Invented in 1929 by the Swiss ski racer Guido Reuge, patented by him and marketed in 1932, the spring-loaded cable binding was named for the Lord Roberts of Kandahar Cup ski races.

As the sun quickly goes to Sid's head he tries it on with a Swiss woman before mistaking her and her partner for Germans, mouthing off very loudly about the 1966 World Cup.

The Swiss Touch Association has competed in all European Championships since 2006 and in the 2007 and 2011 World Cup.

They play at the Stadio Cornaredo and won the Swiss title in 1938, 1941 and 1949 and the Swiss Cup in 1931, 1968 and 1993.

They play at the Elvetico gym, won the Swiss Cup in 2011 and have been Swiss LNA Champions in 2000, 2001, 2006 and 2010.

FC Basel have also won the Swiss Cup 11 times.

FC Basel did not have much of an early footballing success ; it took them 40 years to win their first trophy, winning the Swiss Cup in 1933 when they defeated arch-rivals and reigning cup-holders Grasshopper-Club Zürich 4 – 3, in what is now considered to be one of the best cup finals in Swiss football history.

Basel won their first trophy of the new decade in 1963 ; with Czechoslovakian manager Georges Sobotka at the helm, Basel stormed to Swiss Cup glory by overcoming Grasshopper Club Zürich 2 – 0 in the final.

Despite Basel's improvement on the European stage, they did not retain the league for another four years, but they did manage to lift the Swiss Cup in 1975, beating FC Winterthur 2 – 1 after extra time.

In 2002, Basel won the double ( Swiss Championship and Swiss Cup ) and reached the final of the UEFA Intertoto Cup.

Basel finished second in the Swiss Super League that season and won the Swiss Cup after beating Neuchâtel Xamax 6 – 0 in the final.

In the third round of the Swiss Cup, Basel were drawn away against FC Thun, but lost 5 – 4 after penalties.

Basel won the Swiss Cup after beating FC Luzern 1 – 0.

Basel won the Swiss Cup for the second consecutive season after beating second-tier side AC Bellinzona 4 – 1 at St. Jakob-Park on 6 April 2008.

This rounded off a highly successful season for Basel as they conquered on the domestic front, winning both the Swiss Super League and Swiss Cup, and reaching the last 32 of the UEFA Cup.

Alberto Giacometti (; 10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966 ) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draughtsman, and printmaker.

Hans Rudolf " Ruedi " Giger (; born February 5, 1940 ) is a Swiss surrealist painter, sculptor, and set designer.

Daniel Bernoulli (; ) ( 8 February 1700 – 17 March 1782 ) was a Swiss mathematician and physicist and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family.

Paul Klee (; 18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940 ) was born in Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland, and is considered both a German and a Swiss painter.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein (; 22 April 1766 – 14 July 1817 ), commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a French-speaking Swiss author living in Paris and abroad.

Locarno (; literally: " Lion's Flesh ") is the capital of the Locarno district, located on the northern tip of Lake Maggiore ( Lago Maggiore ) in the Swiss canton of Ticino, close to Ascona at the foot of the Alps.

The Swiss Party of Labour (; ; ; ) is a communist party in Switzerland.

Hakan Yakin (; born 22 February 1977 in Basel ) is a Swiss footballer.

Murat Yakin (; born 15 September 1974 in Basel ) is a Swiss-Turkish football coach and former Swiss national player.

Dmitry Anatolyevich Afanasenkov (; born May 12, 1980 ) is a Russian professional ice hockey player currently playing for HC Fribourg-Gottéron of the Swiss National League A ( NLA ).

The Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport ( DDPS ) (; ; ) is one of the seven departments of the Swiss federal government, headed by a member of the Swiss Federal Council.

The Federal Department of Home Affairs ( FDHA ) (; ; ) is a department of the federal administration of Switzerland and serves as the Swiss ministry of the interior.

Bruno Ganz (; born 22 March 1941 ) is a Swiss actor, known for his roles as Damiel in Wings of Desire and Adolf Hitler in Downfall.

The Federal Department of Justice and Police (; ; ) is one of the seven departments of the Swiss federal government, headed by a member of the Swiss Federal Council.

The Federal Department of Economic Affairs (; ; ) is one of the seven departments of the federal government of Switzerland, headed by a member of the Swiss Federal Council.

