The most recent comprehensive history of Switzerland— a thousand-page tome published in 1988 in French, Italian and German—dismisses Tell in just 20 lines. (Even so, a bronze statue of a ...

A review of the history of Swiss neutrality reveals two ... However, it was not imposed on Switzerland by the Congress of Vienna, as a recent legend claims. Rather, it was Swiss politicians ...

The last telephone box in Switzerland, in the northern city of Baden, was dismantled on Thursday. It will go on display at a museum in the Swiss capital. An era in the history of Swiss ...

The boxing craze soon reached western Switzerland; the first clubs were founded in Geneva and Lausanne. In 1909, four years before the founding of the Swiss Boxing AssociationExternal link ...

At times it makes one melancholy.” Dr. Alfred Schaefer, 60, chief of the Union Bank of Switzerland, and by common consent that nation’s foremost commercial banker, was protesting the notoriety ...

Le Rue finished in third place in the final contest of the season. British rider Cody Bramwell took the win on the day.