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Geneva: Private: Cecil Purnell, Founder Jonathan Purnell, co-founder, Horologist: Century Time Gems: 1966 Hans-Ulrich Klingenberg Nidau: Philip W. A. Klingenberg (current company head) Certina: 1888 [1] Grenchen [1] Adolf & Alfred Kurth [1] Le Locle: Member of the Swatch group: The Swatch Group: Charriol: 1983 Philippe Charriol: Geneva ...
The Large Hadron Collider ( LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle collider. [ 1][ 2] It was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) between 1998 and 2008 in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and hundreds of universities and laboratories across more than 100 countries. [ 3]
The electrical telegraph was introduced in Switzerland in 1851, which allowed near real-time communication, especially amongst post offices.By July 1853, all telegraph and post offices across Switzerland were using Bernese time, [2] a local mean time measured from the Zytglogge clocktower [3] at UTC+00:29:45.5.
Lake Geneva(French: Léman[lemɑ̃]ⓘ, lac Léman[laklemɑ̃]ⓘ, rarely lac de Genève[lakdəʒ(ə)nɛv]; Italian: Lago Lemano;[3]German: Genfersee[ˈɡɛnfərˌzeː]ⓘ; Romansh: Lai da Genevra) is a deep lakeon the north side of the Alps, shared between Switzerlandand France. It is one of the largest lakes in Western Europeand the largest ...
History of Geneva. The history of Geneva dates from before the Roman occupation in the second century BC. Now the principal French-speaking city of Switzerland, Geneva was an independent city state from the Middle Ages until the end of the 18th century. John Calvin was the Protestant leader of the city in the 16th century.
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1387 – Town charter granted. [ 7] 1400 – Sources indicate circa. 13 Jewish families living in Geneva. 1420 – The Jews of Geneva are confined to a ghetto (the only one in today's Switzerland). [ 8] 1430 – Fire. [ 4] 1478 – Printing press in operation. [ 9][ 10] 1490 – The city council orders the expulsion of the Jews.
L'horloge fleurie. Coordinates: 46.204192°N 6.150970°E. L'horloge fleurie in Geneva, planted for the 125th anniversary of the ICRC. L'horloge fleurie, or the flower clock, is an outdoor flower clock located on the western side of Jardin Anglais park in Geneva, Switzerland. Around 6,500 flowering plants and shrubs are used for the clock face.