Direct current
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Direct current is a flow of electrical charge carriers that always takes place in the same direction. The current need not always have the magnitude, but if it is to be defined as dc. This contrasts with alternating current which varies the direction of flow, sources of direct current include power supplies, electrochemical cells and batteries, and photovoltaic cells and panels. The intensity, or amplitude, of a direct current might fluctuate with time, in some such cases the dc has an ac component superimposed on it. An example of this is the output of a cell that receives a modulated light communications signal. A source of dc is sometimes called a dc generator, batteries and various other sources of dc produce a constant voltage. This is called pure dc and can be represented by a straight, the peak and effective values are the same. The peak to peak value is zero because the instantaneous amplitude never changes, in some instances the value of a dc voltage pulsates or oscillates rap
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Direct Current (red curve). The horizontal axis measures time; the vertical, current or voltage.
German language
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German is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, South Tyrol, the German-speaking Community of Belgium and it is also one of the three official languages of Luxembourg. Major languages which are most similar to German include other members of the West Germanic language branch, such as Afrikaans, Dutch, English, Luxembourgish and it is the second most widely spoken Germanic language, after English. One of the languages of the world, German is the first language of about 95 million people worldwide. The German speaking countries are ranked fifth in terms of publication of new books. German derives most of its vocabulary from the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family, a portion of German words are derived from Latin and Greek, and fewer are borrowed from French and English. With slightly different standardized variants, German is a pluricentric language, like Engl
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Old Frisian (Alt-Friesisch)
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The widespread popularity of the
Bible translated into German by
Martin Luther helped establish modern German
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Examples of German language in
Namibian everyday life
Italian language
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By most measures, Italian, together with Sardinian, is the closest to Latin of the Romance languages. Italian is a language in Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City. Italian is spoken by minorities in places such as France, Montenegro, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Crimea and Tunisia and by large expatriate communities in the Americas. Many speakers are native bilinguals of both standardized Italian and other regional languages, Italian is the fourth most studied language in the world. Italian is a major European language, being one of the languages of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe. It is the third most widely spoken first language in the European Union with 65 million native speakers, including Italian speakers in non-EU European countries and on other continents, the total number of speakers is around 85 million. Italian is the working language of the Holy See, serving as the lingua franca in the Roman Catholic hierarchy as well as the official language of th
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The geographic distribution of the Italian language in the world: large Italian-speaking communities are shown in green; light blue indicates areas where the Italian language was used officially during the Italian colonial period.
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Pietro Bembo was an influential figure in the development of the Italian language from the Tuscan dialect, as a literary medium, codifying the language for standard modern usage
Romansh language
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Romansh has also been recognized as a national language of Switzerland since 1938 and as an official language along with German, French and Italian since 1996. It is sometimes grouped with Ladin and Friulian as a Rhaeto-Romance language, Romansh has also been heavily influenced by German in vocabulary and morphosyntax. The language gradually retreated to its current area over the centuries, being replaced by Alemannic, the earliest writing identified as Romansh dates from the 10th or 11th century, although major works do not appear until the 16th century when several regional written varieties began to develop. The 19th century saw a shrinkage of the language area but also a literary revival. In the 2000 Swiss census,35,095 people indicated Romansh as the language of best command, in 2010, Switzerland switched to a yearly system which uses a combination of municipal citizen records and a limited number of surveys. Based on this system, the number of people aged 15. The language area an
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"La mort da Benedetg Fontana", a Romansh passage in a Latin chronicle by Durich Chiampel
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Front page of Ilg Vêr Sulaz da pievel giuvan
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Cover page of Ortografia et ortoëpia del idiom romauntsch d'Engiadin'ota
Switzerland
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Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a federal republic in Europe. It consists of 26 cantons, and the city of Bern is the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in western-Central Europe, and is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland is a country geographically divided between the Alps, the Swiss Plateau and the Jura, spanning an area of 41,285 km2. The establishment of the Old Swiss Confederacy dates to the medieval period, resulting from a series of military successes against Austria. Swiss independence from the Holy Roman Empire was formally recognized in the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. The country has a history of armed neutrality going back to the Reformation, it has not been in a state of war internationally since 1815, nevertheless, it pursues an active foreign policy and is frequently involved in peace-building processes around the world. In addition to be
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The 1291 Bundesbrief (Federal charter)
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The Old Swiss Confederacy from 1291 (dark green) to the sixteenth century (light green) and its associates (blue). In the other colors are shown the subject territories.
