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Luzern: see Lucerne Lucerne (1990 pop. 59,115), which is on both banks of the Reuss where it flows out of the Lake of Lucerne. It is one of the largest resorts (mainly summer) in Switzerland and relies on tourism as the staple of its economy. ..... Click the link for more information. , Switzerland. LucerneGerman LuzernCity (pop., 2000: 59,496), central Switzerland. Located southwest of Zürich, on Lake Lucerne and its Reuss River outlet, it developed around an 8th-century monastery. It joined the Swiss Confederation in 1332. A stronghold of Catholicism during the Reformation, it later took part in the Sonderbund war. It is a tourist centre, with its medieval walls, towers, and covered bridges. Among its many monuments is the famous Lion of Lucerne, carved in rock, which commemorates the Swiss Guards slain while defending the Tuileries Palace in Paris in 1792. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Laboratoire de Recherches Veterinaires et Zootechniques de Farcha, N'Djamena, Chad; ([dagger]) Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland; ([double dagger]) Kantonsspital Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland; ([section]0 National Centre for Mycobacteria, Zurich, Switzerland; and ([pargraph]) Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Weybridge, United Kingdom Take, for example, "Transformer": Aspekte der Travestie," curated by Jean-Christophe Ammann, which ran from mid-March to mid-April 1974 at the Kunstmuseum Luzern, traveled, to Graz and to Bochum, and then, basically, disappeared into a poof of fairy dust. 1) Suva, Swiss National Accident Insurance Institute, Division of Occupational Medicine, Lucerne, Switzerland; (2) Institute of Pathology and Environmental Medicine, Kantonsspital Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland |
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