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Avira Operations GmbH & Co. KG is a German multinational computer security software company mainly known for its Avira Free Security antivirus software. Although founded in 2006, the Avira antivirus application has been under active development since 1986 through its predecessor company H+BEDV Datentechnik GmbH.
The Trustees are the oldest regional land trust in the world. The Trustees of Reservations own title to over 100 properties on 25,000 acres (10,000 ha) in Massachusetts, all of which are open to the public; it maintains conservation restrictions on 200 more properties.
Deposed in 1848 by the Cantons of Bern, Geneva, Vaud and Neuchâtel, owing to serious differences [vague] with the Radical regime at Fribourg, Marilley was kept a prisoner for fifty days in the Château de Chillon, on Lake Geneva, and then spent eight years in exile in France; he was allowed to return to his diocese on 19 December 1856. [17]
Geneva first appears in history as an Allobrogian border town, fortified against the Celtic Helvetii tribe, which the Roman Republic took in 121 BC.. In 58 BC, Caesar, Roman governor of Gaul, destroyed the Rhône bridge at Geneva and built a 19-mile earthwork from Lake Geneva to the Jura Mountains in order to block the migration of the Helvetii, who "attempted, sometimes by day, more often by ...
St. Francis deSales Church is a historic Catholic church in Geneva, New York. A historic district of the church and three associated buildings, designated St. Francis de Sales Parish Complex , was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.
The fossil and plant resources on the adjacent Holyoke Gas and Electric (HG&E) riverfront property are being managed cooperatively by The Trustees, Mass DCR, and HG&E. the footprints in a row, as the dinosaurs walked. The dinosaur tracks at this site were among the first to be scientifically described in 1836, [1] and are still visible to ...
In 1899 the house was bought by J.V. Seymour, the "Ice King" who harvested ice on Lake Geneva in the winter and shipped tons of it to Chicago each year. [6] [2] The ca. 1863 Farrington-Redfearn House at 1024 Geneva St is a 2-story Italianate house, frame with a low-pitched hip roof and wide bracketed eaves. S.P. Farrington bought the house in ...
"Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia" were also sent to Buffalo, New York in response to the plea of the Redemptorist priests to serve the people of the rapidly growing city. The community in Buffalo became a separate congregation in the autumn of 1863, the Sisters of St. Francis Third Order Regular of Buffalo (Williamsville Franciscans). [68]