Title: Exhibit: The Swiss army knife
Location: Prangins, Vaud
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Description: From the neolithic to our days, a pictographic recount of a Swiss tradition.
Start Date: 2010-01-28
End Date: 2010-04-25
Swiss traffic jam, autoroute, 2009: doubling up might help
Update 16:25 Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Paleo Festival Nyon is well and truly over for this year, and we all had very good fun. The festival’s organizers tried even harder this year to encourage public transportation, as GenevaLunch described in its users’ guide to the festival.
Among those efforts was Klaxonne.com, an experiment in “dynamic ride-sharing“, bringing together demand and supply for a ride to a certain place at a certain time, using text messages or sms. Klaxonne was moderately successful at Paleo.
Title: Exhibition: The Swiss Army knife – a tool that’s become an icon
Location: Schwyz
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Description: This exhibition examines topics such as knives and superstition, and features unusual examples such as a pistol knife and the largest and smallest pocket knives.
Start Date: 16 May 2009
End Date: 18 Oct 2009
Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss Army has handed its first batch of new Swiss Army knives to recruits who begin training this week in Thoune.
Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Armasuisse, the federal department that purchases supplies for the army, has opted for a new knife for its 2009 recruits, made by Victorinox. The famed Swiss Read more…
