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Swiss and chroniclers
Münch, according to the chroniclers at the hands of a dying Swiss fighter, became symbolic of the outcome of the battle and the strategy of deterring powers of superior military strength from invading Switzerland by the threat of inflicting disproportionate casualties even in defeat, pursued by Swiss high command during the World Wars.
The family of the two Swiss chroniclers called Diebold Schilling was originally from Solothurn.

Swiss and report
In 2010, a report by Swiss MP Dick Marty claimed to have evidence that a criminal network tied to the Kosovo Liberation Army and the Prime Minister, Hashim Thaci, executed prisoners and harvested their kidneys for organ transplantation.
The above report was made in an article by Malatesta and Cafiero in the ( Swiss ) Jura Federation's bulletin later that year.
A report in the Swiss news magazine FACTS reveals that the Swiss Air Force provides ready-to-takeoff aircraft only during office hours on working days.
On 8 January 2006, the Swiss newspaper Sonntagsblick ( Sunday edition of the Blick newspaper ) published a secret report produced by the Swiss government using data intercepted by Onyx.
The Swiss government did not officially confirm the existence of the report, but started a judiciary procedure for leakage of secret documents against the newspaper on 9 January 2006.
The first trial of imipramine took place in 1955 and the first report of antidepressant effects was published by Swiss psychiatrist Ronald Kuhn in 1957.
In 1937 Ella Maillart returned to Asia for Le Petit Parisien to report on Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey, while in 1939 she undertook a trip from Geneva to Kabul by car, in the company of the Swiss writer, Annemarie Schwarzenbach.
A Swiss report suggested that in this case where demand is greater than the supply for terrorism coverage that a short-term solution is possible: a mix of government and private resource to make easy the transition.
Although the causes of the deaths was not immediately clear, a report by the Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research concluded that the avalanche risk was unusually high due to recent snowfall, and that there was " no other reasonable explanation " other than an avalanche for the incident.
The Swiss / Italian organisation CIPAIS in its most recent published report says:
On October 21, 1946, a Top Secret report from US Treasury Agent Emerson Bigelow ( called " The Bigelow Report "), which was declassified in 1997, quoted a " reliable source in Italy " ( who corroborated evidence already obtained by CIC intelligence officials of the Army ), who alerted his superior that Croatian officials had sent 350 million confiscated Swiss francs ( CHF ) to the IOR " for safekeeping ", a sum largely in the form of gold coins.
Robertson provided Swiss Senator Dick Marty a report containing what he calls ' a detailed report of numerous suspect movements of aircraft transiting through Scotland.
In the same year a Swiss research group refuted a widely publicized TNO report claiming UMTS radiation is a health hazard.
" One report claims " Working-class Iranian lamented clerical wealth in the face of their own poverty ," and " stories about Swiss bank accounts of leading clerics circulated on Tehran's rumor mill.
A specific policy for the real estate investments was suggested in a report the Swiss Partners Group wrote for the Norwegian Ministry of Finance.
In his report later to his mother, King Francis would boast that “ thirty brave charges ” were hurled by the French gendarmerie against the stubborn Swiss.
Medals for the two demonstration sports Military patrol and Winter pentathlon are not included in this summary, albeit they are listed in the official report of the Swiss Olympic Committee .< ref > Rapport Général sur les V < sup > es </ sup > Jeux Olympiques d ’ hiver St-Moritz 1948 PDF, ( French / German )</ ref > Italy won its first Winter Olympic Medal, a Gold medal.
Following mounting scrutiny in Europe, including investigations held by Swiss senator Dick Marty who released a public report in June 2006, the US Senate, in December 2005, was about to approve a measure that would include amendments requiring the Director of National Intelligence to provide regular, detailed updates about secret detention facilities maintained by the United States overseas, and to account for the treatment and condition of each prisoner.
In a report, regarding the allegations of CIA flights, on 13 December 2005, the rapporteur and Chair of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe's Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, Swiss councillor Dick Marty, concluded: " The elements we have gathered so far tend to reinforce the credibility of the allegations concerning the transport and temporary detention of detainees — outside all judicial procedure — in European countries.
The capital is not hoarded or used for personal monetary gain as commonly observed in other Indian business legacies as indicated by the Bain & Company report on the substandard state of philanthropic giving in India and Indian black money hoarding in Swiss banks as revealed by Wikileaks's Julian Assange.
Following the release of the HRW report in June 2005, leading Swiss gold refiner Metalor Technologies agreed to stop buying gold from Uganda.

