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unusual facts about CHUR-FM


CHUR-FM

By June 2012, the station dropped the entire 1980s library and most pre-2000 music from its playlist, making it one of the few AC stations to not follow the adult contemporary pattern.


Albula Railway

The Albula Railway begins in Thusis, where it connects with the Landquart - Chur railway, built in 1896.

In 1890, the Davos hotelier Willem-Jan Holsboer proposed the construction of a rail link from Chur via Davos, and through a tunnel under the Scaletta Pass, to St Moritz, and then onwards via the Maloja Pass, to Chiavenna in Italy.

Alexander Moritzi

Alexander Moritzi (1806-1850) was a Swiss naturalist born in Chur, Graubünden.

Angelica Kauffman

Kauffman was born at Chur in Graubünden, Switzerland, where her father was working for the local bishop but grew up in Schwarzenberg in Vorarlberg/Austria where her family originated.

Die Südostschweiz

Die Südostschweiz (literally "The Southeastern Switzerland") is a Swiss German-language daily newspaper, published by Südostschweiz Mediengruppe in Chur, Graubünden.

EHC Chur

EHC Chur Capricorns (former EHC Chur Sport AG) is a Swiss ice hockey team based in Chur, Switzerland which played until 2008 in National League B.

Gams

Additionally, it was on the most important trade route between Chur-Sargans-Lake Constance and was the starting point of the pilgrimage routes to Einsiedeln and Rankweil.

Gründjitobel Viaduct

The viaduct is located on the Rhaetian Railway's metre gauge line from Chur to the holiday and recreation resort of Arosa (the Chur-Arosa line), between Peist and Langwies, at a place known as Matten-Gründji.

Hannikel

A few months later, the earl of Salis-Zizers arrested Hannikel and the rest of his gang at Untervaz and transported them to Chur.

In the Realm of Fancy

With Ao Gum united with Chur Wun, Lei Xuan proceeds to abandon the material realm for that of the immortals, during his ascent and farewell to Ao Gum it is revealed that the beggar is Lei Xuan and that Lei Xuan is Tieguai Li, Iron-Crutch Li of the Eight Immortals.

Pablo Atchugarry

Then his paintings were exhibited in various cities including Milan, Copenhagen, Como, Paris, Chur, Bergamo and Stockholm.

RegioExpress

One of the main lines which ran as a RegioExpress line (abbreviation: RX) was the Rheintal Express, from St. Gallen through Sargans to Chur (the other was the CityVogel from Zurich to Konstanz).

Roman Catholicism in Switzerland

However, discussions remain unresolved especially about the status of the Canton of Zürich as part of the Diocesis of Chur, the large but splinted extend of the Diocesis of Basel and the lack of a Metropolitan see stay unresolved.

Schänis Abbey

According to the report of a monk from Reichenau Abbey the founder was believed to be Count Hunfried of Chur-Rhaetia, who was said to have promised Charlemagne to make the foundation for the worthy safekeeping of a precious reliquary cross containing a fragments of the True Cross, as well as an onyx vessel containing some of the Blood of Christ.

SRG SSR

In the same year a dedicated Romansh broadcasting unit was created in Chur, using some of the new German-language second channel's broadcasting time.

Swiss cuisine

Chur Meat Pie: A popular dish from Graubünden in south eastern Switzerland

The Friend of God from the Oberland

Jundt Les Amis de Dieu (1879) This book shared Preger's view that the Friend was a great unknown who lived in or near Chur (Coire) in Switzerland.

Traffic cadet

Members of the Swiss Verkehrskadetten Association: VKA-Albis, VKA-Appenzellerland, VKA-Aussersschwyz, Kadetten-Korps Basel (KKB), VKA-Bern, VKA-Chur, VKA-Fürstenland, VKA-Glarnerland, Verkehrskadetten Nordwestschweiz (VK-NWS), VKA-Rapperswil-Jona, VKA-St.


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