VAUD

vō, Ger. Waadt, canton (1993 pop. 593,000), 1,239 sq mi (3,209 sq km), W Switzerland. Lausanne is the capital. Bordering on France in the west, it lies roughly between the Lake of Geneva, the Lake of Neuchâtel, the Jura Mts., and the Bernese Alps. Cereals, tobacco, and other crops are grown and livestock is raised. Wine is produced in the large, fertile region at the center of the canton, near Lake Geneva. There are watchmaking towns in the west; other towns are known for their chocolate, metal products, and cigars. Montreux and Vevey are among its numerous resorts; tourism is Vaud's largest industry. The population is French-speaking and mainly Protestant. Originally occupied by Celts, the region was conquered by the Romans in 58 b.c. Under Roman rule many towns achieved great prosperity, particularly Avenches. Vaud passed (6th cent.) to the Franks and was under the rule of Transjurane Burgundy from 888 to 1032. It subsequently was subjected partly to the prince-bishops of Lausanne and partly to the counts of Savoy. In 1536 it was conquered by Bern and forced to accept the Reformation. In 1798, having revolted under the leadership of Frédéric César de La Harpe against its Bernese rulers, it became the canton of Leman in the Helvetic Republic. In 1803 it joined the Swiss Confederation under its present name.

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History of Switzerland, 1499-1914
Book by Wilhelm Oechsli, Eden Paul, Cedar Paul; Cambridge University Press, 1922
Subjects: Switzerland--History
...dominion of Savoy the native population of Vaud had occupied the first positions in the...had been the work of a special diet for Vaud. Now a town speaking a foreign tongue...The nobles and the cultured townsmen of Vaud saw their sons excluded from all honourable...
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Pages from the Harlem Renaissance: A Chronicle of Performance
Book by Anthony D. Hill; Peter Lang, 1996
Subjects: African Americans In The Performing Arts, Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Intellectual Life--20th Century, Harlem Renaissance, Jackson, James Albert, Theater Critics--United States--Biography
...Race, if Known W: White / B: Black * Vaud.: Vaudeville or Road Show Pctrs.: Pictures...Drm.: Drama American, Houston, Tx., Vaud., Frame, 16 X 16, 2 dr. rms., S...S. 450. Attucks, Norfolk, Va., Vaud., Drm., Twin City Amusement Corp...
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The Confinement of the Insane: International Perspectives, 1800-1965
Book by Roy Porter, David Wright; Cambridge University Press, 2003
Subjects: Insane--Commitment And Detention--20th Century, Insane--Commitment And Detention--History--19th Century, Psychiatric Hospitals--History--19th Century, Psychiatric Hospitals--History--20th Century
...already in the law of 1862 in the canton of Vaud), were introduced at the end of the nineteenth...to be all present at one time) in the Vaud law of 1901: The present law applies to...22. 13 Geneva, 1895, art. 25. 14 Vaud, 1901, arts. 10 and 11. 1 . 15 Geneva...
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Switzerland in Perspective
Book by George Soloveytchik; Oxford University Press, 1954
Subjects: Switzerland, Switzerland--Foreign Relations
...1811-1890 1848-1854 Radical 3. Druey Vaud 1799-1855 1848-1855 Radical 4. Munzinger...1879 1854-1863 Radical 9. Fornerod Vaud 1819-1899 1855-1867 Radical 10. Knusel...1814-1893 1866-1891 Radical 16. Ruffy Vaud 1823-1869 1867-1869 Radical 17. CeRecqole...
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The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing Biblical, Historical, Doctrinal, and Practical Theology and Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Biography from the Earliest Times to the Present Day - Vol. 12
Book by Johann Jakob Herzog; Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1908
Subjects: Theology--Encyclopedias
...sanctioned intolerance in the canton of Vaud, and in his pamphlet Du respect des opinions...opposition to which dissenters were exposed in Vaud led Vinet to write much on freedom and...for a year. The liberal revolution in Vaud in Dec., 1830, gave his energies a fresh...
