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Swiss and Diet
** Presidents of the Swiss Diet ( before 1848 )
Both the Abbot and a representative of the town were admitted to the Swiss Tagsatzung or Diet as the closest associates of the Confederation.
A friendly attitude towards the Swiss at the Diet was something he later changed, calling Zwingli's doctrine of the Lord's Supper " an impious dogma ".
* List of Presidents of the Swiss Diet
The Swiss Confederacy did not accept the resolutions of the Imperial Diet and explicitly refused to pay the Common Penny, one of the circumstances leading to the Swabian War of 1499 and the Confederacy's exemption from imperial legislation.
The Swiss Diet was known as Tagsatzung.
Yet another Arnold Winkelried is recorded in the second half of the 15th century, in connection of a lawsuit of November 1474 and as delegate of Nidwalden at the Swiss Diet on several occasiosn during 1476 to 1482.
* under French occupation, when emperor Napoleon I Bonaparte styled himself ' Mediator ' ( equivalent to his title Protector in the German Confederatio of the Rhine ) of the Swiss ( at first Helvetic ) Confederation, the actual Head of the Confederation was simply the chief magistrate of the canton hosting the Swiss Diet ( Helvetic confederal parliament ), with the title Landammann der Schweiz ( in German )/ Landamman de la Suisse ( in French )/ Landamano della Svizzera ( in Italian ), usually for a year, 10 March 1803-31 December 1813

Swiss and had
But then one day, while on a week's visit to the country home of a retired Swiss jeweler, Rousseau amused the company with a few little melodies he had written, to which he attached no great importance.
The latter, members of two regiments of Swiss mercenaries transported by Great Britain to Canada to fight the Americans in the War of 1812, had settled in Montreal and Kingston at the close of the war in 1815.
Alcott had been influenced by educational philosophy of the Swiss pedagogue Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and even renamed his school " The Cheshire Pestalozzi School ". His style attracted the attention of Samuel Joseph May, who introduced Alcott to his sister Abby May.
There, in one of the major Swiss engineering feats of the 19th century, the Jura water correction, the river, which had previously rendered the countryside north of Bern a swampland through frequent flooding, was diverted by the Hagneck Canal into Lake of Bienne.
By the following year their ranks had grown to include German painter, sculptor and designer Oskar Schlemmer who headed the theater workshop, and Swiss painter Paul Klee, joined in 1922 by Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky.
But hardly had the retreating Swiss rejoined their comrades in that village when the Dutch Guards renewed their attack.
" By about 15: 00 the Swiss had been pushed out of the village into the marshes beyond.
But on his arrival, all was chaos – " Scarcely had my troops got over when the dragoons and Swiss who had preceded us, came tumbling down upon my battalions in full flight … My own fellows turned about and fled along with them.
Basel, had a strategic location, good relations with Strasbourg and Mulhouse, and control of the corn imports from Alsace, whereas the Swiss lands were becoming overpopulated and had few resources.
After discussions on the Wikipedia page for Liechenstein, and contacts with the Swiss embassy in Washington, incorrect information that Switzerland had obligations to defend Liechenstein was eventually removed by the Factbook.
With the third-party funds, North created an organization called " The Enterprise " which served as the secret arm of the NSC staff and had its own airplanes, pilots, airfield, ship, operatives and secret Swiss bank accounts.
He is of English ( maternal ), Swiss and possibly Native American Modoc Tribe multi-ethnic ( paternal ) ancestry His father, Howard " Pete " Brubeck, was a cattle rancher, and his mother, Elizabeth ( née Ivey ), who had studied piano in England under Myra Hess and intended to become a concert pianist, taught piano for extra money.
Franz Schneider, a Swiss engineer, had patented such a device in Germany in 1913, but his original work was not followed up.
Between 1991 and 2006, monitoring of the weather at one location ( Swiss Camp ) found that the average winter temperature had risen almost.
During his honeymoon in the Harz mountains, Cantor spent much time in mathematical discussions with Richard Dedekind, whom he had met two years earlier while on Swiss holiday.
In 2007 the agglomération franco-valdo-genevoise had 812, 000 inhabitants, two-thirds of whom lived on Swiss soil and one-third on French soil.
By this time, he had become convinced that mercenary service was immoral and that Swiss unity was indispensable for any future achievements.
Giger had a relationship with Swiss actress Li Tobler until she committed suicide in 1975.
The Landises descended from Swiss Mennonites who had emigrated to Alsace before coming to the United States.
Similar examples were procured of Catharine Linck in Prussia in 1717, executed in 1721 ; Swiss Anne Grandjean married and relocated with her wife to Lyons, but was exposed by a woman with whom she had had a previous affair and sentenced to time in the stocks and prison.
In September 2005, Nigeria, with the assistance of the World Bank, began to recover US $ 458 million of illicit funds that had been deposited in Swiss banks by the late military dictator Sani Abacha, who ruled Nigeria from 1993 to 1998.
However, the nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt noted that Jean Buridan had climbed the same mountain a few years before, and ascents accomplished during the Middle Ages have been recorded, including that of Anno II, Archbishop of Cologne.

