even in summer are laden with dew.

Perhaps her eyes were larger and more of a summer blue for all they had seen and wept that day.

That fall he submitted to Professor Baker the first acts and outlines of the following acts of several plays, six of them, according to some of his associates, and he also worked on a play that he first called Niggertown, the material for which he had collected during the summer at home.

All day long Mr. Podger, who was a straw-hat man in the summer, had worn the feather in the band of his broad-brimmed sunshield.

All these emotions were screwed up to new heights when, after acceptance and the first rehearsals, there ensued such a buzz of excitement among Parisian music lovers that Duclos had to come running to Rousseau to inform him that the news had reached the superintendent of the King's amusements, and that he was now demanding that the work be offered first at the royal summer palace of Fontainebleau.

She had taken him out of the schoolhouse and closed the school for the summer, after she saw Miss Snow crack Joel across the face with a ruler for letting a snake loose in the schoolroom.

Planes made her feel faint, and in Tokyo, where she had gone that summer, she had been given raw fish for breakfast and so she had come straight home.

During the summer he had tried to repair some of his losses at the track, and the bare trees reminded him that his pari-mutuel tickets would still be lying, like leaves, in the gutters near Belmont and Saratoga.

He and Mark were the last of the family, and there lay the Cape Ann property which had seemed to have no end, stretching from horizon to horizon, in those golden days of summer.

But that year was different, for just as the city, in the form of my street clothes, had intruded upon my mountain nights, so an essential part of the summer gave promise of continuing into the fall: Jessica and I, about to be separated not by a mere footbridge or messhall kitchen but by the immense obstacle of residing in cruelly distant boroughs, had agreed to correspond.

He had conducted the 20-piece band in a series of concerts at Blue Lake park during the summer months.

So had Miss Shawnee Rakestraw, full of criticisms about the changes here, giving thanks that her dear old father had gone to his Heavenly Rest last year, saying how much she enjoyed her boarding house in town in inclement weather, was looking forward to Quinzaine Spa this summer.

It made him pretty hot under the collar, after the idea Miss Sis had given him, to be told by Miss Kiz that her holy spa was all reserved for this summer and next, if you please, and that much as she regretted it, they would be unable to entertain Mrs. Robards and the children.

Zion was surprised when Roy's buggy stopped beside her on the pike one early summer day as she was walking home from the country school where she was teaching now that Eph Showers had had a call to preach in some mountain town.

She had explained it -- something about summer people's eating out and not enough space in the units.

The high casualty figures of the Union alarmed the North ; Grant had lost a third of his army, and Lincoln asked what Grant's plans were, to which the general replied, " I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

In 1893, at the age of thirty-three, Bates, an English professor at Wellesley College, had taken a train trip to Colorado Springs, Colorado, to teach a short summer school session at Colorado College.