Recent Posts Tagged With 'swiss news'

• Caviar come to Switzerland

  Posted on Friday January 2nd, 2009 at 08:29 in sturgeon, fish species, swiss news, alpine caviar, black caviar, lotschberg rail, swiss caviar

  Warm water from springs and the Lötschberg rail base tunnel is being used for the project. Dmitri Pugovkin, who is a biologist from Siberia, catches an almost metre-long sturgeon in a net from the tank, grabs it forcefully but carefully and lays the...

• The First World Tour of Solar-Powered Car

  Posted on Friday December 19th, 2008 at 13:18 in click, solar powered car, solartaxi, louis palmer, swiss news, swiss engineer, the first solar powered car

  Swiss adventurer Louis Palmer poses for photographers inside his Solartaxi on December 17, 2008 in the southern German city of Stuttgart. A Swiss engineer completed Thursday the first ever round-the-world trip in a solar-powered car after more than 1...

• Star-Trek-style human teleportation

  Posted on Tuesday December 16th, 2008 at 03:48 in cryptography, entanglement, photon, quantum teleportation, swiss news, human teleportation, nicolas gisin, quantum memory, star trek like, swiss info

  Researchers at Geneva University have developed a “quantum memory“, capturing a single particle of light (a photon) in a crystal and then reproducing and retransmitting it. The findings, published in last week’s edition of the acad...

• Pacquiao-De la Hoya ‘Dream Match’ on

  Posted on Tuesday December 9th, 2008 at 06:50 in boxing, pacman vs golden boy, dela hoya vs pacquiao, manny pacquiao vs oscar de la hoya, swiss news, the dream match, pacquiao vs de la hoya replay

  source: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net INQUIRER.net First Posted 12:11:00 12/07/2008 MANILA, Philippines — The “Dream Match” between Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao and Oscar “Golden Boy” de la Hoya has begun at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Veg...

• The Legend of William Tell

  Posted on Monday December 8th, 2008 at 04:51 in william tell, guillaume, swiss news, cap of gessler, german playwright friedrich von schiller, itallian composer gioacchino rossini, legendary swiss patriot, swiss marksman, wilhelm tell

  William Tell, legendary Swiss patriot of the 14th century. According to tradition, Tell refused to salute the cap of Gessler, the despotic Austrian governor of his canton, Uri. Gessler then ordered Tell to shoot an arrow through an apple set upon ...

• Jailhouse in GENEVA.

  Posted on Wednesday December 3rd, 2008 at 03:05 in prison, prison guard, swiss news, swissinfo.org, jailguard, champ-dollon prison, most overcrowded jail, switzerland prison, jailhouse lock

  Prison guards strike over poor conditions. Prison wardens blocking the entrance to Champ-Dollon prison in Geneva on December 2. They are striking over working conditions and the conditions of those in custody. Champ-Dollon is Switzerland’s most...

• Zibelemärit (onion market)

  Posted on Monday November 24th, 2008 at 06:56 in swiss news, 4th mondy of november, bern folk festival, onion festival, onion market, the onion market

  Today is the Onion Festival here in Bern, Switzerland. Every 4th Monday of November, the people here celebrates this kind of festival where Onions are sold in Onion Market. And the people go to the market in the early morning and throw confetti. They...

• Shiva’s dance of life and death

  Posted on Saturday November 22nd, 2008 at 02:44 in music, dancer, dancing, statue, life and death, dancing shiva, hindu gods, lord of the dance, artefacts, cosmic dancer, rietberg museum, swiss news

  Shiva is among the most important Hindu gods. At once terrible and benevolent, he is never more powerful than when he is dancing.   His appeal has spread beyond the borders of his homeland of India. An exhibition at the Rietberg Museum in Zurich is ...

• Maker of ‘Titanic’ watch switches to the moon

  Posted on Tuesday November 18th, 2008 at 05:33 in travel, gadget, watch, titanic, apollo xi, watchmakers, moon rider, swiss news, moon rider watch, geneva hotel

   At a packed champagne reception held at a luxury Geneva hotel this week, amid carefully-guarded displays of space memorabiia, luxury watchmakers Romain Jerome launched the second line in their ‘DNA of Famous Legends’ series. The watches...