Peace Prize launched to mark centenary of Locarno Treaties
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To mark the 100th anniversary of the Locarno Treaties, the Swiss city of Locarno has launched a Peace Prize in collaboration with the Locarno Film Festival. This will be presented for the first time in August.
Switzerland honours world’s first female professor
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Swiss-Russian academic Anna Tumarkin was the world's first fully qualified female professor. She would have been 150 years old today.
Swiss parliament lights up 80 years after liberation of Auschwitz
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To commemorate the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp 80 years ago, the Swiss parliament building in Bern was illuminated in different colours on Monday.
Historian claims Swiss banks may hold further Second World War secrets
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Bank archives could still hold secrets about Swiss actions during the Second World War and should be re-examined, especially those of UBS, says Marc Perrenoud, a historian who worked on the Bergier Commission.
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Billions of people around the world will be marking the New Year somehow – and the tradition-loving Swiss are no exception.
Swiss invention: 90-year anniversary of first T-bar ski lift
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On Monday it will be 90 years since the world’s first T-bar ski lift went into service in Davos. This Swiss invention was an instant success.
Ubersitz, the utterly unique – and deafening – Swiss custom
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At the end of the year the villages around Meiringen pump up the volume and bizarre characters celebrate the ancient tradition of Ubersitz.
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Geneva celebrated "Escalade" this weekend, the battle that saw the Protestant city repel an invasion from the Catholic Duke of Savoy on the night of December 11-12, 1602.
Rare Roman coin auctioned for almost CHF2 million in Geneva
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A rare Roman coin with a portrait of Brutus, the assassin of Julius Caesar, was sold at a Geneva auction on Monday for CHF1.89 million ($2.15 million), according to the organiser of the sale.
Is your place of origin, your Heimatort, important to you?
Every Swiss citizen has a Heimatort, a place of origin, but many have never visited theirs. What’s your relationship with your Heimatort? What does it mean to you?
