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| | UNTON, SIR HENRY - LoveToKnow Article on UNTON, SIR HENRY |
 | | It was a member of the " League of Sarnen " (1832), to oppose the reforming wishes of other cantons, and of the " Sonderbund " (1845); it was defeated in the war of 1847; and it voted against the acceptance of the Federal constitution both in 1848 and in 1874. | | | Obwalden submitted at an early date, but Nidwalden, refusing to accept the oath of fidelity to the constitution mainly on religious grounds, rose in desperate revolt (September 1798), and was only put down by the arrival of 16,000 armed men and by the storming of Stans. | | | On the ist of August 1291 Nidwalden (Obwalden is not named in the text of the document, though it is named on the seal appended to it) formed the " Everlasting League " with Uri and Schwyz (this being the first known case in which its common seal is used). |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/U/UN/UNTON_SIR_HENRY.htm
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| | Children born of this marriage, Marie Rohrer born April 1, 1859; Joseph Rohrer born November 14, 1860 at Sachseln Unterwalden Switzerland. | | | To this union four (4) children were born in Sachseln Unterwalden Switzerland. | | | These four (4) children are Joseph Jakob Rohrer born December 7, 1885; Marie Emma Rohrer born July 4, 1888; Theresia Agnes Rohrer born April 22, 1890, died May 29, 1891 at thirteen (13) months of age; Alois Karl born May 16, 1891. |
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| | William Tell, Tax Rebel - Mises Institute |
| | Count Rudolf II of Habsburg (died 1232) acquired the territories of Schwyz, Uri, Unterwalden and Lucerne. | | | Schwyz, Uri, and Unterwalden had long enjoyed freedom from feudal overlords, although many claimed the "right" to administer justice and collect taxes in these areas. | | | As the legend goes, William Tell melted back into the woods to return to Uri and led the uprising against imperial control, inspiring his people with his act of bravery that has since been regarded as the beginning of the Swiss struggle for liberty. |
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http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=1478
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| | Unterwalden - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK |
| | The two half cantons officially split from each other in 1340, although generally they continued to act as one unit. | | | The population of Unterwalden is German-speaking and Roman Catholic. | | | In 1291, Unterwalden formed with the cantons of Uri and Schwyz a league that became the nucleus of the Swiss Confederation (see Switzerland |
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| | He sat on a board of fourteen magistrates to dispense justice, although he was to resign when a majority opted for what he considered an injustice. | | | His father, Henry, also held a civil post in the cantonal service. | | | Fr lmgrund, parish priest of Stans and his director, helped him through it, teaching him also to meditate on the passion of Our Lord, an exercise that was to become a staple of his spiritual life as a hermit. |
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http://www.svdp-richboro.org/niklaus.htm
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| | These divisions exist for historical reasons and still only affect the number of seats in the Council of States and voting in federal initiatives. | | | In this case the cantons of Unterwalden, Appenzell and Basel are counted as two half-cantons each. | | | Unterwalden is divided into Obwalden and Nidwalden, Appenzell into Innerrhoden and Ausserrhoden, while Basel is divided into Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft. |
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http://www.askmytutor.co.uk/c/ca/cantons_of_switzerland.html
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Switzerland |
| | The majority of the cantons decided at the Diets of August 1846 and of July 1847 that this league should be dissolved, because it was not compatible with the Treaty of Confederation of 1815. | | | Frederick's brother, Duke Leopold of Austria, attempted to overthrow the League and to punish its members for the attack on Einsiedeln, but his army was defeated by the Swiss at Morgarten on 15 November, 1315. | | | At the Diet of the Confederation held at Lucerne on 20 April of the same year this decision was adopted by all the districts excepting Zürich and Schaffhausen. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14358a.htm
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| | The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Switzerland @ HighBeam Research |
| | The Catholics, led by the Four Forest Cantons, defeated the Protestants in battle; the Treaty of Kappel (1531) preserved Catholicism in Lucerne, Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden, Zug, Fribourg, and Solothurn. | | | In Unterwalden, Glarus, and Appenzell the entire electorate legislates directly in yearly outdoor meetings called Landsgemeinden; elsewhere a unicameral legislative council and an elected executive council are common. | | | The cantons, loosely bound by a federal diet and by individual treaties and often torn by internal feuds, were seriously split by the Reformation, preached by Zwingli at Zürich and by Calvin at Geneva. |
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http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1E1:Switzerl&refid=ip_almanac_hf
