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Alsace
Alsace (French: Alsace [alzas]; Alsatian: Elsàss [ˈɛlsɑs]; German: Elsass, pre-1996: Elsaß, IPA: [ˈɛlzas]; Latin: Alsatia) is the fifth-smallest of the 27 regions of France in land area (8,280 km²), and the smallest in metropolitan France. It is also the seventh-most densely populated region in France and third most densely populated region in metropolitan France, with ca. 220 inhabitants per km² (total population in 2006: 1,815,488; 1 January 2008 estimate: 1,836,000). Alsace is located on France's eastern border and on the west bank of the upper Rhine adjacent to Germany and Switzerland. The political, economic and cultural capital as well as largest city of Alsace is Strasbourg. Because that city is the seat of dozens of international organizations and bodies, Alsace is politically one of the most important regions in the European Union.
The name "Alsace" can be traced back to the Old High German Ali-saz or Elisaz, meaning "foreign domain". An alternative explanation derives it from a Germanic Ell-sass, meaning "seated on the Ill", a river in Alsace. The region was historically part of the Holy Roman Empire. It was gradually annexed by France in the 17th century under kings Louis XIII and Louis XIV and made one of the provinces of France. Alsace is frequently mentioned in conjunction with Lorraine, because German possession of parts of these two régions (as the imperial province Alsace-Lorraine, 1871–1918) was contested in the 19th and 20th centuries, during which Alsace changed hands four times between France and Germany in 75 years.
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Augusta Raurica
Augusta Raurica is a Roman archaeological site and an open-air museum in Switzerland. Located on the south bank of the Rhine river about 20 km east of Basel near the villages of Augst and Kaiseraugst, it is the oldest known Roman colony on the Rhine.
Augusta Raurica, or Colonia Augusta Rauracorum, was founded by Lucius Munatius Plancus around 44 BC in the area of a local Gallic tribe, the Rauraci, relatives of the Helvetii. No archaeological evidence from this period has yet been found, leading to the conclusion that either the settlement of the colony was disturbed by the civil war following the death of Julius Caesar, or that Plancus' colony was actually in the area of modern Basel, not Augst.
Successful colonization of the site had to wait for Augustus's conquest of the central Alps around 15 BC. The oldest find to date at Augusta Raurica has been dated to 6 BC by dendrochronology.
The grave inscription of Munatius Plancus merely states the name of the colony as Colonia Raurica. A fragmentary inscription from the Augustinian period speaks of the Colonia P[aterna] (?) M[unatia] (?) [Felix] (?) [Apolli]naris [Augusta E]merita [Raur]ica (Letters in brackets are reconstructions). Apart from this fragmentary reference, the first certain witness to the use of the name Augustus comes from the geographer Ptolemy in the ancient Greek form Augústa Rauríkon (=lat.: Augusta Rauricorum).
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Austria
Austria (
i/ˈɒstriə/ or /ˈɔːstriə/; German: Österreich [ˈøːstɐˌʁaɪç] (
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Republik Österreich (help·info)), is a landlocked country of roughly 8.47 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Hungary and Slovakia to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The territory of Austria covers 83,855 square kilometres (32,377 sq mi) and has a temperate and alpine climate. Austria's terrain is highly mountainous due to the presence of the Alps; only 32% of the country is below 500 metres (1,640 ft), and its highest point is 3,798 metres (12,461 ft). The majority of the population speak local Austro-Bavarian dialects of German as their native language, and German in its standard form is the country's official language. Other local official languages are Burgenland Croatian, Hungarian and Slovene.
The origins of modern-day Austria date back to the time of the Habsburg dynasty when the vast majority of the country was a part of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. During the 17th and 18th centuries, Austria became one of the great powers of Europe and, in response to the coronation of Napoleon I as the Emperor of the French, the Austrian Empire was officially proclaimed in 1804. In 1867, the Austrian Empire was reformed into Austria-Hungary.
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Basel Paper Mill
The Basel Paper Mill (German: Basler Papiermühle), also known as the Swiss Museum for Paper, Writing and Printing (German: Schweizerisches Museum für Papier, Schrift und Druck) in Basel, is primarily dedicated to papermaking, the art of book printing and writing in general. Through a combination of pictures and objects, visitors gain insights into the old artisanal techniques of dipping paper, printing and bookbinding.
The museum is located in a carefully restored building that began its life as a paper mill 500 years ago. It is a heritage site of national significance.
Coordinates: 47°33′18″N 7°36′14″E / 47.555°N 7.604°E / 47.555; 7.604
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Beyeler Foundation
Coordinates: 47°35′17″N 7°39′04″E / 47.5881°N 7.65106°E / 47.5881; 7.65106
The Beyeler Foundation or Fondation Beyeler with its museum in Riehen, near Basel, owns and oversees the art collection of Hildy and Ernst Beyeler.
Art dealers Ernst Beyeler (*1921) and Hilda Kunz (*1922), known as Hildy, created the Beyeler Foundation in 1982 and commissioned Renzo Piano to design a museum, the Fondation Beyeler, to house their private collection. The collection was first publicly exhibited in its entirety at the Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid in 1989, and was subsequently shown at Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, (1993) and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sidney, (1997).
By building Renzo Piano's museum structure in 1997, the Beyeler Foundation made its collection permanently accessible to the public. In 2006, approximately 340,000 persons visited the museum. Hildy Beyeler died on July 18, 2008, and Ernst died on February 25, 2010.
The Beyeler Foundation opened its doors on October 18, 1997, presenting 140 works of modern classics, including 23 Picassos. The overall collection of 200 works of classic modernism reflect the views of Hildy and Ernst Beyeler on 20th-century art and highlight features typical of the period from Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Vincent van Gogh to Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Francis Bacon. The paintings appear alongside some 25 objects of tribal art from Africa, Oceania and Alaska. A third of the exhibition space is reserved for special exhibitions staged to complement the permanent collection. The culmination of Beyeler's career came in 2007 when all the works that passed through his hands were reunited at the museum for a grand exhibition that included van Gogh's 1889 Portrait of Postman Roulin, Lichtenstein's Plus and Minus III and a huge expressive drip painting by Jackson Pollock.
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Cambrai
Coordinates: 50°10′36″N 3°14′08″E / 50.1767°N 3.2356°E / 50.1767; 3.2356
Cambrai ([kɑ̃bʁɛ]; Dutch: Kamerijk; German: Kamerich; old spelling Cambray) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France on the Escaut river. It is a sub-prefecture of the department.
Cambrai is the seat of an archdiocese whose jurisdiction was immense during the Middle Ages. The territory of the Bishopric of Cambrai, roughly coinciding with the shire of Brabant, included the central part of the Low Countries. The bishopric had some limited secular power.
Cambrai was the Duke of Wellington's headquarters, for the British Army of Occupation, from 1815 to 1818.
The Battle of Cambrai (20 November 1917 – 3 December 1917), a campaign of World War I took place there. It was noted for the first successful use of tanks. A second Battle of Cambrai took place between 8 October 1918 – 10 October 1918 as part of the Hundred Days Offensive.
Little is known with certainty of the beginnings of Cambrai. Camaracum or Camaraco, as it was known to the Romans, is mentioned for the first time on the Peutinger table in the middle of the 4th century. It was a town of the Nervii, whose "capital" was at Bagacum, present-day Bavay.
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Canton of Basel
Basel was a canton of Switzerland that was in existence between 1501 and 1833, when it was split into the two present-day 'half-cantons' of Basel-City and Basel-Country.
The town of Basel was called "Basilia" in Latin, this from the Greek Βασιλεία, Basileía, "royal" (fem.). The name is documented from the year 374 AD. From 999 until the Protestant Reformation, Basel was ruled by prince-bishops (see Bishop of Basel, whose memory is preserved in the crosier shown on the Basel coat of arms, as above). In 1019, the construction of the cathedral of Basel (known locally as the Münster) began under Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor. In 1225–26, the bridge over the Rhine was constructed by Bishop Heinrich von Thun and lesser Basel (Kleinbasel) founded as a bridgehead to protect the bridge.
Basel became the focal point of western Christendom during the 15th century Council of Basel (1431–49), including the 1439 election of antipope Felix V. In 1459, Pope Pius II endowed the University of Basel where such notables as Erasmus of Rotterdam, Paracelsus and Hans Holbein the Younger taught. At the same time the new craft of printing was introduced to Basel by apprentices of Gutenberg; the Schwabe publishing house was founded 1488 by Johannes Petri and is the oldest publishing house still in business. Johann Froben also operated his printing house in Basel and was notable for publishing works by Erasmus.
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Colmar
Coordinates: 48°04′54″N 7°21′20″E / 48.0817°N 7.3556°E / 48.0817; 7.3556
Colmar (French: Colmar, pronounced: [kɔlmaʁ]; Alsatian: Colmer [ˈkolməʁ]; German: Colmar, between 1871–1918 and 1940–1945: Kolmar) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.
It is the capital of the department. Colmar is also the seat of the highest jurisdiction in Alsace, the appellate court.
It is situated along the Alsatian Wine Route and considers itself to be the "Capital of Alsatian Wine" (capitale des vins d'Alsace).
In 2006, the city of Colmar had a population of 65,713 and the metropolitan area of Colmar had a population of 120,367. Colmar is the center of the arrondissement of Colmar, which has 144,700 inhabitants in 2006.
Colmar is the home town of the painter and engraver Martin Schongauer and the sculptor Frédéric Bartholdi, who designed the Statue of Liberty. The city is renowned for its well preserved old town, its numerous architectural landmarks and its museums, among which is the Unterlinden Museum.
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Dollhouse Museum
The Dollhouse Museum (German: Puppenhausmuseum) in Basel is the largest museum of its kind in Europe. The museum is located at Barfüsserplatz in the city center.
The museum displays over 6,000 exhibits (teddy bears, dolls, play shops, dollhouses and miniatures) in arranged vignettes. It also regularly organizes special exhibitions on individual themes. In particular, the teddy bear collection is unique the world over in terms of variety and quality.
Gisela Oeri, honorary president of local football club FC Basel, is heavily involved in the museum on a financial level.
Coordinates: 47°33′14″N 7°35′20″E / 47.55389°N 7.58889°E / 47.55389; 7.58889
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France
France (Englishi/ˈfræns/ FRANSS or /ˈfrɑːns/ FRAHNSS; French: [fʁɑ̃s] ( listen)), officially the French Republic (French: République française [ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛz]), is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. It is often referred to as l’Hexagone ("The Hexagon") because of the geometric shape of its territory. It is the largest western European country and it possesses the second-largest exclusive economic zone in the world, covering 11,035,000 km2 (4,260,000 sq mi), just behind that of the United States (11,351,000 km2 / 4,383,000 sq mi).
Over the past 500 years, France has been a major power with strong cultural, economic, military and political influence in Europe and around the world. During the 17th and 18th centuries, France colonised great parts of North America and Southeast Asia; during the 19th and early 20th centuries, France built the second largest colonial empire of the time, including large portions of North, West and Central Africa, Southeast Asia, and many Caribbean and Pacific Islands.
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Free City of Lübeck
The Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck was a city-state from 1226 to 1937, in what is now the German states of Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
In 1226 Emperor Frederick II declared the city of Lübeck to be an Imperial Free City. In the 14th century Lübeck became the "Queen of the Hanseatic League", being by far the largest and most powerful member of this medieval trade organization.
In 1359 Lübeck bought the ducal Herrschaft of Mölln from the indebted Albert V, Duke of Saxe-Bergedorf-Mölln, a branch of the ducal house of Saxe-Lauenburg. The City and Duke — with the consent of the latter´s brother Eric — agreed on a price of 9,737.50 Lübeck marks. The parties also agreed a clause allowing for the repurchase of the lands by the Duke or his heirs but only if the they were buying back the property for themselves and not for a third party. Lübeck considered this acquisition to be crucially important, since Mölln was an important stage in the commerce between Brunswick and Lunenburg - especially in the trading of salt - via Lübeck to Scandinavia and back. Therefore Lübeck manned Mölln with armed guards maintaining law and order on the roads.
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Germany
Germany (i/ˈdʒɜrməni/), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland, pronounced [ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant] ( listen)), is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate. With 81.8 million inhabitants, it is the most populous member state and the largest economy in the European Union. It is one of the major political powers of the European continent and a technological leader in many fields.
A region named Germania, inhabited by several Germanic peoples, was documented before AD 100. During the Migration Period, the Germanic tribes expanded southward, and established successor kingdoms throughout much of Europe. Beginning in the 10th century, German territories formed a central part of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th century, northern German regions became the centre of the Protestant Reformation while southern and western parts remained dominated by Roman Catholic denominations, with the two factions clashing in the Thirty Years' War, marking the beginning of the Catholic–Protestant divide that has characterized German society ever since. Occupied during the Napoleonic Wars, the rise of Pan-Germanism inside the German Confederation resulted in the unification of most of the German states into the German Empire in 1871 which was Prussian dominated. After the German Revolution of 1918–1919 and the subsequent military surrender in World War I, the Empire was replaced by the Weimar Republic in 1918, and partitioned in the Treaty of Versailles. Amidst the Great Depression, the Third Reich was proclaimed in 1933. The latter period was marked by Fascism and World War II. After 1945, Germany was divided by allied occupation, and evolved into two states, East Germany and West Germany. In 1990 Germany was reunified.
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Haguenau
Coordinates: 48°49′02″N 7°47′19″E / 48.8172°N 7.7886°E / 48.8172; 7.7886
Haguenau (French: Haguenau, pronounced: [aɡəno]; Alsatian: Hàwenau, [ˈhaːvənaʊ]; German: Hagenau) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department, of which it is a sub-prefecture.
It is second in size in the Bas-Rhin only to Strasbourg, some 30 km (19 mi) to the south. To the north of the town, the Forest of Haguenau (French: Forêt de Haguenau) is the largest undivided forest in France.
Haguenau is a rapidly growing city, its population having increased from 22,644 inhabitants in 1968 to 34,891 inhabitants in 2006. Haguenau's metropolitan area has grown even faster in that period, going from 43,904 inhabitants in 1968 to 64,562 inhabitants in 2006.
Haguenau dates from the beginning of the 12th century, and owes its origin to the erection, by the dukes of Swabia, of a hunting lodge on an island in the Moder River in former Germany. The mediæval German King and Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa fortified the settlement and gave it town rights, important for further development, in 1154. On the site of the hunting lodge he founded an imperial palace he chose as his favourite residence. In this palace were preserved the "Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire", i.e. the jewelled imperial crown, sceptre, imperial orb, and sword of Charlemagne.
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Hamburg
Hamburg ( /ˈhæmbɜrɡ/; German pronunciation: [ˈhambʊɐ̯k], local pronunciation [ˈhambʊɪç]; Low German/Low Saxon: Hamborg [ˈhaˑmbɔːx]), officially Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, is the second-largest city in Germany, the thirteenth largest German state, and the sixth-largest city in the European Union. The city is home to over 1.8 million people, while the Hamburg Metropolitan Region (including parts of the neighbouring Federal States of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein) has more than 4.3 million inhabitants. Situated on the river Elbe, the port of Hamburg is the second largest port in Europe (after the Port of Rotterdam) and 11th-largest worldwide.
Hamburg's official name, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (German: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg), reflects Hamburg's history as a member of the medieval Hanseatic League, as a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire, and that Hamburg is a city-state and one of the sixteen States of Germany.
Hamburg is a major transport hub in Northern Germany and is one of the most affluent cities in Europe. It has become a media and industrial centre, with plants and facilities belonging to Airbus, Blohm + Voss and Aurubis. The radio and television broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk and publishers such as Gruner + Jahr and Spiegel-Verlag are pillars of the important media industry in Hamburg. In total, there are more than 120,000 enterprises.
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Hanseatic League
The Hanseatic League (also known as the Hanse or Hansa; Low German: Hanse, Dudesche Hanse, Latin: Hansa, Hansa Teutonica or Liga Hanseatica) was an economic alliance of trading cities and their merchant guilds that dominated trade along the coast of Northern Europe. It stretched from the Baltic to the North Sea and inland during the Late Middle Ages and early modern period (c. 13th–17th centuries).
The League was created to protect commercial interests and privileges granted by foreign rulers in cities and countries the merchants visited. The Hanseatic cities had their own legal system and furnished their own protection and mutual aid. Despite this, the organization was not a city-state, nor can it be called a confederation of city-states; only a very small number of the cities within the league enjoyed autonomy and liberties comparable to those of a free imperial city.
The legacy of the Hansa is remembered today in several names, for example the German airline Lufthansa (i.e., 'Air Hansa'), F.C. Hansa Rostock, the Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen, in the Netherlands, and the Hansa Brewery in Bergen.
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Huningue
Coordinates: 47°35′31″N 7°35′04″E / 47.5919°N 7.5844°E / 47.5919; 7.5844
Huningue (French pronunciation: [ynɛ̃ɡ]; German: Hüningen; Alsatian: Hinige) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of Alsace in north-eastern France. Huningue is a northern suburb of the Swiss city of Basel. It also borders Germany (Weil am Rhein, a suburb of Basel located in Germany). In 2008 it had a population of 6503 people. The main square of the town is the Place Abbatucci, named after the Corsican-born French general Jean Charles Abbatucci who unsuccessfully defended it in 1796 against the Austrians and died here. Huningue is noted for its pisciculture and is a major producer of fish eggs,
Huningue was first mentioned in a document in 826. Huningue was wrested from the Holy Roman Empire by the duke of Lauenburg in 1634 by the Treaty of Westphalia, and subsequently passed by purchase to Louis XIV. Louis XIV ordered the construction of the Huningue Fortress and was fortified by Vauban (1679–1681) and a bridge was built across the Rhine. Construction of the fortress required the displacement of the population on the island of Aoust and the surrounding area. In 1796 to 1797, Huningue was besieged by the Austrians.General Abbatucci held the fort for three months before being killed. In 1815, Napoleon's army resisted three months and a half against the Bavarians. Huningue was besieged for the third time in 1815 and General Barbanègre headed a garrison of only 500 men against 25,000 Austrians. At its surrender to the Habsburg Empire on August 26 1815, the city was a ruin and was dismantled at the request of Basel.
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Kaysersberg
Coordinates: 48°08′22″N 7°15′41″E / 48.1394°N 7.2614°E / 48.1394; 7.2614
Kaysersberg (German: Kaisersberg) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.
The inhabitants are called Kaysersbergeois. The name means Emperor's Mountain in German.
Kaysersberg is considered one of the most beautiful cities on the wine route.[citation needed] The high fortress that dominates the city serves as a reminder of both its strategic importance and its warlike past. Before World War One, Kaysersberg was part of Germany.
Today, Kaysersberg with its medieval atmosphere is more appropriate as the perfect setting for an Alsatian festival.
Kaysersberg is one of the finest wine growing areas in Alsace. The first vines were brought here in the 16th century from Hungary, and wine production is still an important aspect of the town’s economy today. Wine produced from the Tokay variety is a local specialty.
Kaysersberg lies north-west of Colmar, on the eastern slopes of the Vosges mountains.
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Kessenich
Kessenich is a village in the Belgian province Limburg. It's part of the municipality of Kinrooi, what lies eastern.
Kessenich is the end of the Grensmaas, the part of the Meuse who forms a natural border with the Dutch province Limburg. This river separates Kessenich from Stevensweert. In the nord are lying the Dutch villages of Thorn, Ittervoort and Neeritter. In the south lies Maaseik. The region of Kessenich is dissected by several rivers: the Abeek, the Itterbeek and Witbeek on their way to the Meuse.
East of Kessenich is an area with several ponds, the Maasplassen. They were created by large-scale exploitation of gravel from 1949. The gravel layer with a thickness of up to 10 m, was deposited by the Meuse, which repeatedly moved to the east. In May 2008 ended the gravel mining and began the partial attenuation of the lakes. Now, some Maasplassen are equipped for recreation or nature.
Its name is derived from the Gallo-Roman Cassiniacum. Kessenich is also named as Kesnic (1102), Kasnech (1132), Casselin or Cassenic (1155), Kessenich (1219) and Cessenic (1224). Later, it's also identified on maps as Kessingen (1573) and Kesnick (1754). In Limburgish it's still called 'Kesing'.
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Kunsthalle Basel
Since opening in 1872, Kunsthalle Basel has examined various issues concerning contemporary art. This renowned exhibition space in the Swiss city of Basel has a very long tradition of supporting avant-garde artists and expanding the accepted boundaries of contemporary art. Contemporary art issues are also reflected in dialogue through lectures, performances, along with video and film projects. The historic building was renovated in 2004 by the architects Miller & Maranta and has since housed the Swiss Architecture Museum.
Coordinates: 47°33′14″N 7°35′27″E / 47.55389°N 7.59083°E / 47.55389; 7.59083
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Kunstmuseum Basel
The Kunstmuseum Basel houses the largest and most significant public art collection in Switzerland, and is listed as a heritage site of national significance. Its lineage extends back to the Amerbach Cabinet purchased by the city of Basel in 1661, which made it the first municipally owned museum. Its collection is distinguished by an impressively wide historic span, from the early 15th century up to the immediate present. Its various areas of emphasis give it international standing as one of the most significant museums of its kind. These encompass: paintings and drawings by artists active in the Upper Rhine region between 1400 and 1600 and on the art of the 19th to 21st centuries.
The Kunstmuseum possesses the largest collection of works by the Holbein family. Further examples of Renaissance art include important pieces by such masters as Konrad Witz, Hans Baldung (called Grien), Martin Schongauer, Lucas Cranach the Elder and Mathias Grünewald. The main features of the 17th and 18th centuries are the Flemish and Dutch schools (e.g. Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt, Jan Brueghel the Elder), German and Dutch still life painting. Key works from the 19th century include the Impressionists represented by Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne as well as the paintings by Vincent van Gogh and Switzerland’s Arnold Böcklin and Ferdinand Hodler. In the 20th century, the focus is on works of Cubism with Picasso, Braque and Juan Gris. Expressionism is represented by such figures as Edvard Munch, Franz Marc, Oskar Kokoschka and Emil Nolde. The collection also includes works of art from the periods of Constructivism, Dadaism and Surrealism and American art since 1950. Further highlights are the unique compilations of works from Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Paul Klee, Alberto Giacometti and Marc Chagall.
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Lake Constance
Lake Constance (German: Bodensee) is a lake on the Rhine at the northern foot of the Alps, and consists of three bodies of water: the Obersee ("upper lake"), the Untersee ("lower lake"), and a connecting stretch of the Rhine, called the Seerhein.
The lake is situated in Germany, Switzerland and Austria near the Alps. Specifically, its shorelines lie in the German federal-states of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, the Austrian federal-state of Vorarlberg, and the Swiss cantons of Thurgau and St. Gallen. The Rhine flows into it from the south following the Austro-Swiss frontier.
Lake Constance was first mentioned by the Roman geographer Pomponius Mela about 43AD. He noted that the Rhine flows through two lakes, and gave them the Latin names Lacus Venetus (Obersee) and Lacus Acronius (Untersee). Pliny the Elder used the name Lacus Brigantinus, after the Roman city of Brigantium (today Bregenz). The lake is also colloquially known as the Swabian Sea (das schwäbische Meer).
The freshwater lake sits at 395 m (1,296 ft) above sea level and is Central Europe's third largest, after Lake Balaton and Lake Geneva. It is 63 km (39 mi) long, and at its widest point, nearly 14 km (8.7 mi). It covers approximately 571 km2 (220 sq mi) of total area. The greatest depth is 252 metres (827 ft) in the middle of the eastern part (Obersee). Its volume is approximately 1e10 m3 (1.3×1010 cu yd). The lake has four parts: the main section, called Obersee, 476 km (0.184 sq mi); the north section, Überlinger See, 61 km2 (24 sq mi); the west section, Untersee, 63 km2 (24 sq mi); and the northwest section, the Zeller See and Gnadensee. The regulated Rhine flows into the lake in the southeast, through the Obersee, the city of Konstanz and the Untersee and flows out near Stein am Rhein. Lake Constance provides fresh water to many cities in south Germany.
