* Basler Läckerli

The blue tower in the centre, the Basler Messeturm | Messeturm, was Switzerland's tallest building 2003-10 ; the bridge on the extreme right is the Wettsteinbrücke, Basel's second oldest bridge but recently replaced by a new structure.

The carnival of the city of Basel ( Basler Fasnacht ) is a major cultural event in the year.

The Basler Brunsli is made of almonds and generally enjoyed at Christmas all around Switzerland.

Unlike other dialects, Basel German is also characterised by a rather strong dichotomy between the traditional Baseldytsch, used especially for the Carnival of Basel ( Basler Fasnacht ), and normal spoken language.

Basler Zeitung ( English: Basler Newspaper ), or BaZ, is a Swiss German-language regional daily newspaper, published in Basel ..

The newspaper is owned by the Basler Zeitung Medien which also publishes the free daily newspaper Baslerstab.

After electing to represent Germany at international level, Neuville made his international debut on 2 September 1998 against Malta, in a friendly, replacing Mario Basler for the last fifteen minutes of the 2 – 1 away win.

After being a bench player most of his career until then, new coach Giovanni Trappatoni made him a starting defensive midfielder, and new recruit Mario Basler took the right wing.

The next year, Basler Depositenbank and Schweizerische Unionbank were acquired.

Thanks to Spoken Arts Records, history buffs may hear Lincoln's `` most memorable speeches and letters '' in a two-disc set, interpreted by Lincoln authority and lecturer Roy P. Basler.

Basler Hefte zur Archäologie 4.

Basler Beiträge zur Geschichtswissenschaft, Band 91, Basel und Stuttgart 1963 und 1969.

* O. Richter, Die Organisation and Geschäftsordnung des Basler Konziis ( Leipzig, 1877 )

Basler Fasnacht early-morning parade with Lanterns.

In 1926 he founded the Basel Chamber Orchestra ( Basler Kammerorchester ) to play both modern works and those written before the classical period.

FC Basel was started by an advertisement on 12 November 1893 that appeared in the Basler national newspaper requesting that a football team be formed and that anyone that wished to join should meet up the next Wednesday at 8: 15.

The Basler Bankverein was formally organized in 1872 in Basel, replacing the original Bankverein consortium.

Basler Bankverein was founded with an initial commitment of CHF30 million, of which CHF6 million of initial share capital was paid in.

By 1879, Basler Bankverein has accumulated enough capital to resume dividends, initially at an 8 % annual rate and then increasing to 10 % in 1880.

Basler Bankverein later combined with Zürcher Bankverein in 1895 to become the Basler & Zürcher Bankverein.

By contrast, the Basler Handelsbank ( Commercial Bank of Basel ), founded in 1862 and one of the largest banks in Switzerland, was insolvent at the end of the war and was consequently acquired by SBC in 1945.

* Jean-Paul Bach and Felix Winterstein, Basler Taube, Reinach, Vlg.

The Swiss Reinsurance Company of Zurich was founded on 19 December 1863 by the Helvetia General Insurance Company ( now using the trade name of Helvetia insurance ) in St. Gallen, the Schweizerische Kreditanstalt ( Credit Suisse ) in Zurich and the Basler Handelsbank ( predecessor of UBS AG ) bank in Basel.

The Hebelbund Lörrach, Müllheim and the Basler Hebelstiftung are dedicated to his life and work.

It is Eromonga -- look hard, you can see with your naked eye the wooden scaffolding on the cliff ''.

It is hard to see how the situation could be otherwise.

he knows that the land is hard and pitiless.

Understanding, as he did, the difficulty of the art of poetry, and believing that the `` only technical criticism worth having in poetry is that of poets '', he felt obliged to insist upon his duty to be hard to please when it came to the review of a book of verse.

The Chicago contingent of modern critics follow Aristotle so far in this direction that it is hard to see how they can compare one poem with another for the purpose of evaluation.

It is hard not to lay most of the blame for their failures on the pope.

It is hard for me to know how I feel about Lauro Di Bosis.

He's hitting the ball hard, in the batting cage, and his whole attitude is improved over this time last year.

When we become firm enough to stand for those ideals which we know to be right, when we become hard enough to refuse to aid nations which do not permit self-determination, when we become strong enough to resist any more drifts towards socialism in our own Nation, when we recognize that our enemy is Communism not war, and when we realize that concessions to Communists do not insure peace or freedom, then, and only then will we no longer be `` soft ''.

The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.

Berlin's resilience is amazing, but if it has to hire its labor in the West the struggle will be hard indeed ''.

It is, I insist, hard to define the Rayburn contribution to our political civilization because it is so massive and so widespread and so complicated, and because it goes so deep.

It is a flavor that might take a little getting used to -- not because it is unpleasant, but because the flavor is hard to define in the light of our experience with other fruits.

Aeschbacher's work is very much akin to Schnabel's, but the sound on his Decca disc is dated, and you will have a hard time locating a copy of it.

This design is hard to beat for timber hunting or for packing in a saddle scabbard.

Paperweight may be personalized on back while clay is leather hard.

Although there is no question but that the process of washing fabrics involves a number of phenomena which are related together in an extremely complicated way and that these phenomena and their interrelations are not well understood at the present, this section attempts to present briefly an up-to-date picture of the physical chemistry of washing either fabrics or hard surfaces.

It is hard to understand how he concluded that most snakes do not grow appreciably after attaining maturity ; ;

Particularly hard for the therapist to grasp are those instances in which the patient is manifesting an introject traceable to something in the therapist, some aspect of the therapist of which the latter is himself only poorly aware, and the recognition of which, as a part of himself, he finds distinctly unwelcome.