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unusual facts about Biel


Alexei Shirov

Shirov is the winner of numerous international tournaments: Biel 1991, Madrid 1997 (shared first place with Veselin Topalov), Ter Apel 1997, Monte Carlo 1998, Mérida 2000, two time winner of the Paul Keres Memorial Tournament in Tallinn, with victories in 2004 and 2005 just to name a few.


Bern University of Applied Sciences

Bern University of Applied Sciences (BUAS) (German: Berner Fachhochschule, BFH) is a public vocational university with campuses in Bern, Biel, Burgdorf, Magglingen, and Zollikofen, Switzerland.

Biel Medina

Gabriel 'Biel' Medina Piris (born 22 March 1980 in Mahón, Minorca, Balearic Islands) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Lleida Esportiu as a central defender.

Christian Michelides

In the 1980s, Michelides was a collaborator for the newly founded magazine WIENER; he then joined the ad agency GGK Wien and the marketing team of the Swiss watch Swatch in Biel.

Christopher Leggett

Leggett recently completed a full-length feature documentary called The Short Game, partnered with Academy Award winners John Battsek and David Frankel, Justin Timberlake, Jessica Biel and directed by Emmy Award winner Joshua Greenbaum.

Evilard

Henri Dubuis (1906–2003), Architekt of the Volkshauses in Biel

Finsteraarhorn

It was the first British ascent, made by John Frederick Hardy, William Mathews, Benjamin St John Attwood-Mathews, J.C.W. Ellis and Edward Shirley Kennedy, accompanied by the guides Auguste Simond and Jean Baptiste Croz from Chamonix, Johann Jaun the Elder from Meiringen, Aloys Bortis from Fiesch and the porter Alexander Guntern from Biel in Goms.

Heinz Rehfuss

He made his debut in 1938 at the Städtebundtheater in Biel-Solothurn, as a choral singer and stage designer, and sang as a soloist in Luzern during the 1938-39 season.

Kappelen

Kappelen is home to Biel-Kappelen Airport, which has an ICAO code of LSZP.

Michael von Biel

Von Biel studied piano, theory, and composition in Toronto (1956–57), Vienna (1958–60), New York (1960, with Morton Feldman, amongst others), London (1960, with Cornelius Cardew), and Cologne (with Karlheinz Stockhausen).

Mörigen

The beginning of the collections of the Schwab Museum in Biel, the Laténium in Hauterive and the Swiss National Museum all came from Mörigen.

Rafael Vaganian

A cheerful and popular character on the grandmaster circuit, his tournament record is outstanding and includes further victories at Kragujevac 1974, São Paulo 1977, Kirovakan 1978, Las Palmas 1979, Manila 1981, Hastings 1982/83, Biel 1985 (the Interzonal), Leningrad 1987, Toronto 1990 and Ter Apel 1992.

Sani Emmanuel

On 12 May 2013 Emmanuel scored his first professional goals in a league match against FC Wohlen in which he scored a hat-trick to lead Biel-Bienne to a 7–0 victory.

Swiss Central Railway

From Olten the midland line connected to Bern and Thun, the Olten–Brugg line connected with the Swiss Northeastern Railway's (German: Schweizerische Nordostbahn, NOB) line to Zürich, the Jura foot line connected to Biel and the Olten–Lucerne railway line connected to Lucerne.

Thomas Wyttenbach

Thomas Wyttenbach (born c. 1472 in Biel; died 1526, after 21 September) is one of the reformers of the city of Biel, Switzerland, during the Protestant Reformation.


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