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45 unusual facts about Lausanne


2007 World Aquatics Championships

However, on 11 September 2007, the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland vacated these results imposing an 18-month competition ban on Mellouli, effective retroactively to 30 October 2006 for doping with amphetamine.

Abolhassan Diba

The shock was such that he spent the last two years of his life in hospital and died in Lausanne, Switzerland on 16 April 1982.

Accentus

1240, giving a portion of the Accentus (Historical Museum of Lausanne).

African Spir

In the same year, he received the imperial authorization and applied for a certificate of registry at Belmont-sur-Lausanne, where he lived with his family.

Alfredo Kindelán

When in 1946 the so-called 'Lausanne manifesto' was published calling for immediate restoration Franco identified Kindelán as being the ringleader of those who had signed the document and ordered his imprisonment.

American Visionary Art Museum

Hoffberger found inspiration on a visit to the Collection de l'art brut in Lausanne, Switzerland, which was established by French artist Jean Dubuffet as a collection of “l'art brut” or “raw art because of the untamed emotions resonating in it.”

Berthe Marti

Education and degrees: Baccalauréat, Gymnase classique Cantonal, Lausanne, 1922; Licenciée-ès-lettres (in Latin and English literature), University of Lausanne, 1925; MA in Latin, Bryn Mawr College, 1926; PhD in Latin, Bryn Mawr College, 1934.

Bids for the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

On January 2010 in Lausanne, Switzerland the IOC reported that Nanjing was the highest rated city in the evaluation report, follow by Poznań and lastly Guadalajara.

Bids for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

The host city election vote was held at an extraordinary IOC Session in Lausanne.

The mayor of the city presented the bid on September 15 in Lausanne, following the high standard venues and experiences they had at the 2010 South American Games.

Borosilicate glass

However, in 2008 a team of researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne were successful in forming borosilicate nanoparticles of 100 to 500 nanometers in diameter.

Bugnon

Bugnon, the site where the campus of the University Hospital of Lausanne and several buildings of the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the University of Lausanne are located

Burkinabé National Olympic and Sports Committee

At the October 1982 meeting of the IOC Executive in Lausanne, Switzerland it was unanimously considered the fundamental rules of the Olympic Charter governing the activities and conduct of National Olympic Committees to have been transgressed in Upper Volta.

Chinese Olympic politics

At the IOC Session in Lausanne, the PRC made a formal application for recognition as "the sole sports organization representing the whole of China." At the same time, the PRC set a condition that Taiwan should be excluded.

Divonne-les-Bains

Nyon, a Swiss market town, is the nearest main town travelling east along Lake Geneva towards Lausanne.

Du New Morning au Zénith

It was recorded between the 26 April 1994 and the 12 June 1994, first at the New Morning in Paris (the first 14 tracks of the first CD), then during the Rouge concert tour, at the Summum in Grenoble and at the ice rink of Malley in Lausanne.

Henrique De Castro

Henrique received his Master of Business Administration degree from the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland and his Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Lisbon in Portugal.

Henry of Lausanne

When he arrived at Le Mans, his terminus a quo was probably Lausanne.

International Diamond Cut Conference

The Second International Diamond Cut Conference, planned to take place in Lausanne Switzerland in March 2009, will now be rescheduled for a future date: The budgetary and travel restrictions imposed by the worldwide economic crisis caused this postposement.

International School of Lausanne

The International School of Lausanne (ISL) is an English-language day school located in the small village of Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, just north of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Israel Rokach

He traveled to Switzerland, where he continued his education at a high school in Lausanne and then studied electrical engineering at the Zürich polytechnic.

James Francillon

Francillon, who was married and had issue, died at Lausanne of cholera 3 September 1866.

Jean Dubourdieu

Duke Charles was mortally wounded and taken prisoner by the French army under Nicolas Catinat at the battle of Marsaglia in 1693, and Dubourdieu took the body to Lausanne for interment.

John Campbell, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane

Lord Breadalbane survived her by just over a year and died at Lausanne, Switzerland, on 8 November 1862, aged 66.

Junior Caldera

Club in Lausanne and in 2003 he won a mixing contest and was awarded to opportunity to warm up for David Guetta.

Jura foot railway line

The oldest part are the sections opened by the West Switzerland Company (French: Compagnie de l'Ouest-Suisse, OS) in May 1855 from Yverdon-les-Bains to Bussigny-près-Lausanne and in July 1855 from Bussigny to Morges via Renens.

Lausanne Football and Cricket Club

The world-wide first soccer club Sheffield F.C. is only three years older, however it is likely that Lausanne played cricket before football at the club (as it was more well established).

Lausanne-Sports Aviron

The club was founded on June 21, 1916, located at Vidy-Lausanne.

Les Hôpitaux-Neufs

Until 30 September 1807, the parish belonged to the diocese of Lausanne.

Louis Secretan

Louis (Gabriel Abraam Samuel Jean) Secretan (1758–1839 in Lausanne), was a Swiss lawyer and mycologist.

