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Look up: Switzerland

  1. Switzerland
    Switzerland is a country in west Europe. It has a total area of 41,290 km2. The climate is temperate, but varies with altitude; cold, cloudy, rainy/snowy winters; cool to warm, cloudy, humid summers with occasional showers. The terrain is mostly mountains (Alps in south, Jura in north-west) with a central plateau of rolling hills, plains, and large lakes. Natural resources are hydropower potential, timber, salt. The religion is 49% Roman Catholic, 48% Protestant, 0.3% Jewish. The language is dis...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  2. Switzerland
    [n] - a landlocked federal republic in central Europe
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Switzerland
    Switzerland, the recognised mistress of the world in the field of watchmaking, came very late to that distinction. Watchmaking began quite early — Rodolphe Breguet, a direct ancestor of the great Abraham Louis, was already at work in Neuchâtel in 1594 — but for the next 200 years the Swiss were main
    Found on http://www.horologia.co.uk/watchglossary

  4. Switzerland
    Landlocked country in Western Europe, bounded north by Germany, east by Austria and Liechtenstein, south by Italy, and west by France. Government Switzerland is a federation of 20 cantons and six...
    Found on http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/

  5. Switzerland
    Swiss Confederation noun a landlocked federal republic in central Europe
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  6. Switzerland
    `Switzerland` (, , ), officially the `Swiss Confederation` (`Confoederatio Helvetica` in Latin, hence its ISO country code `CH`), is a landlocked country of 7.5 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 kmò. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called cantons. Berne is the seat of the federal government and `de facto` capital, while the country's economic centres are its two global cities, Geneva and especial...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland

  7. Switzerland
    federated country of central Europe. Switzerland`s administrative capital is Bern, while Lausanne serves as its judicial centre. Switzerland`s small ... [85 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/s/197

  8. Switzerland
    Switzerland (swit'surlund) , Fr. Suisse, Ger. Schweiz, Ital. Svizzera, officially Swiss Confederation, federal republic (2005 est. pop. 7,489,000), 15,941 sq mi (41,287 sq km), central Europe. It borders on France in the west and southwest, with the Jura Mts. and the Lake of Geneva (traversed by...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A084


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18 March 2010

This day in history:
On March 18th, 1314 Jacques de Molay was led out before the people to publicly confess his and the order's sins. He recanted his earlier confessions and said the only crime he was guilty of was lying about his Brethren to relieve his own tortures. He was then taken to an island on the Siene and burned along with Geoffrey de Charney the Preceptor of Normandy. He was first appointed the position of Visitor General and latterly to the post of Grand Preceptor of all England. Although de Molay confessed to denying Christ and trampling on the Holy Cross, he steadfastly denounced the accusations that the initiation ritual consisted of homosexual practices. read more

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