The Swiss theatre company, Compagnie Pied de Biche revisits the Grand Guignol genre in contemporary contexts since 2008.

A well-known proponent of the axe kick was the late Andy Hug, the Swiss Kyokushinkai Karateka who won the 1996 K-1 Grand Prix.

Two similar ideas are " Functional Overlapping Competing Jurisdictions " ( FOCJ ) advocated by Swiss economists Bruno Frey and Reiner Eichenberger and “ multigovernment ” advocated by Le Grand E. Day and others.

Swiss tennis player Roger Federer won 16 Grand Slam titles to become the most titled player.

The relationship with Ferrari turned sour during 1937, and Nuvolari raced an Auto Union as a one-off in the Swiss Grand Prix that year before agreeing to race for them for the 1938 season.

Not wanting to leave Alfa Romeo, he drove an Auto Union in the Swiss Grand Prix as a one-off.

* a Swiss Guard also existed in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.

* Swiss Grand Prix-Alfa Romeo 158

The Swiss Grand Prix ( French: Grand Prix de la Suisse, German: Großer Preis von der Schweiz ) was the premier auto race of Switzerland.

The Swiss Grand Prix counted toward the European Championship from 1935 to 1939.

The Bremgarten track remained the home of the Swiss Grand Prix until 1954 and in 1948 it was designated the European Grand Prix, in a time when this title was an honorary designation given each year to one grand prix race in Europe.

The Swiss Grand Prix returned in 1975 as a non-Championship Grand Prix just across the border, at the Dijon-Prenois circuit, France.

The next, and last, Swiss Grand Prix was a round of the Formula One World Championship in, also held at Dijon.

The nearby Swiss Grand Hotel is also a landmark development on Campbell Parade, opposite the beach.

It was home to the Bremgarten Circuit, the Grand Prix motor racing course that at one time hosted the Swiss Grand Prix.

At Dieppe, France, on June 26, 1912, Georges Boillot won the French Grand Prix, in his Peugeot L76, a vehicle designed by the young Swiss engineer Ernest Henry in association with Zuccarelli, Goux and Boillot.

In 1934, he won the German, Swiss and Czechoslovakian Grand Prix races ( as well as finishing second in the Italian Grand Prix and Eifelrennen ).

It was with his own HWM cars that Abecassis raced in his only two Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, at the Bremgarten circuit, in the 1951 and 1952 Swiss Grand Prix.

Among the best riders in recent years: 8 times Grand National Winner and Swiss Franco Gansser, Lord Clifton Wrottesley, finished fourth at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, current Top record holder James Sunley ( 50. 09 in 1999 ) and current Junction Record holder Johannes Badrutt ( 41. 02 in 1999 ).

The 1950 Swiss Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 4 June 1950 at Bremgarten.

* Swiss Film Prize ( Schweizer Filmpreis / Prix du cinéma suisse )

The Welshman later received the Prix Rouge et Blanc Jo Siffert award, named after the Swiss Formula One driver, for this achievement.

The 1951 Swiss Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at the Bremgarten on 27 May 1951.

The 1952 Swiss Grand Prix was a Formula Two race held on 18 May 1952 at Bremgarten Circuit.

The works Ferrari team brought three drivers to the Swiss Grand Prix, namely Farina, Taruffi and Simon.

As these Swiss were moving from the Selkirk settlement to become the first civilian residents of Minnesota, Dousman of Michilimackinac, Michigan, and Prairie Du Chien was traveling to Red River to open a trade in merchandise.

Swiss naturalist Conrad Gesner used the words lituum alpinum for the first known detailed description of the alphorn in his De raris et admirandis herbis in 1555.

An early theory, suggested by Swiss theologian Jean LeClerc in the 17th century, posits that the longer Western version was a first draft, while the Alexandrian version represents a more polished revision by the same author.

* 1943 – Bicycle Day – Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time.

In 1953 Frederik F. Yonkman, a chemist at the Swiss based Ciba pharmaceutical company, first used the term tranquilizer to differentiate reserpine from the older sedatives.

The first exchange system was the Swiss WIR Bank.

In 1958, two Swiss alpinists, Juesi and Marti teamed together, creating the first rope ascender known as the Jumar.

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.

However, his influence was first felt in the Swiss Reformation whose leader was Huldrych Zwingli.

In 1819, F. L. Cailler opened the first Swiss chocolate factory.

Inhabitants should plan to remain sheltered for at least two weeks ( with an hour out at the end of the first week – see Swiss Civil Defense guidelines ( which was once part of Swiss Zivilschutz )), then work outside for gradually increasing amounts of time, to four hours a day at three weeks.

The word comes from Renaissance Latin gnomus, which first appears in the works of 16th Century Swiss alchemist Paracelsus.

In the first half of the 16th century, the Protestant Reformation reached the city, causing religious strife during which Savoy rule was thrown off and Geneva flirted with joining the Swiss Federation.

Some people credit the band Bauhaus ' first single " Bela Lugosi's Dead ", released August 1979, with the start of the goth subculture, though many prior art house movements influenced gothic fashion and style, the illustrations and paintings of Swiss artist, H. R. Giger being one of the earliest.

In France, Henri Langlois called Hawks " the Gropius of the cinema " and Swiss novelist and poet Blaise Cendrars said that the film " definitely marked the first appearance of contemporary cinema.

Coincidentally, one of Helen's Swiss ancestors was the first teacher for the deaf in Zurich.

One of the first was the Swiss National League A, founded in 1916.

* 1506 – The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrives at the Vatican.

This film first teamed him with the actor-director Maximilian Schell, who acted out a character named, and based on, " Butcher Of Riga " Eduard Roschmann, and for whom Voight would appear in 1976's End of the Game, a psychological thriller based on a story by Swiss novelist and playwright, Friedrich Dürrenmatt.

The Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, who defined the modern discipline of linguistics, first explicitly formulated the distinction, using the French word langage for language as a concept, and langue as a specific instance of a language system, and parôle for the concrete usage of speech in a particular language.

Hoffmann-La Roche then licensed the invention to the Swiss manufacturer Brown, Boveri & Cie who produced displays for wristwatches during the 1970s and also to Japanese electronics industry, which soon produced the first digital quartz wrist watches with TN-LCDs and numerous other products.

In 1567, Swiss physician Paracelsus suggested unidentified substance in mined ore ( identified as radon gas in modern times ) caused a wasting disease in miners, and in England, in 1761, John Hill made the first direct link of cancer to chemical substances by noting that excessive use of snuff may cause nasal cancer.

* 1938 – LSD is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland.

Some Swiss cantons ( beginning with Ticino in 1890 ) preceded Belgium which was the first to adopt list-PR in 1900 for its national parliament.