Cantons of Switzerland
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The 26 cantons of Switzerland are the member states of the Swiss Confederation. The nucleus of the Swiss Confederacy in the form of the first three confederate allies used to be referred to as the Waldstätte, with the Napoleonic period of the Helvetic Republic the term canton/cantone/Kanton was fully established. From 1833, there were 25 cantons, which became 26 after the secession of the canton of Jura from Bern in 1979. The term canton, now used as English term for administrative subdivisions of other countries, originates in French usage in the late 15th century, from a word for edge. After 1490, canton was increasingly used in French and Italian documents to refer to the members of the Swiss Confederacy, English use of canton in reference to the Swiss Confederacy dates to the early 17th century. It was increasingly replaced by Stand after 1550, the French term canton was not adopted into German usage prior to 1648, and after that only in occasional use. The prominent usage of Ort a
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Caricature of the division of Basel, 1833
Sargans
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Sargans is a municipality in the Wahlkreis of Sarganserland in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Sargans is known for its castle, which dates from before the founding of the Swiss Confederation in 1291, Sargans was also a County of the Holy Roman Empire, see County of Sargans. There are traces of Neolithic settlement in the area, a significant Roman-era estate was destroyed by an Alamannic incursion in c. Sargans remained part of Lower Raetia in the medieval period. A church dedicated to Saint Cassian is mentioned in the 9th century, Sargans was part of the territory of the county of Werdenberg from the 12th century, with a separate line of Werdenberg-Sargans established in the later 13th century. The castle was presumably first built in the 12th century and is first mentioned in 1282, the town of Sargans grew around the castle in the 13th century. Sargans is mentioned as Senegaunis in the 11th century, an earlier mention as de Senegaune, ostensibly dated to 765, survives in a 1
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Sargans
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View from Mt. Laufböden toward Mels and Sargans
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Sargans from Schloss Sargans
Swiss Federal Railways
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Swiss Federal Railways is the national railway company of Switzerland. It is usually referred to by the initials of its German, French and Italian names, either concatenated as SBB CFF FFS, the Romansh version of its name, Viafiers federalas svizras, is not officially used. The company is headquartered in Bern and it used to be a government institution, but since 1999 it has been a special stock corporation whose shares are held by the Swiss Confederation or the Swiss cantons. Swiss Federal Railways is divided into three divisions and two groups, Passenger traffic Freight traffic Infrastructure Real estate Core services The corporation is led in an entrepreneurial manner, a performance agreement between Swiss Federal Railways and the Swiss Confederation defines the requirements and is updated every four years. At the same time the rates per train and track-kilometre are defined. Subsidiary SBB GmbH is responsible for traffic in Germany. It operates the Wiesentalbahn and the Seehas serv
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Historic SBB push-pull train consisting of BDe 4/4, A, ABt near
Hettlingen ZH
Oberalp Pass
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Oberalp Pass is a high mountain pass in the Swiss Alps connecting the cantons of Graubünden and Uri between Disentis and Andermatt. When the road closes depends on snowfall and varies between the end of October and the beginning of December, the road opens again in spring, usually by the end of April but sometimes not until mid May. In winter, a ski area extends to the Graubünden side, connecting the pass well into the Tujetsch territory to Dieni, the Rhine springs from a source nearby, which is marked by a working lighthouse. A multiday trekking route is signposted across Oberalp pass and along the young Rhine called Senda Sursilvana, oberalpsee is located 20 m below, in the direction of Andermatt. Oberalppass railway station is located next to the Oberalppass road and it is at the base of the Oberalp ski area. The station is owned and run by the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn and it has 3 platforms, one of which is a bay platform from Andermatt, and is often closed during the winter. The r
Andermatt
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Andermatt is a mountain village and municipality in the canton of Uri in Switzerland at 1437 m a. s. l. Andermatt is located at the center of the Saint-Gotthard Massif and the center cross of north-south. With Hospental and Realp, it is located in the valley called Urseren,28 km south of Altdorf, Andermatt has an area, as of 2006, of 62.2 km2. Of this area,40. 8% is used for agricultural purposes, of the rest of the land,1. 7% is settled and the remainder is non-productive. In the 1993/97 land survey,0. 4% of the land area was heavily forested, while 5. 1% is covered in small trees. Of the agricultural land,4. 3% is used for orchards or vine crops and 36. 5% is used for alpine pastures, of the settled areas,0. 5% is covered with buildings, and 1. 1% is transportation infrastructure. Of the unproductive areas,0. 5% is unproductive standing water,1. 0% is unproductive flowing water, there is 30. 9% that is too rocky for vegetation, Andermatt is located in a high Alpine valley—the Ursern
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Andermatt
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Parish Church St. Peter and Paul in Andermatt