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Metz
Metz (French pronunciation: [mɛs] ( listen); German: [ˈmɛts]) is a city in the northeast of France located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers.
Metz is the capital of the Lorraine region and prefecture of the Moselle department. Located near the tripoint along the junction of France, Germany, and Luxembourg, Metz forms a central place of the European Greater Region and of the SaarLorLux Euroregion. So, Metz is a fellow member of the QuattroPole union of cities, along with Luxembourg City and German Saarbrücken and Trier.
A Celtic oppidum, an important Gallo-Roman city, the Merovingian capital of the Austrasia kingdom, the birthplace of the Carolingian dynasty, a cradle of the Gregorian chant, and one of the oldest republics of the common era in Europe, Metz has a rich 3,000 year history. The city has been steeped in Romance culture, but has been strongly influenced by Germanic culture due to its location and history. A basin of urban ecology, pioneered under the leadership of people like Jean-Marie Pelt, Metz gained its nickname, The Green City, boasting over 37 m2 (398 sq ft) of open ground per inhabitant and the city's historic downtown also displays one of the largest commercial, pedestrian areas in France.
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Mulhouse
Coordinates: 47°44′58″N 7°20′24″E / 47.7495°N 7.3399°E / 47.7495; 7.3399
Mulhouse (French: Mulhouse, pronounced: [myluz]; Alsatian: Milhüsa or Milhüse, [mɪlˈyːzə]; German: Mülhausen; i.e. mill hamlet) is a city and commune in eastern France, close to the Swiss and German borders. With a population of 110,514 and 278,206 inhabitants in the metropolitan area in 2006, it is the largest city in the Haut-Rhin département, and the second largest in the Alsace region after Strasbourg. Mulhouse is the principal commune of the 32 making up the Communauté d'agglomération Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération (MAA, population 252,000).
Mulhouse is famous for its museums, especially the Cité de l’Automobile (also known as "Musée national de l’automobile") and the Musée Français du Chemin de Fer (also known as "Cité du train"), respectively the largest automobile and railway museums in France. An industrial town nicknamed "the French Manchester", Mulhouse is also the main seat of the Upper Alsace University, where the secretariat of the European Physical Society can be found.
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Museums in Basel
The Basel museums encompass a series of museums in the city of Basel, Switzerland, and the neighboring region. They represent a broad spectrum of collections with a marked concentration in the fine arts and house numerous holdings of international significance. With at least three dozen institutions, not including the local history collections in the surrounding communities, the region offers an extraordinarily high density of museums compared to other metropolitan areas of similar size. They draw some one and a half million visitors annually.
Constituting an essential and defining component of Basel culture and cultural policy, the museums are the result of closely interwoven private and public collecting activities and promotion of arts and culture going back to the 16th century. The public museums of the canton of Basel-City arose from the 1661 purchase of the private Amerbach Cabinet by the city and the University of Basel and thus represent the oldest civic museum collection in continuous existence. Since the 1980s, a number of collections have been made public in new purpose-built structures that have achieved renown as acclaimed examples of avant-garde museum architecture.
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Obernai
Coordinates: 48°27′47″N 7°28′58″E / 48.4631°N 7.4828°E / 48.4631; 7.4828
Obernai (French: Obernai; Alsatian: Owernah; German: Oberehnheim) commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France. It lies on the eastern slopes of the Vosges mountains.
Obernai is a rapidly growing city, its number of inhabitants having gone up from 6,304 in 1968 to 11,099 in 2006. The metropolitan area of Obernai had 12,369 inhabitants in 2006, from 7,293 in 1968.
The Obernai region, which was the property of the dukes of Alsace in the 7th century, is the birthplace of St. Odile, daughter of the Duke, who would become the Patron Saint of Alsace.
The Obernai name first appears in 1240, when the village acquires the status of town under the tutelage of the Hohenstaufen family. The town then prospered. It became a member of the Décapole in 1354, an alliance of ten towns of the Holy Roman Empire in Alsace. Obernai's status reaches its apex in the 15th and 16th century. In 1562, Emperor Ferdinand I visited the prosperous town of Obernai.
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Rosheim
Coordinates: 48°29′51″N 7°28′13″E / 48.4975°N 7.4703°E / 48.4975; 7.4703
Rosheim is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.
It lies 25 km (16 mi) southwest of Strasbourg, on the eastern slopes of the Vosges mountains. It is a winemaking town on the touristic "Road of the Wines of Alsace" and the Route Romane d'Alsace ("Romanesque route of Alsace").
Distance from Paris 450 km, Strasbourg 25 km, Obernai 7 km, Molsheim 7 km.
From the 14th to 17th centuries, Rosheim was an Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire, and founded the Décapole confederation with nine other Alsatian Imperial Cities in 1354. Like the other Decapolitan cities, it was awarded to France by the Peace of Westphalia and finally lost its independence under the Treaties of Nijmegen.
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Rotterdam
Rotterdam (
/ˈrɒtərdæm/; Dutch [ˌrɔ.tər.ˈdɑm] (
listen)) is the second-largest city in the Netherlands and one of the largest ports in the world. Starting as a dam constructed in 1270 on the Rotte River, Rotterdam has grown into a major international commercial centre. Its strategic location at the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta on the North Sea and at the heart of a massive rail, road, air and inland waterway distribution system extending throughout Europe is the reason that Rotterdam is often called the "Gateway to Europe".
Located in the Province of South Holland, Rotterdam is found in the west of the Netherlands and at the south end of the Randstad. The population of the city proper was 616,250 on February 1st 2012. The population of the greater Rotterdam area, called "Rotterdam-Rijnmond" or just "Rijnmond", is around 1.3 million people. Rotterdam is one of Europe's most vibrant, multicultural cities. The city is known for its university (Erasmus), its cutting-edge architecture, its lively cultural life, its striking riverside setting, its maritime heritage and the Rotterdam Blitz.
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Rötteln Castle
Rötteln Castle (German: Burg Rötteln), located above the Lörrach suburb of Haagen, lies in the extreme southwest corner of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. The fortification was one of the most powerful in the southwest, and today is the third largest castle ruin in Baden.
The ruins of the castle are situated on a widely visible forested hill 422 metres (1,385 ft) above sea level. The keep lies on a spur projecting from the steep sided east side of the lower Wiese valley.
The castle has probably existed since the beginning of the 11th century. In the year 1102 is the first documented mention of a lord of Rötteln, one Dietrich von Rötteln, the bailiff of St. Albans near Basel. This year is also considered the date of the founding of the city of Lörrach. In 1204 Dietrich III of Rötteln died, having amassed a large holding in the Wiese valley. His sons held high offices; Walter I was the Kapitular (a priest who is authorized to say the mass in a cathedral and perform other duties of a bishop) of Konstanz and Basel, Luithold I was the bishop of Basel, Konrad I was the founder of the city of Schopfheim, which was important to the later formation of the Markgräflerland. The first documented mention of the castle itself is from the year 1259.
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Sarrebourg
Coordinates: 48°44′07″N 7°03′16″E / 48.7353°N 7.0544°E / 48.7353; 7.0544
Sarrebourg (German: Saarburg) is a commune in the Moselle department in Lorraine in north-eastern France. It lies in on the upper course of the river Sarre.
It should not be confused with Saarburg in Germany.
In 1895 a Mithraeum was discovered at Sarrebourg at the mouth of the pass leading from the Vosges Mountains.
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Schaulager
The Schaulager is a museum in Newmünchenstein, a sub-district of Münchenstein in the canton of Basel-Country, Switzerland.
Built in 2002/2003 under commission of the Laurenz Foundation, is was designed by the renowned architectural office of Herzog & de Meuron, the Schaulager opened in 2003. The Schaulager was conceived as an open warehouse that provides the optimal spatial and climatic conditions for the preservation of works of art.
The institution functions as a mix between public museum, art storage facility and art research institute. It is primarily directed at a specialist audience but is also open to the general public for special events and the annual exhibitions.
The special annual exhibitions to date are:
The collection from the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation forms the main core of the Schaulager exhibits. This collection was founded in 1933 by Maja Hoffmann-Stehlin (* 7. August 1896; † 8. August 1989), later known as Maja Sacher, wife of Paul Sacher (* 28 April 1906 – † 26 May 1999).
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Strasbourg
Strasbourg (French pronunciation: [stʁazbuʁ]; Lower Alsatian: Strossburi, [ˈʃd̥rɔːsb̥uri]; German: Straßburg, [ˈʃtʁaːsbʊɐ̯k]) is the capital and principal city of the Alsace region in eastern France and is the official seat of the European Parliament. Located close to the border with Germany, it is the capital of the Bas-Rhin département. The city and the region of Alsace are historically German-speaking, explaining the city's Germanic name. In 2006, the city proper had 272,975 inhabitants and its urban community 467,375 inhabitants. With 638,670 inhabitants in 2006, Strasbourg's metropolitan area (aire urbaine) (only the part of the metropolitan area on French territory) is the ninth largest in France. The transnational Eurodistrict Strasbourg-Ortenau had a population of 884,988 inhabitants in 2008.
Strasbourg is the seat of several European institutions, such as the Council of Europe (with its European Court of Human Rights, its European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines and its European Audiovisual Observatory) and the Eurocorps, as well as the European Parliament and the European Ombudsman of the European Union. The city is the seat of the Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine.
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Switzerland
Switzerland (German: die Schweiz[ˈʃvaɪts]; French: Suisse [sɥis(ə)]; Italian: Svizzera [ˈzvit͡sːɛra]; Romansh: Svizra [ˈʒviːtsrɐ] or [ˈʒviːtsʁːɐ]), in its full name the Swiss Confederation (Latin: Confoederatio Helvetica, hence its abbreviation CH), is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in western Europe, where it is bordered by Germany to the north, France to the west, Italy to the south, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east.
Switzerland is a landlocked country geographically divided between the Alps, the Swiss Plateau and the Jura, spanning an area of 41,285 km2 (15,940 sq mi). While the Alps occupy the greater part of the territory, the Swiss population of approximately 8 million people is concentrated mostly on the Plateau, where the largest cities are to be found. Among them are the two global cities and economic centres of Zurich and Geneva.
The Swiss Confederation has a long history of armed neutrality—it has not been in a state of war internationally since 1815—and did not join the United Nations until 2002. It pursues, however, an active foreign policy and is frequently involved in peace-building processes around the world. Switzerland is also the birthplace of the Red Cross and home to a large number of international organizations, including the second largest UN office. On the European level, it is a founding member of the European Free Trade Association and is part of the Schengen Area – although it is notably not a member of the European Union, nor the European Economic Area.
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Sélestat
Coordinates: 48°15′37″N 7°27′18″E / 48.2603°N 7.455°E / 48.2603; 7.455
Sélestat (French: Sélestat, pronounced: [selɛsta]; Alsatian: Schlestatt or Schlettstadt, [ˈʃlɛd̥ʃd̥ɐd̥]; German: Schlettstadt) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.
In 2006, Sélestat had a total population of 19,459. The Communauté de communes de Sélestat et environs had a total population of 35,397.
Sélestat is located in central Alsace, 22 km (14 mi) north of Colmar and 47 km (29 mi) south of Strasbourg, on the left bank of the Ill River.
Sélestat is near the Alsace wine route, and other notable sites such as the Château du Haut-Kœnigsbourg.
The city is one of the richest and most varied in terms of architecture among the smaller cities of Alsace. Most remarkable are the Romanesque St. Faith's Church and the Gothic St. George's Church, the Baroque clock tower (1618) and the Neo-Mediæval water tower. Buildings like the town hall (1788), the railway station (1880s) and the synagogue (1890s), as well as several Renaissance and Baroque civil houses are similarly noteworthy.
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Tate Modern
Coordinates: 51°30′28″N 0°05′57″W / 51.507778°N 0.099167°W / 51.507778; -0.099167
Tate Modern is a modern art gallery located in London, England. It is Britain's national gallery of international modern art and forms part of the Tate group (together with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, Tate St Ives and Tate Online). It is the most-visited modern art gallery in the world, with around 4.7 million visitors per year. It is based in the former Bankside Power Station, in the Bankside area of Central London.
The galleries are housed in the former Bankside Power Station, which was originally designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect of Battersea Power Station, and built in two stages between 1947 and 1963. The power station closed in 1981. The building was converted by architects Herzog & de Meuron and contractors Carillion, after which it stood at 99m tall. The history of the site as well as information about the conversion was the basis for a 2008 documentary Architects Herzog and de Meuron: Alchemy of Building & Tate Modern. The southern third of the building was retained by the French power company EDF Energy as an electrical substation (in 2006, the company released half of this holding).
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Theater Basel
Theater Basel is the municipal theatre of the city of Basel, Switzerland, which is home to the city's opera and ballet companies. The theatre also presents plays and musicals in addition to operas and operettas.
Because the theatre does not have its own orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra Basel is usually contracted to perform for opera and ballet productions as needed. For baroque-opera productions, La Cetra, the baroque orchestra of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, is engaged.
Theater Basel was founded in 1834 under the name Basler Stadttheater. The first theatre was designed by Swiss architect Melchior Berri.
In 1873 work on a new theatre began which was designed by Johann Jakob Stehlin der Jüngere. This second theatre opened in 1875 and was used until it was destroyed by fire on October 7th, 1904.
Plans for a third theatre were soon made, but it was five years before that the theatre finally opened in 1909.
The fourth theatre opened in 1975.
Coordinates: 47°33′10″N 7°35′24″E / 47.552718°N 7.59007°E / 47.552718; 7.59007
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Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki (Greek: Θεσσαλονίκη [θesaloˈnici] ( listen)), also known as Thessalonica ( /ˌθɛsəlɵˈnaɪkə/) and historically known as Salonica, is the second-largest city in Greece and the capital of the region of Central Macedonia as well as the capital of the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace. Its honorific title is Συμπρωτεύουσα (Symprotévusa), literally "co-capital", and stands as a reference to its historical status as the Συμβασιλεύουσα (Symvasilévousa), "co-reigning" city of the Byzantine Empire, alongside Constantinople.
According to the 2011 census the municipality of Thessaloniki today has a population of 322,240, while the Thessaloniki Urban Area (the contiguous built up area forming the "City of Thessaloniki") has a population of 790,824; making it the fifth largest and most populated city in the Balkans and the second most populated city that is not a capital. Furthermore, the Thessaloniki Metropolitan Area extends over an area of 1,455.62 km2 (562.02 sq mi) and its population in 2011 reached a total of 1,006,730 inhabitants.
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Toul
Coordinates: 48°40′30″N 5°53′30″E / 48.675°N 5.8917°E / 48.675; 5.8917
Toul (French pronunciation: [tul]) is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France.
It is a sub-prefecture of the department.
Toul is located between Commercy and Nancy, and situated between the Moselle River and the Canal de la Marne au Rhin.
Toul was known to the Romans as Tullum Leucorum, and was the capital of the Gaulish tribe of the Leuci.
In 612, King Theudebert II of Austrasia was defeated by King Theuderic II of Burgundy near Toul. By the Treaty of Meerssen of 870, Toul became part of East Francia, the later Holy Roman Empire. During the High Middle Ages, it became a Free Imperial City. Toul was annexed to France by King Henry II in 1552; this was recognized by the Holy Roman Empire in the Peace of Westphalia of 1648. It then was a part of the French province of the Three Bishoprics.
During the siege of 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War, the last time that Toul's defenses were used as a classic fortress, 64 guns opened fire at 6:00 a.m. on 23 September, and the fortress surrendered at 3:00 p.m. after 2,433 shells had been fired.
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Turckheim
Turckheim (German: Türkheim) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France. It lies west of Colmar, on the eastern slopes of the Vosges mountains.
Turckheim, located in Alsace, is a village known for its Gewürztraminer wines, traditional Alsatian cuisine, and stunning surrounding scenery.
Turckheim is probably most well known for its surrounding medieval wall. The wall has three doors, or portes: The Munster Door, which opens into the Munster Valley; The Door of the Brand, which begins the Route des Vins; and the Door of France, through which lies the railway station and the roads to Colmar. These three portals help distinguish the village from the majority of Alsatian towns by lending it a unique character.
Another attractive feature of Turckheim is the Night Watchman. The traditionally dressed Turckheim native, cloaked in black and carrying a halberd and lamp makes the rounds at 22.00 (10pm) each night from May to October. As he strolls the protected city, he sings a number of Alsatian favorites. The Watchman is often accompanied by a throng of tourists attempting to join in the songs. Some newcomers to the town have been surprised to have a seemingly tranquil early evening interrupted by a crowd of carolers led around by a Nightwatchman.
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Upper Rhine
The Upper Rhine (German: Oberrhein) is the section of the Rhine in the Upper Rhine Plain between Basel, Switzerland and Bingen, Germany. The river is marked by Rhine-kilometers 170 to 529 (the scale beginning in Konstanz and ending in Rotterdam).
The "Upper Rhine" is one of four sections (High Rhine, Upper Rhine, Middle Rhine, Lower Rhine) of the river between Lake Constance and the North Sea. Countries and states along the Upper Rhine are Switzerland, France (Alsace) and the German states of Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse. The largest cities along the river are Basel, Mulhouse, Strasbourg, Mannheim, Ludwigshafen and Mainz.
The Upper Rhine was straightened between 1817 and 1876 by Johann Gottfried Tulla and made navigable between 1928 and 1977. The Treaty of Versailles allows France to use the Upper Rhine for hydroelectricity in the Grand Canal d'Alsace.
On the left Bank, we find the French region of Alsace and the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate; on the right bank, the German states of Baden-Württemberg and Hesse. The first few kilometers are in the Swiss city of Basel.
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Verdun
Verdun (French pronunciation: [vɛʁ.dœ̃]; medieval German: Wirten, official name before 1970 Verdun-sur-Meuse) is a city in the Meuse department in Lorraine in north-eastern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department.
Verdun is the biggest city in Meuse, although the capital of the department is the slightly smaller city of Bar-le-Duc.
Verdun (Latin: Verodunum, meaning "strong fort") was founded by the Gauls (as its Celtic name shows; "Dunum" is the Latinized version of a Celtic word meaning oppidum). It has been the seat of the bishop of Verdun since the 4th century AD, with interruptions. In the Treaty of Verdun in AD 843, the empire of Charlemagne was divided into three parts.
At around this time Verdun was the centre of a Europe-wide thriving trade selling young boys to be enslaved eunuchs to the Islamic emirates of Iberia. Less controversially, the city has been famous for Dragées or sugared almonds from 1200 onwards; they were distributed at the baptism of French princes.
Verdun was part of the middle kingdom of Lotharingia, and in 1374 it became an Imperial Free City of the Holy Roman Empire. The Bishopric of Verdun formed together with Tull (Toul) and Metz the Three Bishoprics, which were annexed by France in 1552 (recognized in 1648 by the Peace of Westphalia).
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Vitra Design Museum
The Vitra Design Museum is an internationally renowned, privately owned museum for design in Weil am Rhein, Germany.
Vitra CEO Rolf Fehlbaum founded the museum in 1989 as an independent private foundation. The Vitra corporation provides it with a financial subsidy, the use of Vitra architecture, and organizational cooperation.
The museum's collection, focusing on furniture and interior design, is centered around the bequest of U.S. designers Charles and Ray Eames, as well as numerous works of designers such as George Nelson, Alvar Aalto, Verner Panton, Dieter Rams, Jean Prouvé, Richard Hutten and Michael Thonet. It is one of the world's largest collections of modern furniture design, including pieces representative of all major periods and styles from the beginning of the nineteenth century onwards.
These works, originally the private collection of Rolf Fehlbaum, are now not permanently on display, with the exception of a representative selection of designer chairs that can be seen in Zaha Hadid's fire station on the Vitra premises. Instead, the museum puts on temporary collections focused on one particular designer, often with loans from other collections. In turn, parts of the collection are lent to other institutions around the world.
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Wangen im Allgäu
Wangen im Allgäu is a historic city in southeast Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It lies north-east of Lake Constance in the Westallgäu. It is the second-largest city (Population: 27,157 in 2005) in the Ravensburg district and is a nexus for the surrounding communities. From 1938 to 1972, Wangen was the county seat of the Wangen rural district.
Wangen in Allgäu lies on the north bank of the upper Argen River. The Lower Argen flows past northwest Wangen and unites southwest of the city with the Upper Argen. The city today is shaped by its historical town center as well as by numerous nearby districts.
Several settlements border Wangen. Their names are as follows: Amtzell, Vogt, Kißlegg, Argenbühl, and Achberg (Ravensburg district), Hergatz and Hergensweiler (Lindau district), and Neukirch (Bodensee district).
The city was first mentioned in 815 under the name "Wangun" in a monastery document.
In 1217, Emperor Fredrick II declared in a document that Wangen should remain in royal hands. In 1286, King Rudolph I granted Wangen the status of free imperial city.
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Wissembourg
Coordinates: 49°02′18″N 7°56′49″E / 49.0383°N 7.9469°E / 49.0383; 7.9469
Wissembourg (French pronunciation: [visɑ̃buʁ]; South Franconian: Weisseburch, pronounced [ˈvaɪsəbʊʁç]; German: Weißenburg) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in northeastern France.
It is situated on the little River Lauter close to the border between France and Germany approximately 60 km (37 mi) north of Strasbourg and 35 km (22 mi) west of Karlsruhe. Wissembourg is a sub-prefecture of the department. The name Wissembourg is a Gallicized version of Weißenburg (Weissenburg) in German meaning, "white castle".
The Benedictine abbey around which the town has grown was founded in the 7th century, perhaps under the patronage of Dagobert I. The abbey was supported by vast territories. Of the 11th century buildings constructed under the direction of Abbot Samuel, only the Schartenturm and some moats remain. The town was fortified in the 13th century. The abbey church of Saint-Pierre et Paul, erected in the same century under the direction of Abbot Edelin was secularized in the French Revolution and despoiled of its treasures; in 1803 it became the parish church, resulting in the largest parish church of Alsace, only exceeded in size by the cathedral of Strasbourg. At the Abbey in the late 9th century, the monk Otfried composed a gospel harmony, the first substantial work of verse in German.
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Adrian Sieber
Adrian Benjamin Sieber, (born July 6, 1972 in Basel) is a Swiss singer and the lead singer in the Swiss britpop band Lovebugs, and has been so since the band started in 1992. Sieber is has written a the majority of the Lovebugs' songs.
He is also a solo singer under the name Adrian Solo and his most well known song is "The Healing" which made the Swiss charts. The music video for "The Healing" was directed by Simon Ramseier, who has also directed many of Lovebugs' videos. Sieber wrote most of the songs on Lovebugs's platinum awarded album In Every Waking Moment.
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Agostino Imondi
Agostino Imondi is an Italian documentary film director.
Imondi set foot in the media industry in the year 2000, starting as a volunteer camera operator and editor for Melbourne community TV station Channel 31.
Over the years, Imondi collaborated under the pseudonym Videoteppista with various guerilla film groups and grassroots medias, including SKA TV in Melbourne, Indymedia Italy, and Berlin-based videoactivist collective Ak-Kraak.
His first documentary, Waking up the Nation (2002, 2005), a guerilla film, told the story of a group of Australian human rights activists, who travel on an old bus, the Freedom Bus, to visit asylum seekers imprisoned in immigration detention centres across the country. Shot and released in Australia in 2002, the film was primarely used by Australian human rights groups for their campaigns. Upon his return to Europe, Imondi re-edited the documentary for international audiences, where the film had limited screenings in German movie theatres, as well as being screened at some international film festivals.
