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Rodolfo Olgiati
Rodolfo Olgiati (Lugano, 30 June 1905 – Bern, 31 May 1986) was a Swiss educator and Humanitarianism, humanitarian Activism, activist. Biography Rodolfo Olgiati was the son of Emilio Olgiati and Fanny Pozzy. He attended school in Chur and Bern. After graduating from high school, he studied mathematics and physics at ETH Zurich and graduated as a teacher. From 1929 to 1932, he taught at Odenwaldschule in Heppenheim, created in 1910 by Paul Geheeb following the progressive education movement. The experience in this school had a great influence on his thinking and action. In 1933, he worked for an institution for children with learning difficulties in England. From 1934 to 1935, he worked in youth education for Fritz Wartenweiler, a Swiss educator and pacifist who founded the Herzberg Adult Learning Center. In 1935, Olgiati became the secretary of the pacifist organization Service Civil International, Service Civil International (SCI), created in 1920 by Pierre Cérésole. Swi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lugano
Lugano (, , ; lmo, label=Ticinese dialect, Ticinese, Lugan ) is a city and municipality in Switzerland, part of the Lugano District in the canton of Ticino. It is the largest city of both Ticino and the Italian-speaking southern Switzerland. Lugano has a population () of , and an urban agglomeration of over 150,000. It is the List of cities in Switzerland, ninth largest Swiss city. The city lies on Lake Lugano, at its largest width, and, together with the adjacent town of Paradiso, Switzerland, Paradiso, occupies the entire bay of Lugano. The territory of the municipality encompasses a much larger region on both sides of the lake, with numerous isolated villages. The region of Lugano is surrounded by the Lugano Prealps, the latter extending on most of the Sottoceneri region, the southernmost part of Ticino and Switzerland. Both western and eastern parts of the municipality share an international border with Italy. Described as a market town since 984, Lugano was the object of con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republican Faction (Spanish Civil War)
The Republican faction ( es, Bando republicano), also known as the Loyalist faction () or the Government faction (), was the side in the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939 that supported the government of the Second Spanish Republic against the Nationalist faction of the military rebellion. The name Republicans () was mainly used by its members and supporters, while its opponents used the term ''Rojos'' (Reds) to refer to this faction due to its left-leaning ideology, including far-left communist and anarchist groups, and the support it received from the Soviet Union. At the beginning of the war, the Republicans outnumbered the Nationalists by ten-to-one, but by January 1937 that advantage had dropped to four-to-one. Foreign support The Republican faction hardly received external support from the Allied powers of World War II, due to the International Non-Intervention Committee. The support of the USSR stands out, fundamentally. Together with Mexico, France and Poland at the be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swiss Red Cross
The Swiss Red Cross (German: ', French: ', Italian: ', Romansh: '), or SRC, is the national Red Cross society for Switzerland. The SRC was founded in 1866 in Bern, Switzerland. In accordance with the Geneva Red Cross Agreement and its recognition through the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, it is a member of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. The SRC is Switzerland's oldest and largest relief agency, made up of 24 cantonal leagues, five rescue organizations, three foundations and two societies. History Foundation and first year The Swiss Red Cross was established on 17 July 1866 at the instigation of Federal Councillor Jakob Dubs and the Red Cross members Gustave Moynier and Guillaume-Henri Dufour. After its foundation, the SRC named itself as an "aid organisation 'Hülfsverein''for Swiss soldiers and their families". Building the national organisation was, however, full of difficulties. For one thing, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. World War II was a total war that directly involved more than 100 million personnel from more than 30 countries. The major participants in the war threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, enabling the strategic bombing of population centres and deploying the only two nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II was by far the deadliest conflict in human history; it resulted in 70 to 85 million fatalities, mostly among civilians. Tens of millions died due to genocides (including the Holocaust), starvation, ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Eidenbenz
Elisabeth Eidenbenz, (Wila, Switzerland, June 12, 1913 - Zurich, Switzerland, May 23, 2011) was a teacher and a nurse and founder of the Mothers of Elne (also known as ''Maternitat d'Elna'' in Catalan, ''Maternidad de Elna'' in Spanish and ''Maternité Suisse d'Elne'' in French). Between 1939 and 1944, she saved some 600 children who were mostly the children of Spanish Republicans, Jewish refugees and gypsies fleeing the Nazi invasion. Biography Elisabeth was a young teacher from Switzerland, teaching in Switzerland and Denmark until she decided to join the ''Asociación de Ayuda a los Niños en Guerra'' ("Association to Aid Children in War"). After the fall of the Spanish Republic many Republican exiles sought refuge in France, including the Roussillon, which is part of the Northern Catalonia region. But almost all of them were stopped and held in concentration/internment camps. There, fenced in the beach without any infrastructure, with the sand as the only protection a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aude