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| | Exile/Camp Report given by Alexander Ivanovich Schnaider |
| | He was sentenced by the "Dvoyka" for section 58-10 (anti-Soviet agitation) on the 21.07.1938 and shot dead in ENGELS on the 22.08.1938. | | | He was taken into the remand prison of UNTERWALDEN, from where he was sent into prison in ENGELS. | | | On the 10.03.1938 the Communists arrested the secretary of the village Soviet in the village of GATTUNG, canton UNTERWALDEN, Autonomous Republic of the Volga-Germans: |
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http://www.memorial.krsk.ru/eng/Dokument/Svidet/ShnaiderAI.htm
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| | Event for Switzerland's National Holiday! |
| | Therefore, the mayors of these towns met on Augst 1st 1291 on the Rütli and founded together a confederation - Switzerland. | | | This year, the spirits of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden visit Rune Midgard to show the inhabitants the celebration of August 1st. | | | 714 years ago, the three areas Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden in central Europde decided to confederate. |
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http://www.euro-ro.net/news/eu/01219
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| | Heroic Legends - The Archer of Schwitz |
| | When he heard this speech, the youth was so incensed that he struck the fellow, breaking two of his fingers. | | | Gesler, governor of Schwitz and Uri, being drunk with power, and stupid with his own harrying of the people, bethought him of a new tyranny, as dangerous as it was absurd. | | | Having cudgelled well his brains, he discovered an excuse which might serve his purpose, and priming his men with it, he sent them to seize the oxen. |
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http://www.kellscraft.com/williamtell.html
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| | Book16 Chap 02 |
| | The council of Zurich, led away by the reformer, promised the bailiwicks | | | This was the 5th June, and on the same evening the standard of Zurich waved over the convent of Mouri. | | | It was Zug that issued the first summons; and the men of Uri, of Schwytz, and of Unterwalden had immediately begun to march. |
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http://4dw.net/nonconformer/Daubigne/ch02.html
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| | History of the Christian Church, Volume VIII: Modern Christianity. The Swiss Reformation. |
| | This led to a conflict with Austria, which ended favorably for the confederacy. | | | The Great Minster was built in the twelfth century, and passed into the Reformed communion, like the minsters of Basle, Berne, and Lausanne, which are the finest churches in Switzerland. | | | On the first day of August, in the year 1291, the freemen of Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden formed, in the name of the Lord "a perpetual alliance for the mutual protection of their persons, property, and liberty, against internal and external foes. |
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http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/hcc8.htm
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| | ICL - Switzerland Index |
| | It does not, for example, empower the Federal Court with constitutional review of parliamentary laws. | | | 1 Aug 1291: Uri (1), Schwyz (2) and Unterwalden (3) (the three 'Ur-cantons') unite against the surrounding aggressors. | | | Switzerland has 26 states, called 'cantons' ('Kantone') -- six of them half-cantons: Basel Stadt, Basel Landschaft, Appenzell Innerrhoden, Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Unterwalden nid dem Wald, Unterwalden ob dem Wald. |
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| | History of SWITZERLAND |
| | On the death of Rudolf I, in 1291, the three forest districts of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden openly campaign against the election of his Habsburg successor, Albert, as German king. | | | Held in the open air, assemblies of this kind become the highest legislative authority in the rural cantons of the Swiss federation - Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden, Zug, Glarus and Appenzell. | | | Between 1403 and 1410 men from Uri and Unterwalden forcibly secure control of two of the most important Alpine passes, St Gotthard and Simplon. |
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| | Unterwalden was running empty between Hergiswil and Kastanienbaum before waiting in mid-lake until it was time to position itself for service 17, the third paddler service of the day to Fluelen. | | | PS Unterwalden off Kastanienbaum on August 25th 2001, seen from MV Weggis, which was taking service 65, normally Unterwalden's first run of the day to Alpnachstad. |
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http://members.lycos.co.uk/paddlesteamers/LL01-41.htm
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| | Unterwalden -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Unterwalden was included in the Zürichgau (district) and was ruled after 1173 by the... | | | Unterwalden was included in the Zürichgau (district) and was ruled after 1173 by the Habsburg… | | | When the five rural cantons of the federation—Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden, Zug, and Glarus—concluded a treaty of common citizenship between themselves and the bishopric of Constance (1477), the three other, urban cantons—Luzern, Bern, and Zürich—retorted by concluding... |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9074375