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Albert Hofmann
Albert Hofmann (January 11, 1906 – April 29, 2008) was a Swiss scientist known best for being the first person to synthesize, ingest and learn of the psychedelic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). He authored more than 100 scientific articles and a number of books, including LSD: My Problem Child. He was named #1 out of 100 in Telegraph's magazine 2007 "Top 100 Living Geniuses" list.
Hofmann was born in Baden, Switzerland, the first of four children to factory toolmaker Adolf Hofmann and his wife Elisabeth (born Elisabeth Schenk). Owing to his father's low income, Albert's godfather paid for his education. When his father became ill, Hofmann obtained a position as a commercial apprentice in concurrence with his studies. At the age of twenty, Hofmann began his chemistry degree at the University of Zürich, finishing three years later, in 1929. His main interest was the chemistry of plants and animals, and he later conducted important research on the chemical structure of the common animal substance chitin, for which he received his doctorate, with distinction, in 1930.
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Alexander Frei
Alexander Frei (born 15 July 1979 in Basel) is a Swiss footballer who currently plays for Swiss Axpo Super League club FC Basel. He first played for Basel, then for various other clubs in Switzerland, France and Germany before returning to his home club, where he won his first Championship title. Frei was the captain of the Swiss national team and is all-time leading scorer of the Swiss national football team with 42 goals in 84 games. He is of no relation to club and country team mate Fabian Frei. However, he is the second-cousin of Toronto FC keeper and former Swiss youth international Stefan Frei.
Frei started his professional career with his hometown club of FC Basel, where he later was transferred to FC Thun, FC Luzern, and Servette FC, all in his native Switzerland. After a transfer to French club Rennes, he finished as the highest goalscorer in Ligue 1 for the 2004–05 season with 20 goals and was named Swiss Footballer of the Year the same season. He was also named Swiss Footballer of the Year in 2004 and 2007.
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Alice Eckenstein
Alice Emilie Eckenstein (Basel, Switzerland 31 January 1890 - Riehen, Basel, Switzerland 12 May 1984). Swiss rescuer of children in need in occupied Belgium during World War I.
At young age the daughter of Arnold Eckenstein-Marfort, merchant in Grellinger street in Basel, was already inspired by the wish to help others in need. Under the patronage of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) she established an office in Basel with the intention to repatriate children in need from occupied Belgium. Among the numerous documents and letters that passed through her hands, those of anxious parents got her attention. During the summer campaign of 1914 multiple parents were surprised by the rapid advance of the Germans and got separated from their children, cut off by the frontline. With immence dedication and patience and at risk of her life, she succeeded in repatriating - each time again - children from occupied Belgium to Switzerland and then to the unoccupied zones of Belgium or France where they were reunited with their parents. Even large groups of children made it out of occupied Belgium thanks to this courageous woman. Her ashes are buried at the Wolfgottesacker cemetery in Basel.
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Alsace
Alsace (French: Alsace [alzas]; Alsatian: Elsàss [ˈɛlsɑs]; German: Elsass, pre-1996: Elsaß, IPA: [ˈɛlzas]; Latin: Alsatia) is the fifth-smallest of the 27 regions of France in land area (8,280 km²), and the smallest in metropolitan France. It is also the seventh-most densely populated region in France and third most densely populated region in metropolitan France, with ca. 220 inhabitants per km² (total population in 2006: 1,815,488; 1 January 2008 estimate: 1,836,000). Alsace is located on France's eastern border and on the west bank of the upper Rhine adjacent to Germany and Switzerland. The political, economic and cultural capital as well as largest city of Alsace is Strasbourg. Because that city is the seat of dozens of international organizations and bodies, Alsace is politically one of the most important regions in the European Union.
The name "Alsace" can be traced back to the Old High German Ali-saz or Elisaz, meaning "foreign domain". An alternative explanation derives it from a Germanic Ell-sass, meaning "seated on the Ill", a river in Alsace. The region was historically part of the Holy Roman Empire. It was gradually annexed by France in the 17th century under kings Louis XIII and Louis XIV and made one of the provinces of France. Alsace is frequently mentioned in conjunction with Lorraine, because German possession of parts of these two régions (as the imperial province Alsace-Lorraine, 1871–1918) was contested in the 19th and 20th centuries, during which Alsace changed hands four times between France and Germany in 75 years.
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Ana Ivanovic
Ana Ivanovic (Serbian Cyrillic: Ана Ивановић, Ana Ivanović; Serbian pronunciation: [âna iʋǎːnoʋitɕ] ( listen)) (born November 6, 1987, in Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a former world no. 1 Serbian tennis player. As of May 28, 2012, she is ranked 14th on the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) rankings. She beat Dinara Safina to win the 2008 French Open and was the runner-up in singles at the 2007 French Open and the 2008 Australian Open. Competing as a professional since 2003, she has won 11 WTA Tour singles titles. When on form, Ivanovic is known for her aggressive style of play.
Ivanovic's mother Dragana (Драгана), a lawyer, supports her daughter during most of her matches. Her father Miroslav (Мирослав), a self-employed businessman, attends as many events as he possibly can. Ana has a younger brother, Miloš (Милош), with whom she loves to play basketball.
Aside from her tennis career, Ivanovic also studies finance at a university in Belgrade and Spanish in her spare time. Her inspiration to begin playing was Monica Seles, who at that time played for Yugoslavia.
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Andreas Vesalius
Andreas Vesalius (31 December 1514 – 15 October 1564) was a Flemish anatomist, physician, and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy, De humani corporis fabrica (On the Structure of the Human Body). Vesalius is often referred to as the founder of modern human anatomy. Vesalius is the Latinized form of Andries van Wesel. He is sometimes also referred to as Andreas Vesal, André Vesalio and Andre Vesale.
Vesalius was born to Andries van Wesele and Isabel Crabbe on 31 December 1514, in Brussels, which was then part of the Habsburg Netherlands. His great grandfather, Jan van Wesel, probably born in Wesel, received his medical degree from the University of Pavia and taught medicine in 1528 at the then newly founded University of Leuven. His grandfather, Everard van Wesel, was the Royal Physician of Emperor Maximilian, while his father, Anders van Wesel, went on to serve as apothecary to Maximillian, and later a valet de chambre to his successor Charles V. Anders encouraged his son to continue in the family tradition, and enrolled him in the Brethren of the Common Life in Brussels to learn Greek and Latin according to standards of the era.
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Antipope Felix V
Amadeus VIII (4 September 1383, Chambéry – 7 January 1451) was the son of Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy and Bonne of Berry. He was surnamed the Peaceful and was the Count of Savoy from 1391 to 1416 and was elevated by Emperor Sigismund to the Duke of Savoy in 1416. Amadeus was also the antipope Felix V, elected by the Council of Basel-Ferrara-Florence, from November 1439 to April 1449.
After the death of his father in 1391, his mother acted as a regent, because of his youth.
In 1418 his distant cousin Louis of Savoy-Achaea, his brother-in-law, the last male of the elder branch of House of Savoy, died, leaving Amadeus as his heir-general, thus finally uniting the male-lines of the House of Savoy.
He increased his dominions, encouraged several attempts to negotiate an end to the Hundred Years' War, and, after the death of his wife, retired from his position as Duke to become a hermit. Elected by the Council of Basel as an alternative Pope in opposition to Pope Eugene IV, Amadeus served as Felix V, regarded as an antipope, before stepping down to accept a Cardinal's hat.
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Arthur Cohn
Arthur Cohn (born February 4, 1927 in Basel, Switzerland) is a film producer.
Six of his films have won the Academy Award for Best Documentary, and he was awarded the Guardian of Zion Award in 2004. One of the awards was for French film Black and White in Color (1976) as producer.
His best-known non-documentary film is Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini (1970, directed by Vittorio De Sica). His most recent film as producer is The Yellow Handkerchief (2008). He also produced films by Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September) and Walter Salles (Central do Brasil, Abril Despedaçado).
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Austria
Austria (i/ˈɒstriə/ or /ˈɔːstriə/; German: Österreich [ˈøːstɐˌʁaɪç] ( listen)), officially the Republic of Austria (German: Republik Österreich (help·info)), is a landlocked country of roughly 8.47 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Hungary and Slovakia to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The territory of Austria covers 83,855 square kilometres (32,377 sq mi) and has a temperate and alpine climate. Austria's terrain is highly mountainous due to the presence of the Alps; only 32% of the country is below 500 metres (1,640 ft), and its highest point is 3,798 metres (12,461 ft). The majority of the population speak local Austro-Bavarian dialects of German as their native language, and German in its standard form is the country's official language. Other local official languages are Burgenland Croatian, Hungarian and Slovene.
The origins of modern-day Austria date back to the time of the Habsburg dynasty when the vast majority of the country was a part of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. During the 17th and 18th centuries, Austria became one of the great powers of Europe and, in response to the coronation of Napoleon I as the Emperor of the French, the Austrian Empire was officially proclaimed in 1804. In 1867, the Austrian Empire was reformed into Austria-Hungary.
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Carl Jung
Carl Gustav Jung (/ˈjʊŋ/ YUUNG; German: [ˈkarl ˈɡʊstaf ˈjʊŋ]; 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist, the founder of analytical psychology. Jung is considered the first modern psychiatrist to view the human psyche as "by nature religious" and make it the focus of exploration. Jung is one of the best known researchers in the field of dream analysis and symbolization. While he was a fully involved and practicing clinician, much of his life's work was spent exploring tangential areas, including Eastern and Western philosophy, alchemy, astrology, and sociology, as well as literature and the arts.
Jung considered individuation, a psychological process of integrating the opposites including the conscious with the unconscious while still maintaining their relative autonomy, necessary for a person to become whole. Individuation is the central concept of analytical psychology.
Many psychological concepts were first proposed by Jung, including the archetype, the collective unconscious, the complex, and synchronicity. Popular psychometric instruments like the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), have been principally developed from Jung's theories.
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Celts
The Celts (usually pronounced /ˈkɛlts/ but sometimes /ˈsɛlts/, see pronunciation of Celtic) or Kelts were an ethno-linguistic group of tribal societies in Iron Age and Medieval Europe who spoke Celtic languages and had a similar culture.
The earliest archaeological culture that may justifiably be considered as Proto-Celtic is the Late Bronze Age Urnfield culture of central Europe from the last quarter of the second millennium BC. Their fully Celtic descendants in central Europe were the people of the Iron Age Hallstatt culture (c. 800-450 BC) named for the rich grave finds in Hallstatt, Austria. By the later La Tène period (c. 450 BC up to the Roman conquest), this Celtic culture had expanded over a wide range of regions, whether by diffusion or migration: to the British Isles (Insular Celts), France and The Low Countries (Gauls), much of Central Europe, the Iberian Peninsula (Celtiberians, Celtici and Gallaeci) and northern Italy (Golaseccans and Cisalpine Gauls) and following the Gallic invasion of the Balkans in 279 BC as far east as central Anatolia (Galatians).
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Chiara Banchini
Chiara Banchini is a Swiss violinist, involved in the historical performance practice movement. She specializes in the music of the Baroque.
Banchini was born in 1946 in Lugano, Switzerland. She graduated from the Geneva Conservatory; following this she studied under Sandor Vegh and then at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague under Sigiswald Kuijken for the Baroque violin. She taught at the Centre for Early Music in Geneva and began performing as a soloist.
In 1981, she moved from Geneva to the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, where she formed Ensemble 415, a Baroque performance ensemble, desolved in january 2012. The group takes its name from a common Baroque pitch. Recording with Harmonia Mundi, the ensemble's recording of Arcangelo Corelli's Concerti Grossi was a commercial success in 1992, as was their 1996 recording of Antonio Vivaldi's Stabat Mater. She has also recorded with Erato, Virgin Records, Accent, Astreé, and Zig Zag Territories.
She plays a violin made by Nicolò Amati in 1674.
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Christoph Merian
Christoph Merian (* 22 January 1800 in Basel; † 22 August 1858 Brüglingen bei Basel) was a banker and businessman. He was the son of Christoph Merian senior (1769–1849) and Valeria Hoffmann (1773–1834) and married in 1824 to Margarethe Burckhardt (1806–1886) from Basel.
He was the owner of a large estate, agriculturist and rentier. He was one of the richest Swiss men of that time. He was honorary citizen of Münchenstein (1854) and the canton of Basel-Country (1855). and the founder of the Christoph Merian Stiftung .
Christoph Merian stemmed from one of the most distinguished aristocrat families in Basel. His father, Christoph Merian senior, was a merchant who started with handling raw cotton, later with shipping/transport, banking and various speculative businesses. Christoph Merian senior ended his venturous businesses in 1810 and subsequently invested in the industry and banking activities.
Christoph Merian was educated in Basel. He served his apprenticeship as banker. He also visited the "Landwirtschaftliches Institut Hofwil" (agricultural institute of Hofwil) near Berne and the "Landwirtschaftliche Akademie" (agricultural academy) in Hohenheim by Stuttgart. His education as an Agronomist was concluded in England and France.
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Daniel Bernoulli
Daniel Bernoulli (Groningen, 29 January 1700 – Basel, 17 March 1782) was a Swiss mathematician and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family. He is particularly remembered for his applications of mathematics to mechanics, especially fluid mechanics, and for his pioneering work in probability and statistics. Bernoulli's work is still studied at length by many schools of science throughout the world.
Daniel Bernoulli was born in Groningen, in the Netherlands, into a family of distinguished mathematicians. The son of Johann Bernoulli (one of the "early developers" of calculus), nephew of Jakob Bernoulli (who "was the first to discover the theory of probability"), and older brother of Johann II, Daniel Bernoulli has been described as "by far the ablest of the younger Harpers". He is said to have had a bad relationship with his father, Johann. Upon both of them entering and tying for first place in a scientific contest at the University of Paris, Johann, unable to bear the "shame" of being compared as Daniel's equal, banned Daniel from his house. Johann Bernoulli also plagiarized some key ideas from Daniel's book Hydrodynamica in his own book Hydraulica which he backdated to before Hydrodynamica. Despite Daniel's attempts at reconciliation, his father carried the grudge until his death.
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David Joris
David Joris (c. 1501– August 25, 1556, sometimes Jan Jorisz or Joriszoon) was an important Anabaptist leader in the Netherlands before 1540.
Joris was probably born in Flanders, the son of Marytje and Georgius Joris de Koman, an amateur actor and shopkeeper. He was a disciple of Melchior Hoffman.
By trade David Joris was a glass painter or tinsel painter, having learned the art in Antwerp. In 1524 he married Dirckgen Willems, and also took interest in the Reformation movement of Martin Luther. In 1533 he accepted the ideas of the Anabaptists, and was baptized in Delft by Obbe Philips. According to the Mennonite Encyclopedia, "He was an influential figure in Anabaptism's consolidation period following the fall of Münster." He rejected the violence of Münster, but theoretically accepted polygamy (he is not known to have practiced it). After the Münster debacle, a number of diverse disciples of Hoffman gathered for counsel at Bocholt in 1536. Joris had some success in highlighting their common beliefs, while diffusing the ideas of those who wanted vengeance. He believed that God would take vengeance, but that the saints should not. He promoted compromise on the question of polygamy, stating he thought the number of wives a man had was not important, as long as the family obeyed God. The group made no decision on the issue. David Joris remained on the "mystic" edge of Anabaptism, leading by citing dreams, visions and prophecies. Against this is his rationalist approach to the topic of the devil and supernatural evil. David Joris anticipated the views of Thomas Hobbes, John Epps and John Thomas in interpreting the devil as an allegory.
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Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (October 28, 1466? – July 12, 1536), known as Erasmus of Rotterdam, was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher, and theologian.
Erasmus was a classical scholar who wrote in a pure Latin style. He was an early proponent of religious toleration, and enjoyed the sobriquet "Prince of the Humanists"; he has been called "the crowning glory of the Christian humanists." Using humanist techniques for working on texts, he prepared important new Latin and Greek editions of the New Testament. These raised questions that would be influential in the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation. He also wrote The Praise of Folly, Handbook of a Christian Knight, On Civility in Children, Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style, Julius Exclusus, and many other works.
Erasmus lived through the Reformation period, but while he was critical of the Church, he did not join the cause of the Reformers. In relation to clerical abuses in the Church, Erasmus remained committed to reforming the Church from within. He also held to Catholic doctrines such as that of free will, which some Reformers rejected in favor of the doctrine of predestination. His middle road approach disappointed and even angered scholars in both camps.
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Electroboy
Electroboy, (real name Florian Burkhardt), (born 13 March 1974) is a Swiss electronic musician and music producer. He lives in Bochum, Germany and is often in Zürich, Switzerland. Electroboy produces electronic trash-pop and electroclash with simple, cheeky content.
At an early age, Burkhardt dreamt of becoming a professional snowboarder. Consequently, he decided to move to the mountains. This experience convinced him to found the first Swiss snowboard magazine. After selling his magazine, Burkhardt moved to Los Angeles to commence an acting career. But thanks to a feature in a film magazine he got his first modelling job. More modelling work awaited him in Milan, Tokyo, Paris and London. He became Newcomer of the Year, working for labels such as Prada, Gucci, and Dolce & Gabbana. Booked by photographers such as David LaChapelle and Albert Watson, at the peak of his modelling career he went back to Zurich. Burkhardt tried one job after another: first as an advertiser in an internet agency, then in a film production company. After these projects he wrote the book 'STOP' (ISBN 3-937343-63-6) only to resurface one day as Electroboy.
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Eren Derdiyok
Eren Derdiyok (born 12 June 1988) is a Swiss footballer who plays as a striker for German Bundesliga club 1899 Hoffenheim and the Switzerland national team.
Derdiyok was born in Basel, Switzerland, to Kurdish parents.
From an early age he played for the Basel football club BSC Old Boys Basel. At 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) Derdiyok is a powerful striker who can also play as centre-back if required. He started his career with Swiss minnows Old Boys at the beginning of the 2005–06 season in which scored 10 goals in just 18 appearances. He scored a goal in the Swiss Cup 1–6 defeat against FC Basel on 22 October 2005.
Therefore FC Basel noticed his goal scoring instinct and snapped him up in 2006 at the age of 18. Derdiyok played his first team debut on 14 March 2007 as substitute in a cup match against FC Aarau. He gave his League debut just four days later, also against Aarau. During the 2006–07 season, Derdiyok was used mainly as a substitute, playing only one full game, and averaging a total of 220 play minutes that season. He had 17 appearances in the U-21 team that season. For Derdiyok, the 2007–08 season proved to be a lot more fruitful and he received regular playing time. In FC Basel's main squad, Derdiyok scored his first hat trick playing away against FC Thun on 2 March 2008. On 6 April 2008, he won the Swiss Cup, his first title.
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Frank Gehry
Frank Owen Gehry, CC (born Frank Owen Goldberg; February 28, 1929) is a Canadian American Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles, California.
His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions. His works are cited as being among the most important works of contemporary architecture in the 2010 World Architecture Survey, which led Vanity Fair to label him as "the most important architect of our age".
Gehry's best-known works include the titanium-covered Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; MIT Stata Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles; Experience Music Project in Seattle; Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis; Dancing House in Prague; the Vitra Design Museum and MARTa Museum in Germany; the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto; the Cinémathèque française in Paris; and 8 Spruce Street in New York City. But it was his private residence in Santa Monica, California, which jump-started his career, lifting it from the status of "paper architecture" – a phenomenon that many famous architects have experienced in their formative decades through experimentation almost exclusively on paper before receiving their first major commission in later years. Gehry is also the designer of the future Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche ( /ˈniːtʃə/;German pronunciation: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈniːtsʃə]; October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) was a German philosopher, poet, cultural critic and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony and aphorism.
Nietzsche's influence remains substantial within and beyond philosophy, notably in existentialism, nihilism and postmodernism. His style and radical questioning of the value and objectivity of truth have resulted in much commentary and interpretation, mostly in the continental tradition. His key ideas include the death of God, the Übermensch, the eternal recurrence, the Apollonian and Dionysian dichotomy, perspectivism and the will to power. Central to his philosophy is the idea of "life-affirmation", which involves an honest questioning of all doctrines that drain life's expansive energies, however socially prevalent and radical those views might be.
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Frithjof Schuon
Frithjof Schuon (June 18, 1907 – May 5, 1998) was a native of Switzerland born to German parents in Basel, Switzerland. He is known as a philosopher, metaphysician and author of numerous books on religion and spirituality.
Schuon is recognized as an authority on philosophy, spirituality and religion, an exponent of the Religio Perennis, and one of the chief representatives of the Perennialist School. Though he was not officially affiliated with the academic world, his writings have been noticed in scholarly and philosophical journals, and by scholars of comparative religion and spirituality. Criticism of the relativism of the modern academic world is one of the main aspects of Schuon's teachings. In his teachings, Schuon expresses his faith in an absolute principle, God, who governs the universe and to whom our souls would return after death. For Schuon the great revelations are the link between this absolute principle—God—and mankind. He wrote the main bulk of his metaphysical teachings in French. In the later years of his life Schuon composed some volumes of poetry in his mother tongue, German. His articles in French were collected in about twenty titles in French which were later translated into English as well as many other languages. The main subjects of his prose as well as his poetic compositions are spirituality and various essential realms of man's life journey from his Creator back to Him.
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Georg Friedrich Haas
Georg Friedrich Haas (* August 16, 1953 in Graz) is an Austrian composer of spectral music.
He grew up in Tschagguns (Vorarlberg) and studied composition with Gösta Neuwirth, Iván Erőd, and piano with Doris Wolf at the Musikhochschule in Graz. Since 1978 he been teaching at the Hochschule as an instructor, and since 1989 as an associate professor in counterpoint, contemporary composition techniques, analysis, and introduction to microtonal music. Haas completed two years of postgraduate studies at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna with Friedrich Cerha, participated in the Darmstädter Ferienkurse (1980, 1988 and 1990), and the computer music course at IRCAM (1991). He received a fellowship from the Salzburg Festival (1992-93), was awarded the Sandoz Prize (1992) and a music grant from the National Ministry of Science, Research, and Culture (1995). Since 2005 he has lectured at the Hochshule in Basel
Haas' style recalls that of György Ligeti in its use of micropolyphony, microintervals and the exploitation of the overtone series. His works have been on the programs of the following festivals: Wien Modern (Vienna), Musikprotokoll (Graz), Witten, Huddersfield, Royaumont, Venice Biennale, Festival d'Automne (Paris), as well as at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse and the Salzburg Festival 2011]. He is a founding member of the Graz composers' collective Die andere Seite. According to Alex Ross in the New Yorker, he lives in Basel, Switzerland. He composes in a cottage in Fischbach, Styria.
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Giovanni Antonini
Giovanni Antonini (born 1965) is an Italian conductor and soloist on the recorder and baroque transverse flute. He studied in his native Milan, and attended the Civica Scuola di Musica in that city and the Centre de Musique Ancienne in Geneva. In 1985, along with Luca Pianca, he co - founded Il Giardino Armonico, a pioneering Italian early-music ensemble based in Milan.
Antonini is regarded as one of the leaders of the Italian period instruments movement, and has performed with many distinguished artists including Christoph Prégardien, Christophe Coin, Katia and Marielle Labèque, Viktoria Mullova and Giuliano Carmignola. He has toured worldwide and has received numerous awards for his achievements, including, with Il Giardino Armonico, the Gramophone Award, Diapason d’Or, and Choc du Monde de la Musique.
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Gottlieb Burckhardt
Johann Gottlieb Burckhardt (24 December 1836 - 6 February 1907) was a Swiss psychiatrist and the medical director of small mental hospital in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel. He is commonly regarded as having performed the first modern psychosurgical operation. He is often seen as a precursor to the Portuguese neurologist, Egas Moniz, who performed the first leucotomy, later known as lobotomy, in 1936.
