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Swiss and solved
Thus, the integrability of the problem of three point vortices on the plane was solved in the 1877 thesis of a young Swiss applied mathematician named Walter Gröbli.

Swiss and earlier
Murray Gell-Mann always referred to Feynman diagrams as Stueckelberg diagrams, after a Swiss physicist, Ernst Stueckelberg, who devised a similar notation many years earlier.
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.
The expansion of the Confederation and the reputation of invincibility acquired during the earlier wars suffered a first setback in 1515 with the Swiss defeat in the Battle of Marignano.
In his earlier professional life, Blatter held a variety of senior management positions in several Swiss organizations.
(...) The hope was that with Kosovo in flames NATO could intervene ..." According to Tim Judah, KLA representatives had already met with American, British, and Swiss intelligence agencies in 1996, and possibly " several years earlier " and according to The Sunday Times, " American intelligence agents have admitted they helped to train the Kosovo Liberation Army before NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia ".
In the battles of Grandson, Morat and Nancy, the Swiss not only successfully resisted the attacks of knightly foes, as the relatively passive Scottish and Flemish infantry squares had done in the earlier Middle Ages, but also marched to the attack with great speed and in good formation, their attack columns steamrolling the Burgundian forces, sometimes with great massacre.
In an effort to improve the quality of their Swiss rolls, they hired the food expert Nat Goldberg, who made a major improvement across their entire cake range, which had lost the public's favour a few years earlier.
Wieland's tastes had changed ; the writings of his early Swiss years — Der geprüfte Abraham ( The Trial of Abraham's Faith, 1753 ), Sympathien ( 1756 ), Empfindungen eines Christen ( 1757 ) — were still in the manner of his earlier writings, but with the tragedies, Lady Johanna Gray ( 1758 ), and Clementina von Porretta ( 1760 ) — the latter based on Samuel Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison — the epic fragment Cyrus ( 1759 ), and the " moral story in dialogues ," Araspes und Panthea ( 1760 ), Wieland, as Gotthold Lessing said, " forsook the ethereal spheres to wander again among the sons of men.
Unlike its predecessor, this album reflects back on the earlier influence of Carrabba's acoustic harmonies from The Swiss Army Romance and The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most.
1964 saw Beatles-inspired pop take hold on the continent, displacing the earlier instrumental rock and inspired musical battles in Basel, the capital of Swiss rock.
CA-Sort was originally developed by a Swiss ISV named Computer Associates, founded by Sam Goodner and Max Sevcik several years earlier.
Based upon the novel The Swiss Family Robinson, the pilot and 20 subsequent episodes of the series were produced by Irwin Allen, who had earlier produced a futuristic adaptation of the same novel called Lost in Space.
The two curricula for the different language programs are, in theory identical, other than the fact that they are in two different languages and ultimately lead to two different diplomas, with the English language program leading to the International Baccalaureate ( or a High School Certificate with graduation one year earlier ), and the French language program leading to the Swiss Maturité Fédérale.
The main characters are Tomáš, a surgeon ; his wife Tereza, a photographer anguished by her husband's infidelities ; Tomáš ’ s lover Sabina, a free-spirited artist ; Franz, a Swiss university professor and lover of Sabina ; and Šimon, Tomáš ’ estranged son from an earlier marriage.
The species was first described as Pinus heldreichii by the Swiss botanist K. Hermann Christ in honor of Theodor von Heldreich in 1863 from specimens collected on Mount Olympus, and then described a second time as P. leucodermis in 1864 ; the author of the second description ( the Austrian botanist F. Antoine who found it on Orjen above the Bay of Kotor ) being unaware of the slightly earlier publication by Christ.
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 ).
Regazzoni's win, coupled with Niki Lauda's first lap crash put the Swiss Ferrari driver back into the lead of the championship he had previous held earlier in the year.
* EuroSignum – a variant of the earlier Swiss Integra-Signum train protection system
* EuroZub – a variant of the earlier Swiss ZUB 121 train protection system
The term facies was introduced by the Swiss geologist Amanz Gressly in 1838 and was part of his significant contribution to the foundations of modern stratigraphy, which replaced the earlier notions of Neptunism.
They were eventually relegated after losing to another Swiss team Ćiro had managed 35 years earlier, FC Sion, 3 – 0 on aggregate, and his tenure there ended in June 2006.
In 2007, the German language Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung (“ NZZ ”) retracted defamatory statements from published earlier article regarding Mr. Akhmetov ’ s early business career in the 1990s, noting that “ there is no connection between Akhmetov … and organized crime in Ukraine ” and “ he economic success of Akhmetov is not based by any means on criminally acquired starting capital .”
Thomas Gabriel Fischer ( born 19 July 1963 ), earlier known by his stage name of " Tom Gabriel Warrior ", is a Swiss singer and guitarist.