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| | Wurts Coat of Arms |
| | used by the Wirz family in Unterwalden to this day. | | | home ; but one or two returned to Unterwalden at the first | | | burgher, or citizen, of Zurich went to Unterwalden and there |
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| | Wilhelm Tell Festival - New Glarus Wisconsin |
| | Baumgarten, who has slain Wolfshot (young noble of Unterwalden who deserted to the Austrians; became Governor of Rossberg) for attempting to dishonor his wife, is fleeing that subgovernor’s soldiers. | | | Melchtal, who has sought refuge with Fuerst, hear this, rushes out and bemoans the fact that his rashness has resulted in the blinding of his helpless father. | | | Stauffacher calls on Walter Fuerst and explains that Landenberger (young noble of Thurgau, deserted to the Austrians; became governor of Unterwalden), the governor of Unterwalden, has put out the eyes of Melchtal’s father for a minor offense committed by Melchtal. |
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| | WINKELRIED, ARNOLD V. - LoveToKnow Article on WINKELRIED, ARNOLD V. |
| | The incident with which ;his name is connected is, after the feat of William Tell, the best inown and most popular in the early history of the Swiss Confederation. | | | Commending his wife and children to the care of his comrades, he rushed towards the Austrians, gathered a number of their spears to-. | | | We are told how, at a critical moment in the great battle of Sempach, when the Swiss had failed to break the serried ranks of the Austrian knights, a man of Unterwalden, Arnold von Winkelried by name, came to the rescue. |
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http://57.1911encyclopedia.org/W/WI/WINKELRIED_ARNOLD_V_.htm
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| | Eternal Bond of Brothers -- Between Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden (August 1291; Transcription of Latin original) |
| | In addition, however, it has been set down between [the parties] that whosoever with premeditation kills another in the absence of the latter's guilt, shall, when he is seized, lose his life insofar as he is unable to prove his innocence of the named misdeed, as the heinousness of his guilt demands it. | | | If, however, dissent should arise between any confederates [of Uri, Schwyz or Unterwalden], the wisest from among the confederates should step forward to quiet the dispute between the parties as appears most expeditious, and that portion that would speak ill of that decision should henceforth be considered contrary to the rest of the confederacy. | | | In common council and unanimously, we have also sworn, determined and designated to each other that we will neither accept nor recognize any judge in the aforementioned valleys who had bought that office at some price or for money, nor any who is not our inhabitant and one of our people. |
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http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/swit/brudeng.html
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| | Unterwalden canton (Switzerland) |
| | During the 17th and 18th centuries the combined Unterwalden shield consisted of the Nidwalden double-key on the red and white field of Obwalden. | | | The keys are the emblem of St. Peter, the patron saint of the parish church of Stans, the capital of Nidwalden and the whole of Unterwalden. | | | Due to this delay, Obwalden officially ranks as the third canton and Nidwalden as the fourth. |
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| | William Tell -=SKYGAZE=- Interesting Facts, The Strange and Unexplained, Mysteries and Secrets |
| | The scene is the marketplace of Altdorf in Canton Uri, one of the three forest cantons, or states, of the Swiss heartland. | | | The pact signed in 1291 by Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden was not a declaration of independence - though the three forest cantons were restive under the rule of the Holy Roman emperors. | | | It is the early 1300's; Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden have only recently forged an alliance to settle disagreements among themselves by arbitration and not by warfare and to unite for mutual defense against outsiders. |
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| | The rising power of the Habsburgs in the Empire began to encroach on the privileges of the three forest Cantons of Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden and in 1291 they signed the Letter of Aliance, also known as the Everlasting League, uniting them against the foreign government of the Habsburgs. | | | The 5th century A.D. began a period of invasions and divisions that would continue until the area was united under the Holy Roman Empire in 1033. | | | This period gave rise to the popular folk hero of Switzerland, Wilhelm Tell, which inspired Schiller’s drama Wilhelm Tell and Rossini’s famous opera William Tell. |
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| | A Brief History of Switzerland |
| | The charter united the involved parties in the struggle against foreign rule by the Habsburgs, who then held the German imperial throne of the Holy Roman Empire. | | | According to the popular legend, in 1291, representatives of the three forest cantons of Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden signed the Federal Charter. | | | Switzerland is a federation of relatively autonomous cantons, some of which have a history of confederacy that goes back more than 700 years, arguably putting them among the world's oldest surviving republics. |