Gottlieb Burckhardt was born on the 24 December 1836 into a well-known family living in the Swiss city of Basel. His father, August Burckhardt (1809–1894), was a physician. His mother was Katharina Jacot (1810–1843) from Montbéliard in France. Burckhardt's parents were married in 1833 and his mother gave birth to seven children prior to her death in 1843. Gottlieb Burckhardt was the third eldest child. In 1844 his father married Henrietta Maria Dick (1813–1871). She had five pregnancies and three surviving children. Burckhardt attended secondary school in Basel. His medical studies were conducted at the Universities of at Basel, Göttingen and Berlin. In 1860 he was conferred with a doctorate in medicine from the University of Basel. His doctoral thesis was on the epithelium of the urinary tract. As a student, he was described as popular, outgoing and musically talented.
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Hakan Yakin
Hakan Yakin (Turkish: Hakan Yakın; born 22 February 1977 in Basel) is a Swiss footballer. Since January 2012 he plays for Swiss Challenge League club AC Bellinzona. He was member of the Swiss national team for eleven years.
Hakan was born in Basel, Switzerland to Turkish parents. He grew up and went to school in suburban Münchenstein, Basel-Landschaft, just outside of Basel, and close to the borders of France and Germany. He is the younger brother of international football player Murat Yakin (former member of the Swiss national football team), who is currently manager of the Swiss Swiss Super League club FC Luzern. His elder half-brother Ertan Irizik is also a former football professional. His surname is based on the Turkish word Yakın (meaning close, adjacent), however as he is a Swiss resident and citizen, the name which he uses is Yakin.
As a child Yakin played in the youth teams of his local side FC Concordia Basel. He signed his first professional contract with hometown club FC Basel in January 1995. He played his League debut for Basel on 12 April 1995 in the 1994–95 season in the match against Lausanne Sports. He was brought on as substitute the 60th Minute as replacement for Alexandre Rey and with his first touch of the ball, just 18 seconds later, he scored the 3:0 with a header (end result 5:0).
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Hopkinson Smith
Hopkinson Smith (born 1946) is an American lutenist.
Born in New York, he graduated from Harvard with Honors in Music (Honors Thesis on "The pavans of Daniel Bacheler"). He moved to Europe in 1973 to study with Emilio Pujol, a great pedagogue in the highest Spanish artistic tradition, and also Eugen Dombois, whose sense of organic unity between performer, instrument and historical period has had a lasting effect on him.
In the mid 1970s, Hopkinson Smith was involved in the founding of the ensemble Hespèrion XX and his ten year collaboration with Jordi Savall led to important experiences in chamber music which were a creative complement to his work as a soloist.
Since the mid 80s, Hopkinson Smith has focused principally on solo music for early plucked instruments. These include the vihuela, Renaissance lute, theorbo, Renaissance and Baroque guitars and the baroque lute.
With his recitals and series of over 20 solo recordings, he continues to rediscover and bring to life works that are among the most expressive and intimate in the entire domain of early music. His 2000 recording of the Bach sonatas and partitas for solo violin adapted for Baroque Lute has been called 'arguably the best you can buy of these works – on any instrument' by Gramophone magazine.
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Jacob Bernoulli
Jacob Bernoulli (also known as James or Jacques) (27 December 1654 – 16 August 1705) was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family.
Jacob Bernoulli was born in Basel, Switzerland. Following his father's wish, he studied theology and entered the ministry. But contrary to the desires of his parents, he also studied mathematics and astronomy. He traveled throughout Europe from 1676 to 1682, learning about the latest discoveries in mathematics and the sciences. This included the work of Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke.
He became familiar with calculus through a correspondence with Gottfried Leibniz, then collaborated with his brother Johann on various applications, notably publishing papers on transcendental curves (1696) and isoperimetry (1700, 1701). In 1690, Jacob Bernoulli became the first person to develop the technique for solving separable differential equations.
Upon returning to Basel in 1682, he founded a school for mathematics and the sciences. He was appointed professor of mathematics at the University of Basel in 1687, remaining in this position for the rest of his life.
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Jacob Burckhardt
Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt (Basel, May 25, 1818 – August 8, 1897 in Basel) was a historian of art and culture, and an influential figure in the historiography of each field. He is known as one of the major progenitors of cultural history.Siegfried Giedion described Burckhardt's achievement in the following terms: "The great discoverer of the age of the Renaissance, he first showed how a period should be treated in its entirety, with regard not only for its painting, sculpture and architecture, but for the social institutions of its daily life as well." Burckhardt's best known work is The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860).
The son of a Protestant clergyman, Burckhardt studied theology in Basel in the hope of taking holy orders; however, under the influence of De Wette he chose not to become a clergyman. He finished his degree in 1839 and went to the University of Berlin to study history, especially art history, then a new field. At Berlin, he attended lectures by Leopold von Ranke, the founder of history as a respectable academic discipline based on sources and records rather than personal opinions. He spent part of 1841 at the University of Bonn, studying under the art historian Franz Kugler, to whom he dedicated his first book, Die Kunstwerke der belgischen Städte (1842). He taught at the University of Basel from 1843 to 1855, then at the engineering school ETH Zurich. In 1858, he returned to Basel to assume the professorship he held until his 1893 retirement. Only starting in 1886 did he teach art history exclusively. He twice declined offers of professorial chairs at German universities, at the University of Tübingen in 1867, and Ranke's chair at the University of Berlin in 1872.
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Jean Daetwyler
Jean Daetwyler (January 24, 1907, Basel—June 4, 1994, Sierre) was a Swiss composer and musician. He is remembered mostly for his largely forgotten works for alphorn inspired by Jozsef Molnar beginning in 1970. Also inspired by trombonist Branimir Slokar an other aspects of Swiss culture.
Daetwyler was a pupil of Vincent d'Indy at the Paris Conservatoire. He returned to Switzerland in 1933 to teach for over four decades.
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Jean Tinguely
Jean Tinguely (22 May 1925 in Fribourg, Switzerland – 30 August 1991 in Bern) was a Swiss painter and sculptor. He is best known for his sculptural machines or kinetic art, in the Dada tradition; known officially as metamechanics. Tinguely's art satirized the mindless overproduction of material goods in advanced industrial society.
Tinguely grew up in Basel, but moved to France in 1952 with his first wife Swiss artist Eva Aeppli, to pursue a career in art. He belonged to the Parisian avantgarde in the mid-twentieth century and was one of the artists who signed the New Realist's manifesto (Nouveau réalisme) in 1960.
His best-known work, a self-destroying sculpture titled Homage to New York (1960), only partially self-destructed at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, although his later work, Study for an End of the World No. 2 (1962), detonated successfully in front of an audience gathered in the desert outside Las Vegas.
In Arthur Penn's Mickey One (1965) the mime-like Artist (Kamatari Fujiwara) with his self-destructive machine is an obvious Tinguely tribute.
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Joachim Meyer
Joachim Meÿer (ca. 1537-1571) was a self described Freifechter (literally, Free Fencer) living in the then Free Imperial City of Strasbourg in the 16th century and the author of a fechtbuch Gründtliche Beschreibung der Kunst des Fechtens (in English, Thorough Descriptions of the Art of Fencing) first published in 1570.
In 1570, Joachim Meyer wrote a comprehensive, multi-weapon treatise entitled Gründtliche Beschreibung der Kunst des Fechtens or, in English, Thorough Descriptions of the Art of Fencing. It is seen as one of the most complete systems within medieval German martial arts. Meyer's book was reprinted in 1600, and may have been an influential source for other 16th and 17th century German fencing books, including a 1612 book by Jacob Sutor. Meyer's book itself describes a system of combat designed primarily for sportive, civilian swordplay – an early form of fencing – rather than a system meant for the duel. His book mostly consists of descriptive text, with only a few dozen woodcuts, each of which depicts several players enacting various techniques described in the text itself. The book consists of five chapters, covering the long sword, dussack (a training weapon not unlike the messer), rapier, dagger, and pole weapons.
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Johann Bernoulli
Johann Bernoulli (27 July 1667 – 1 January 1748; also known as Jean or John) was a Swiss mathematician and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family. He is known for his contributions to infinitesimal calculus and educated Leonhard Euler in his youth.
Johann was born in Basel, the son of Nikolaus Bernoulli, an apothecary, and his wife, Margaretha Schonauer and began studying medicine at Basel University. His father desired that he study business so that he might take over the family spice trade, but Johann Bernoulli disliked business and convinced his father to allow him to study medicine instead. However, Johann Bernoulli did not enjoy medicine either and began studying mathematics on the side with his older brother Jacob. Throughout Johann Bernoulli’s education at Basel University the Bernoulli brothers worked together spending much of their time studying the newly discovered infinitesimal calculus. They were among the first mathematicians to not only study and understand calculus but to apply it to various problems.
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Johann Froben
Johann Froben, in Latin: Johannes Frobenius (and combinations), (Hammelburg, Franconia, circa 1460 — Basel, 27 October 1527) was a famous printer and publisher in Basel. He passed his printing business on to his son Hieronymus, and grandson Ambrosius Frobenius.
After completing his university career at Basel, where he made the acquaintance of the famous printer Johann Amerbach (circa 1440 — 1513), Froben established a printing house in that city about 1491, and this soon attained a European reputation for accuracy and taste. In 1500 he married the daughter of the bookseller Wolfgang Lachner, who entered into a partnership with him.
He was friends with Erasmus, who lived in his house when in Basel, and not only had his own works printed by him from 1514, but superintended Froben's editions of Jerome, Cyprian, Tertullian, Hilary of Poitiers and Ambrose. His printing of Erasmus' Novum Testamentum (1516) was used by Martin Luther for his translation.
Froben employed Hans Holbein the Younger to illustrate his texts, as well as the formschneiders Jakob Faber (the "Master IF") and Hans Lützelburger. Holbein painted a portrait of him, c. 1522-23, probably as a pair with one of Erasmus; the original has not survived but a number of copies have.
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Johann Peter Hebel
Johann Peter Hebel (10 May 1760 – 22 September 1826) was a German short story writer and dialectal poet, most famous for his collection of alemannic lyric poems Allemannische Gedichte and German tales Schatzkästlein des rheinischen Hausfreundes (Treasure chest of the family friend by the Rhine).
Hebel's father, a weaver and batman who loved learning, died when Hebel was little over a year old. As a result, Hebel was brought up amidst poverty-stricken conditions in the village of Hausen im Wiesental, where he received his earliest education. A promising student, he found friends who enabled him to complete his school education and to study theology (1778–1780) at Erlangen.
At the end of his university course he was for a time a private tutor, then became teacher at the gymnasium in Karlsruhe, and in 1808 was appointed director of the school. He was subsequently appointed member of the Consistory and prelate, i.e. spiritual leader, of the United Evangelical Protestant State Church of Baden (German: Vereinigte Evangelisch-protestantische Landeskirche Badens) between 1819 and 1826.
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John Calvin
John Calvin (French: Jean Calvin, born Jehan Cauvin: 10 July 1509 – 27 May 1564) was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism. Originally trained as a humanist lawyer, he broke from the Roman Catholic Church around 1530. After religious tensions provoked a violent uprising against Protestants in France, Calvin fled to Basel, Switzerland, where he published the first edition of his seminal work The Institutes of the Christian Religion in 1536.
In that year, Calvin was recruited by William Farel to help reform the church in Geneva. The city council resisted the implementation of Calvin and Farel's ideas, and both men were expelled. At the invitation of Martin Bucer, Calvin proceeded to Strasbourg, where he became the minister of a church of French refugees. He continued to support the reform movement in Geneva, and was eventually invited back to lead its church.
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John Foxe
John Foxe (1517 – 18 April 1587) was an English historian and martyrologist, the author of what is popularly known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs (properly The Acts and Monuments), an account of Christian martyrs throughout Western history but emphasizing the sufferings of English Protestants and proto-Protestants from the fourteenth century through the reign of Mary I. Widely owned and read by English Puritans, the book helped mould British popular opinion about the Catholic Church for several centuries.
Foxe was born in Boston, in Lincolnshire, England of a middlingly prominent family and seems to have been an unusually studious and devout child. In about 1534, when he was about sixteen, he entered Brasenose College, Oxford, where he was the pupil of John Hawarden (or Harding), a fellow of the college. In 1535 Foxe was admitted to Magdalen College School, where he may either have been improving his Latin or acting as a junior instructor. He became a probationer fellow in July 1538 and a full fellow the following July.
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Karl Barth
Karl Barth ((1886-05-10)May 10, 1886 – December 10, 1968(1968-12-10)) (pronounced "Bart") was a Swiss Reformed theologian whom many scholars hold to be among the most important thinkers of the 20th century; Pope Pius XII described him as the most important theologian since Thomas Aquinas. Beginning with his experience as a pastor, he rejected his training in the predominant liberal theology typical of 19th-century European Protestantism.
Instead he embarked on a new theological path initially called dialectical theology, due to its stress on the paradoxical nature of divine truth (e.g., God's relationship to humanity embodies both grace and judgment). Other critics have referred to Barth as the father of neo-orthodoxy — a term emphatically rejected by Barth himself. The most accurate description of his work might be "a theology of the Word." Barth's theological thought emphasized the sovereignty of God, particularly through his interpretation of the Calvinistic doctrine of election.
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Katy French
Katy Ellen French (31 October 1983 – 6 December 2007) was an Irish socialite, model, writer, television personality and charity worker. According to the BBC, "in the space of less than two years, she had become one of Ireland's best-known models and socialites." She collapsed at a friend's house on 2 December 2007 and died on 6 December. A post mortem examination determined that she had suffered brain damage, and that traces of cocaine were found in her body.
French was born in Basel, Switzerland, to parents Janet (from Britain) and John (from Australia) French. She moved with her family to Ireland aged two, briefly living in the Sandyford area before settling in Enniskerry, County Wicklow, and later to Stillorgan, County Dublin. French attended Alexandra College in Milltown, Dublin, from the age seven. While still in school she worked part time as a hostess at the Dublin branch of the Planet Hollywood restaurant chain.
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Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler (German pronunciation: [ˈɔʏlɐ], ( Swiss German pronunciation (help·info)) ( Standard German pronunciation (help·info)) English approximation, "Oiler"; 15 April 1707 – 18 September 1783) was a pioneering Swiss mathematician and physicist. He made important discoveries in fields as diverse as infinitesimal calculus and graph theory. He also introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, particularly for mathematical analysis, such as the notion of a mathematical function. He is also renowned for his work in mechanics, fluid dynamics, optics, and astronomy.
Euler spent most of his adult life in St. Petersburg, Russia, and in Berlin, Prussia. He is considered to be the preeminent mathematician of the 18th century, and one of the greatest of all time. He is also one of the most prolific mathematicians ever; his collected works fill 60–80 quarto volumes. A statement attributed to Pierre-Simon Laplace expresses Euler's influence on mathematics: "Read Euler, read Euler, he is the master of us all."
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Lionel Gossman
Lionel Gossman (born 1929) is a Scottish-American scholar of French literature. He taught Romance Languages at Johns Hopkins University and Princeton University, and has written extensively on the history, theory and practice of historiography, and more recently, on aspects of German cultural history.
Gossman was born in Glasgow, Scotland and educated in public schools in the city, and during World War II, the surrounding countryside. In 1951, he graduated with an M.A. (Hons.) degree in French and German literature from the University of Glasgow. In 1952, he obtained the Diplôme d'Études Supérieures at the Sorbonne in Paris, France, and wrote his thesis "The Idea of the Golden Age in Le Roman de la Rose."
From 1952-1954, Gossman served in the Royal Navy where he was trained to be a simultaneous English-Russian translator. Upon completion of national service in 1954, he entered the then newly-founded St. Antony's College, the first exclusively graduate college of Oxford University. In 1958 he completed a doctoral dissertation on scholarly research and writing on the Middle Ages during the French Enlightenment ("The World and Work of La Curne de Sainte-Palaye").
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven (i/ˈlʊdvɪɡ væn ˈbeɪt.hoʊvən/; German pronunciation: [ˈluːtvɪç fan ˈbeːt.hoːfən] ( listen); baptized 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers.
Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of the Holy Roman Empire, Beethoven moved to Vienna in his early 20s, studying with Joseph Haydn and quickly gaining a reputation as a virtuoso pianist. His hearing began to deteriorate in his late twenties, yet he continued to compose, conduct, and perform, even after becoming completely deaf.
Beethoven was the grandson of a musician of Flemish origin named Lodewijk van Beethoven (1712–73) who moved at the age of twenty to Bonn. Lodewijk (Ludwig is the German cognate of Dutch Lodewijk) was employed as a bass singer at the court of the Elector of Cologne, eventually rising to become Kapellmeister (music director). Lodewijk had one son, Johann (1740–1792), who worked as a tenor in the same musical establishment, and gave lessons on piano and violin to supplement his income. Johann married Maria Magdalena Keverich in 1767; she was the daughter of Johann Heinrich Keverich, who had been the head chef at the court of the Archbishopric of Trier.
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Mario Botta
Mario Botta (born April 1, 1943) is a Swiss architect. He studied at the Liceo Artistico in Milan and the IUAV in Venice. His ideas were influenced by Le Corbusier, Carlo Scarpa, Louis Kahn. He opened his own practice in 1970 in Lugano.
Botta designed his first buildings at age 16, a two-family house at Morbio Superiore in Ticino. While the arrangements of spaces in this structure is inconsistent, its relationship to its site, separation of living from service spaces, and deep window recesses echo of what would become his stark, strong, towering style. His designs tend to include a strong sense of geometry, often being based on very simple shapes, yet creating unique volumes of space. His buildings are often made of brick, yet his use of material is wide, varied, and often unique.
His trademark style can be seen widely in Switzerland particularly the Ticino region and also in the Mediatheque in Villeurbanne (1988), a cathedral in Évry (1995), and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art or SFMOMA (1994). He also designed the Europa-Park Dome, which houses many major events at the Europa-Park theme park resort in Germany. Religious works by Botta, including the Cymbalista Synagogue and Jewish Heritage Center were shown in London at the Royal Institute of British Architects in an exhibition entitled, Architetture del Sacro: Prayers in Stone. “A church is the place, par excellence, of architecture,” he said in an interview with architectural historian Judith Dupré. “When you enter a church, you already are part of what has transpired and will transpire there. The church is a house that puts a believer in a dimension where he or she is the protagonist. The sacred directly lives in the collective. Man becomes a participant in a church, even if he never says anything.”
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Paracelsus
Paracelsus (born Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, 11 November or 17 December 1493 – 24 September 1541) was a German-Swiss Renaissance physician, botanist, alchemist, astrologer, and general occultist. He is also credited for giving zinc its name, calling it zincum, and is regarded as the first systematic botanist.
"Paracelsus", meaning "equal to or greater than Celsus", refers to the Roman encyclopedist Aulus Cornelius Celsus from the 1st century, known for his tract on medicine.
Paracelsus was born and raised in the village of Einsiedeln in Switzerland. His father, Wilhelm Bombast von Hohenheim, was a Swabian (German) chemist and physician; his mother was Swiss, she presumably died in his childhood. In 1502 the family moved to Villach, Carinthia where Paracelsus' father worked as a physician. He received a profound humanistic and theological education by his father, local clerics and the convent school of St. Paul's Abbey in the Lavanttal. At the age of 16 he started studying medicine at the University of Basel, later moving to Vienna. He gained his doctorate degree from the University of Ferrara in 1515 or 1516.
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Peter Birkhäuser
Peter Birkhäuser (7 June 1911 – 1976) was a Swiss poster artist, portraitist, and visionary painter, noted for his paintings illustrating imagery from dreams in the context of analytical psychology.
The son of an oculist, Birkhäuser was born and raised in Basel. His mother died early and he was brought up by his father in a rationalistic, agnostic environment. He wanted to be a painter from an early age, and left grammar school to study at an art school under Basel artist Niklaus Stoecklin.
In his early career as an artist, he produced still-life and landscape paintings, ex libris plates, stamps, cartoons for the satirical magazine Nebelspalter, posters, and portraits. He met his future wife Sibylle Oeri in the early 30s, and they married in 1939.
One evening, while working in his studio, he was struck by the image of a moth fluttering against the window. He painted this image in 1944, and later interpreted it as symbolic of his own state of mind: the moth, representing his soul, was struggling against the glass to reach the light, representing consciousness. This image precipitated a crisis in his career, resulting in a period of stagnation and depression.
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Pope Pius II
Pope Pius II, born Enea Silvio Piccolomini (Latin Aeneas Sylvius; 18 October 1405 – 14 August 1464) was Pope from 19 August 1458 until his death in 1464. Pius II was born at Corsignano in the Sienese territory of a noble but decayed family. His longest and most enduring work is the story of his life, the Commentaries, which is the only autobiography ever written by a reigning Pope.
After studying at the universities of Siena and Florence, he settled in the former city as a teacher, but in 1431 accepted the post of secretary to Domenico Capranica, bishop of Fermo, then on his way to the Council of Basel (1431–39). Capranica was protesting against the new Pope Eugene IV's refusal of a cardinalate for him, which had been designated by Pope Martin V. Arriving at Basel after enduring a stormy voyage to Genoa and then a trip across the Alps, he successively served Capranica, who ran short of money, and then other masters.
In 1435 he was sent by Cardinal Albergati, Eugenius IV's legate at the council, on a secret mission to Scotland, the object of which is variously related even by himself. He visited England as well as Scotland, underwent many perils and vicissitudes in both countries, and left a valuable account of each. The journey to Scotland proved so tempestuous that Piccolomini swore that he would walk barefoot to the nearest shrine of Our Lady from their landing port. This proved to be Dunbar; the nearest shrine was 10 miles distant at Whitekirk. The journey through the ice and snow left Aeneas afflicted with pain in his legs for the rest of his life. In Scotland he fathered his second natural child, the other one having been born in Strasbourg.
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Renzo Piano
Renzo Piano, Ufficiale OMRI (born 14 September 1937 in Genoa) is an Italian Pritzker Prize-winning architect. Architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff said of Piano's works that the "...serenity of his best buildings can almost make you believe that we live in a civilized world."
In 2006, Piano was selected by TIME as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He was selected as the 10th most influential person in the "Arts and Entertainment" category of the 2006 Time 100.
Piano was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1937 into a family of builders. He was educated and subsequently taught at the Politecnico di Milano. He graduated from the University in 1964 and began working with experimental lightweight structures and basic shelters. From 1965 to 1970 he worked with Louis Kahn and Z.S. Makowsky. He worked together with Richard Rogers from 1971 to 1977; their most famous joint project is the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (1977). He also had a long collaboration with the engineer Peter Rice, with whom he shared a practice (L'Atelier Piano and Rice) between 1977 and 1981.
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Ricco
Ricco (October 13, 1915 in Basel – March 27, 1972 in Ropraz), born Erich Wassmer, was a Swiss painter. His paintings often depict idealizing dream worlds in the genre of magic realism.
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Roger Federer
Roger Federer (German pronunciation: [ˈfeːdəʁɐ]) (born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss professional tennis player who held the ATP No. 1 position for a record 237 consecutive weeks from 2 February 2004 to 18 August 2008. Federer has occupied the #1 ranking for 285 overall weeks, one week short of the record 286 weeks held by Pete Sampras. As of 28 May 2012, he is ranked World No. 3. Federer has won a men's record 16 Grand Slam singles titles. He is one of seven male players to capture the career Grand Slam and one of three (with Andre Agassi and Rafael Nadal) to do so on three different surfaces (clay, grass, and hard courts). He is the only male player in tennis history to have reached the title match of each Grand Slam tournament at least five times and also the final at each of the nine ATP Masters 1000 Tournaments. Many sports analysts, tennis critics, and former and current players consider Federer to be the greatest tennis player of all time.
