Aarau is situated on the Swiss plateau, in the valley of the Aar, on the river's right bank, and at the southern foot of the Jura mountains, and is west of Zurich.

The urban center lies in the middle of the " Golden Triangle " between Zurich, Bern, and Basel, and Aarau is having increasing difficulty in maintaining the independence of its economic base from the neighboring large cities.

A close collaboration between the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Chalmers and ICVR at ETH Zurich is being established.

In the years prior to World War I similar art had already risen in Bucharest and other Eastern European cities ; it is likely that DADA's catalyst was the arrival in Zurich of artists like Tzara and Janco.

The InterCityExpress or ICE is a type of high-speed train operated by Deutsche Bahn in Germany and large cities in neighbouring countries, such as Zurich, Vienna, Copenhagen, Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels.

Geneva (;, ;, ) is the second most populous city in Switzerland ( after Zurich ) and is the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland.

and a 2009 survey by Mercer found Geneva to have the third-highest quality of life of any city in the world ( behind Vienna and Zurich ; it is narrowly outranked by Zurich ).

In cryptography, the International Data Encryption Algorithm ( IDEA ) is a block cipher designed by James Massey of ETH Zurich and Xuejia Lai and was first described in 1991.

Oberon is a programming language created in 1986 by Professor Niklaus Wirth ( creator of the Pascal, Modula, and Modula-2 programming languages ) and his associates at ETH Zurich in Switzerland.

The only woman to exceed 5 metres is Russian women's world-record holder Yelena Isinbayeva, who reached that height in 2005 and who has in total broken the women's world-record ( indoor and outdoor ), 27 times, culminating in her current world record of 5. 06 metres obtained in 2009 at Letzigrund in Zurich.

Zurich Airport is Switzerland's largest international flight gateway, handling 20. 7 million passengers in 2007.

Almost 20 % of all conscripts were found unfit for military or civilian service in 2008 ; the rate is generally higher in urban cantons such as Zurich and Geneva than in the rural ones.

* 1946 – The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.

Zurich ( German: Zürich, ; Swiss German: Züri ) is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich.

Zurich is a leading global city and among the world's largest financial centres.

The city is called Zurich in French, Zurigo in Italian, and Turitg in Romansh.

In English, the name is usually written Zurich, without the umlaut.

Zurich is sometimes referred to as " Downtown Switzerland " for publicity reasons.

The blue and white coat of arms of Zurich is attested from 1389, and was derived from banners with blue and white stripes in use since 1315.

As of 2010, the Zurich City Council is made up of four representatives of the SDP ( Social Democratic Party, one of whom is the mayor ), two members of the FDP ( Free Democratic Party ), two members of the Green Party and one member of the CVP ( Christian Democratic Party ).

* Zurich Airport, Switzerland = main hub of SWISS

Zurich Airport, also known as Kloten Airport, is Switzerland's largest international airport, and the principal hub of Swiss International Air Lines.

Olten's railway station is within 30 minutes of Zurich, Bern, Basel, and Lucerne by train, and is a rail hub of Switzerland.

Lenzburg is an important transportation hub and is only 25 km from Zurich, with close access to the A1, Switzerland's most important east-west road connection.

The meetings in Zurich, the statement said, would deal only with principles that would guide the three factors in their search for a coalition Government.

Instead of the Acht Orte appointing a bailiff together, Zurich and Bern each appointed the governor for 7 out of 16 years while Glarus appointed him for the remaining 2 years.

Road construction first became a priority after 1750, when Zurich and Bern began appointing a governor for seven years.

Like Zurich, New York City was a refuge for writers and artists from World War I.

At the same time that the Zurich Dadaists made noise and spectacle at the Cabaret Voltaire, Vladimir Lenin wrote his revolutionary plans for Russia in a nearby apartment.

On June 16, he entered the Cantonal Hospital in Zurich for an " angioplasty on his femoral artery " but suffered a stroke at the Grand Hotel in Rimini two months later.

To assist him in the work he took on several people who were to play important roles in the design and construction of the Eiffel Tower, including Maurice Koechlin, a young graduate of the Zurich Polytechnikum, who was engaged to undertake calculations and make drawings, and Emile Nouguier, who had previously worked for Eiffel on the construction of the Douro bridge.

Military ambitions were given an additional impetus with the competition to acquire new territory and resources, as seen for example in the Old Zurich War.

* Final Report on the Work of the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland ( CRT-I ) Zurich, 5 October 2001

Coincidentally, one of Helen's Swiss ancestors was the first teacher for the deaf in Zurich.

The synod in Zurich placed most of the blame on Calvin for not being sympathetic enough toward the people of Geneva.

In 1893 in Paris Charles Brown assisted Jean Heilmann in evaluating AC and DC transmission systems for Fusée Electrique, a steam locomotive with electric transmission, and using this knowledge he designed a three-phase AC electric locomotive for Oerlikon, Zurich.

The scanning tunneling microscope, an instrument for imaging surfaces at the atomic level, was developed in 1981 by Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer at IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, for which they received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986.

Their significance for the history of violin playing and the music of the Romantic era, Stiftung Zentralstelle der Studentenschaft der Universität Zürich, Zurich, 1997

To propagate the language rapidly, a compiler " porting kit " was created in Zurich that included a compiler that generated code for a " virtual " stack machine, i. e., code that lends itself to reasonably efficient interpretation ), along with an interpreter for that code – the Pascal-P system.

The universities of Zurich, Karlsruhe and Wuppertal have developed an EXtension for Scientific Computing ( Pascal-XSC ), which provides a free solution for programming numerical computations with controlled precision.

There was at the time no mission compliant, long range Ambulance ICU Jet anywhere available including, except for one of four Swiss Air Ambulance Challenger Jets, based half way around the globe at the REGA HQ, Zurich International Airport in Switzerland.

On December 16, 2006 he was transferred by the highly specialized, ICU equipped, Swiss Air Ambulance Bombardier Challenger Jet http :// www. rega. ch /, reportedly made possible and organized in a bold and daring action by the Swiss banker, Pascal Najadi, who was able to convince the REGA Flight Operations over the phone from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ( perhaps because he was an active patron of the REGA Swiss Air Ambulance ) to swiftly approve the decision to fly without any payment guarantees and assemble at highest possible speed within 48 hours the necessary flight plan, specialized doctors, logistics and Vietnam airspace ( Northern Sector ) entry clearances for the Jet to take off from Zurich HQ, via Lahore to Hanoi, then to proceed with the critical patient in full ICU care of specialized Swiss Doctors and immediate family on board, via Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Edmonton to Boston, Massachusetts, where the plane was met by US Customs ( thanks to the help of Senator John Kerry ).