Swiss and problems
Domestic policy poses some major problems, but the changing international environment has generated a significant reexamination of Swiss policy in key areas such as defense, neutrality, and immigration.
A 17th Century medical student coined the term " nostalgia " for anxieties displayed by Swiss mercenaries fighting away from home, although some military doctors believed their problems were specific to the Swiss and caused by the Alpine racket of cowbells.
Educated as a scientist with a background as a Bomb Team Technician / EOD in Vietnam (" Countdown "), and from a fictional United States government agency, the Department of External Services ( DXS ), he is a resourceful agent with an encyclopedic knowledge of science, able to solve complex problems with everyday materials he finds at hand, along with his ever-present duct tape and Swiss Army knife.
The television show MacGyver features Angus MacGyver who frequently uses a Swiss Army knife to solve problems and construct simple objects.
Luther's writings, combined with the work of Swiss theologian Huldrych Zwingli and French theologian and politician John Calvin sought to reform existing problems in doctrine and practice.
The tests revealed various problems ( the " Swiss Roll " would only take a maximum of a 7 ton truck in the Atlantic swell ).
The Brown Swiss originated on the slopes of the Alps in Switzerland ; because they were bred in this harsh climate, they are resistant to the heat, cold and many other common cattle problems.
The first standalone locomotives made by the company were produced in 1956-57 BRCW: 12 diesel locomotives for the Irish railways Córas Iompair Éireann ( CIE 101 Class ), the order going to BRCW due to capacity problems at CIÉ's own Inchicore Works ; a partnership was established between BRCW and the Swiss diesel engine manufacturers Sulzer Brothers at that time.
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.
Nevertheless, many of the problems of the Church also existed in the Swiss Confederacy.
Many Swiss peasants, who had raised mortgages during the boom at wartime, suddenly faced financial problems.
Thus a Swiss Army Knife is a design paradigm illustrating the concept of a single object that changes configuration to address a number of problems.
" I have a Swiss father and a Lebanese mother, so I wanted to better understand the problems that the people of Lebanon are still facing, long after the fighting stopped ," he said.
At the same time crossbows were made more powerful to pierce armor, and the development of the Swiss Pike square formation also created substantial problems for heavy cavalry.
Otherwise the Swiss watch industry will suffer exactly the same problems it had before and it will go down.
That was however far from being the end of the building's problems: in April 1989 the Swiss company " Toga Hotels " acquired the building's hotel wing, whose lease to Holiday Inn ran out one year later.
Later in date were Alexandre Daguet ( 1816 – 1894 ) who wrote an excellent history of Switzerland, while Jean Joseph Hisely ( 1800 – 1866 ), Albert Rilliet ( 1809 – 1883 ), and Pierre Vaucher ( 1833 – 1898 ), all devoted much labour to studying the many problems offered by the early authentic history ( from 1291 onwards ) of the Swiss Confederation.
It poses seven problems in bidding or play, in the form of a Swiss match.

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