Federer has appeared in an unprecedented 23 career Grand Slam tournament finals, including a men's record ten in a row, and appeared in 18 of 19 finals from the 2005 Wimbledon Championships through the 2010 Australian Open, the lone exception being the 2008 Australian Open. He holds the record of reaching the semifinals or better of 23 consecutive Grand Slam tournaments over five and a half years, from the 2004 Wimbledon Championships through the 2010 Australian Open. At the 2012 Australian Open, he reached a record 31st consecutive Grand Slam quarterfinal. During the course of his run at the 2012 French Open in Roland Garros, Federer eclipsed Jimmy Connors long standing record of 233 match wins in Grand Slam tournaments when he defeated Adrian Ungur in a second round match.
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Tadao Ando
Tadao Ando (安藤 忠雄, Andō Tadao?, born September 13, 1941, in Minato-ku, Osaka, Japan and raised in Asahi-ku in the city) is a Japanese architect whose approach to architecture was categorized by Francesco Dal Co as critical regionalism. Ando has led a storied life, working as a truck driver and boxer prior to settling on the profession of architecture, despite never having taken formal training in the field. He visited buildings designed by renowned architects like Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Kahn before returning to Osaka in 1968 and established his own design studio, Tadao Ando Architect and Associates.
He works primarily in exposed cast-in-place concrete and is renowned[by whom?] for an exemplary craftsmanship which invokes a Japanese sense of materiality, junction and spatial narrative through the pared aesthetics of international modernism.[citation needed]
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Tilo Wolff
Tilo Wolff (born 10 July 1972 in Frankfurt am Main) is a German musician currently living in Switzerland.
His longest-running project is the band Lacrimosa, which since its debut in 1990 has produced 9 albums, which embrace a diverse range of gothic, darkwave and orchestral musical styles. Wolff composes, arranges and writes the lyrics for almost all of Lacrimosa's songs, as well as singing, playing piano and contributing to the design of the albums' sleeve art.
In the year of Lacrimosa's founding he also founded the record label Hall of Sermon to finance Lacrimosa without being dependent on outside record companies. Hall of Sermon now has eight darkwave bands other than Lacrimosa on its books, including Dreams of Sanity and Girls Under Glass.
In 2004 Wolff founded Snakeskin, another band, which diverts significantly from Lacrimosa's music.
Tilo Wolff was also the manager of the German band Cinema Bizarre.
As well as this, he also DJs, playing festivals and clubs across Europe.
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Urs Graf
Urs Graf (born c. 1485 in Solothurn, Switzerland; died before 13 October 1528) was a Swiss Renaissance painter and printmaker (of woodcuts, etchings and engravings), as well as a mercenary soldier. He only produced two etchings, one of which dates from 1513 – the earliest known etching for which a date has been established. However, his woodcuts are considered of greater significance, particularly as he is attributed with the invention of the white-line woodcut technique, where white lines create the image on a black background. He also produced a few engravings, including copies of works by Martin Schongauer and Albrecht Dürer.
Graf learned his profession first from his father, Hugo Graf, then from a goldsmith in Zürich. He initially earned money as a designer of woodcut book illustrations and by assisting a stained glass painter. In 1512, he became a member of the goldsmiths' guild and a citizen of Basel. He quickly came into conflict with the law for abusing his wife and supporting prostitution, culminating in accusations of attempted murder which caused him to leave the city in 1518. He was allowed to return to Basel the following year, where he continued working, but in 1527 he vanished from the city, never to be heard of again; although there is a signed drawing from 1529.
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Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid, CBE (Arabic: زها حديد Zahā Ḥadīd; born 31 October 1950) is an Iraqi-British architect and winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004.
Hadid was born in 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq. She received a degree in mathematics from the American University of Beirut before moving to study at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London.
After graduating she worked with her former teachers, Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, becoming a partner in 1977. It was with Koolhaas that she met the engineer Peter Rice who gave her support and encouragement early on, at a time when her work seemed difficult to build. In 1980 she established her own London-based practice. During the 1980s she also taught at the Architectural Association. She has also taught at prestigious institutions around the world; she held the Kenzo Tange Chair at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, the Sullivan Chair at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture, guest professorships at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, the Knowlton School of Architecture, at The Ohio State University, the Masters Studio at Columbia University, New York and the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at the Yale School of Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut. In addition, she was made Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. She has been on the Board of Trustees of The Architecture Foundation. She is currently Professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in Austria.
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Álvaro Siza Vieira
Álvaro Joaquim de Melo Siza Vieira, GOSE, GCIH, is a Portuguese architect, born 25 June 1933 in Matosinhos a small coastal town by Porto. He is internationally known as Álvaro Siza (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈaɫvɐɾu ˈsizɐ]).
He graduated in architecture in 1955, at the former School of Fine Arts from the University of Porto, the current FAUP - Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto. He completed his first built work (four houses in Matosinhos) even before ending his studies in 1954, the same year that he first opened his private practice in Porto. Siza Vieira taught at the school from 1966 to 1969, returning in 1976. In addition to his teaching there, he has been a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University; the University of Pennsylvania; Los Andes University of Bogota; and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.
Along with Fernando Távora, he is one of the references of the Porto School of Architecture where both were teachers. Both architects worked together between 1955 and 1958. Another architect he has collaborated with is Eduardo Souto de Moura, e.g. on Portugal's flagship pavilions at Expo '98 in Lisbon and Expo 2000 in Hannover, as well as on the Serpentine Pavillon 2005. Siza's work is often described as "poetic modernism"; he himself has contributed to publications on Luis Barragán.
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FC BASEL 1893 - FC SION 3 - 0
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- Updated: 14 Feb 2013
switzrerland first league 10 02 2013 scorers 1-0 streller 2-0 mohamed salah 3-0 stocker
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Robert A. Eisenbeis: Watering down Basel
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- Duration: 1:47
- Updated: 12 Feb 2013
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BASEL III (ENG)
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- Duration: 10:22
- Updated: 13 Feb 2013
BNP Paribas Fortis presents this 10 minutes animation on Basel III for non-specialists. This Video "Basel III for dummies" is based on life presentations by Lars Machenil (CFO BNP Paribas) and Walter Rosenhek (Basel 3 Program Manager BNP Paribas Fortis).
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BNP Paribas Fortis presents this 10 minutes animation on Basel III for non-specialists. This Video "Basel III for dummies" is based on life presentations by Lars Machenil (CFO BNP Paribas) and Walter Rosenhek (Basel 3 Program Manager BNP Paribas Fortis).
- published: 17 Feb 2012
- views: 18828
- author: bnppfbelgique
Basel II Overview
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- Duration: 9:57
- Updated: 26 Jan 2013
Quick overview of Basel II framework that sets capital requirements for banks. Three pillars contains the rules & support (supervisor review, market discipline) that say how much eligible regulatory capital must be held against risk-weighted assets.
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Quick overview of Basel II framework that sets capital requirements for banks. Three pillars contains the rules & support (supervisor review, market discipline) that say how much eligible regulatory capital must be held against risk-weighted assets.
- published: 20 Oct 2008
- views: 47602
- author: bionicturtledotcom
ATP Basel 2012 R1 Federer Vs Becker Highlights [HQ]
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- Duration: 6:59
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
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Laura pausini - Avo Session - Basel 2011
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- Duration: 70:20
- Updated: 14 Feb 2013
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ATP Basel 2012 QF - Federer vs Paire [HQ]
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- Duration: 9:59
- Updated: 14 Feb 2013
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Dire Straits Live From Basel 1992 (full concert)
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- Duration: 250:32
- Updated: 14 Feb 2013
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- published: 04 Nov 2012
- views: 23108
- author: splendidrockj
Dire Straits Live From Basel 1992. Complete concert
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- Duration: 120:47
- Updated: 14 Feb 2013
Dire Straits live in Basel. Recorded from Norwegian Broadcasting(NRK) in 1992. Nicam stereo. Good sound. 0:57 Calling Elvis 12:45 Walk of Life 18:40 Heavy Fuel 23:57 Romeo and Juliet 33:58 The Bug 39:30 Private Investigations 48:52 Sultans of Swing 1:00:55 Your Latest Trick 1:06:20 On Every Street 1:13:15 Two Young Lovers 1:18:30 Telegraph Road 1:31:50 Money for Nothing 1:39:55 Brothers in Arms 1:48:30 Solid Rock 1:54:28 Going Home (Local Hero)
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Dire Straits live in Basel. Recorded from Norwegian Broadcasting(NRK) in 1992. Nicam stereo. Good sound. 0:57 Calling Elvis 12:45 Walk of Life 18:40 Heavy Fuel 23:57 Romeo and Juliet 33:58 The Bug 39:30 Private Investigations 48:52 Sultans of Swing 1:00:55 Your Latest Trick 1:06:20 On Every Street 1:13:15 Two Young Lovers 1:18:30 Telegraph Road 1:31:50 Money for Nothing 1:39:55 Brothers in Arms 1:48:30 Solid Rock 1:54:28 Going Home (Local Hero)
- published: 11 Sep 2012
- views: 38128
- author: siggi1001
Flashmob Stücki Basel
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- Duration: 5:29
- Updated: 14 Feb 2013
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Narben der Gewalt - Ultras Hooligans Basel Doku Reportage
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- Duration: 50:59
- Updated: 22 Jan 2013
Narben der Gewalt - Ultras Hooligans Basel Doku Reportage
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Narben der Gewalt - Ultras Hooligans Basel Doku Reportage
- published: 26 Apr 2012
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- author: fcssportarena
Jethro Tull - AVO Session 15/11/2008, Basel, Switzerland Full DVD
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- Duration: 91:31
- Updated: 14 Feb 2013
Line-up / Musicians - Ian Anderson / flute, acoustic guitar, harmonica, vocals - Martin Barre / guitar - Doane Perry / drums and percussion - John O'Hara / keyboards, accordion - David Goodier / bass Songs / Tracks Listing 1. My Sunday Feeling (Ian Anderson) 2. Living In The Past (Ian Anderson) 3. Serenade To A Cuckoo (Roland Kirk) 4. So Much Trouble (Brownie McGhee) 5. Nursie (Ian Anderson) 6. Rocks On The Road (Ian Anderson) 7. A New Day Yesterday (Ian Anderson) 8. Too Old To Rock & Roll, Too Young To Die (Ian Anderson) 9. Bouree (JS Bach, Ian Anderson) 10. Nothing Is Easy (Ian Anderson) 11. Dharma For One (Ian Anderson) 12. Heavy Horses (Ian Anderson) 13. Thick As A Brick (excerpt) (Ian Anderson) 14. Aqualung (Ian Anderson, Jennie Anderson) (Ian Anderson) 15. Locomotive Breath (Ian Anderson) www.tullianos.com
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Line-up / Musicians - Ian Anderson / flute, acoustic guitar, harmonica, vocals - Martin Barre / guitar - Doane Perry / drums and percussion - John O'Hara / keyboards, accordion - David Goodier / bass Songs / Tracks Listing 1. My Sunday Feeling (Ian Anderson) 2. Living In The Past (Ian Anderson) 3. Serenade To A Cuckoo (Roland Kirk) 4. So Much Trouble (Brownie McGhee) 5. Nursie (Ian Anderson) 6. Rocks On The Road (Ian Anderson) 7. A New Day Yesterday (Ian Anderson) 8. Too Old To Rock & Roll, Too Young To Die (Ian Anderson) 9. Bouree (JS Bach, Ian Anderson) 10. Nothing Is Easy (Ian Anderson) 11. Dharma For One (Ian Anderson) 12. Heavy Horses (Ian Anderson) 13. Thick As A Brick (excerpt) (Ian Anderson) 14. Aqualung (Ian Anderson, Jennie Anderson) (Ian Anderson) 15. Locomotive Breath (Ian Anderson) www.tullianos.com
- published: 15 Aug 2012
- views: 19096
- author: Remy Tena
Basel vs Dnipro 2-0 All Goals And Highlights 14/02/2013 Full HD
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Basel vs Dnipro 2-0 All Goals And Highlights 14/02/2013 Full HD UEFA Europa League FC Basel 1893 Goals : '23 Valentin Stocker '67 Marco Streller --------------- Basel vs Dnipro 2-0 All Goals And Highlights 14/02/2013 Full HD Basel vs Dnipro 2-0 All Goals And Highlights 14/02/2013 Full HD...
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Basel vs Dnipro 2-0 All Goals And Highlights 14/02/2013 Full HD UEFA Europa League FC Basel 1893 Goals : '23 Valentin Stocker '67 Marco Streller --------------- Basel vs Dnipro 2-0 All Goals And Highlights 14/02/2013 Full HD Basel vs Dnipro 2-0 All Goals And Highlights 14/02/2013 Full HD...
- published: 15 Feb 2013
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FC Basel vs Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (2-0) FULL Highlights and Goals (14/02/2013)
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- Duration: 5:58
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FC Basel 2 - 0 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk FC Basel 2 - 0 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk FC Basel 2 - 0 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk FC Basel 2 - 0 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
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FC Basel 2 - 0 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk FC Basel 2 - 0 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk FC Basel 2 - 0 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk FC Basel 2 - 0 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
- published: 14 Feb 2013
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Interview Franck Pala & Loic Ercolessi inyourskin for ART BASEL 2012
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- Duration: 7:16
- Updated: 14 Feb 2013
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Full HD basel vs dnipro 2-0 goals 14/02/2013
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Full HD basel vs dnipro 2-0 goals 14/02/2013 Full HD basel vs dnipro 2-0 goals 14/02/2013 Full HD basel vs dnipro 2-0 goals 14/02/2013 Full HD basel vs dnipro 2-0 goals 14/02/2013
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Full HD basel vs dnipro 2-0 goals 14/02/2013 Full HD basel vs dnipro 2-0 goals 14/02/2013 Full HD basel vs dnipro 2-0 goals 14/02/2013 Full HD basel vs dnipro 2-0 goals 14/02/2013
- published: 15 Feb 2013
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FC Basel 1893 vs Dnipro Live Streaming UEFA Europa League & Goals and Highlights 14
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- Duration: 2:10
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livestreamsport2013.weebly.com Basel 1893 vs Dnipro Live Streaming UEFA Europa League & Goals and Highlights 14 February 2013 Referee: Svein Oddvar Moen (NOR) -- Stadium: St. Jakob-Park, Basel (SUI)
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livestreamsport2013.weebly.com Basel 1893 vs Dnipro Live Streaming UEFA Europa League & Goals and Highlights 14 February 2013 Referee: Svein Oddvar Moen (NOR) -- Stadium: St. Jakob-Park, Basel (SUI)
- published: 14 Feb 2013
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Valentin Stocker Goal FC Basel 1 - 0 Dnipro 14.02.2013
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- Duration: 0:21
- Updated: 15 Feb 2013
Valentin Stocker Goal FC Basel 1 - 0 Dnipro 14.02.2013 Valentin Stocker Goal FC Basel 1 - 0 Dnipro 14.02.2013 Valentin Stocker Goal FC Basel 1 - 0 Dnipro 14.02.2013 Valentin Stocker Goal FC Basel 1 - 0 Dnipro 14.02.2013
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Valentin Stocker Goal FC Basel 1 - 0 Dnipro 14.02.2013 Valentin Stocker Goal FC Basel 1 - 0 Dnipro 14.02.2013 Valentin Stocker Goal FC Basel 1 - 0 Dnipro 14.02.2013 Valentin Stocker Goal FC Basel 1 - 0 Dnipro 14.02.2013
- published: 14 Feb 2013
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Basel - FK Dnipro Dnipropetrowsk | Quintuple offside not called
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- Duration: 0:14
- Updated: 15 Feb 2013
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Top Secret Drum Corps: The Next Level (Basel Tattoo 2012)
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- Duration: 6:01
- Updated: 15 Feb 2013
Schweizer Fernsehen, 25. August 2012 Basel Tattoo: www.baseltattoo.ch Top Secret Drum Corps www.topsecretbasel.ch
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Schweizer Fernsehen, 25. August 2012 Basel Tattoo: www.baseltattoo.ch Top Secret Drum Corps www.topsecretbasel.ch
- published: 17 Sep 2012
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Basel - Dnieper 2:0 All Goals and Highlights HD
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- Duration: 1:28
- Updated: 14 Feb 2013
14/02/2013 Europa League Anji - Hannover 3:1 All Goals and Highlights HD Zenit - Liverpool 2:0 All Goals and Highlights HD Ajax - Steaua 2:0 All Goals and Highlights HD Bayer - Benfica 0:1 All Goals and Highlights HD BATE - Fenerbahçe 0:0 Highlights HD Dynamo Kiev - Bordeaux 1:1 All Goals and Highlights HD Levante - Olympiacos 3:0 All Goals and Highlights HD Napoli - Viktoria Plzen 0:3 All Goals and Highlights HD Sparta Prague - Chelsea 0:1 All Goals and Highlights HD Atletico - Rubin 0:2 All Goals and Highlights HD Basel - Dnieper 2:0 All Goals and Highlights HD Moenchengladbach - Lazio 3:3 All Goals and Highlights HD Inter - CFR Cluj 2:0 All Goals and Highlights HD Newcastle United - Metalist 0:0 Highlights HD Tottenham - Lyon 2:1 All Goals and Highlights HD Stuttgart - Genk 1:1 All Goals and Highlights HD
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14/02/2013 Europa League Anji - Hannover 3:1 All Goals and Highlights HD Zenit - Liverpool 2:0 All Goals and Highlights HD Ajax - Steaua 2:0 All Goals and Highlights HD Bayer - Benfica 0:1 All Goals and Highlights HD BATE - Fenerbahçe 0:0 Highlights HD Dynamo Kiev - Bordeaux 1:1 All Goals and Highlights HD Levante - Olympiacos 3:0 All Goals and Highlights HD Napoli - Viktoria Plzen 0:3 All Goals and Highlights HD Sparta Prague - Chelsea 0:1 All Goals and Highlights HD Atletico - Rubin 0:2 All Goals and Highlights HD Basel - Dnieper 2:0 All Goals and Highlights HD Moenchengladbach - Lazio 3:3 All Goals and Highlights HD Inter - CFR Cluj 2:0 All Goals and Highlights HD Newcastle United - Metalist 0:0 Highlights HD Tottenham - Lyon 2:1 All Goals and Highlights HD Stuttgart - Genk 1:1 All Goals and Highlights HD
- published: 14 Feb 2013
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Basel - Dnieper 1:0 Goal Stocker V.
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- Duration: 1:40
- Updated: 14 Feb 2013
All Goals and Highlights HD
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Locarno vs. FC Basel 2:3 (0:1) nV Schweizer Cup Achtelfinals (9.12.12)
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- Duration: 2:46
- Updated: 17 Jan 2013
FACEBOOK: TheFCBmaster Matchwinner beim Basler 3:2-Erfolg nach Verlängerung in Locarno war Valentin Stocker. Der Mittelfeldspieler schoss den Titelverteidiger in der 117. Minute zum Sieg. Den Einzug in die Cup-Viertelfinals mussten sich die Basler hart erkämpfen. Nach dem Führungstreffer durch Mohamed Salah verwandelten die Tessiner den Rückstand kurz nach der Pause in einen 2:1-Vorsprung. Salah sorgte mit seinem 2. Treffer in der 75. Minute für den 2:2-Ausgleich. Lido. - 2630 Zuschauer. - SR Erlachner. - Tore: 43. Salah 0:1. 51. Mazzola 1:1. 55. Mazzola 2:1. 75. Salah 2:2. 118. Stocker 2:3. Basel: Vailati; Sauro, Schär, Ajeti (46. Steinhöfer); Park, Cabral, Diaz, Salah, Philipp Degen (64. Streller); Frei, Zoua (102. Stocker). Bemerkungen: Basel ohne Voser und Jevtic (beide verletzt). 105. Salah trifft den Aussenpfosten.
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FACEBOOK: TheFCBmaster Matchwinner beim Basler 3:2-Erfolg nach Verlängerung in Locarno war Valentin Stocker. Der Mittelfeldspieler schoss den Titelverteidiger in der 117. Minute zum Sieg. Den Einzug in die Cup-Viertelfinals mussten sich die Basler hart erkämpfen. Nach dem Führungstreffer durch Mohamed Salah verwandelten die Tessiner den Rückstand kurz nach der Pause in einen 2:1-Vorsprung. Salah sorgte mit seinem 2. Treffer in der 75. Minute für den 2:2-Ausgleich. Lido. - 2630 Zuschauer. - SR Erlachner. - Tore: 43. Salah 0:1. 51. Mazzola 1:1. 55. Mazzola 2:1. 75. Salah 2:2. 118. Stocker 2:3. Basel: Vailati; Sauro, Schär, Ajeti (46. Steinhöfer); Park, Cabral, Diaz, Salah, Philipp Degen (64. Streller); Frei, Zoua (102. Stocker). Bemerkungen: Basel ohne Voser und Jevtic (beide verletzt). 105. Salah trifft den Aussenpfosten.
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15 Feb 2013
A meteor streaked across the sky above Russia's Ural Mountains today morning, causing sharp explosions and injuring more than 400 people, many of them hurt by broken glass. "There was panic. People had no idea what was happening ... Fragments of the meteor fell in a thinly populated area of the Chelyabinsk region, the Emergency Ministry said in a statement ... ....(size: 1.7Kb)
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13 Feb 2013
This past Sunday the priest of my church--that is, the priest who celebrates the Spanish Mass at the Episcopal Church of St. Michael and All Angels in Tucson--mentioned that someone had asked him why the Bible doesn't mention dinosaurs. We talked about it, and he said that he was going to look into it ... But what I have to say is this. the answer to the question is simple. the Bible is not a scientific textbook ... Tweet. 1 Email. PrintReport ... ....(size: 8.6Kb)
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14 Feb 2013
South African Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has been charged with murder after he allegedly shot and killed his girlfriend in the early hours of the morning, reportedly thinking she was an intruder. Reeva Steenkamp with Oscar Pistorius at an awards ceremony in November Photo. Rex Features/Getty Images. By Aislinn Laing, Johannesburg. 8.00AM GMT 14 Feb 2013. Oscar Pistorius 'shoots girlfriend dead'. latest ... Related Articles ... ....(size: 8.8Kb)
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14 Feb 2013
In their hurry to flee last month, al Qaeda fighters left behind a crucial document. Tucked under a pile of papers and trash is a confidential letter, spelling out the terror network's strategy for conquering northern Mali and reflecting internal discord over how to rule the region ... Comparing the relationship of al Qaeda to Mali as that of an adult to an infant, he urges them to be more gentle, like a parent ... Ad Feedback ... - AP. ....(size: 12.4Kb)
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15 Feb 2013
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Paralympic superstar Oscar Pistorius openly wept as he appeared in court Friday, charged with the murder of his girlfriend as South Africans closely watched developments in a killing that has stunned the country ... Pistorius solemnly entered court in a gray suit and blue tie. He later broke down in tears ... Police oppose the granting of bail ... Lt. Col ... ___. AP Sports Writer Imray reported from Johannesburg ... ....(size: 2.2Kb)
Bloomberg
15 Feb 2013
Lenders should bolster safeguards against the possibility of currency trades breaking down before they are settled, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision said in guidance issued today ... The global financial system was faced with such difficulties when Bankhaus Herstatt failed in 1974, an event that helped persuade regulators to set up the Basel Committee. The plans update guidance adopted by the Basel group in 2000 ... ....(size: 2.1Kb)
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15 Feb 2013
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision issued today its guidance for managing risks associated with the settlement of foreign exchange transactions. The guidance published today updates the Basel Committee's Supervisory guidance for managing settlement risk in foreign exchange transactions ... This noodl was issued by Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and was initially posted at www.bis.org/bcbs....(size: 2.5Kb)
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15 Feb 2013
AxiomSL’s unique data management framework, which provides flexibility and scalability in merging ICBC’s data models, delivers data transformation, calculation and reporting processes transparency while meeting compliance with Basel III Capital Requirements Directive and providing harmonized Common Reporting (CoRep) & FINREP templates in the UK....(size: 9.1Kb)
Reuters
15 Feb 2013
* Basel publishes revised margin plan for consultation ... The Basel Committee, a group of banking regulators from the Group of 20 (G20) leading economies who called for the reforms, proposed last year that banks and other users of such derivatives post an initial margin on their trades, if the trades are not cleared, meaning they are not underwritten by a central counter-party to each side of the trade....(size: 4.1Kb)
noodls
15 Feb 2013
"Dynamo" failed at home to beat «Bordeaux», "Dnipro" lost to "Basel "and "Metalist" took a draw in a away match with "Newcastle" ... «Dynamo» failed at home to beat «Bordeaux», "Dnipro" lost to "Basel "and "Metalist" took a draw in a away match with "Newcastle" ... "Basel" (Switzerland) - "Dnepr" (Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) - 2.0....(size: 4.1Kb)
South China Morning Post
15 Feb 2013
The European Union and the United States have agreed to implement the new global Basel III capital adequacy rules for banks as soon as possible, EU financial services chief Michel Barnier said after a meeting in Washington. The Basel rules are the world’s main regulatory response to the 2007-09 financial crisis, aimed at preventing a repeat crisis where banks had to be bailed out by their governments....(size: 2.6Kb)
noodls
15 Feb 2013
We are on parallel tracks to implement Basel III ... We are in the final stages of the negotiations on the capital requirements legislation to give effect to Basel III ... On Basel III, I am often confronted with assertions that the US will not implement it, as it did not implement Basel II ... My discussions with US regulators show that there is a clear determination on their part to fully implement Basel III....(size: 9.7Kb)
Sydney Morning Herald
15 Feb 2013
Banks including JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank won the concessions in a revised proposal released today by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and International Organization of Securities Commissions....(size: 1.1Kb)
Stockhouse
15 Feb 2013
BASEL, Switzerland, Feb. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Syngenta announced that the 2012 Annual Report on Form 20-F has been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The document is available on the Syngenta website at www.syngenta.com in the Investor Relations section; hard copies of the audited financial statements are available to shareholders free of charge upon request ... Syngenta International AG ... CH-4002 Basel ... Tel ... Fax....(size: 2.3Kb)
Stockhouse
15 Feb 2013
BASEL, Switzerland, Feb. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Syngenta today requested that the European Commission retract its proposal to restrict the use of neonicotinoid technology after revealing that the European Food Safety Authority's (EFSA) report on the risks to bees from their use was fundamentally flawed. Syngenta submitted a response to the EFSA report in January ... Syngenta's Chief Operating Officer, John Atkin, said ... CH-4002 Basel....(size: 3.5Kb)
CNBC
15 Feb 2013
Business Wire
15 Feb 2013
Sky Sports
15 Feb 2013
Luzern finished second behind FC Basel in the Swiss Super League last season and are currently ninth in the league. Share. ....(size: 0.6Kb)
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For other uses, see Basel (disambiguation).
