It did, however, hit # 7 on the Austrian and Swiss music charts and # 8 in Norway.

The fact that the euro and the Swiss franc is worth a lot more in forints than they did before affected a lot of people.

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.

Although the authorities prevailed in this Swiss peasant war, they did pass some tax reforms and the incident in the long term prevented an absolutist development as would occur at some other courts of Europe.

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.

* Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ) Swiss political philosopher ; influenced many Enlightenment figures but did not himself believe in primacy of reason and is closer to Romanticism.

Concern for her own health together with the anguish of leaving her husband and children in occupied France was hard to bear and she did make several dangerous visits back to France, enduring detention by German troops at the Swiss border on more than one occasion.

But the investigating judge had joined the army, the Ministry of Justice did not want the trial to proceed, and the Swiss lawyer engaged by the Germans employed various delaying tactics.

In 1705 the Swiss explorer Louise Michel and in 1716 Governor Alexander Spotswood did more extensive mapping and surveying.

A steady stream of Swiss and German people came into the area from that train, as did English-speaking migrants, some of which became successful businessmen in the new community.

After years of negotiations, at least one boatload of Swiss did sail from Europe but they were shipwrecked in a December gale off the coast of Virginia and none of the few survivors are believed to have reached Eden.

Two Swiss officers, the captains Henri de Salis and Joseph Zimmermann, did however survive and went on to reach senior rank under Napoleon and the Restoration.

Bucer did not hesitate to disagree with Zwingli on occasion, although unity between Strasbourg and the Swiss churches took priority over such differences.

As he writes in his book, " A Memory of Solferino ," the Swiss Henri Dunant did not witness the battle.

He was quoted as saying that " there is no reason for the Swiss Government to pay anything ", as a government commission had shown " we did what was possible in the hard times of the war .".

Up until this time, the Swiss Brethren ( who did not use the name " Mennonite " for themselves ) had no official confession of faith beyond the Schleitheim Confession.

Swiss Brethren had practiced excommunication and a refusal to " eat " the Supper with those banned, but their avoidance did not include refraining from eating regular meals with those in the bann.

In 1693, Jakob Ammann, " together with the ministers and elders ," sent a general letter to people within the Swiss Brethren congregations, asking for a meeting in which he wanted clarification about where they stood on three issues: 1 ) Shunning those who had been banned, 2 ) whether liars should be excommunicated, and 3 ) if people could be saved who did not follow God's word.

Others say it was Swiss gas dynamicist Jacob Ackeret ( 1898 – 1981 ) who did the calculations.

However, Gilmour's physical style did not suit him well in the Swiss League.

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.

" Although the pike had become a Swiss weapon of choice and represented modern warfare, the hilly terrain of Northumberland, the nature of the combat, and the slippery footing did not allow it to be employed to best effect.

The Swiss did not want to fight each other and chose to leave Novara.

Six American diplomats did however avoid capture and found refuge at the nearby Canadian and Swiss embassies in Tehran for three months ( Canadian caper ).

The Swiss have broadened the scope of activities in which they feel able to participate without compromising their neutrality.

Only in recent years have the Swiss broadened the scope of activities in which they feel able to participate without compromising their neutrality.

The outbreak of World War II in September 1939 made it impossible for the Germans to participate further ( although they engaged a Swiss lawyer to represent their interests ), and also causing the French authorities to lose interest in prosecuting Grynszpan.

Nogara arranged the Vatican purchase of Profima, a Swiss property owner, into a full-fledged holding company, by 1938 " being able to participate in all forms of commercial, industrial, property and financial enterprises ".

Switzerland referendum to join the EEA in 1992 failed, so Swiss products do not participate in the European single market.

Switzerland and Liechtenstein participate in a customs union since 1924, and both employ the Swiss franc as national currency.

Michel Ducros becomes chairman and CEO of Fauchon in January 2004 and invites to participate in the capital of Fauchon on the one hand, the company Universal Capital Partners, owned and managed by Pierre Besnainou, founder of the web access company Liberty Surf and President of the European Jewish Congress in 2005 and on the other hand the Swiss group Gonset Holding S. A.

Vonlanthen was called up to the Swiss squad to play in 2006 World Cup, but was unable to participate due to a hamstring injury.

Vaduz pay a fee to the Swiss Football Association in order to participate as a foreign club.