Gabriel Cramer (; 31 July 1704 – 4 January 1752 ) was a Swiss mathematician, born in Geneva.

The Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (; ; ) is one of the seven departments of the Swiss federal government, headed by a member of the Swiss Federal Council.

Orbe (; ) is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud.

Rösti (; often spelled Röschti in Switzerland according to the Swiss German ) is a Swiss dish consisting mainly of potatoes.

Omega SA (; ) is a Swiss luxury watchmaker based in Biel / Bienne, Switzerland and is one of the most well-known and recognized watches in the world.

The Swiss National Park (; ; ; ) is located in the canton of Graubünden in the east of Switzerland between Zernez, S-chanf, Scuol and the Fuorn Pass in the Engadin valley on the border with Italy.

Some of the French dialects spoken in the French and Swiss Alps derive from Old Provençal ; the German dialects derive from Germanic tribal languages.

During the post-World War I period ski-lifts were built in Swiss and Austrian towns to accommodate winter visitors, but summer tourism continued to be important ; by the mid-20th century the popularity of downhill skiing increased greatly as it became more accessible and in the 1970s several new villages were built in France devoted almost exclusively to skiing, such a Les Menuires.

The well-known " Ranz des Vaches " ( score ; audio ) is a traditional Swiss melody often heard on the alphorn.

Ten years later ( 24 September 1856 ) the Swiss Federal Council voted them equal political rights with other Swiss citizens in that canton, as well as entire freedom of commerce ; but the opposition of the Christian population prevented the decision from being generally carried out.

2008 has brought announcements of new or additional sales to Singapore, Finland, Morocco and South Korea ; in December 2010 the Swiss government requested 150 AIM-120C-7 missiles.

The Bahamas has a few notable industrial firms: the Freeport pharmaceutical firm, PFC Bahamas ( formerly Syntex ), which recently streamlined its production and was purchased by the Swiss pharmaceutical firm Roche ; the BORCO oil facility, also in Freeport, which transships oil in the region ; the Commonwealth Brewery in Nassau, which produces Heineken, Guinness, and Kalik beers ; and Bacardi Corp., which distills rum in Nassau for shipment to the U. S. and European markets.

The assault consisted of 12 battalions of Dutch infantry commanded by Major Generals Schultz and Spaar ; two brigades of Saxons under Count Schulenburg ; a Scottish brigade in Dutch service led by the 2nd Duke of Argyle ; and a small brigade of Protestant Swiss.

The airport itself is split into two architecturally independent sectors, one half serving the French side and the other half serving the Swiss side ; prior to Schengen there was a customs point at the middle of the airport so that people could " emigrate " to the other side of the airport.

In a rare interview in 1981 Bubbles described Tucker's discipline as " very Swiss ; very hard ; unjustified ; very grey.

The cylinder head design was known as the " May Fireball " head ; it was developed by a Swiss engineer Michael May.

* Klaus Scherer ( born 1943 ) – Swiss psychologist and director of the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences in Geneva ; he specializes in the psychology of emotion

Switzerland was the last country to tie its currency to gold ; it backed 40 % of its value until the Swiss joined the International Monetary Fund in 1999.

Some publishers design games that contain instructions and game elements in more than one language, e. g. the game Ursuppe comes with rules and cards in both German and English ; Khronos features instructions in French, English, and German, and a Swiss game, Enchanted Owls, provides French, German, Italian, and Romansh rules.

A collective head of state can exist in republics ( internal complexity ): e. g. nominal triumvirates ; the Directoire ; the seven-member Swiss Federal Council, where each member acts in turn as ceremonial chief of state ); Bosnia and Herzegovina ( three member presidium, from three different nations ); San Marino ( two " Captains-regent "), which maintains the tradition of Italian medieval republics, where there always was an even number of consuls.

In Switzerland, Italian is one of the four official languages ; it is studied and learned in all the confederation schools and spoken, as mother tongue, in the Swiss cantons of Ticino and Grigioni and by the Italian immigrants that are present in large numbers in German-and French-speaking cantons.

J. Edgar Hoover was born on New Year's Day 1895 in Washington, D. C., to Anna Marie ( née Scheitlin ; 1860 – 1938 ), who was of German Swiss descent, and Dick Naylor Hoover, Sr. ( 1856 – 1921 ), of English and German ancestry.