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| Population | 170,635 (Mar 2012)[1] | |||||||||
| - Density | 7,500 /km2 (19,426 /sq mi) | |||||||||
| Area | 23.91 km2 (9.23 sq mi)[2] | |||||||||
| Elevation | 260 m (853 ft) | |||||||||
| - Lowest | 244.75 m - Rhine shore, national border at Kleinhüningen | |||||||||
| Postal code | 4000 | |||||||||
| SFOS number | 2701 | |||||||||
| Mayor | Guy Morin (as of 2009) GPS/PES | |||||||||
| Demonym | Basler | |||||||||
| Surrounded by | Allschwil (BL), Binningen (BL), Birsfelden (BL), Bottmingen (BL), Huningue (FR-68), Münchenstein (BL), Muttenz (BL), Reinach (BL), Riehen (BS), Saint-Louis (FR-68), Weil am Rhein (DE-BW) | |||||||||
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Basel ( /ˈbɑːzəl/) or Basle ( /ˈbɑːl/; German: Basel; pronounced [ˈbaːzəl])[note 1] is Switzerland's third most populous city with about 166,000 inhabitants.[3] Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany. With 830,000 inhabitants in the tri-national urban agglomeration as of 2004, Basel is Switzerland's second-largest urban area.[4]
Located in northwest Switzerland on the river Rhine, Basel functions as a major industrial centre for the chemical and pharmaceutical industry. The Basel region, culturally extending into German Baden-Württemberg and French Alsace, reflects the heritage of its three states in the modern Latin name: "Regio TriRhena". It has the oldest university of the Swiss Confederation (1460). Basel is German-speaking. The local variant of the Swiss German dialects is called Basel German.
Basel is among the most important cultural centres of Switzerland. The city comprises a large number of theatres and many museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts, the world's oldest art collection accessible to the public. In addition the Theater Basel was chosen in 1999 as the best stage for German-language performances and in 2009 & 2010 as "Opera of the Year" by German Opera Magazine "Opernwelt".[5]
History[link]
Early history[link]
During the days of the Roman Empire, the settlement of Augusta Raurica was founded 10 or 20 kilometres upstream of present Basel, and a castle was built on the hill overlooking the river where the Basel Münster now stands. But even older Celtic settlements (including a vitrified fort) have been discovered recently in the area predating the Roman castle. The city's position on the Rhine long emphasised its importance: Basel for many centuries possessed the only bridge over the river "between Lake Constance and the sea"[citation needed].
The town of Basel was called Basilea or Basilia in Latin (from Ancient Greek Basileia, Βασιλεια meaning kingship) and this name is documented from 374 AD.[6] Since the donation of the Abbey Moutier-Grandvalto and all its possessions to Bishop Adalbero II in 999 till the Reformation, Basel was ruled by prince-bishops (see Bishop of Basel,[7] whose memory is preserved in the crosier shown on the Basel coat-of-arms – see above).
Prince-Bishopric of Basel[link]
Main article: Prince-Bishopric of Basel
In 1019 the construction of the cathedral of Basel (known locally as the Münster) began under German Emperor Heinrich II.[8] In 1225–1226 the Bridge over the Rhine was constructed by Bishop Heinrich von Thun and lesser Basel (Kleinbasel) founded as a beachhead to protect the bridge. The bridge was largely funded by Basel's Jewish community which had settled there a century earlier.[9]
The Bishop also allowed the furriers to found a guild in 1226. Eventually about 15 guilds were established in the 13th century. They increased the town's, and hence the bishop's, reputation, influence, and income from the taxes and duties on goods in Basel's expanding market.[9]
In 1347 the plague came to Europe but did not reach Basel until June 1349. The guilds, asserting that the Jews were responsible—several had been tortured and confessed—demanded they be executed, which the Council did in January 1349, except for a few who escaped to Alsace.[9] The council then forbade Jews in Basel for 200 years, except that their money was helpful in rebuilding after the Basel earthquake of 1356 which destroyed much of the city along with a number of castles in the vicinity. The city offered courts to nobles as an alternative to rebuilding their castles, in exchange for the nobles' military protection of the city.
In 1412 (or earlier) the well-known guesthouse Zum Goldenen Sternen was established. Basel became the focal point of western Christendom during the 15th century Council of Basel (1431–1449), including the 1439 election of antipope Felix V. In 1459 Pope Pius II endowed the University of Basel where such notables as Erasmus of Rotterdam and Paracelsus later taught. At the same time the new craft of printing was introduced to Basel by apprentices of Johann Gutenberg.
The Schwabe publishing house was founded in 1488 by Johannes Petri and is the oldest publishing house still in business. Johann Froben also operated his printing house in Basel and was notable for publishing works by Erasmus.[10] In 1495, Basel was incorporated in the Upper Rhenish Imperial Circle; the Bishop of Basel was added to the Bench of the Ecclesiastical Princes. In 1500 the construction of the Basel Münster was finished. In 1521 so was the bishop. The Council, under the supremacy of the guilds, explained that henceforth they would only give allegiance to the Swiss Confederation, to whom the bishop appealed but in vain.[9]
As a member state in the Swiss Confederacy[link]
The city had remained neutral through the Swabian War of 1499 despite being plundered by soldiers on both sides. The Treaty of Basel ended the war and granted the Swiss confederates exemptions from the emperor Maximillian's taxes and jurisdictions, separating Switzerland de facto from the Holy Roman Empire.[11]
On 9 June 1501 Basel joined the Swiss Confederation as its eleventh canton.[12] It was the only canton that had been asked to join, not the other way round. Basel, had a strategic location, good relations with Strasbourg and Mulhouse, and control of the corn imports from Alsace, whereas the Swiss lands were becoming overpopulated and had few resources. For its part, Basel secured the military help of the other cantons when threatened, and some protection for its rural subjects outside its walls. A provision of the Charter accepting Basel required that in conflicts among the other cantons it was to stay neutral and offer its services for mediation.[9][13]
In 1503 the new bishop Christoph von Utenheim refused to give Basel a new constitution whereupon, to show its power, the city began the construction of a new city hall.[9]
In 1529 the city became Protestant under Oecolampadius and the bishop's seat was moved to Porrentury. The bishop's crook was however retained as the city's coat of arms.
The first edition of Christianae religionis institutio (Institutes of the Christian Religion – John Calvin's great exposition of Calvinist doctrine) was published at Basel in March 1536.[14]
In 1544, Johann von Brugge a rich Dutch Protestant refugee was given citizenship and lived respectfully until his death in 1556 then buried with honors. His body was exhumed and burnt at the stake in 1559 after it was discovered that he was the Anabaptist David Joris.[9]
In 1543 De humani corporis fabrica, the first book on human anatomy, was published and printed in Basel by Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564).[15]
There are indications Joachim Meyer, author of the influential 16th century martial arts text Kunst des Fechten ("The Art of Fencing") came from Basel. In 1662 the Amerbaschsches Kabinett was established in Basel as the first public museum of art. Its collection became the core of the later Basel Museum of Art.
Modern history[link]
In 1792 the Republic of Rauracia, a revolutionary French client republic, was created. It lasted until 1793.[16] After three years of political agitation and a short civil war in 1833 the disadvantaged countryside seceded from the Canton of Basel, forming the half canton of Basel-Landschaft.[17]
On July 3, 1874 Switzerland's first zoo (the Zoo Basel) opened its doors in the south of the city towards Binningen.
Basel as international meeting place[link]
Basel has often been the site of peace negotiations and other international meetings. The Treaty of Basel (1499) ended the Swabian War. Two years later Basel joined the Swiss Confederation. The Peace of Basel in 1795 between the French Republic and Prussia and Spain ended the First Coalition against France during the French Revolutionary Wars. In more recent times, the World Zionist Organization held its first congress in Basel on September 3, 1897. Because of the Balkan Wars, the Second International held an extraordinary congress at Basel in 1912. In 1989, the Basel Convention was opened for signature with the aim of preventing the export of hazardous waste from wealthy to developing nations for disposal.
Geography[link]
Basel has an area, as of 2009[update], of 23.91 square kilometers (9.23 sq mi). Of this area, 0.95 km2 (0.37 sq mi) or 4.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.88 km2 (0.34 sq mi) or 3.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 20.67 km2 (7.98 sq mi) or 86.4% is settled (buildings or roads), 1.45 km2 (0.56 sq mi) or 6.1% is either rivers or lakes.[18]
Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 10.2% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 40.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 24.0%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 2.7% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 8.9%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 2.5% is used for growing crops and 1.3% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.[18]
Coat of arms[link]
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is In Silber ein schwarzer Baselstab.[19]
Climate[link]
Basel has an average of 121.4 days of rain or snow per year and on average receives 778 mm (30.6 in) of precipitation. The wettest month is June during which time Basel receives an average of 87 mm (3.4 in) of rain or snow. During this month there is precipitation for an average of 10.9 days. The month with the most days of precipitation is May, with an average of 12.6, but with only 84 mm (3.3 in) of rain or snow. The driest month of the year is February with an average of 49 mm (1.9 in) of precipitation over 9.4 days.[20]
| Climate data for Basel/Binningen | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 3.6 (38.5) |
5.8 (42.4) |
9.9 (49.8) |
14 (57) |
18.4 (65.1) |
21.7 (71.1) |
24.2 (75.6) |
23.5 (74.3) |
20.3 (68.5) |
14.8 (58.6) |
8.3 (46.9) |
4.5 (40.1) |
14.1 (57.4) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 0.9 (33.6) |
2.4 (36.3) |
5.6 (42.1) |
9.1 (48.4) |
13.1 (55.6) |
16.3 (61.3) |
18.5 (65.3) |
17.7 (63.9) |
14.8 (58.6) |
10.1 (50.2) |
4.9 (40.8) |
1.8 (35.2) |
9.6 (49.3) |
| Average low °C (°F) | −1.9 (28.6) |
−0.7 (30.7) |
1.7 (35.1) |
4.4 (39.9) |
8.1 (46.6) |
11.1 (52.0) |
13.0 (55.4) |
12.8 (55.0) |
10.4 (50.7) |
6.6 (43.9) |
2.0 (35.6) |
−0.8 (30.6) |
5.6 (42.1) |
| Precipitation mm (inches) | 51 (2.01) |
49 (1.93) |
51 (2.01) |
64 (2.52) |
84 (3.31) |
87 (3.43) |
79 (3.11) |
87 (3.43) |
62 (2.44) |
51 (2.01) |
59 (2.32) |
54 (2.13) |
778 (30.63) |
| Avg. precipitation days | 10.1 | 9.4 | 10.8 | 11.3 | 12.6 | 10.9 | 9.5 | 10.3 | 8.3 | 8.4 | 10 | 9.8 | 121.4 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 58 | 81 | 121 | 149 | 171 | 185 | 219 | 203 | 168 | 120 | 70 | 53 | 1,599 |
| Source: MeteoSchweiz[20] | |||||||||||||
Transportation[link]
Basel's airport is set up for airfreight; heavy goods reach the city and the heart of continental Europe from the North Sea by ship along the Rhine. The main European routes for the highway and railway transportation of freight cross in Basel. The outstanding location benefits logistics corporations, which operate globally from Basel. Trading firms are traditionally well represented in the Basel Region.
Port[link]
Basel has Switzerland's only cargo port, through which goods pass along the navigable stretches of the Rhine and connect to ocean-going ships at the port of Rotterdam.
Air transport[link]
EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg is operated jointly by two countries, France and Switzerland. Contrary to popular belief, the airport is located completely on French soil. The airport itself is split into two architecturally independent sectors, one half serving the French side and the other half serving the Swiss side; prior to Schengen there was a customs point at the middle of the airport so that people could "emigrate" to the other side of the airport.
Railway[link]
Basel has long held an important place as a rail hub. Three railway stations — those of the German, French and Swiss networks — lie within the city (although the Swiss (Basel SBB) and French (Bâle SNCF) stations are actually in the same complex, separated by Customs and Immigration facilities). Basel Badischer Bahnhof is on the opposite side of the city. Basel's local rail services are supplied by the Basel Regional S-Bahn. The largest goods railway complex of the country[citation needed] is located just outside the city, spanning the municipalities of Muttenz and Pratteln. The new highspeed ICE railway line from Karlsruhe to Basel was completed in 2008 while phase I of the TGV Rhin-Rhône line, opened in December 2011, has reduced travel time from Basel to Paris to about 3 hours.[21]
Roads[link]
Basel is located on the A3 motorway.
Within the city limits, five bridges connect greater and lesser Basel, from upstream to downstream:
- Schwarzwaldbrücke (built 1972)
- Wettsteinbrücke (current structure built 1998, original bridge built 1879)
- Mittlere Brücke (current structure built 1905, original bridge built 1225 as the first bridge to cross the Rhine River)
- Johanniterbrücke (built 1967)
- Dreirosenbrücke (built 2004, original bridge built 1935)
Ferries[link]
A somewhat anachronistic yet still widely used system of ferry boats links the two shores. There are four ferries, each situated approximately midway between two bridges. Each is attached by a cable to a block that rides along another cable spanning the river at a height of 20 or 30 metres. To cross the river, the ferryman orients the boat around 45° from the current so that the current pushes the boat across the river. This form of transportation is therefore completely hydraulically driven, requiring no outside energy source. [1]
Public transport[link]
Basel has an extensive public transportation network serving the city and connecting to surrounding suburbs, including a large tram network. The green-colored local trams and buses are operated by the Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe (BVB). The yellow-colored buses and trams are operated by the Baselland Transport (BLT), and connect areas in the nearby half-canton of Baselland to central Basel. The BVB also shares commuter bus lines in cooperation with transit authorities in the neighboring Alsace region in France and Baden region in Germany. The Basel Regional S-Bahn, the commuter rail network connecting to suburbs surrounding the city, is jointly operated by SBB, SNCF and DB.
Border crossings[link]
Basel is located at the meeting point of France, Germany and Switzerland and has numerous road and rail crossings between Switzerland and the other two countries. With Switzerland joining the Schengen Area on December 12, 2008, immigration checks were no longer carried out at the crossings. However, Switzerland did not join the EU customs regime and customs checks are still conducted at or near the crossings.
France-Switzerland (from east to west)
- Road crossings (with French road name continuation)
- Kohlenstrasse (Avenue de Bâle, Huningue). This crossing replaces the former crossing Hüningerstrasse further east.
- Elsässerstrasse (Avenue de Bâle, Saint-Louis)
- Autobahn A3 (A35 autoroute, Saint-Louis)
- EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg – pedestrian walkway between the French and Swiss sections on Level 3 (departures) of airport.
- Burgfelderstrasse (Rue du 1er Mars, Saint Louis)
- Railway crossing
Germany-Switzerland (clockwise, from north to south)
- Road crossings (with German road name continuation)
- Hiltalingerstrasse (Zollstraße, Weil am Rhein). A tram line extension to Weil am Rhein is currently under construction along this road. Due to open December 2012.[22]
- Autobahn A2 (Autobahn A5, Weil am Rhein)
- Freiburgerstrasse (Baslerstraße, Weil am Rhein)
- Weilstrasse, Riehen (Haupstraße, Weil am Rhein)
- Lörracherstrasse, Riehen (Baslerstraße, Stetten, Lörrach)
- Inzlingerstrasse, Riehen (Riehenstraße, Inzlingen)
- Grenzacherstrasse (Hörnle, Grenzach-Wyhlen)
- Railway crossing
- Between Basel SBB and Basel Badischer Bahnhof – Basel Badischer Bahnhof, and all other railway property and stations on the right bank of the Rhine belong to DB and are classed as German customs territory. Immigration and customs checks are conducted at the platform exit tunnel for passengers leaving trains here.
Additionally there are many footpaths and cycle tracks crossing the border between Basel and Germany.
Demographics[link]
Basel has a population (as of March 2012[update]) of 170,635.[1] As of 2008[update], 32.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals.[23] Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of -0.3%. It has changed at a rate of 3.2% due to migration and at a rate of -3% due to births and deaths.[24]
Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (129,592 or 77.8%), with Italian being second most common (9,049 or 5.4%) and French being third (4,280 or 2.6%). There are 202 people who speak Romansh.[25]
Of the population in the municipality 58,560 or about 35.2% were born in Basel and lived there in 2000. There were 1,396 or 0.8% who were born in the same canton, while 44,874 or 26.9% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 53,774 or 32.3% were born outside of Switzerland.[25]
In 2008[update] there were 898 live births to Swiss citizens and 621 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 1,732 deaths of Swiss citizens and 175 non-Swiss citizen deaths. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 834 while the foreign population increased by 446. There were 207 Swiss men and 271 Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland. At the same time, there were 1756 non-Swiss men and 1655 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was an increase of 278 and the non-Swiss population increased by 1138 people. This represents a population growth rate of 0.9%.[23]
As of 2000[update], there were 70,502 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 70,517 married individuals, 12,435 widows or widowers and 13,104 individuals who are divorced.[25]
As of 2000[update] the average number of residents per living room was 0.59 which is about equal to the cantonal average of 0.58 per room.[24] In this case, a room is defined as space of a housing unit of at least 4 m2 (43 sq ft) as normal bedrooms, dining rooms, living rooms, kitchens and habitable cellars and attics.[26] About 10.5% of the total households were owner occupied, or in other words did not pay rent (though they may have a mortgage or a rent-to-own agreement).[27]
As of 2000[update], there were 86,371 private households in the municipality, and an average of 1.8 persons per household.[24] There were 44,469 households that consist of only one person and 2,842 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 88,646 households that answered this question, 50.2% were households made up of just one person and there were 451 adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 20,472 married couples without children, 14,554 married couples with children There were 4,318 single parents with a child or children. There were 2,107 households that were made up of unrelated people and 2,275 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.[25]
In 2000[update] there were 5,747 single family homes (or 30.8% of the total) out of a total of 18,631 inhabited buildings. There were 7,642 multi-family buildings (41.0%), along with 4,093 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (22.0%) and 1,149 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (6.2%). Of the single family homes 1090 were built before 1919, while 65 were built between 1990 and 2000. The greatest number of single family homes (3,474) were built between 1919 and 1945.[28]
In 2000[update] there were 96,640 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 3 rooms of which there were 35,958. There were 11,957 single room apartments and 9,702 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 84,675 apartments (87.6% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 7,916 apartments (8.2%) were seasonally occupied and 4,049 apartments (4.2%) were empty.[28] As of 2009[update], the construction rate of new housing units was 2.6 new units per 1000 residents.[24]
As of 2003[update] the average price to rent an average apartment in Basel was 1118.60 Swiss francs (CHF) per month (US$890, £500, €720 approx. exchange rate from 2003). The average rate for a one room apartment was 602.27 CHF (US$480, £270, €390), a two room apartment was about 846.52 CHF (US$680, £380, €540), a three room apartment was about 1054.14 CHF (US$840, £470, €670) and a six or more room apartment cost an average of 2185.24 CHF (US$1750, £980, €1400). The average apartment price in Basel was 100.2% of the national average of 1116 CHF.[29] The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2010[update], was 0.74%.[24]
Historic Population[link]
The historical population is given in the following chart:[30] <timeline> Colors=
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color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1850 from:start till:27844 text:"27,844" bar:1860 from:start till:38692 text:"38,692" bar:1870 from:start till:44868 text:"44,868" bar:1880 from:start till:61737 text:"61,737" bar:1888 from:start till:71131 text:"71,131" bar:1900 from:start till:109161 text:"109,161" bar:1910 from:start till:132276 text:"132,276" bar:1920 from:start till:135976 text:"135,976" bar:1930 from:start till:148063 text:"148,063" bar:1941 from:start till:162105 text:"162,105" bar:1950 from:start till:183543 text:"183,543" bar:1960 from:start till:206746 text:"206,746" bar:1970 from:start till:212857 text:"212,857" bar:1980 from:start till:182143 text:"182,143" bar:1990 from:start till:178428 text:"178,428" bar:2000 from:start till:166558 text:"166,558"
</timeline>
Economy[link]
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As of 2010[update], Basel had an unemployment rate of 4.2%. As of 2008[update], there were 18 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 9 businesses involved in this sector. 34,645 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 1,176 businesses in this sector. 120,130 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 8,908 businesses in this sector.[24] There were 82,449 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 46.2% of the workforce.
In 2008[update] the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 130,988. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 13, of which 10 were in agriculture and 4 were in forestry or lumber production. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 33,171 of which 24,848 or (74.9%) were in manufacturing, 10 were in mining and 7,313 (22.0%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 97,804. In the tertiary sector; 12,880 or 13.2% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 11,959 or 12.2% were in the movement and storage of goods, 6,120 or 6.3% were in a hotel or restaurant, 4,186 or 4.3% were in the information industry, 10,752 or 11.0% were the insurance or financial industry, 13,695 or 14.0% were technical professionals or scientists, 6,983 or 7.1% were in education and 16,060 or 16.4% were in health care.[31]
In 2000[update], there were 121,842 workers who commuted into the municipality and 19,263 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 6.3 workers entering the municipality for every one leaving. About 23.9% of the workforce coming into Basel are coming from outside Switzerland, while 1.0% of the locals commute out of Switzerland for work.[32] Of the working population, 49.2% used public transportation to get to work, and 18.7% used a private car.[24]
An annual Federal Swiss trade fair (Mustermesse) takes place in Kleinbasel on the right bank of the Rhine. Other important trade shows include "BaselWorld" (watches and jewelry), Art Basel, Orbit and Cultura.