However, Swiss mercenaries from individual cantons of the federation continued to participate in the Italian Wars well beyond ( until the middle of the 16th century ) in the service of various parties and, following that peace with France, in particular in the service of the French king.

The Swiss Confederacy remained an independent Reichsstand of the Holy Roman Empire, but as it wasn't even obliged to participate in the Reichstag, this relation was degraded to a purely formal one that would lose significance throughout the 16th century.

( Swiss neutrality obliged the Swiss to intern personnel from either side of the conflict who crossed their frontier to evade capture.

When the authorities used military force to discontinue the extension of an originally peaceful protest strike in Zurich, on November 10, the committee gave Calonder the ultimatum to either call back the militia or accept the consequences of a nation-wide strike, Calonder declined in the name of the Federal Council, and on November 11, 1918, the committee called for an indefinite strike, now referred to as the Swiss General Strike.

Two tribes occupied the valleys on either side of the pass on a permanent basis: the Veragri on the Swiss side and the Salassi on the Italian side.

* in the Italian part of the lake only 20 % of the population were connected to sewage treatment plants with phosphor filters ( not that all Swiss areas were connected either ).

In parts of the Swiss Canton of Ticino it is used ; in other parts the Roman Rite is so much preferred that it is said that when Cardinal Gaisruck tried to force the Ambrosian upon them the inhabitants declared that they would be either Roman or Lutheran.

To send a letter to Büsingen, one can send it using either a Swiss postal code

Similarly, residents of Büsingen can be reached by telephone using either a German number ( with the prefix + 49 7734 ) or a Swiss one ( with the prefix + 41 52 ).

In emergencies, either the Swiss or the German police may be called ; the Swiss, being closer, usually arrive faster.

Mail may be sent using either a Swiss postal code or an Italian one using Switzerland or Italy as destination country respectively.

Most of the hymns are either traditional Amish / Mennonite hymns or from the 19th century Swiss state church.

* Amanda's Jacuzzi – A talk-show where Amanda Bynes is in a jacuzzi with a guest who is either fictional ( such as Santa Claus and Frankenstein's Monster ), famous deceased historical characters ( such as Elvis Presley, King Henry VIII, and Babe Ruth ), or a random character such as the " Swiss Guy ".

The modern Swiss wristwatch brand ' Graham ' has no connection with either George Graham or the original firm of that name.

In the next season, Bayern suffered a major injury wave which claimed midfielders Matthäus, Swiss international Alain Sutter, talent Dieter Frey and veteran Markus Schupp, which allowed Hamann to become a regular ; he played 30 Bundesliga games and established himself as a valuable role player, playing either right wing or defensive midfield.

Paul Haeberlin ( February 17, 1878, Kesswil – September 29, 1960, Basel ) was a Swiss philosopher who at different times in his career took the standpoint that either religion or theoretical knowledge was the answer to human problems.

Before the early modern period most of the literature of the Swiss Confederation was either in Latin or German as until 1798 ponfederation was overwhelmingly German with only small pockets of French.

It was later disputed among the Swiss serving on either side whether Winkelried had been killed by Frundsberg or whether he had been shot from the flank.

The design operates with equal efficiency in either direction of motion, as demonstrated by the Swiss and Austrian railways whose newest high performance locomotives, the Re 460 and Taurus respectively, operate with them set in opposite directions.

These steam locomotives can be used on any part of the line ( either with or without the rack section ), but the newer diesel locomotives can operate on the entire section, between Mettupalayam and Udagamandalam. This signals the beginning of the process to phase out the coal-fired vintage Swiss engines that took scores of passengers on the rack and pinion track to Coonoor and Udhagamandalam, covering 41. 8 km, 108 curves, 16 tunnels and 250 bridges

By the end of the war, Danish, Hungarian, Dutch, Norwegian, Finnish, French, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Swiss and British volunteers and Estonian conscripts had either served in the division or been attached to it.

The treaty also confirmed each canton's right to practice either the Catholic or Reformed faith, thus defining the Swiss Confederation as a state with two religions, a relative novelty in Western Europe.

Few casualties were suffered on either side: the Swiss did not have the cavalry necessary to chase the Burgundians far.

The Swiss students were in their upper secondary education and were attending either a gymnasium, general education, teacher training or advanced vocation training.