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Old Gottard post on the pass
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The Devil's Bridge by J.M.W. Turner
Canton of Uri
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The canton of Uri is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland and a founding member of the Swiss Confederation. It is located in Central Switzerland, the cantons territory covers the valley of the Reuss between the St. Gotthard Pass and Lake Lucerne. The official language of Uri is German, but the spoken language is the Alemannic Swiss German dialect called Urner German. Uri was the canton where the children in school had to learn Italian as their first foreign language. But in the year of 2005/2006 this was changed to English as in most other cantons. The population is about 35,000 of which 3,046 are foreigners, the legendary William Tell is said to have hailed from Uri. The historical landmark Rütli lies within the canton of Uri, the name of the valley is first mentioned in the 8th or 9th century, in the Latinized form of Uronia. In the medieval period, the name referred not to the entire Reuss valley but just to Altdorf, the extension of the name to a larger territory is the result of t
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Urseren valley from the Furka Pass
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Map of Uri
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Battle of Morgarten
Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn
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The Matterhorn-Gotthard-Bahn is a narrow gauge railway in Switzerland. The track width is 1,000 mm and it was created in 2003 through an amalgamation of Furka-Oberalp-Bahn and BVZ Zermatt-Bahn. The name comes from the Matterhorn and St. Gotthard Pass, from Andermatt, a branch line extends to Göschenen, at the Northern end of the Gotthard Rail Tunnel. Between Realp and Oberwald the line crossed the Furka pass. This compares to a crest elevation of just 1,564 m above sea level in todays Furka Base Tunnel, the old line, the scenic route which is very attractive to tourists, is operated by the Dampfbahn Furka-Bergstrecke using veteran steam engines. There is a connection to the Rhaetian Railway in Disentis and the Glacier Express runs from Zermatt to St. Moritz, apart from the Glacier Express, the current schedule sees passenger trains commuting between Brig and Zermatt, Brig and Göschenen, as well as Andermatt and Disentis. MGB also operates two car trains, between Realp and Oberwald thro
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Glacier Express to Zermatt on the rack rail section just before Oberalp Passhöhe
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Push-Pull train at the Oberalpsee
Tirano (Rhaetian Railway station)
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Tirano is one of two stations in Tirano, Italy. It is the terminus of the metre gauge Bernina Railway line from St. Moritz. Hourly services operate on this line, hourly services operate on the Bernina Line at Tirano. On top of regional services between St. Moritz and Davos, four Bernina Express daily tourist trains, two in each direction, operate on the same routes
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Tirano Rhaetian Railway station
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Train through Tirano
St Moritz
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St. Moritz is a high Alpine luxury resort in the Engadine in Switzerland, at an elevation of about 1,800 metres above sea level. It is Upper Engadines major village and a municipality in the district of Maloja in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. St. Moritz lies on the slopes of the Albula Alps below the Piz Nair overlooking the flat and wide glaciated valley of the Upper Engadine and eponymous lake. It hosted the Winter Olympics in 1928 and 1948, St. Moritz is a popular destination for the upper class and international jetset. It has one of the most expensive ski resorts in the world | along with many luxurious five star hotels, votive offerings, swords, and needles from the Bronze Age found at the base of the springs in St. Moritz indicate that the Celts had already discovered them. St. Moritz is first mentioned around 1137–39 as ad sanctum Mauricium, the village was named after Saint Maurice, an early Christian saint from southern Egypt said to have been martyred in 3rd century Roman
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View of St. Moritz and the surrounding mountains from the hiking trail to Muottas da Schlarigna (Celerina)
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Baths in St. Moritz, ca. 1881
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St. Moritz in January 1931
Davos
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Davos is a municipality in the Prättigau/Davos Region in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. It has a permanent population of 11,109, Davos is located on the river Landwasser, in the Rhaetian Alps, between the Plessur and Albula Range. At 1,560 m, it is the highest town in Europe, Davos is host to the World Economic Forum, an annual meeting of global political and business elites and the home of one of Switzerlands biggest ski resorts. At the end of year it serves as the site of the annual Spengler Cup ice hockey tournament. The current settlement of the Davos area began in the High Middle Ages with the immigration of Rhaeto-Romans, the village of Davos is first mentioned in 1213 as Tavaus. Natives still speak a dialect that is atypical for Graubünden, showing similarities with German idioms of western parts of Switzerland, in 1436, the League of the Ten Jurisdictions was founded in Davos. Robert Louis Stevenson, who suffered from tuberculosis, wintered in Davos in 1880 upon the rec
Bernina Railway