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Calvinism's First Battleground: Conflict and Reform in the Pays De Vaud, 1528-1559
Journal article by Robert M. Kingdon; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 60, 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Calvinism's First Battleground: Conflict and Reform in the Pays de Vaud, 1528-1559 (Book)--Book reviews
...Battleground: Conflict and Reform in the Pays De Vaud, 1528-1559. by Robert M. Kingdon Michael...Battleground: Conflict and Reform in the Pays de Vaud, 1528-1559. Studies in Early Modern...placing his focus instead on the Pays de Vaud, the largest single political entity in...
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Eugenics and Social Democracy: Or, How the European Left Tried to Eliminate the 'Weeds' from Its National Gardens
Journal article by Veronique Mottier, Natalia Gerodetti; New Formations, 2007
Subjects: Eugenics--Evaluation, Eugenics--History, Europe--History, Europe--Social aspects, Socialism--Evaluation
...mentally ill. In 1928, the Swiss canton of Vaud, influenced by Forels ideas, adopted...Finland in 1935. The law in the Canton of Vaud focused in particular on the loose category...to prevent the birth of offspring. The Vaud law existed from 1928 to 1985 and, during...
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Toward the Effective Surveillance of Hypospadias
Journal article by Helen Dolk, Martine Vrijheid, John E.S. Scott, Marie-Claude Addor, Bev Botting, Catherine De Vigan, Hermien De Walle, Ester Garne, Maria Loane, Anna Pierini, Sixto Garcia-Minaur, Nigel Physick, Romano Tenconi, Awi Wiesel, Elisa Calzolari, David Stone; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 112, 2004
...Basque Country, Spain; Mainz, Germany; Vaud, Switzerland; and Northeast Italy, Tuscany...registering glanular cases who had surgery (Vaud; Styria, Austria), the other four registers...Country; 96-100% in Odense, Mainz, and Vaud). It is possible that cases with normal...
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Eugenics and Social Democracy: Or, How the European Left Tried to Eliminate the 'weeds' from Its National Gardens
Journal article by Véronique Mottier, Natalia Gerodetti; New Formations, 2007
...mentally ill. In 1928, the Swiss canton of Vaud, influenced by Forels ideas, adopted...Finland in 1935. The law in the Canton of Vaud focused in particular on the loose category...to prevent the birth of offspring. The Vaud law existed from 1928 to 1985 and, during...
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State Contracts and Transnational Arbitration
Journal article by Georges R. Delaume; American Journal of International Law, Vol. 75, 1981
Subjects: International Relations--Periodicals
...the registrar of the Cantonal Tribunal of Vaud. The Yugoslav Government brought action...as required by the law of the Canton of Vaud. The SEEE demurred that the action should...dismissed since the award was not subject to Vaud law. The tribunal dismissed the action...
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Life in Ancien Regime Vaud
Magazine article by Vivienne Larminie; History Today, Vol. 48, April 1998
Subjects: Protestantism--History, Switzerland--History
Life in ancien regime Vaud by Vivienne Larminie Vivienne Larminie explores the history of the Pays de Vaud, showing how resistance to Protestant reform...passed through on the Grand Tour, the Pays de Vaud, in what is now western Switzerland, was...
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The 1848 Unification of Switzerland
Magazine article by David Birmingham; History Today, Vol. 45, September 1995
Subjects: Political culture--Switzerland, Swiss--History, Switzerland--History
...liberation of some of the `colonial cantons. Vaud, for instance, became a sovereign republic...Russia, whose childhood tutor had been a Vaud patriot. In 1815, then, most of Switzerland...frightened by a radical revolution in Protestant Vaud during which hot-headed students offered...
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Paper Dragon
Magazine article by E. Wayne Merry; American Conservative, Vol. 9, August 2010
Subjects: China, Demographics, Economic development, Economic structure, Political economy, Political systems, Power, Public policy, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics--USSR, United States
...the fact the water has vital purposes to serve in the south. If even the more benign predictions of Asian glacier loss prove vaUd, Chinas south may become a region of water scarcity rather than surplus just as the diversion schemes come fuUy on Une. In...
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All You Need Is a Girl and a Gun
Magazine article by David Thomson; The Nation, Vol. 278, February 9, 2004
...time Jean-Luc was 2, his father had moved the family to the vicinity of a clinic between Nyon and Rolle, in the canton of Vaud, in Switzerland. This was one of the few things Harry Lime didnt know in Vienna in 1949, when he claimed that the only thing...
