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Archive for the ‘Switzerland’ CategoryJanuary 2nd Berne Coat of Arms We made it to day 2 of the new year and the Swiss are already celebrating their second holiday. Berchold’s Day, January 2, is named after Duke Berchtold V of Zahringen who founded the capital city of Switzerland in 1191. Local legend goes that Bertchtold announced he’d name his future [...] About this time of year parents deliberately wait in long lines in overcrowded shopping malls so their kids can sit on the lap of a fat red stranger. Some cultures might call this odd. We call it Christmas. Though the Christmas season begins commercially on Black Friday, and religiously on Advent, tonight kicks off the season for children [...] August 1 every year
“In Switzerland they had brotherly love — they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.” So goes Orson Welles’ famous line from The Third Man. But the Swiss will tell you Switzerland has produced much more than the cuckoo clock, the army [...] |
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