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| | International Travel News: All Aboard! William Tell Express 2002 - train travel in Switzerland |
| | Unterwalden, built in 1902, was returned to service, on May 16, 1985, after having been meticulously restored with $1.2 million donated by those listed on a scroll aboard the ship as "Friends of the Steamship Association." | | | Significantly, the route sings of freedom with memories of William Tell, the Swiss folk hero credited with rallying the Forest Cantons from the Hapsburgs' grasp, and the formation of independent Switzerland. | | | Unterwalden's first-class salons, where the William Tell Express passengers dine, shine with parquet floors, inlaid furniture, wooden scrolls, tables covered with white spreads, and frilly curtains so inconspicuous that they don't hide the delicate carvings surrounding the windows and covering the sills. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3648/is_3_27/ai_85133022
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| | PS Unterwalden seen at Weggis on August 14th 2001 on service 29, the evening call at 20:20 on the evening round trip from Luzern, normally associated with Uri. | | | Scheduled for a steamer on Tuesdays and Wednesdays only at this time of year, it was unusual for Unterwalden to be on the service on a Monday. |
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http://members.lycos.co.uk/paddlesteamers/LL01-16.htm
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| | Switzerland: Kanton Unterwalden |
| | Unterwalden is divided into the two "split cantons" ("Halb-Kantone"): | | | Short Term: UW State Capital: none (see remarks) |
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| | Search Results for "Obwalden" |
| | It is a winter and summer resort and has an early 12th-century Benedictine abbey.... | | | ...Unterwalden is divided into the half cantons of Obwalden (1993 pop. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/cgi-bin/texis/webinator/65search?query=Obwalden
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Obwalden |
| | In 1340 Unterwalden was split into two parts—Obwalden... | | | Unterwalden, one of Switzerland's original cantons, with a total area of 722 sq km (279 sq mi). | | | Exclusively for MSN Encarta Premium Subscribers--quickly search thousands of articles from magazines such as Time, Newsweek, The Atlantic Monthly, and Smithsonian. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=Obwalden
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| | Switzerland -- Primary documents |
| | Federal Charter -- Pact Between Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden | | | Foedus Pactum -- Pact Between Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden | | | Bundesbrief -- Pact Between Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden |
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| | Modern History Sourcebook: Friedrich Von Schiller: Wilhelm Tell, 1805 |
| | MELCHTAL: In Unterwalden I have many friends, And each would risk his life and limb with joy, If he hath back up from the others and A shield -- O pious fathers of this land! | | | REDING (steps into the middle): I can not place my hand upon the books, So swear I by th' eternal stars above, That I will never deviate from justice. | | | STAUFFACHER: The noble's plight is not the same as ours, The stream, which rages in the lower grounds, Til now hath not yet reached unto the heights -- But they will not refuse us their support When they once see the country up in arms. |
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| | Customs & Traditions in Switzerland: Alpine Festival in Canton Unterwalden |
| | The hard-core merry-makers keep up the fun until the wee hours of the morning when they mark the absolute end of the Alpine festival of Kerns with a concert of cowbells. | | | Customs and Traditions in Switzerland: Alpine Festival in Canton Unterwalden | | | In the villages of the central-Swiss cantons of Obwalden and Nidwalden, the annual Alpine festival is the most important event autumn has to offer. |
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http://www.swissworld.org/dvd_rom/eng/customs_2003/content/autumn/alpinefestivals.html
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| | Switzerland |
| | 1 Aug 1291 Swiss Confederation (Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden). | | | 24 Apr 1803 Kanton Unterwalden ob dem Wald (restored). | | | 10 Mar 1803 Kanton Unterwalden nid dem Wald (restored) |
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| | JOHN ROBERT COZENS |
| | PROVENANCE: Mr Somerset Beaumont; by descent Miss Mary Welland; Thos. | | | Girtin attempted to reconstruct Cozens’ first journey through the Swiss Alps but encountered difficulties in tracing the artist’s route in the Unterwalden district. | | | Three other versions exist: in the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, the Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House, London, and the Leeds City Art Gallery (Lupton Bequest). |
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| | Lake Luzern |
| | ......Unterwalden is the only paddler now able to reach Alpnachstad | | | A close-up of Unterwalden at Luzern in 1988 |
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