The Swiss chemical industry operates largely from Basel, and Basel also has a large pharmaceutical industry. Novartis,[33] Syngenta, Ciba Specialty Chemicals,[34] Clariant,[35] Hoffmann-La Roche,[33] Basilea Pharmaceutica and Actelion are headquartered there. Pharmaceuticals and specialty chemicals have become the modern focus of the city's industrial production.
Banking is extremely important to Basel:
- UBS AG maintains central offices in Basel,[36]
- The Bank for International Settlements is located within the city and is the central banker's bank. The bank is controlled by a board of directors, which is composed of the elite central bankers of 11 different countries (US, UK, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Sweden).
- According to the BIS, "The choice of Switzerland for the seat of the BIS was a compromise by those countries that established the BIS: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. When consensus could not be reached on locating the Bank in London, Brussels or Amsterdam, the choice fell on Switzerland. An independent, neutral country, Switzerland offered the BIS less exposure to undue influence from any of the major powers. Within Switzerland, Basel was chosen largely because of its location, with excellent railway connections in all directions, especially important at a time when most international travel was by train."[37]
- Created in May 1930, the BIS is owned by its member central banks, which are private entities. No agent of the Swiss public authorities may enter the premises without the express consent of the bank[citation needed]. The bank exercises supervision and police power over its premises. The bank enjoys immunity from criminal and administrative jurisdiction[citation needed], as well as setting recommendations which become standard for the world's commercial banking system.
- Basel is also the location of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, which is distinct from the BIS. It usually meets at the BIS premises in Basel. Responsible for the Basel Accords (Basel I and Basel II), this organization fundamentally changed Risk Management within its industry.
Basel has Switzerland's second tallest building (Basler Messeturm / 105m) and Switzerland's tallest tower (St. Chrischona TV tower / 250m).
Swiss International Air Lines, the national airline of Switzerland, is headquartered on the grounds of EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg in Saint-Louis, Haut-Rhin, France, near Basel.[38][39][40] Prior to the formation of Swiss International Air Lines, the regional airline Crossair was headquartered near Basel.[41]
Quarters[link]
Basel is subdivided into 19 quarters (Quartiere). The municipalities of Riehen and Bettingen, outside the city limits of Basel, are included in the canton of Basel-City as rural quarters (Landquartiere).
| Quartier | Area | Population March 2012[1] |
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| Altstadt Grossbasel (central Grossbasel) | 37.63 | 2,044 | 5,432 |
| Vorstädte (Suburbs) | 89.66 | 4,638 | 5,173 |
| Am Ring | 90.98 | 10,512 | 11,554 |
| Breite | 68.39 | 8,655 | 12,655 |
| St. Alban | 294.46 | 10,681 | 3,633 |
| Gundeldingen | 123.19 | 18,621 | 15,140 |
| Bruderholz | 259.61 | 9,006 | 3,477 |
| Bachletten | 151.39 | 13,330 | 8,830 |
| Gotthelf | 46.62 | 6,784 | 14,552 |
| Iselin | 109.82 | 16,181 | 14,840 |
| St. Johann | 223.90 | 18,560 | 8,323 |
| Altstadt Kleinbasel (central Kleinbasel) | 24.21 | 2,276 | 9,401 |
| Clara | 23.66 | 4,043 | 17,090 |
| Wettstein | 75.44 | 5,386 | 7,139 |
| Hirzbrunnen | 305.32 | 8,676 | 2,845 |
| Rosental | 64.33 | 5,180 | 8,052 |
| Mattäus | 59.14 | 16,056 | 27,149 |
| Klybeck | 91.19 | 7,234 | 7,933 |
| Kleinhüningen | 136.11 | 2,772 | 2,038 |
| City of Basel | 2275.05 | 170,635[1] | 7,517 |
| Bettingen | 222.69 | 1,183[1] | 538 |
| Riehen | 1086.10 | 20,763[1] | 1,923 |
| Canton of Basel-City | 3583.84 | 192,581[1] | 5,379 |
Religion[link]
From the 2000 census[update], 41,916 or 25.2% were Roman Catholic, while 39,180 or 23.5% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 4,567 members of an Orthodox church (or about 2.74% of the population), there were 459 individuals (or about 0.28% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 3,464 individuals (or about 2.08% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 1,325 individuals (or about 0.80% of the population) who were Jewish, and 12,368 (or about 7.43% of the population) who were Islamic. There were 746 individuals who were Buddhist, 947 individuals who were Hindu and 485 individuals who belonged to another church. 52,321 (or about 31.41% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 8,780 individuals (or about 5.27% of the population) did not answer the question.[25]
Main sights[link]
The red sandstone Münster, one of the foremost late-Romanesque/early Gothic buildings in the Upper Rhine, was badly damaged in the great earthquake of 1356, rebuilt in the fourteenth and 15th century, extensively reconstructed in the mid-nineteenth century and further restored in the late twentieth century.[42] A memorial to Erasmus lies inside the Münster. The City Hall from the 16th century is located on the Market Square and is decorated with fine murals on the outer walls and on the walls of the inner court.
Basel is also host to an array of buildings by internationally renowned architects. These include the Beyeler Foundation by Renzo Piano, or the Vitra complex in nearby Weil am Rhein, composed of buildings by architects such as Zaha Hadid (fire station), Frank Gehry (design museum), Alvaro Siza Vieira (factory building) and Tadao Ando (conference centre). Basel also features buildings by Mario Botta (Jean Tinguely Museum and Bank of International settlements) and Herzog & de Meuron (whose architectural practice is in Basel, and who are best known as the architects of Tate Modern in London). The city received the Wakker Prize in 1996.
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Heritage sites[link]
Basel features a great number of heritage sites of national significance.[43]
These include the entire Old Town of Basel as well as the following buildings and collections:
- Churches and monasteries
- Old Catholic Prediger Church, Bischofshof with Collegiate church at Rittergasse 1, Domhof at Münsterplatz 10–12, Former Carthusian House of St Margarethental, Catholic Church of St Antonius, Lohnhof (Former Augustinians Collegiate Church), Mission 21, Archive of the evangelischen Missionswerks Basel, Münster (Cathedral), Reformed Elisabethenkirche, Reformed Johanneskirche, Reformed Leonhardskirche (former Augustinians Abbey), Reformed Martinskirche, Reformed Pauluskirche, Reformed Peterskirche, Reformed St. Albankirche with cloister and cemetrery, Reformed Theodorskirche, Synagoge at Eulerstrasse 2
- Secular buildings
- Badischer Bahnhof (Train Station) with Fountain, Bank for International Settlements, Blaues Haus (Reichensteinerhof) at Rheinsprung 16, Bruderholzschul House at Fritz-Hauser-Strasse 20, Brunschwiler House at Hebelstrasse 15, Bandesbahnhof SBB (Train Station), Bürgerspital, Café Spitz (Merianflügel), Coop Schweiz Company's Central Archive, Depot of the Archäologischen Bodenforschung des Kantons, Former Gallizian Paper Mill and Swiss Museum of Paper, Former Klingental-Kaserne with Klingental Church, Fasnachtsbrunnen (Fountain), Feuerschützenhaus (Fire Station) at Schützenmattstrasse 56, Fischmarktbrunnen (fountain), Geltenzunft at Marktplatz 13, Gymnasium (School) am Kohlenberg (St Leonhard), Hauptpost (Main Post Office), House zum Raben at Aeschenvorstadt 15, Hohenfirstenhof at Rittergasse 19, Holsteinerhof at Hebelstrasse 30, Mittlere Rhein Brücke (Mid-Rhine Bridge) Music Hall at Steinenberg 14, Ramsteinerhof at Rittergasse 7 and 9, Rathaus (Town Hall), Rundhof Building of the Schweizerischen Mustermesse, Safranzunft at Gerbergasse 11, Sandgrube at Riehenstrasse 154, Schlösschen (Manor House) Gundeldingen, Schönes Haus and Schöner Hof at Nadelberg 6, Wasgenring Schoolhouse, Seidenhof with painting of Rudolf von Habsburg, Spalenhof at Spalenberg 12, Spiesshof at Heuberg 7, City Walls, Townhouse (formerly Post Office) at Stadthausgasse 13 / Totengässlein 6, Weisses House at Martinsgasse 3, Wildtsches House at Petersplatz 13, House Zum Neuen Singer at Speiserstrasse 98, Wolfgottesacker at Münchensteinerstrasse 99, Zerkindenhof at Nadelberg 10
- Archaeological sites
- the Celtic Settlement at Gasfabrik, Münsterhügel and Old City (Late La Tène and medieval settlement)
- Museums, archives and collections
- Anatomical Museum of the University Basel, Berri-Villen and Museum of Ancient Art and Ludwig Collection, Former Franciscan Barefoot Order Church and Basel Historical Museum, Company Archive of Novartis, House zum Kirschgarten which is part of the Basel Historical Museum, Historic Archive Roche and Industrial Complex Hoffmann-La Roche, Jewish Museum of Switzerland, Caricature & Cartoon Museum Basel, Karl Barth-Archive, Kleines Klingental (Lower Klingen Valley) with Museum Klingental, Art Museum with Copperplate Collection, Natural History Museum of Basel and the Museum of Cultures Basel, Museum of Culture and Natural History, Museum of Modern Art Basel with the E. Hoffmann collection, St. Alban-Rheinweg 60, Museum Jean Tinguely Basel, Music Museum, Pharmacy Historical Museum of the Universität Basel, Poster Collection of the Schule für Gestaltung (School for Design), Swiss Business Archives, Sculpture Hall,Sports Museum of Switzerland, Archives of the Canton of Basel-Stadt, UBS AG Corporate Archives, University Library with manuscripts and music collection, Zoologischer Garten
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Mittlere Rhein Brücke (Mid-Rhine Bridge)
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Kunstmuseum Basel
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House zum Kirschgarten
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Former Franciscan Barefoot Order Church
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Basel SBB railway station
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Berri-Villen and Antikenmuseum Basel
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Bank for International Settlements
Education[link]
Basel hosts Switzerland's oldest university, the University of Basel, dating from 1460. Erasmus, Paracelsus, Daniel Bernoulli, Leonhard Euler, Jacob Burckhardt, and Friedrich Nietzsche worked here. More recently, its work in tropical medicine has gained prominence.
In 2007, the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) established the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering (D-BSSE) in Basel. The creation of the D-BSSE was driven by a Swiss-wide research initiative SystemsX, and was jointly supported by funding from the ETH Zurich, the Swiss Government, the Swiss University Conference (SUC) and private industry.[44]
Basel is renowned for various scientific societies, as the Entomological Society of Basel (Entomologische Gesellschaft Basel, EGB), which celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2005.[45]
Basel counts several International Schools, including the International School of Basel, the Schule für Gestaltung Basel, the Minerva School and the Rhine Academy.
In Basel about 57,864 or (34.7%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 27,603 or (16.6%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 27,603 who completed tertiary schooling, 44.4% were Swiss men, 31.1% were Swiss women, 13.9% were non-Swiss men and 10.6% were non-Swiss women.[25]
As of 2000[update], there were 5,820 students in Basel who came from another municipality, while 1,116 residents attended schools outside the municipality.[32]
Basel is home to at least 65 libraries. Some of the largest include; the Universitätsbibliothek Basel (main university library), the special libraries of the Universität Basel, the Allgemein Bibliotheken der GGG Basel, the Library of the Pädagogische Hochschule, the Library of the Hochschule für Soziale Arbeit and the Library of the Hochschule für Wirtschaft. There was a combined total (as of 2008[update]) of 8,443,643 books or other media in the libraries, and in the same year a total of 1,722,802 items were loaned out.[46]
Politics[link]
Geo-politically, the city of Basel functions as the capital of the Swiss half-canton of Basel-Stadt, though several of its suburbs form part of the half-canton of Basel-Landschaft or of the canton of Aargau (or of France or Germany).
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SP which received 37.1% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (18.08%), the Green Party (12.97%) and the FDP (10.99%). In the federal election, a total of 51,012 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 51.4%.[47]
Energy[link]
Basel is at the forefront of a national vision to more than halve energy use in Switzerland by 2050. In order to research, develop and commercialise the technologies and techniques required for the country to become a '2000 Watt society', a number of projects have been set up since 2001 in the Basel metropolitan area. These including demonstration buildings constructed to MINERGIE or Passivhaus standards, electricity generation from renewable energy sources,[48] and vehicles using natural gas, hydrogen and biogas.[49]
An hot dry rock geothermal energy project was cancelled in 2009 since it caused induced seismicity in Basel.
Notable people born or resident in Basel[link]
- Chiara Banchini (born 1946), violinist and conductor.
- Tilo Wolff (born 1972), industrial producer, vocalist and keyboards (Hall of Sermon, Lacrimosa, Snakeskin)
- Ana Ivanovic (born 1987), tennis player.
- Karl Barth (1886–1968), Reformed Protestant theologian.
- Bernoulli family
- Daniel Bernoulli (1700–1782), mathematician.
- James Bernoulli (1654–1705), mathematician.
- Johann Bernoulli (1667–1748), mathematician.
- Peter Birkhäuser (1911–1976), painter.
- Gottlieb Burckhardt (1836–1907), psychiatrist, father of modern psychosurgery.
- Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897), historian, theologian, philosopher.
- Florian Burkhardt (born 1974), composer, author.
- John Calvin (born 1509), minister.
- Arthur Cohn (born 1927), film producer.
- Jean Daetwyler (1907–1994), alphorn composer.
- Eren Derdiyok (born 1988), footballer.
- Erasmus (c.1466–1536), Biblical scholar, humanist, theologian.
- Leonhard Euler (1707–1783), mathematician.
- Roger Federer (born 1981), tennis player.
- John Foxe (1517–1587), English Protestant and Marian exile.
- Alexander Frei (born 1979), footballer.
- Katy French (1983–2007), model and socialite.
- Urs Graf (1485-possibly 1530), Renaissance print-maker and artist.
- Georg Friedrich Haas (born 1953), Austrian composer.
- Jakob Emanuel Handmann (1718–1781), painter.
- Johann Peter Hebel (1760–1826), poet and author.
- Albert Hofmann (1906–2008), chemist, discoverer of LSD.
- Agostino Imondi (1975), filmmaker
- Niels Kai Jerne (1911–1994), immunologist
- Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961), psychiatrist.
- Lucius Munatius Plancus (c.87 BC–c.15 BC), Basel's founder.
- Christoph Merian (1800–1858), banker and businessman.
- Joachim Meyer (c.1537?–1571), fencer and author.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher.
- Paracelsus (1493–1541), scientist.
- Ricco (1915–1972), painter.
- Leonhard Thurneysen (1531–1596), alchemist.
- Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998), religious philosopher.
- Adrian Sieber (born 1972), singer.
- Hopkinson Smith (born 1946), American lutenist.
- Andreas Vesalius (1446), pioneering anatomist.
- Gustav Bertha (Gordon Bell) (born 1969), singer-songwriter.
- Hakan Yakin (born 1977), footballer.
- Alice Eckenstein (1890–1984), Swiss child rescuer in occupied Belgium during WW I.
- Andreas Lüscher (born 1961), architect, professor and author
- Caroline Jaden Stussi, actress
Sport[link]
Basel has a reputation in Switzerland as a successful sporting city. The football club FC Basel continues to be successful and in recognition of this the city was one of the Swiss venues for the 2008 European Championships, as well as Geneva, Zurich and Bern. The championships were jointly hosted by Switzerland and Austria. BSC Old Boys and Concordia Basel are the other football teams in Basel.
Basel features a large football stadium that has been awarded four stars by UEFA, a modern ice hockey hall, and an admitted sports hall.
A large indoor tennis event takes place in Basel every October. Some of the best ATP-Professionals play every year at the Swiss Indoors, including Switzerland's biggest sporting hero and frequent participant Roger Federer, a Basel native who describes the city as "one of the most beautiful cities in the world".
Culture[link]
Basel has a thriving cultural life. (In 1997, it contended to become the "European Capital of Culture", though the honor went instead to Thessaloniki) Basel is the home of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, founded in 1933, a worldwide centre for research on and performance of music from the Medieval through the Baroque eras. Theater Basel presents a busy schedule of plays in addition to being home to the city's opera and ballet companies. Basel is home to the largest orchestra in Switzerland, the Sinfonieorchester Basel. It is also the home of the Kammerorchester Basel, which is recording the complete symphonies of Ludwig van Beethoven for the Sony label led by its music director Giovanni Antonini. The baroque orchestras La Cetra and Capriccio Basel are also based in Basel. In May 2004, the fifth European Festival of Youth Choirs (Europäisches Jugendchorfestival, or EJCF) choir festival opened: this Basel tradition started in 1992. Host of this festival is the local Basel Boys Choir.
Events[link]
The carnival of the city of Basel (Basler Fasnacht) is a major cultural event in the year. The carnival is the biggest in Switzerland and attracts large crowds every year, despite the fact that it starts at exactly four in the morning (Morgestraich) on a winter Monday. The Fasnacht asserts Basel's Protestant history by commencing the revelry five days after Ash Wednesday and continuing day and night for exactly 72 hours. Almost all study and work in the old city cease. Dozens of fife and drum clubs parade in medieval guild tradition with fantastical masks and illuminated lanterns, eventually yielding to other loud and irreverent festivity. Basel is also host to the Basel Tattoo and a number of fairs.
Media[link]
Basler Zeitung ("BaZ") and TagesWoche are the local newspapers.
Cuisine[link]
There are a number of culinary specialties originating in Basel, including Basler Läckerli cookies and Mässmogge candies.
Zoo[link]
Zoo Basel is, with over 1.7 million visitors per year,[50] the most visited tourist attraction in Basel and the second most visited tourist attraction in Switzerland.[51]
Established in 1874, Zoo Basel is the oldest zoo in Switzerland and, by number of animals, the largest. Through its history, Zoo Basel has had several breeding successes, such as the first worldwide Indian rhinoceros birth[52] and Greater flamingo hatch[53] in a zoo. These and other achievements led Forbes Travel to rank Zoo Basel as one of the fifteen best zoos in the world in 2008.[54]
Despite its international fame, Basel's population remains attached to Zoo Basel, which is entirely surrounded by the city of Basel. Evidence of this is the millions of donations money each year, as well as Zoo Basel's unofficial name: locals lovingly call "their" zoo "Zolli" by which is it known throughout Basel and most of Switzerland.
Museums[link]
The Basel museums cover a broad and diverse spectrum of collections with a marked concentration in the fine arts. They house numerous holdings of international significance. The over three dozen institutions yield an extraordinarily high density of museums compared to other cities of similar size and draw over one million visitors annually.
Constituting an essential component of Basel culture and cultural policy, the museums are the result of closely interwoven private and public collecting activities and promotion of arts and culture going back to the 16th century. The public museum collection was first created back in 1661 and represents the oldest public collection in continuous existence. Since the late 1980s, various private collections have been made accessible to the public in new purpose-built structures that have been recognized as acclaimed examples of avant-garde museum architecture.
- Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig Ancient cultures of the mediterranean museum[55]
- Augusta Raurica Roman open-air museum[56]
- Basel Paper Mill (German: Basler Papiermühle)[57]
- Beyeler Foundation (Foundation Beyeler) Beyeler Museum (Fondation Beyeler)
- Botanical Garden Basel One of the oldest botanical gardens in the world
- Caricature & Cartoon Museum Basel (German: Karikatur & Cartoon Museum Basel)[58]
- Dollhouse Museum (German: Puppenhausmuseum)[59]
- Historical Museum Basel (German: Historisches Museum Basel)[60]
- Kunsthalle Basel Modern and contemporary art museum[61]
- Kunstmuseum Basel Upper Rhenish and Flemish paintings, drawings from 1400 to 1600 and 19th- to 21st-century art[62]
- Monteverdi Automuseum[63]
- Museum of Cultures Basel (German: Museum der Kulturen Basel) Large collections on European and non-Europeancultural life[64]
- Museum of Contemporary Art Art from the 1960s up to the present[65]
- Music Museum (German: Musikmuseum) of the Basel Historic Museum
- Natural History Museum of Basel (German: Naturhistorisches Museum Basel)[66]
- Pharmazie-Historisches Museum der Universität Basel[67]
- Puppenhausmuseum – a museum houring the largest teddy bear collection in Europe.
- Schaulager Modern and contemporary art museum[68]
- Swiss Architecture Museum (German: Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum)[69]
- Tinguely Museum Life and work of the major Swiss iron sculptor Jean Tinguely[70]
- Vitra Design Museum Museum in Weil am Rhein near Basel[71]
See also[link]
- Basel German (language)
Notes[link]
- ^ In the national languages of Switzerland the city is also known as Bâle [bɑl] (French), Basilea [baziˈlɛːa] (Italian) and Basilea [baziˈlɛːa] (Romansh)
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| Laura Pausini | |
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 Pausini on 30 April 2009, performing in Barcelona during her World Tour 2009 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Laura Alice Rossella Pausini |
| Born | (1974-05-16) 16 May 1974 (age 38) Solarolo, Province of Ravenna, Italy |
| Origin | Emilia–Romagna, Italy |
| Genres | Soul, pop, pop rock, Latin pop |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter, record producer |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 1993–present |
| Labels | CGD, CGD East West, Atlantic, Warner |
| Associated acts | Eros Ramazzotti, Hélène Segara, Andrea Bocelli, Tiziano Ferro |
| Website | www.laurapausini.com |
Laura Alice Rossella Pausini, omri (Italian pronunciation: [pauˈziːni]; born 16 May 1974) is an Italian soul singer-songwriter. She debuted in 1993, winning the newcomer artists' section of the 43rd Sanremo Music Festival with the song "La solitudine",[1] which became an Italian standard[2] and an international hit, reaching the top spot on the Italian Singles Chart[3] and the top 10 in France and the Netherlands.[4]
Her eponymous debut album was released in Italy on 18 May 1993 and later became an international success, selling two million copies worldwide.[5] Her second studio album, Laura, was released in 1994 and confirmed her success, selling 3,000,000 copies worldwide[6] and spawning the hit singles "Strani amori" and "Gente". In November 1994 she released her first Spanish language album, titled Laura Pausini and composed of ten songs included in her previous works. The album was certified Diamond by the Association of Phonographic and Videographic of Spain,[7] making her the first non-Spanish artist to sell more than 1,000,000 copies in Spain.[8]
During her career, she won three Latin Grammy Awards for Best Female Pop Vocal Album, with her records Escucha (2005),[9] Yo canto (2007)[10] and Primavera anticipada (2009).[11] On 8 February 2006 she also became the first Italian female artist to win a Grammy Award,[12] receiving the prize for Best Latin Pop Album with Escucha.[13] As of November 2011, she had released 10 Italian-language studio albums, 9 Spanish-language albums and a greatest hits album. In 2004, Allmusic's Jason Birchmeier considered Pausini's sales "an impressive feat for someone who'd never really broken into the lucrative English–language market".[14]
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Biography[link]
Childhood and early beginnings[link]
The elder of two daughters, Laura Pausini was born in Faenza (Province of Ravenna, Italy)[15] to Fabrizio Pausini and Gianna Ballardini[16] and raised in Solarolo.[17][A] Her first live performance was on 16 May 1985, when she sang together with her father in a piano bar in Bologna.[18] Since then, her father started giving her singing lessons[19] and she continued to perform alongside him in local piano bars. In the meanwhile, she also started singing in a church choir.[20]
In 1987 she recorded her first demo album, produced by her father and released to promote her live shows. Titled I sogni di Laura, it consisted of 8 covers and 5 new songs.[21] In 1991 she participated in the Castrocaro Music Festival singing Liza Minnelli's "New York, New York", but failed to reach the final stage of the competition.[18]
Career breakthrough: 1993[link]
Her career was launched in 1993, when she debuted in the newcomer artists' section of the 43rd San Remo Music Festival. On 27 February, she won the competition with her entry "La solitudine",[1] which later became one of her best-known hits.[22] In March 1993, the song peaked at number one on the Italian Singles Chart,[3] maintaining the top spot for three consecutive weeks.[23] Following the success obtained with her first single, she signed a contract with Warner Music Italy to produce her first professional album, Laura Pausini.[24] Released by CGD Records in May 1993,[17] the album reached the sixth position on the Italian Albums Chart,[25] selling 400,000 copies in Italy.[26]
In late 1993, the album was released in the rest of Europe, peaking at number three on the Dutch Albums Chart.[27] Moreover, "La solitudine" became a radio hit in Belgium and the Netherlands,[28] and peaked at number five on the French Singles Chart and at number two on the Dutch Singles Chart.[4]
The album also spawned the singles "Non c'è" and "Perché non torna più".
