German is the primary language spoken in Uri.

It is thought that the name Uri derives from the old German word Aurochs meaning wild ox.

Altdorf ( German for " old village ") is the capital of the Swiss canton of Uri.

three forest cantons collectively refers to the founding cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy of 1291, Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden, all of them situated at Lake Lucerne, in German called Vierwaldstättersee " lake of the four forest cantons ", referring to the three cantons just named, and to the Canton of Lucerne, the first canton to join the confederation ( 1332 ).

There were some reports that Ziegler exhibited works in 1955 at the Ben Uri Gallery in London, but the gallery ’ s records indicate the artist was an “ Adolf Zeigler ,” a Jewish painter from London, not the German Ziegler.

From 1291, it focuses mainly on the fates of the Old Swiss Confederacy, at first consisting of only three cantons ( Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden ) in what is now central Switzerland, and gradually expanding until it encompassed the present-day area of Switzerland in 1815.

* August 1 – According to tradition, the Swiss Confederation is formed by Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden, the " three forest cantons ", at Rütli by the Federal Charter.

Another important Haredi institution of charity is Yad Sara, established by Uri Lupolianski ( mayor of Jerusalem 2003 – 2009 ) in 1977.

A very considerable outlyer, whose chief summits are the Schärhorn and the Gross Windgällen, belonging to the canton of Uri, is connected with the Tödi by the range of the Clariden, north to the Hüfi Glacier.

; October 2006: Synagogue proposal: Uri Ariel, a member of the Knesset from the National Union party ( a right wing opposition party ) ascended to the mount, and said that he is preparing a plan where a synagogue will be built on the mount.

* Uri: Recall of the executive and legislative is possible since 1988.

The portrait of Hammer was painted in 1889 by the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury ( 1862 – 1947 ) and is signed Muller d ' Uri.

As an investigator with a background in illusion, Randi feels that the simplest explanation for those claiming paranormal abilities is often trickery, illustrated by demonstrating that the spoon bending abilities of psychic Uri Geller can easily be duplicated by trained stage magicians.

Jerome Chanes, Pinson, Rosenblatt, Mark Cohen, Norman Stillman, Uri Avnery, M. Klien and Bernard Lewis argue that antisemitism in pre-modern Islam is rare, and did not emerge until modern times.

Uri Geller (; born 20 December 1946 ) is a self-proclaimed psychic known for his trademark television performances of spoon bending and other supposed psychic effects.

Uri Avnery (, also transliterated Uri Avneri, born 10 September 1923 ) is an Israeli writer and founder of the Gush Shalom peace movement.

To the north the canton is bounded by the Swiss cantons of Vaud and Bern ; the cantons of Uri and Ticino lie to its east.

Lake Lucerne borders on the three original Swiss cantons of Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden ( which today is divided into the Cantons of Obwalden and Nidwalden ), as well as the canton of Lucerne, thus the name Vierwaldstättersee ( Lake of the Four Forested Cantons ).

At the eastern end of the Buochser See, where the containing walls of the lake-valley are directed from east to west, it is joined at an acute angle by the Bay of Uri, or Urner See, lying in the northern prolongation of the deep cleft that gives a passage to the Reuss, between the Bernese chain and the Alps of N. Switzerland.

The Niederbauen Chulm is succeeded by the Oberbauenstock, and farther south, above the ridge of the Scharti, appear the snowy peaks of the Uri Rotstock and Brunnistock ( 2, 952 m ).

The lake's surface, whose mean height above the sea is 434 metres, is the lowest point of the cantons of Uri, Obwalden and Nidwalden.

The legendary William Tell is said to have hailed from Uri.

Uri is first mentioned in 732 as the place of banishment of Eto, the abbot of Reichenau, by the duke of Alamannia.

While he is considered a folk hero in Switzerland, his army stripped the villages of Uri bare of food and cattle.

Uri today comprises 20 self-administered territories: the cantonal capital is Altdorf.

At least 70 new members entered the latter, with 20 seats going to Fatah representatives from the Gaza Strip, 11 seats filled by women ( the highest number of votes went to one woman who spent years in Israeli jails for her role in the resistance ), four seats went to Christians, and one was filled by a Jewish-born convert to Islam, Uri Davis, the first Jewish-born person to be elected to the Revolutionary Council since its founding in 1958.

Ryder has one full sibling, a younger brother, Uri ( named in honor of the first Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin ), and two half siblings from her mother's prior marriage: an older half-brother, Jubal Palmer ; and an older half-sister, Sunyata Palmer.

Also attending were at least one Israeli peace activist ( Uri Avnery, head of Gush Shalom ) and a Christian minister.

* John Uri Lloyd, pharmacist, scientist, and twice president of the American Pharmaceutical Association, one of the pioneers in the modern use of plant extracts in medicine

Heinlein may have come up with the term himself, but there are earlier citations: a piece in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1889, used the term in reference to Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward: 2000 – 1887 and other works ; and one in the May, 1900 issue of The Bookman said that John Uri Lloyd's Etidorhpa, The End of the Earth had " created a great deal of discussion among people interested in speculative fiction ".

Unterwalden was one of the three participants in the foundation of the Old Swiss Confederacy, named in the Pact of Brunnen of 1315 with Uri and Schwyz.

" Nevertheless they were scheduled to perform as the original quartet on a concert in Antwerp in Cultural Center Luchtbal on June 22, 2008-the bill later changed with the addition of pianist Uri Caine, who performed with them the entire set, except for one song.

He was the one to give Uri Zohar, Tuvia Tafir, myself and many others first chance in show biz.

The challenge listed 23 miracles or feats that godmen ( and some western mystics and performers such as Uri Geller and Jeane Dixon ) were claimed to perform, such as reading the serial numbers from currency in sealed envelopes, materializing objects, predicting future events, converting liquids from one kind to another, and walking on water.

The Federal Charter of 1291 is one of the oldest surviving written document of an alliance between Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden, the founding cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy.

In 1495, one such disagreement was answered by a punitive expedition of soldiers of Uri and the city had to pay the sum of 3, 000 guilders to make them retreat and cease their plundering.

( The Thurgau was a condominium of the Swiss Confederacy, and Uri was one of the cantons involved in its administration.

The airport is named after Uri Michaeli, one of the pioneers of Jewish aviation and one of the founders of aviation in Israel.

The White Book of Sarnen about 1470 mentioned one gesler who was vogt at Uri and Schwyz.

The result was that the Glarus cock overslept, while the Uri one, driven by hunger, crowed exceptionally early, and the runner of Uri crossed the entire Urnerboden before the Glarus runner even set out.

Starting in October 2007 he appeared as a judge on Phenomenon, with Uri Geller and in a CNN interview about the show he told Larry King " no one has the ability, that I'm aware of, to do anything supernatural, psychic, talk to the dead.

According to Jerusalem mayor Uri Lupolianski, it is one of 50 plans under way for improving the status of East Jerusalem residents and providing a solution for the acute housing shortage.

Josef, in reality Uri ben Shaul, an Israeli army officer, returns to Israel to be debriefed, and performs one final duty.