Matthew Syed

His film, China and Table Tennis, made for the BBC, won bronze medal at the Olympic Golden Rings ceremony in Lausanne in 2008.

Mitch Epstein

Recent solo exhibitions of Epstein's work were at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris (2011) and Kunstmuseum Bonn (2011); the Musée de l'Élysée in Lausanne (2011) and Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool (2011).

Monique Lhuillier

As a teenager, she was an outstanding student in Lausanne and dreamed of becoming a successful fashion designer.

Nagra

Nagra is a trademark of a series of mostly battery-operated portable professional audio recorders produced by Kudelski SA, based in Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland.

Naissance Capital

He graduated with a masters degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and International Institute for Management Development, Lausanne.

Sir Henry Webb, 1st Baronet

Educated at Lausanne and Paris, he trained as a mining engineer and became a director of several South Wales collieries.

SRG SSR

Europe's third public radio station started broadcasting from Lausanne in 1922, from the start based on a licence fee system.

Tewfik Pasha

Prince Mohammed Ali Tewfik (Cairo, 9 November 1875 - Lausanne, 18 March 1955), married on 25 November 1941 to Suzanne Hemon, without issue

The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax

Holmes sends Dr. Watson to Lausanne to investigate Lady Frances Carfax’s disappearance.

Thomas Brash

He attended the meeting of churches adhering to the Presbyterian system at Lausanne in 1920, and participated in the inaugural meeting of the World Council of Churches in Amsterdam in 1948.

Toulo de Graffenried

Following his retirement from racing, de Graffenried earned his keep operating his car dealership in Lausanne, selling Alfa Romeo, Rolls-Royce and Ferrari automobiles.

Trolleybuses in Lausanne

The system is operated by Transports publics de la région lausannoise (TL) – formerly Tramways Lausannois – and comprises 10 trolleybus lines, serving not only Lausanne, but also the neighbouring municipalities of Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, Lutry, Paudex, Prilly, Pully and Renens.

West Switzerland Company

In May 1855 it opened the line from Bussigny-près-Lausanne to Yverdon and on 1 July 1855 from Bussigny to Morges via Renens as part of the Jura foot line.

William Craven, 6th Baron Craven

After his death on 27 September 1791 at age 53 in Lausanne, Switzerland, she married the Margrave of Anspach.

Yuri Ryazanov

Ryazanov placed third on parallel bars at the 2008 Moscow World Cup and 8th on rings at the 2008 European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Lausanne, Switzerland.


2011 crackdown on dissidents in the People's Republic of China

# Jin Mingri, senior pastor of the free church called Zion Church in Beijing was shortly detained to be prevented from attending Lausanne Conference in South Africa.

A few acres of snow

In this letter to François Tronchin, written at Monriond, near Lausanne, dated January 29, 1756, Voltaire mentions the earthquake that destroyed Lisbon, Portugal, on November 1, 1755.

Alfred Métraux

Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, Metraux spent much of his childhood in Argentina where his father was a well known surgeon resident in Mendoza.

Arlind Ajeti

During the beginning of the season 2013–14 on 5 October 2013 Ajeti scored his first League goal in the 2–1 away win against Lausanne-Sport.

Armin Jordan

Robert Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri, with Christoph Pregardien, Robert Gambill, Edith Wiens, Anne Gjevang, Sylvia Herman, & Hans-Peter Scheidegger; Romand Chamber Choir, Pro Arte Chorus of Lausanne; l'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.

Bex–Villars–Bretaye railway

The authority to construct the railway was gained in three stages, that from Bex, a small town on the main Lausanne–Simplon railway, to Villars-sur-Ollon on 15 October 1897; from Villars to Chesières on 19 December 1905 and from Villars to Bretaye on 5 October 1911.

BI Norwegian Business School

Past presidents include Jørgen Randers, co-author of the Club of Rome Report Limits to Growth; Peter Lorange, former president of IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland; Leif Frode Onarheim, a former member of the Norwegian Parliament and current CEO of leading Norwegian fish farming company Marine Harvest.

Daniel Alfred Wachs

As a pianist, he has performed in such venues as Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, the Salle Paderewski in Lausanne, and at such festivals as Aspen, Tanglewood and Verbier.

Dolores Dembus Bittleman

Bittleman's work includes fiber and silk tapestries that have featured in exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Lausanne International Tapestry Biennial and the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York.

Fernand Auberjonois

Fernand Auberjonois (September 25, 1910, Valeyres-sous-Montagny, near Lausanne, Switzerland–August 27, 2004, Cork, Ireland) was a highly respected journalist who worked as the foreign correspondent of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Toledo Blade.

FGV Management

It maintains international partnerships with universities in Europe − ISCTE (Lisbon), IMD (Lausanne, Switzerland) − and the United States − Ohio University, University of California, The University of Tampa, Columbia Business School and The University of Chicago −, where students can take part in short- and medium-term programs.

First International Congress on World Evangelization

The congress was a conference of some 2,700 evangelical Christian leaders that was held in the Palais de Beaulieu in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1974 to discuss the progress, resources and methods of evangelizing the world.