Aude (; ) is a Departments of France, department in Southern France, located in the Occitania (administrative region), Occitanie Regions of France, region and named after the river Aude (river), Aude. The departmental council also calls it "Catharism, Cathar Country" (French language, French: ''Pays cathare'') after a group of religious dissidents active in the 12th to 14th centuries. Its Prefectures in France, prefecture is Carcassonne and its Subprefectures in France, subprefectures are Limoux and Narbonne. As of 2019, it had a population of 374,070.Populations légales 2019: 11 Aude INSEE Aude is a frequent feminine French given name in Francophone countries, deriving initially from Aude or Oda, a wife of Bertrand, Duke of Aquitaine, and mother of Eudo, brother of Saint Hubertus. Aude was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigean
Sigean (; oc, Sijan) is a commune in the Aude department in southern France. It formerly laid on ''Route nationale'' 9 between Narbonne and Perpignan, but RN 9 (downgraded to ''route départementale'' 6009) now bypasses the town of Sigean and is itself bypassed by the A9 autoroute. Population Culture * The Musée des Corbières in Sigean is a museum dedicated to history and archaeology. * The L.A.C Lieu d'Art Contemporain, located in Hameau du lac, hosts arts exhibition and performances in a former winery. * The Zoo Réserve Africaine de Sigean See also * Corbières AOC * Communes of the Aude department The following is a list of the 433 communes of the Aude department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020): [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Von Wild
Ruth von Wild (Barcelona, 3 August 1912 - Thun, 26 April 1983) was a Swiss teacher and activist based in Barcelona, who worked for the organization Ayuda Suiza to help children affected by the Spanish Civil War. Biography Ruth von Wild was born in Barcelona into a Swiss family. Her father, the engineer Ernest von Wild, was deputy director of the Central Catalana d'Electricitat company, an electricity company with Swiss capital. Ruth studied French at the University of Neuchâtel and worked as a teacher at the Swiss School in Barcelona, created mainly for the Swiss community who lived permanently in the city. When the school where she worked closed because of the Spanish Civil War, she moved to England to complete her education, but she returned to Barcelona in August 1938 to participate in the Swiss Aid Committee for the Children of Spain as a volunteer for the organization Service Civil International (SCI), an entity that led the Swiss Aid Committee for the Children. In Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irma Schneider
Irma may refer to: People * Irma (name), a female given name * Irma (singer), full name Irma Pany, a Cameroonian female singer-songwriter Places * Irma, Alberta, Canada, a village * Irma, Lombardy, Italy, a ''comune'' * Irma, Wisconsin, USA, an unincorporated community * 177 Irma, a fairly large and dark main belt asteroid Brands and enterprises * Irma (supermarket), a Danish supermarket chain * IRMA board, an early interface card for PCs and Macs * Irma Hotel, a landmark built in Cody, Wyoming by "Buffalo Bill" Cody (it is still open for business as both a hotel and restaurant) * Irma Records, an Italian record label Other uses * Irma (dog), a Dickin Medal-winning dog * Operation Irma, a series of airlifts of civilians during the Siege of Sarajevo * SS ''Irma'' (1905), a Norwegian merchant ship sunk in controversial circumstances in 1944 * Tropical Storm Irma, various storms named Irma ** Hurricane Irma, the 9th named storm of the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season * Institu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Es, ES, or similar may refer to: Arts and entertainment * An alternate name for the musical note E♭ (E-flat) * ''E's'', a manga series by Satoru Yuiga * ''Es'' (film), the German title of ''It'', a 1966 West German film directed by Ulrich Schamoni * ''ES'' (Eternal Sabbath), a manga by Fuyumi Soryo * ''ES'', a supplement of the ''Evening Standard'' newspaper * Es, a fictional character from the ''BlazBlue'' series Businesses, organizations, and products * Gibson ES Series, a line of guitars * Lexus ES, a series of automobiles * E-mini S&P, a futures contract on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (symbol ES) * Eurostar (National Rail abbreviation ES) * DHL International Aviation ME (IATA airline code ES) Language * Es, a phonetic spelling of the Latin alphabet letter S * -es, a word ending * Spanish language (ISO 639 alpha-2 language code) * Es (cyrillic), a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet that looks like the Latin letter C Places * Spain (ISO 3166-1 country code) * El Salvado ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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