Spanish-language debut and international success: 1994–1995[link]
In February 1994, Pausini participated for the second time in the Sanremo Music Festival, competing in the "Big Artists" section with the song "Strani amori". The song ranked third in the competition[29] and was included in her second studio album, Laura, released in February 1994. According to CGD Records, the album sold 150,000 copies in Italy in its first week, with initial shipments of 200,000 copies.[30] It also peaked at number one on the Dutch Albums Chart and entered the charts in Belgium and Switzerland,[31] selling three million copies worldwide.[6] Other singles from the album were "Gente", "Lui non sta con te" and "Lettera".
In November 1994, Pausini released her first Spanish-language album, Laura Pausini, a compilation of ten adapted versions of hits from her first two Italian albums. The record became the best selling album of 1994 in Spain[32][33] and was later certified Diamond by the Association of Phonographic and Videographic of Spain,[7] selling more than 1,000,000 copies in Spain and making Pausini the first non-Spanish artist to achieve this result.[8]
The album was successful in Latin America too, being certified Platinum by the Argentine Chamber of Phonograms and Videograms Producers[34] and by the Asociación Colombiana de Productores de Fonogramas.[35] Moreover, the first four singles from the album, "La soledad", "Se fue", "Amores extraños" and "Gente", entered the Top 30 on the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks.[36] Thanks to these results, Billboard ranked Pausini the second female revelation of 1994, after Mariah Carey.[37][38] In 1995 Pausini also received the World Music Award for Best Selling Italian Recording Artist[39] and the Lo Nuestro Award for Best New Artist of the Year.[37][40]
Pausini's first record for the Anglophone market was a self-titled compilation released in 1995, including 9 Italian-language hits and an English-language version of her first single, "La solitudine (Loneliness)",[41] adapted by Tim Rice[42] and released as a single in the United Kingdom on 19 June 1995. However, the album and the single failed to chart.
[edit] Third album and World Wide Tour 1997: 1996–1997
Following the success obtained by Pausini's debut Spanish album, her third album was released in 1996 both in Italian and Spanish, starting "a practice that [has] come to define her career and compound her success".[14] The album, titled Le cose che vivi / Las cosas que vives, was released on 12 September 1996 and was preceded by the single "Incancellabile".[43] A special edition of the album was released in Brazil, featuring three additional bonus tracks in Portuguese.[44]
On 1 March 1997, Pausini launched from Ginevra the World Wide Tour in support of her new album, giving concerts around the world for four months.[45] The album sold 3,500,000 million copies worldwide[6] and was certified Platinum by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, for European sales exceeding 1,000,000 copies.[46]
[edit] La mia risposta / Mi respuesta and second World Tour: 1998–1999
In 1998, Pausini released La mia risposta / Mi respuesta, her fourth studio album, including a song penned by Phil Collins.[47] The album was dubbed by music critics as a mature work, with influences from soul music,[47] but was a moderate commercial success, selling two million copies worldwide.[6]
To promote the album, Pausini began in early 1999 the La mia risposta World Tour '99, during which she performed in theatres throughout Europe.[48] On 1 June 1999, she was one of the artists performing along with Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti in Modena during his annual "Pavarotti and Friends" concert.[49] Pavarotti and Pausini duetted in the Italian version of the aria Dein ist mein ganzes Herz, titled Tu che m'hai preso il cuor, from Franz Lehár's operetta Das Land des Lächelns. The live performance was later included in the album Pavarotti & Friends for the Children of Guatemala and Kosovo.[50]
In 1999 she also contributed the Richard Marx composition "One More Time" to the Message in a Bottle soundtrack.[51] The track was produced by David Foster[52] who was featured on piano.
[edit] Tra te e il mare / Entre tú y mil mares and greatest hits album: 2000–2001
In 2000, she recorded the song "The Extra Mile" for the soundtrack of the movie Pokémon 2000: The Power of One.[53][54] The song was included in the album Tra te e il mare / Entre tú y mil mares, released on 11 September 2000 and preceded by the homonymous single, written by the Italian pop singer Biagio Antonacci.[55] The album also features the song "Viaggio con te", awarded in 2001 with the Italian Lunezia Award for Best Songwriter of the Year.[56]
2001 saw the release of Pausini's first hits compilation both in Italian and Spanish: The Best of Laura Pausini: E ritorno da te / Lo mejor de Laura Pausini: Volveré junto a ti. The first single's video, "E ritorno da te" / "Volveré junto a ti", was filmed by Italian film director Gabriele Muccino.[57] The album also includes the single "Una storia che vale" and features guest appearances by Brazilian singer Gilberto Gil in "Seamisai"[58] and by Italian singer Nek, who plays the bass in "Non c'è".[59] Supported by the 2001/2002 World Tour, which started in Miami on 19 October 2001,[58] the greatest hits became one of Pausini's biggest commercial successes, selling 700,000 copies in Italy and 800,000 copies in France.[60]
On 30 November 2002, Pausini released Live 2001-2002 World Tour, her first live DVD, filmed during the concert she gave in Milan on 2 December 2001.[61][62]
[edit] From the Inside, the debut in the United States: 2002–2003
In 2001, Pausini started working with producers such as Patrick Leonard and John Shanks[63] on her first English language album, From the Inside.[64] Released in Canada, Mexico and the United States by Atlantic Records on 5 November 2002, the album did not get the expected success, selling 100,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen-Soundscan.[65] The album singles "Surrender" and "If That's Love" reached the top spot on the Hot Dance Club Songs Chart,[66] but Pausini, disappointed at her English language debut being ignored in the U.S. outside the club scene, abandoned the promotion for From the Inside.[67] The album was later released in Europe too, selling 800,000 copies worldwide.[60]
In 2003 Luciano Pavarotti invited her for the second time to the "Pavarotti and Friends" concert, where they duetted again in "Tu che m'hai preso il cuor".[68]
[edit] Resta in ascolto / Escucha and the Grammy: 2004–2005
In October 2004 Pausini released her eight studio album, Resta in ascolto / Escucha. Influenced by international artists including Phil Collins and Celine Dion,[69] the recording is on the subject of a break-up and was written in 2002, during her separation from her ex-boyfriend and producer Alfredo Cerruti.[70]
The album features the song "Mi abbandono a te" / "Me abandono a ti", co-written by Pausini, Rick Nowels and Madonna. It also includes the ballad "Vivimi" / "Viveme", written by Biagio Antonacci, and the single "Benedetta passione" / "Bendecida pasión", penned by Italian rock-star Vasco Rossi.[71] Well received by music critics,[72][73] the album is mainly focused on themes of anger, bitterness,[70] desire for independence[74] and interior peace,[71] but also features a song about the Iraq War, in which Pausini sings about Ali Ismail Abbas, a boy who was severely injured in a nighttime rocket attack near Baghdad in 2003.[75]
The album debuted at number one on the Italian Albums Chart[76] and sold 350,000 copies in Italy.[77] Its Spanish version later won Best Female Pop Vocal Album at the Latin Grammy Awards of 2005[9] and Best Latin Pop Album at the 48th Grammy Awards,[13] making Pausini the first Italian female artist to win a Grammy Award.[12]
Pausini made a guest appearance on Michael Bublé's 2005 live album Caught in the Act, singing a duet with Bublé of Lou Rawls' hit "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine". The duet was placed on both the audio CD, and the full concert DVD that aired on PBS as an episode of Great Performances.
At the 2006 Lo Nuestro Award, Pausini was nominated in the sections Album of the Year for Escucha, Song of the Year and Video of the Year for "Viveme"[78] and won the Award for Best Female Pop Artist.[79]
In January 2005, Pausini started a new tour to promote the album.[80] The concerts she gave at the Zénith de Paris on 22 and 23 March 2005 were filmed and released as a live album in November 2005, titled Live in Paris 05.[81]
[edit] Io canto and the concert in San Siro: 2006–2007
In November 2006, Pausini released the album Io canto / Yo canto, consisting of covers of Italian pop rock songs.[82] On the album liner notes, Pausini wrote: "here is the music I listen to when I'm at my saddest, or when I feel a moment is special, the songs I used to sing as a young girl when I first started performing, and above all those which taught me to love music, and how music can move you so deeply, regardless of its genre or style".[83]
The album also features duets with Tiziano Ferro, Juanes and Johnny Hallyday.[84] It debuted at number one on the Italian Albums Chart and held the top spot for 8 non-consecutive weeks.[85] It also became the best-selling album of 2006 in Italy, selling 500,000 copies in less than two months.[86] On 8 November 2007, the album won Best Female Pop Vocal Album at the Latin Grammy Awards.[10] Laura dedicated the award to the memory of Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti.[87][88] Later on during the show she sang "Vivere (Dare to Live)" alongside Italian singer Andrea Bocelli.[10]
In Summer 2006, Pausini played a Juntos en Concierto tour with Marc Anthony and Marco Antonio Solís,[89] consisting of 20 concerts throughout the United States.[90]
On 2 June 2007, Laura Pausini was the first female artist to play at the San Siro Stadium in Milan,[91] in front of a crowd of 70,000 spectators.[92] On 30 November 2007, the concert was released on CD and DVD, under the title San Siro 2007.[93]
[edit] Primavera in anticipo, Amiche per l'Abruzzo and Laura Live World Tour 09: 2008–2010
Pausini spent the first months of 2008 recording her tenth studio album, Primavera in anticipo / Primavera anticipada. The Spanish language edition of the album was released on 11 November 2008,[94] while the Italian language edition was released in Italy on 14 November 2008.[95] The album was preceded by the single "Invece no" / "En cambio no", released on 24 October 2008[96] and promoted with an appearance in Piazza Trinità dei Monti in Rome on 14 November 2008.[97] The album also features a the single "Primavera in anticipo (It Is My Song)" / Primavera anticipada (It Is My Song)", a duet with British singer-songwriter James Blunt.[98] In November 2009 the album won Best Female Album at the Latin Grammy Awards.[11] In 2010 Pausini also won the Lo Nuestro Award for Female Artist of the Year.[99]
On 21 June 2009, Pausini organized a mega-concert in the San Siro Stadium in Milan, raising money to support the victims of the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake. The concert, named Amiche per l'Abruzzo, involved 43 Italian female singers[100] and was later released on a DVD, which sold 250,000 copies in Italy.[101]
In the meanwhile, Pausini began on 5 March 2009 from Turin the World Tour 2009,[102] which reached Europe in May 2009[102] and then South America and the United States in Autumn 2009.[103][104] The last leg of the tour took place in Italy in November 2009.[105] A CD of the tour, along with a DVD, was released on 27 November 2009 with the title Laura Live World Tour 09 / Laura Live Gira Mundial 09.[106] The album also includes three new song, the singles "Con la musica alla radio" / "Con la musica en la radio", "Non sono lei" / "Ella no soy" and "Casomai" / "Menos mal".[106]
[edit] Inedito and the 2012 World Tour: 2011–present
On 30 December 2010, Pausini announced her eleventh studio album,[107] Inedito / Inédito, released both in Italian and Spanish on 11 November 2011.[108] The title and the tracklist of the album were announced through Pausini's website on 10 September 2011. The first single from the album, "Benvenuto" / "Bienvenido", was released on 12 September 2011.[109][110]
In order to promote the album, Pausini engaged the Inedito World Tour, starting with 11 shows in Italy in late December 2011.[111] The tour reached Latin America in January and February 2012,.[112] The European leg of her tour visited the principle arenas of France,Switzerland, Spain, Germany, Belgium and Holland, and concluded at the Royal Albert hall in London. ef>"Laura Pausini, le date del tour europeo" (in Italian). musica.excite.it. 11 April 2011. http://musica.excite.it/laura-pausini-tour-europeo-2011-tutte-le-N70779.html. Retrieved 30 July 2011. </ref>
The album also spawned the singles "Non ho mai smesso"[113] / "Jamás abandoné",[114] "Bastava" / "Bastaba"[115] and "Mi tengo" / "Me quedo".
Artistry[link]
Laura Pausini is described as a mezzo-soprano[116] with a classic and powerful voice.[117][118] Due to her voice, Pausini has been compared by music critics to various female artists, including Milva,[119] Celine Dion,[120][121] Mariah Carey[121] and Barbra Streisand.[122]
At the beginning of her career, she has been described by music critics as a teen idol[123] mainly singing about adolescent love affairs and problems.[124][125][126] She was also strongly criticized for her songs, described as too much melancholic[127] and trivial.[128] Starting from her 1998's La mia risposta / Mi respuesta, Italian music critics considered her as a more mature singer[124] and later praised her simplicity[129] and her voice,[130] describing Pausini as an interpret of her years.[131]
Although her music is mainly based on typical Italian melody,[132][133][134] her musical style evolved during her career, with influences from various genres, including Latin music,[135] soul music[8][47] and rock music.[136] According to Musica e dischi's Antonio Orlando, the key elements in Pausini's style are romanticism, optimism, melancholy and surrounding melodies.[137]
Starting from her 1996's album Le cose che vivi / Las cosas que vives, Pausini has also co-wrote most of her songs[137][138] and starting from her 1998's La mia risposta / Mi respuesta she has been involved in the production of her albums.[139]
Personal life[link]
Pausini left her hometown in 1995, when she moved to Milan with her partner, manager and producer Alfredo Cerruti Jr.[140][141] Their relationship ended in 2002. Between 2002 and 2005 Pausini was romantically involved with her new manager, Gabriele Parisi.[70] She is currently engaged with the Italian guitarist, composer, music producer and former singer Paolo Carta.[142][143]
Pausini describes herself as a Roman Catholic woman,[53][144] but expressed doubts about Roman Church's position on various themes, including contraception, abortion and premarital sex.[145] In September 2000 she explained her position during an interview to the Italian newspaper la Repubblica:[53]
I believe so much in God, and the Pope is the man I want to meet the most in the world. I've known him in 1996. I just have a few doubts about the Catholic Church, like for example the discrimination against homosexuals. I don't understand why they condemn racism, but at the same time they take issue with gay people.
Honours[link]
– Commander Order of Merit of the Italian Republic: Awarded the fourth highest civil honor in Italy, by President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi on 6 February 2006.
Discography[link]
Main article: Laura Pausini discography
- 1993: Laura Pausini
- 1994: Laura
- 1994: Laura Pausini (Spanish)
- 1996: Le cose che vivi / Las cosas que vives
- 1998: La mia risposta / Mi respuesta
- 2000: Tra te e il mare / Entre tú y mil mares
- 2002: From the Inside
- 2004: Resta in ascolto / Escucha
- 2006: Io canto / Yo canto
- 2008: Primavera in anticipo / Primavera anticipada
- 2011: Inedito / Inédito
Tours[link]
| Year | Title | Releases |
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| 1997 | World Wide Tour 1997 | None |
| 1999 | La mia risposta World Tour '99 | None |
| 2001 | 2001/2002 World Tour | DVD Live 2001-2002 World Tour |
| 2005 | World Tour '05 | CD/DVD, 2DVD, CD Live in Paris 05 |
| 2007 | Io canto tour | CD/DVD, CD, DVD San Siro 2007 |
| 2009–2010 | World Tour 2009 | CD/DVD Laura Live World Tour 09 |
| 2011–2012 | Inedito World Tour | TBA |
Awards[link]
Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Laura Pausini
| Awards and achievements | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Rosario Flores for De mil colores |
Latin Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album, Female 2005 for Escucha |
Succeeded by Shakira for Fijación Oral Vol. 1 |
| Preceded by Shakira for Fijación Oral Vol. 1 |
Latin Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album, Female 2007 for Yo canto |
Succeeded by Kany García for Cualquier Día |
| Preceded by Kany García for Cualquier Día |
Latin Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album, Female 2009 for Primavera anticipada |
Succeeded by Nelly Furtado for Mi Plan |
Notes[link]
- ^ Sources indicate different locations for Pausini's birth—The Comunes of Faenza and Solarolo, Ravenna, Italy. One state source, The Presidency of the Italian Republic, cites Faenza as the location of her birth.[146] In media interviews, however, Pausini consistently names Solarolo as her birthplace. Solarolo is located 5 miles from Faenza.[147][148][149][150]
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| Name | Pausini, Laura |
| Alternative names | Pausini, Laura Alice Rossella |
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| Date of birth | 16 May 1974 |
| Place of birth | Solarolo, Province of Ravenna, Italy |
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| Full name | Valentin Stocker | ||
| Date of birth | (1989-04-12) 12 April 1989 (age 23) | ||
| Place of birth | Lucerne, Switzerland | ||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Playing position | Left Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | FC Basel | ||
| Number | 14 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1996–2005 | SC Kriens | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 2005–2007 | FC Basel U-21 | 37 | (13) |
| 2007– | FC Basel | 112 | (31) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2007–2009 | Switzerland U-21 | 6 | (0) |
| 2008– | Switzerland | 9 | (3) |
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Valentin Stocker (born 12 April 1989 in Lucerne) is a Swiss international footballer who plays as a left midfielder for FC Basel in the Swiss Super League.
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Club[link]
Stocker began his youth career with SC Kriens, playing there between 1996 and December 2005. As of January 2006 he transferred to FC Basel and played for their U-21 team in the Swiss 1. Liga. He was called into the first team squad during the 2007/08 season after becoming one of the best midfielders in the reserve squad. He signed his first professional contract on his 18th Birthday.[1]
Stocker made his first team debut for FC Basel in the Swiss Cup semi final tie at home to FC Thun at St. Jakob Park on 27 Februar 2008 as Basel won 1:0.[2] He played his League debut on 2 March 2008 in the 3:1 away win also against Thun. In his third league game, on 16 March, he scored his first Super League goal against FC Sion, but he could not hinder the 4:2 away defeat. At the end of the 2007–08 Swiss Super League season and after the Swiss Cup Final, on 6 April, FC Basel won the national Double. In the League Stocker played eleven games, scoring three goals. In the last game of the season Valentin Stocker and Marco Streller scored the two goals in Basels 2:0 home win over BSC Young Boys and they won the championship by four points.[3]
During the 2008–09 Swiss Super League season Stocker played 32 games, scoring five goals, but Basel finished just third in the League table, qualifying for the Europa League. In the 2009–10 season Stocker played 31 League games, scoring 12 goals, and Basel again won the Double. In the Cup Final Stocker scored two goals as Basel won 6:0 against FC Lausanne-Sport.
In the 2010–11 season Stocker played 26 League games, marking seven goals, and he won his third Championship Medal with the Club. But Stocker injured himself on 23 April in the game against BSC Young Boys.[4] This was his 100th Super League match. The injury was a cruciate ligament rupture and was operated two days later.[5] His recovery times was estimated at six to seven months.
In the 2011-12 season he returned into the team on 3 December 2011 during the 1:0 home victory against FC Luzern and on the same day it was announced that his contract had been extended until the end of June 2016.[2] He was substituted in during the group stage of the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League 2-1 home win against Manchester United, as Basel qualified for the Knockout phase, sending United out of the competition. During the first leg match in the Round of 16 on 22 February 2012 against Bayern Munich he was substituted in and scored the winning goal.[6] At the end of the 2011–12 Swiss Super League season Stocker won his fourth League Championship title with Basel,[7] the third in a row. this was also his third Double because Basel also won theSwiss Cup [8]
International[link]
Stocker has played international football at various age levels, including Swiss Under-19s and Swiss U-21. He made his debut for Switzerland in Ottmar Hitzfeld's first match as manager, on 20 August 2008 in a 4–1 win over Cyprus at Stade de Genève. He also scored the opening goal of the match.
International goals[link]
- Scores and results list. Switzerland's goal tally first.
| # | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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| 1. | 20 August 2008 | Stade de Genève, Geneva |  Cyprus |
1–0 | 4–1 | Friendly |
| 2. | 12 October 2010 | St. Jakob Park, Basel |  Wales |
1–0 | 4–1 | EM-Qualifikation 2012 |
| 3. | 12 October 2010 | St. Jakob Park, Basel | Wales |
4–1 | 4–1 | EM-Qualifikation 2012 |
Titles and Honours[link]
- Team Awards
Basel
- Swiss Champion at U-18 level: 2006[4]
- Swiss Cup Winner at U-19/U-18 level: 2006[4]
- Swiss Super League: 2008, 2010, 2011 and 2012
- Swiss Cup: 2008, 2010, 2012
- Uhren Cup: 2008
- Individual Awards
Basel
- Swiss Youngster of the Year 2008/09
External links[link]
- Profile at FC Basel (German)
- Profile at Swiss Football League Website (German)
- Soccerway profile
References[link]
- ^ FC Basel 1893 (2007). "Profivertrag für FCB-Nachwuchsspieler Valentin Stocker". FC Basel 1893. http://www.fcb.ch/news/show/byItemID/-/10044/18162. Retrieved 2007-04-12. (German)
- ^ a b Meister, Remo (2011). "Vertragsverlängerung mit Valentin Stocker bis 2016". FC Basel 1893. http://www.fcb.ch/news/show/byItemID/de-de/10044/27090/26/7/7. Retrieved 2011-12-03. (German)
- ^ "Der FC Basel ist Schweizer Meister". Tagesanzeiger. 2008. http://sc.tagesanzeiger.ch/dyn/news/fussball/869171.html. Retrieved 2008-05-10. (German)
- ^ a b c Meister, Remo (2011). "Der FCB setzt ein starkes Zeichen". FC Basel 1893. http://www.fcb.ch/news/show/byItemID/-/10044/25831. Retrieved 2011-04-23. (German)
- ^ FC Basel 1893 (2011). "Valentin Stocker nach Kreuzbandriss erfolgreich operiert". FC Basel 1893. http://www.fcb.ch/news/show/byItemID/-/10044/25833. Retrieved 2011-04-25. (German)
- ^ James, Andy (2012). "Stocker secures Basel narrow lead over Bayern". eufa.com. http://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/season=2012/matches/round=2000264/match=2007670/postmatch/report/index.html. Retrieved 2012-02-22.
- ^ "Jetzt hat Basel den Titel auf sicher". football.ch. 2012. http://www.fcb.ch/news/show/byItemID/de-de/10044/27863/26/7/7. Retrieved 2012-04-29. (German)
- ^ "Matchtelegram FC Basel 1893 5:3 FC Luzern". football.ch. 2012. http://www.football.ch/sfv/chcup/de/telegramm.aspx?tg=1973921. Retrieved 2012-05-16. (German)
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| Persondata | |
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| Name | Stocker, Valentin |
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| Short description | footballer |
| Date of birth | 12 April 1989 |
| Place of birth | Kriens, Switzerland |
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