Swiss and how
An example of this is how the fundamental basis of Swiss citizenship is citizenship of an individual commune, from which follows citizenship of a canton and of the Confederation.
However, the ministers continued never how that form to protest-please correct and as in the case of Servetus, the opinions of the Swiss churches were sought.
In September 2012, Brad Birkenfeld received a $ 104 million prize for revealing how the wealthy use Swiss Banks to avoid taxes.
Consequently the Swiss knew exactly how many athletes and officials to plan for.
The British Medical Journal published a study in which Swiss researchers proved how one tablet of butterbur four times daily was as effective as an antihistamine in controlling symptoms of hay fever.
The novel tells how a Swiss scientist creates a new destructive weapon, " thick water " which freezes at 42 ° C. All water affected by this " thick water " is transformed into the form of water, and freezes immediately.
In the 1960s, William Stewart and Heinz Kloss introduced the basic concepts for the sociolinguistic theory of pluricentric languages, which describes how standard language varieties differ between nations ( e. g. American // Canadian / Australian English ; Austrian / German / Swiss German ; Bosnian / Croatian / Montenegrin / Serbian Serbo-Croatian ).
Ansermet, its initial musical director, was not pleased at being supplanted by a conductor of whom he was reportedly " ragingly jealous ", but the composer Darius Milhaud commented on how much better the orchestra played for Monteux " since Ansermet has been sent back to his Swiss pastures ".
Filmed in the Swiss Alps, she talks about her singing technique and about her career both before and after Abba and explains how songs were performed and recorded.
There are still issues with how to handle Swiss living abroad who have already passed recruitment and are already members of the Swiss militia army.
In the early 1950s, Hinckley was part of a committee that considered how to present the temple ordinances at the Swiss Temple.
FIPA was founded as a Swiss not-for-profit organization in 1996 with the ambitious goal of defining a full set of standards for both implementing systems within which agents could execute ( agent platforms ) and specifying how agents themselves should communicate and interact.
He also knew how to speak Surinamese Creole, Haitian Creole and Papiamento, from the Netherlands Antilles, as well as Yiddish, several varieties of Swiss German, Albanian and Hebrew.
This score is based on a variety of factors, including the happiness of the island's citizens, the health of the island's economy, how much money the player has set aside for his own retirement in a Swiss bank account, and the level of difficulty chosen at the start of the game.
In 1948, the Swiss engineer George de Mestral was cleaning his dog of burrs picked up on a walk when he realized how the hooks of the burrs clung to the fur.
Each show consists of several segments, the Lachgeschichten purely to amuse, and the Sachgeschichten (" non-fiction stories "), short educational features on a variety of topics, such as what must be done before a plane can take off or how holes get into Swiss cheese or the stripes into toothpaste.
In late December 2011, the Swiss Football Association complied with FIFA's demands and penalized Sion 36 standings points ( based on how many matches ineligible players were involved ), moving the club to last place in the league standings and putting the club at risk of relegation if the ruling stands.
A 1929 table lists exactly how many Swiss francs had to be paid, depending on the exceeding hours of lifetime.
Among his better novels are Her Two Millions ( 1897 ) because of its autobiographical element and accurate descriptions of how a Swiss newspaper is run ( Westall worked as an editor of Swiss Times ); and Birch Dene ( 1889 ) which contains striking portraits of London and is evocative of the Industrial Revolution.
A tellurion ( also spelled tellurian ), is a clock, typically of French or Swiss origin, surmounted by a mechanism that depicts how day, night and the seasons are caused by the movement of the Earth on its axis and its orbit around the sun.
The campaign also prompted concerns from other countries of how the Swiss electorate is increasingly shifting towards the far-right.
Her single, " U don't know how to love me ," achieved high radio-ratings and got into the Top 20 of the Swiss single charts and the Top 40 of the German single charts.

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