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Stretched Thin
Magazine article by Simon Kent; PM Network, Vol. 22, April 2008
...on technical matters, says Alexander Matthey, PMP, managing director of consulting and training company 3PM Experts Sari in Vaud, Switzerland. "It used to be engineers who were the project managers," he says. But todays project managers need people...
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A Shot of Vaud, Blue Balls and Murphy's on Tap; LINFIELD SHAKEN BUT NOT STIRRED AS WINKIE COCKTAIL LEAVES PASCAL FEELING PUNCH DRUNK; Institute 0 Linfield 1
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), March 7, 2005
A Shot of Vaud, Blue Balls and Murphys on Tap; LINFIELD SHAKEN BUT NOT STIRRED AS WINKIE COCKTAIL LEAVES PASCAL FEELING PUNCH DRUNK; Institute...
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SIMPLY A GREAT DEAL; the Restrictions Are Being Lifted, Now Is Your Chance to Buy Some Smart Swiss Property - but Not for Long, Says Cathy Hawker
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), November 1, 2006
Subjects: Real estate industry
...Swiss authorities in the region - Canton de Vaud - only issue a limited number of permits...residents cannot buy property in Canton de Vaud that is larger than 2,150sq ft of habitable...pureintl.com. FACT FILE Canton de Vaud is one of the easiest Swiss regions to...
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Alpine Allure; Smart British Buyers Are Snapping Up Swiss Bargains
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), April 26, 2006
...unknown resorts." Les Diablerets in Canton Vaud is a good example, boasting year- round...26 regions has its own rules. * Canton Vaud, which includes Les Diablerets, is one...per cent of the purchase price in Canton Vaud and 2.5 per cent in Canton Valais...
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Swiss You Were Here; Living the High Life: Formula One Driver David Coulthard Owns a Home in the Swiss Mountains
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 22, 2008
Subjects: Automobile racing drivers, Foreign investments, Race car drivers, Real estate industry
...varies hugely within cantons, he says. In Vaud the 300 annualpermits are split up between...exactly what Michelle Wayne did in the Vaud resort of Villars. Located on asouth...just look outside the Valais and the Vaud. Some buyers are now looking at other...
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FRANCS GO FURTHER ON THE SWISS RIVIERA; Enjoy the Year-Round Appeal of Geneva's Lakeside and Mountain Resorts, Says Cathy Hawker
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), January 19, 2011
Subjects: Real estate industry
...million with completion due in March next year. CANTON VAUD Canton Vaud, covering the northern banks of Lake Geneva, has lakeside...three-bedroom chalet in Les Mosses, Villars, Canton Vaud. Chesterton Humberts (020 3040 8210) A cool life...
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Vaud
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
VAUD vo, Ger. Waadt, canton (1993 pop. 593,000), 1,239 sq mi (3,209...Under Roman rule many towns achieved great prosperity, particularly Avenches. Vaud passed (6th cent.) to the Franks and was under the rule of Transjurane Burgundy...
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La Harpe, FrÉdÉric CÉsar De
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Switzerland. Failing initially to stir up a revolution in his native Vaud against the Bernese authorities, he went to Paris and obtained...gave him the rank of a Russian general. La Harpe represented Vaud and Ticino at the Congress of Vienna (1814 15), where with...
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Lausanne
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LAUSANNE lozan , city (1990 pop. 117,600), capital of Vaud canton, W Switzerland, on the Lake of Geneva. An important...Lausanne became (1803) the capital of the newly formed canton of Vaud . The scene of brilliant social life in the 18th cent., Lausanne...
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Savoy, House Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Geneva), Lower Valais , Gex, Ivrea , Pinerolo , Nice , parts of Vaud and of Geneva , and other seigniories and towns. Chambery...disintegration of the duchy. The Swiss took the lower Valais (1475) and Vaud (1536); Geneva became independent (1533); and the rest...
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Vinet, Alexandre Rodolphe
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...other works. In 1845, Protestant liberties were curbed in the canton of Vaud; Vinet soon resigned his professorship and joined the secession in the Free Church of Vaud. His works include Chrestomathie francaise (3 vol., 1829 30) and a number...
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