Swiss and adopt
In Switzerland, Trotsky briefly worked within the Swiss Socialist Party, prompting it to adopt an internationalist resolution, and wrote a book against the war, The War and the International.
Some Swiss cantons ( beginning with Ticino in 1890 ) preceded Belgium which was the first to adopt list-PR in 1900 for its national parliament.
Although the Penny Black could be used to send a letter less than half an ounce anywhere within the United Kingdom, the Swiss did not initially adopt that system, instead continuing to calculate mail rates based on distance to be delivered.
Bucer and Capito attended and urged the Swiss to adopt a compromise wording on the eucharist that would not offend the Lutherans.
David Murray Cowie, a professor of paediatrics at the University of Michigan, led the U. S. to adopt the Swiss practice of adding sodium iodide or potassium iodide to table and cooking salt.
The Swiss government organized such a conference to take place on December 5 – 6, 2005, to adopt a third additional protocol to the Geneva Conventions introducing the Red Crystal as an additional symbol with equal status to the Red Cross or Red Crescent.

Swiss and on
Fashion a sharp scribing point about 3/64'' '' long on one end, using Swiss pattern files.
He set out on his 700-mile return journey with five families of discontented and disappointed Swiss who turned their eyes toward the United States.
By fall, 443 survivors of this arduous journey were clustered about Fort Snelling, but most of them were sent on to Galena and St. Louis, with a few going as far as Vevay, Indiana, a notable Swiss center in the United States.
( If a dragon or a sea monster came along, didn't he have a red Swiss hunting knife on his belt -- ten blades and a corkscrew??
The well-known " Ranz des Vaches " ( score ; audio ) is a traditional Swiss melody often heard on the alphorn.
Aarau is situated on the Swiss plateau, in the valley of the Aar, on the river's right bank, and at the southern foot of the Jura mountains, and is west of Zurich.
Fricktal, ceded in 1802 by Austria via Napoleonic France to the Helvetic Republic, was briefly a separate Swiss canton under a Statthalter (' Lieutenant '), but on 9 March 1803 was incorporated in the canton of Aargau.
** EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg – pedestrian walkway between the French and Swiss sections on Level 3 ( departures ) of airport.
An annual Federal Swiss trade fair ( Mustermesse ) takes place in Kleinbasel on the right bank of the Rhine.
In 2012 it was reported that a Swiss woman died of starvation after having attempted to survive on light alone, based on one of Jasmuheen's books.
The Swiss philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau sent him the message: " Tell him I know no greater man on earth.
The National Speleological Society of the USA was later founded in 1941 ( originally formed as the Speleological Society of the District of Columbia on May 6, 1939 ) and the Swiss Society of Speleology created in 1939 in Geneva, but the first speleological institute in the world was founded in 1920 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, by Emil Racovita, a Romanian biologist, zoologist, speleologist and explorer of Antarctica.
Albrecht von Haller, a Swiss physician and physiologist made note in his 1747 book on physiology that the " water " in the brain was secreted into the ventricles and absorbed in the veins, and when secreted in excess, could lead to hydrocephalus.
It did, however, hit # 7 on the Austrian and Swiss music charts and # 8 in Norway.
While modern M16s and equipment are standard issue, much of the secondary equipment used by the Ghanaian military is generally older than that used in Western military forces, and Ghanaian troops frequently rely on British, Brazilian, Swiss, Swedish, Israeli, and Finnish weaponry.
* Swiss Gemmological Institute ( SSEF ), founded by Henry Hänni, focusing on colored gemstones and the identification of natural pearls.
The second ( 2003 ) edition contained 100 pages of new material, primarily in chapter 3 on the Swiss Banks lawsuit.

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