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.

The Swiss did not participate in either World War I or World War II.

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.

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

As of 2009, there are a large number of disputes between Switzerland and Libya, and some Swiss politicians want to stop entry of Libyan nationals into Switzerland.

Since then it has been frequently suggested it be adopted as the official anthem, but the Swiss Federal Government has refused several times, wishing to let the people decide what they want to sing on political and military occasions.

The selection of Brugg as the seat of the Swiss Farmers ' Union ( Schweizerischer Bauernverband ) was purely coincidental: The wife of the Union ’ s husband was from Brugg and did not want to move.

The Swiss historian Walter Hofer accused Mommsen of " not seeing because he does not want to see " what Hofer saw as the obvious connection between what Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf and his later actions.

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.

The religious factions of Zwingli ’ s time debated vociferously regarding the merits of sending young Swiss men to fight in foreign wars mainly for the enrichment of the cantonal authorities.

File: Bad-war. jpg | Swiss and Landsknecht pikemen fight at " push of pike " during the Italian Wars

In April 2008 the villagers resolved to fight against the restriction following a Swiss open-air vote.

Swiss and Landsknecht pikemen fight at " push of pike " during the Italian Wars.

At the crisis Luxemburg had not hesitated to throw the whole of the French and Swiss guards into the fight, led by the princes of the royal house.

99, 000 Swiss Federal troops under General Henri Dufour were faced by 79, 000 Separatists, but in the end the Valais chose not to fight.

French artillery or Spanish firepower dealt serious blows to the Swiss formations, and the Landsknecht pike blocks were there to fight off the depleted Swiss attack columns once this had occurred.

The standing mercenary army of king Matthias Corvinus of Hungary ( Black Army of Hungary 1458-1490 ) also contained Swiss pikemen units, who were held in high honour by the king .. As a result, bands of men, sometime acting independently, other times under the banners of their cantons, marched off to foreign lands to fight in the causes of others, for pay.

The young men who went off to fight, and sometimes die, in foreign service had several incentives — limited economic options in the still largely rural cantons ; adventure ; pride in the reputation of the Swiss as soldiers ; and finally what military historian Sir Charles Oman describes as a pure love of combat and warfighting in and of itself, forged by two centuries of conflict.

After Stuart sent reinforcements into the fight, the Swiss battalion fell back to join Digonet's brigade.

Charles Nieuport, the second brother died in another accident in 1912 ( he stalled and spun in ), and the position of chief designer was taken over by the Swiss engineer Franz Schneider, more famous for his work for his next employer, L. V. G., and his long-running fight with Anthony Fokker over machine gun interrupter / synchronizer patents.

A political compromise was to transfer to the fight in the Russian General Confederation Korsakov and the Swiss in the Austrian service, Field Marshal Friedrich von Hotze and Archduke Karl deploy in southern Germany.

The Swiss 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Army Corps were to fight delaying actions at the border, while all who could retreated to the Alpine refuge known as the Réduit national.

In keeping with the insertion of Webster and Whitfield, earlier, Pope takes a new turn and has the winner of the depth dive be the Archbishop of Canterbury, John Potter ( 1674 – 1747 ), and he is surrounded by an army of minor authors, " Prompt to guard or stab, to saint or damn ./ Heav ' n's Swiss, who fight for any God, or Man " ( B II 357-8 ).

These were to fight the Confederation pike and halberd blocks to a halt while on the right the massed Gendarmes would then flank the frontally engaged Swiss, thus creating a killing ground from which there was no escape.

Their general Heinrich von Fürstenberg fell early in the fight, about 3, 000 Swabian and 500 Swiss soldiers died, and the Swabians lost all of their artillery again.

The term mountain warfare is said to have come about in the Middle Ages after the monarchies of Europe found it difficult to fight the Swiss armies in the Alps.

This was because the Swiss were able to fight in smaller units and took vantage points against a huge unmaneuverable army.

In Europe, the United Kingdom, France and Italy fight the German and Swiss forces, leading to the destruction of London, Paris, Hamburg and Berlin.

Sanders knocked out Swiss fighter Hans Jost in the first round, defeated Italian Giacomo DiSegni, in his second fight, and KO'd a South African, Andries Nieman, in the second round of the semi-final bout.

On January 20, 2007 McCline challenged WBA heavyweight title holder Nikolai Valuev, in what was the first ever heavyweight title fight on Swiss soil.