François Gény

Nine universities conferred him the title of Doctorate Honoris Causa: Groningen (1914), Leuven (1927), Warsaw (1929), Brussels (1929), Geneva (1930), Jassy (1934), Lausanne (1935), Basel (1936) and Athens (1937).

François-Serge Lhabitant

He was formerly a Visiting Professor of Finance at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, at HEC, Lausanne, Switzerland and at the Thunderbird School of Global Management.

Gherasim Luca

L'Extrême-Occidentale, Éditions Mayer, Lausanne 1961 with 7 engravings by Jean Arp, Brauner, Max Ernst, Jacques Hérold, Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, Dorothea Tanning

Henri Stierlin

Stierlin studied Classics with Law at the Universities of Lausanne and Zurich.

Iosif Prut

In 1918 he graduated from the Ecole Nouvelle in Chailly near Lausanne, and entered the École Polytechnique in Paris, but quit and volunteered to serve in the Russian army's expedition corps.

Jovan Skerlić

Upon the completion of his doctorate work in Lausanne in 1901, he spent the next three years in Paris and Munich, where he broadened his knowledge of Western European thought and literary theory and fell under the influence of the French thinkers, Jean-Marie Guyau in particular.

Karl Girardet

On a study trip to Switzerland in 1833–35, he made the acquaintance of the aristocratic painter Maximilien de Meuron, by whose influence he obtained commissions for two panoramas of Lausanne.

Lausanne railway station

There is also a network of local services from Lausanne, primarily as part of the Léman RER, and platforms for line 2 of the Lausanne Metro.

Lina Bruna Rasa

In the years between 1926 and 1933 Bruna Rasa sang throughout Italy as well as in Montecarlo, Nice, Lausanne and Barcelona where she sang Aida at the city's Gran Teatre del Liceu.

Luigi Rosselli

In Lausanne he studied at the Ecole Politechnique Federale (EPFL) a well-resourced university that managed to attract all the top architect of the time as guest professors – from Kenneth Frampton to Rafael Moneo and Alvaro Siza, with Umberto Riva being Luigi’s thesis mentor.

Marianne Huguenin

Despite being reelected at the October 2007 federal elections, 11 days later, on 1 November 2007 Huguenin announced her resignation from the National Council and decision to focus her work on her position as mayor of Renens (a suburb of Lausanne, Vaud).

Maurice Machenbaum

In 2000 he became Program Director for Latin America and the Caribbean for Terre des hommes Lausanne, Switzerland's largest independent child-focused NGO.

Olympische Hymne

This score was located after the war by the German National Olympic Committee, and copies were made for the organizers of the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City and for IOC President Juan Samaranch in 1997 for the Olympic Museum in Lausanne.

Pierre Statorius

In the accounts of the Baillif of Lausanne Hans Frisching for 1550 appears "Pierre de Tonneville", who signed his Latin letters "P. Tonvillanus S." and claimed to have come from the "pays Séquanes" which indicates Tonneville, Seine-Maritime, not Thionville, Metz.

Pierre-Yves Maillard

Born in Lausanne, he studied literature at the University of Lausanne and was president of the Swiss Students' Association.

Ridge Mobulu

He joined nearby FC Yvorne in 2003, before joining Swiss professional club Lausanne-Sport's youth set-up in 2005 aged 14, where he played from the U-15 to the U-18 level until 2008.

Roberto Car

He was in 1973/74 a postdoc at the University of Milan, from 1977 to 1981 an assistant at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, from 1981 to 1983 at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center of IBM, from 1984 to 1990 associate professor for physics at SISSA in Trieste (in 1990/91 as full professor) and from 1991 to 1999 professor for physics at the University of Geneva (and director of the IRRMA of the ETH Lausanne).

Samuel-Auguste Tissot

Samuel Auguste André David Tissot (20 March 1728, Grancy - 13 June 1797, Lausanne) was a notable 18th century Swiss physician.

SAPAL

The premises in Lausanne became too small, so SAPAL moved in 1964 to a new factory in Écublens, on the outskirts of Lausanne, which is the present location of the company.

Transports Publics Fribourgeois

Bulle is the centre of operations with depot, workshops and connection to the standard gauge railway to Romont, on the SBB line between Bern and Lausanne.

University Hospital of Lausanne

Some laboratories are located in Épalinges (north of Lausanne), on a campus shared with the University of Lausanne and the Biopôle.

Virtopsy

Under the direction of the University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV) in Lausanne (Dr. Silke Grabherr), the TWGPAM (made up of nine European institutes of forensic medicine) is developing reliable, standardized methods and guidelines for conducting and assessing postmortem angiographic examinations www.postmortem-angio.ch.

Werner Geissler

He serves on the Foundation Board of the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland, on the Management Board of GS1, on the Summit Committee of the Consumer Goods Forum.

Yevgenia Bosch

There together with Georgy Pyatakov they established the so-called Bogie group (Bogie is a suburb of Lausanne) which included Nikolai Bukharin, G.Krylenko, and others and stood in opposition to Lenin, concerning the nationalities factor.