Geneva, instead of becoming the City of God, as John had dreamed, had in the two years since he had been there, continued to be a godless place where all manner of vice flourished.

The text of this Convention is the result of some three years of intensive debate and negotiation at the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament at Geneva and at the United Nations.

Eisenhower met and fell in love with Mamie Geneva Doud of Boone, Iowa, six years his junior, while he was stationed in Texas.

Four years later, four nations met in Geneva and formed the organization which has grown into the Red Cross, with a key stated aim of " aid to sick and wounded soldiers in the field ".

Firmin Abauzit ( 1679 – 1767 ) was a French scholar who worked on physics, theology and philosophy, and served as librarian in Geneva ( Switzerland ) during his final 40 years.

For two years his brother and he lived as fugitives in the mountains of the Cévennes, but they at last reached Geneva, where their mother afterwards joined them on escaping from the imprisonment in which she was held from the time of their flight.

However, lack of proficiency in French of English-speaking expatriates ( even after years spent in Geneva ) is an increasing concern.

Geneva formerly was a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics ( NAIA ) for many years, and competed in the now-defunct American Mideast Conference.

In the years that followed, other states subscribed to limitations of their conduct, and numerous other treaties and bodies were created to regulate the conduct of states towards one another in terms of these treaties, including, but not limited to, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in 1899 ; the Hague and Geneva Conventions, the first of which was passed in 1907 ; the International Court of Justice in 1921 ; the Genocide Convention ; and the International Criminal Court, in the late 1990s.

Calvin spent his final years promoting the Reformation both in Geneva and throughout Europe.

Louis Bourgeois, also a refugee, lived and taught music in Geneva for sixteen years and Calvin took the opportunity to add his hymns, the most famous being the Old Hundredth.

Throughout the rest of his life in Geneva, he maintained several friendships from his early years including Montmor, Cordier, Cop, Farel, Melanchthon and Bullinger.

Jean-Jacques was left with his maternal uncle, who packed him, along with his own son, Abraham Bernard, away to board for two years with a Calvinist minister in a hamlet outside Geneva.

The concept of " mutual aerial observation " was initially proposed to Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin at the Geneva Conference of 1955 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower ; however, the Soviets promptly rejected the concept and it lay dormant for several years.

* 1541 – After three years of exile, John Calvin returns to Geneva to reform the church under a body of doctrine known as Calvinism.

At Geneva, the Idcs were successful in their proposal for the conference with its Secretariat to become a permanent organ of the UN, with meetings every four years.

For the next two years, he lived a happy life in Geneva.

On 25 November 1996, a statue of Mercury was unveiled in Montreux overlooking Lake Geneva, almost five years to the day since his death.

He received his primary and secondary education in Rutherford until 1897, when he was sent for two years to a school near Geneva and to the Lycée Condorcet in Paris.

Detained in the modern Champ-Dollon Prison near Geneva, he managed to escape and then fled to South America for four years.

However, the Viet Minh were not in a position to do this, having instituted a party purge of ' disloyal ' Communists as well as a highly disruptive land reform program in the two years since the Geneva agreement.

Article 4. 3. c of Protocol II, additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts, adopted in 1977, states " children who have not attained the age of fifteen years shall neither be recruited in the armed forces or groups nor allowed to take part in hostilities ".

The first university entirely dedicated to the study of IR was the Graduate Institute of International Studies ( now the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies ), which was founded in 1927 to form diplomats associated to the League of Nations, established in Geneva some years before.

In recent years, average temperatures in the county seat of Geneva have ranged from a low of in January to a high of in July, although a record low of was recorded in January 1985 and a record high of was recorded in July 1936.

Though a rather small town in terms of population, throughout the years Geneva has attracted big stars to play, such as Ron Jeremy, Ronnie Milsap, Pamela Anderson, Robert E Lee, and Aaron Tippin.

Steinberg claims that these early years of orchestra participation were of invaluable help to his career.

Five years were spent with the Cologne Opera, after which he was called to Prague by Alexander von Zemlinsky, teacher of Arnold Schonberg and Erich Korngold.

The Frankfurt years were particularly noteworthy for his performance of Berg's Wozzek soon after the Berlin premiere under Erich Kleiber, and the world premiere of Schonberg's Von heute auf morgen.

But there have been abrupt changes as well: the sit-ins, the picket lines, the bus strikes -- all of these were unheard-of even ten years ago.

they were like this fifty-odd years ago, and yesterday.

But the fences were still in place fifty-odd years ago, and when we stood on the gate to look over, the sidewalk under our eyes was not cement but two rows of paving stones with grass between and on both sides.

After only eighteen years of non-interference, there were already indications of melioration, though `` in a slight degree '', to be sure.

I leave it to the statisticians to say what they were, but I noticed several a few years ago, during an automobile ride from Memphis to Hattiesburg.

The Jews had been banished from England in 1290 and were not permitted to return before 1655, when Shakespeare had been dead for thirty-nine years.

Some years ago Julian Huxley proposed to an audience made up of members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science that `` man's supernormal or extra-sensory faculties are ( now ) in the same case as were his mathematical faculties during the ice age ''.

Granted, the cosmological, philosophical, and cultural reverberations initiated by the De Revolutionibus were felt with increasing violence during the 300 years to follow.

but the years that immediately followed were to be extraordinarily trying, both for Wright and his Montenegrin lady.

There were three years of this strange warfare ; ;

He hadn't worn a watch or carried pocket money for years because he disliked both, but highest among his hates were looking glasses: he had snatched one from an officer's grasp and smashed it to smithereens.

The bills were principally for hospitalization and doctors' fees during the last years of his life, and when he died he owed in the main only current doctor's bills.

Where there were none fifteen years ago, several scholars currently are edging their way cautiously towards the acceptance of the `` shore occupied by '' position.

Finally, colleges and clubs took the line that speakers from England were not wanted any longer, even speakers like S.K., so unlike the novelists and poets who had patronized the Americans for many years.

This is a radical change in attitude from the conditions which prevailed several years ago, when a series of bombings was directed against Negroes who were moving into previously all-white neighborhoods of Dallas.

This is a black swamp clay in which about one hundred million years ago cypress-like trees were growing.

Now, if I were you I would just plan to repair the old church so it would last for five or ten years.

This was an enormously long building whose walls were made of rocks, some of them brought home from every continent during his six years as an oil geologist.

She fell asleep leaning on her hand, hearing the house creaking as though it were a living a private life of its own these two hundred years, hearing the birds rustling in their cages and the occasional whirring of wings as one of them landed on the table and walked across the newspaper to perch in the crook of her arm.

The doctor's wits had not left him, however, for all his sixty-eight years, and the wails were almost immediately lost in the sound of water rushing out from the showerhead.

During fiscal years 1959 and 1960, there were 139 military and civilian students who came to the Institute for varying periods of special instruction.

This consists of 25 individual registries, two of which were added during fiscal years 1959-1960 ( The Registry Of Forensic Pathology and The Testicular Tumor Registry ).