Article: Lotschberg breakthrough.(World Report)

Article: Journey 'still challenge'; ALPS CROSSING
The Press;  November 26, 2007 ;     437 words ...After 150 years, the great-great- grandson of the first Pakeha man to cross the Southern Alps has found the feat is still a challenge -- but help is a little easier to obtain. Exactly 150 years ago today, Edwin Adophus Lock and Leonard Harper and their Maori guides emerged at the mouth of the

Article: Swiss Show More Readiness To Freeze Assets of Despots; Ceausescu ...
The Washington Post;  January 31, 1990 ;     700+ words ... ... brought under the law often drag on while challenges are mounted in jurisdiction after jurisdiction, according to Mortitz Leuenberger, a federal parliament member and lawyer representing the Aquino government. But the federal government has shown ...

Article: President, PM greet Swiss President.
UNB - United News of Bangladesh;  July 31, 2006 ;     402 words ... ... UNB) - President Professor Dr Iajuddin Ahmed and Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia have greeted Swiss President Mortitz Leuenberger on the occasion of the National Day of the Swiss Confederation. In a message to his Swiss counterpart, President ...

Article: TRANS-EUROPEAN NETWORKS: EIB HAS LENT ECU 16 BILLION SINCE 1993
Transport Europe;  January 19, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... transport facilities at Padova, Italy, Marateca)-Elvas (Portugal), Valencia-Zaragossa-Somport (Spain) and the Alps-crossing Maurienne (France) motorways, as well as the Rome-Naples, the Valence-Marseilles/Nimes high-speed train links ...

Article: Students to cross the Alps on charity cycle ride
Yorkshire Post;  May 19, 2008 ;     506 words ... ... they will sail to northern France by ferry, then on to Grenoble at the foothills of the Alps. They will then scale the Alps, crossing into Italy, and then it's south to Rome. Their training sessions have included long rides in the Peak District, including ...

Article: Do you speak Punic?
The Malay Mail;  March 23, 2006 ;     252 words ... ... 39, has said he wants to make a three-part swords- and-sandals biopic set in 200BC based on the life of Hannibal - in Punic, the language spoken by the Alps-crossing conqueror. The language hasn't been heard for 2,000 years.

Article: COLUMN: At the front line
University Wire;  September 8, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Romans and Greeks to continuous victory has not transferred to our modern political culture. When Hannibal -- that famous Alps-crossing elephant-riding Carthaginian soon to be played on the big screen by Vin Diesel -- attacked the ancient Roman Republic ...