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What made Steve Lee so special

This content was published on Oct 9, 2010 In an interview with swissinfo.ch, sound engineer and former Krokus band member Jürg Naegeli speaks of his friend’s down-to-earth demeanor, why fans all over Europe loved him, and what held Lee’s band, Gotthard, back from making it big on the international stage. Naegeli, still reeling from the loss, worked as an engineer on Gotthard’s albums…

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Opera fans dress up for a night at the movies

This content was published on Oct 9, 2010 The thousands of cinema tickets for Richard Wagner’s opera, and 11 other live high definition (HD) broadcasts of performances by the Metropolitan Opera of New York to movie theatres around the world, were snapped up in a single morning. Live and pre-recorded opera, classical concerts, ballet and theatre, shown in cinemas around the world by…

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Swiss beaten 1-0 by Montenegro in Euro qualifier

This content was published on Oct 9, 2010 A goal from Mirko Vucinic in the 67th minute means Switzerland drop to the bottom of their five-team group and are looking increasingly unlikely to make it to Poland and Ukraine in 20 months. Elsewhere in Group G, Bulgaria beat Wales 1-0. England had the night off. The 12,700 sell-out crowd at Podgorica Stadium had…

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Christian Münchinger Quartet: The Glance

This content was published on Oct 8, 2010 Fechado pra Balanco Christian Münchinger Quartet

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Nina Dimitri: Que viva el amor

This content was published on Oct 8, 2010 El campo y las flores Nina Dimitri

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Which Way History?

This content was published on Oct 8, 2010 Centuries ago the Swiss rejected its application to join the rapidly confederating country, fearing its inclusion would upset the carefully crafted city-rural balance. At the beginning of the 15th century, the Council of Constance convened over the course of five years, drawing representatives from throughout The Holy Roman Empire to determine among other things which…

Wikipedia founder awarded prestigious prize

This content was published on Oct 8, 2010 In its announcement of the prize on Friday, the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute, based in Rüschlikon, near Zurich, said Wales was being honoured for “his contribution to the democratisation of the access to knowledge”. It praised Wales for his desire to “share his knowledge and pass it on”. The prize will be presented on January 26,…

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Steve Lee, Swiss rock star

This content was published on Oct 8, 2010 The career of Steve Lee in pictures

Football clubs pitch in to help Palestinians

This content was published on Oct 7, 2010 The project brought together coaches from FC Basel and German clubs Werder Bremen and Bayer Leverkusen to train 23 young men and women to coach children’s football and to work on grassroots football projects. The programme not only included sessions with the ball, but also seminars dealing with issues such as team building techniques and…

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Bells in the fog

This content was published on Oct 7, 2010 From the sound – and later the sight of numerous steeples – I couldn’t tell whether they were Catholic or Protestant. That may not mean much to us now, but hundreds of people were burned and tens of thousands were massacred over the choice between sects throughout Switzerland. Cantons just to my left are split…

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