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The Bernina railway is a single-track 1,000 mm metre gauge railway line forming part of the Rhaetian Railway. It links the spa resort of St. Moritz, in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland, with the town of Tirano, in the Province of Sondrio, Italy, via the Bernina Pass. Reaching a height of 2,253 metres above sea level, it is the highest railway crossing in Europe and the third highest railway in Switzerland. It also ranks as the highest adhesion railway of the continent, the whole site is regarded as a cross-border joint Swiss-Italian heritage area. The most famous trains operating on the Bernina Railway are known as the Bernina Express and it was only on 5 July 1910 that the whole line could be opened, upon completion of the most difficult section between Bernina Suot and Poschiavo. The line was operated with DC current from the start. In 1935 the voltage was increased from 750 to 1000 volts, originally, the Bernina Railway was intended for use only in summer, but in 1913/14 the BB
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Bernina Railway with the
Palü Glacier in the background. Postcard from ca. 1910
Tirano
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Tirano is a town in Valtellina, located in the province of Sondrio in northern Italy. It has 9,130 inhabitants and is adjacent to the Switzerland-Italy boundary, the river Adda flows through the town. Tirano has two neighboring railway stations, one, a standard gauge station, is operated by Trenitalia, the state railway company, and is terminus of the Tirano–Lecco railway. The other, a gauge station, is operated by the Rhaetian Railway. The line of the Bernina Railway connects St. Moritz with Tirano, the complete line was opened in 1910. In 2008 the Bernina Railway as well as the Albula Railway were recorded from UNESCO in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, located nearby is the Catholic shrine of the Madonna di Tirano, a major tourist attraction. The shrine is dedicated to the appearance of the Blessed Mother to Mario Degli Omodei on September 29,1504, the Palazzo Salis close by the municipal offices is a remarkable example of the use of trompe loeil to create the illusion of ar
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Tirano
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Postcard of Palazzo Salis (now Sertoli-Salis), Tirano, Valtelline. Postmarked Lecco to Bern. Franked, 12 June, 1911.
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Basilica
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Church of St. Perpetua
Lombardy
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Lombardy is one of the twenty administrative regions of Italy, in the northwest of the country, with an area of 23,844 square kilometres. Milan, Lombardys capital, is the second-largest city and the largest metropolitan area in Italy, the word Lombardy comes from Lombard, which in turn is derived from Late Latin Longobardus, Langobardus, derived from the Proto-Germanic elements *langaz + *bardaz, equivalent to long beard. Some sources derive the second element instead from Proto-Germanic *bardǭ, *barduz, Lombardy referred during the early Middle Ages to the entire territory of Italy ruled by the Lombards, a Germanic tribe who conquered much of the Italian peninsula beginning in the 6th century. During the late Middle Ages, the term shifted meaning and was used to identify the whole of Northern Italy, with a surface of 23,861 km2, Lombardy is the 4th largest region of Italy. It is bordered by Switzerland and by the Italian regions of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol and Veneto, Emilia-Romag
Albula Railway
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The Albula Railway is a single track metre gauge railway line forming part of the so-called core network of the Rhaetian Railway, in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. It links Thusis on the Hinterrhein with the spa resort of St. Moritz in Engadine, construction of the Albula Railway was begun in September 1898, the opening took place on 1 July 1903, and the extension to St. Moritz commenced operations on 10 July 1904. With its 55 bridges and 39 tunnels, the 61. 67-kilometre long line is one of the most spectacular narrow gauge railways in the world, the best known trains operating on the Albula Railway are the Glacier Express and the Bernina Express. Up until 1890, the south east of Switzerland was extremely poorly served by railways, alpine transit traffic was drawn to the Gotthard Railway, so that the construction of transcontinental railways in Graubünden appeared not to be economically viable. Only the success of the Landquart-Davos-Bahn led to a turning point, in 1895, the LD
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Nostalgic train near
Preda
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An RhB train amidst the spiral tunnels.
Thusis
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Thusis is a municipality in the Viamala Region in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. Thusis is first mentioned in 1156 as Tosana, Thusis has an area, as of 2006, of 6.8 km2. Of this area, 18% is used for agricultural purposes, while 58. 2% is forested, of the rest of the land,15. 2% is settled and the remainder is non-productive. The municipality is the capital of the Thusis sub-district, of the Hinterrhein district and it is the center of the Hinterrhein valley and is located at the confluence of the Hinterrhein and Nolla rivers. Thusis is also at the end of the Viamala canyon and it consists of the village of Thusis and, since 1875, includes Übernolla. Thusis has a population of 3,025, as of 2008,23. 6% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 0. 7%, as of 2000, the gender distribution of the population was 50. 4% male and 49. 6% female. The age distribution, as of 2000, in Thusis is,304 people or 11. 2% of the popu
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Thusis
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Thusus from the Viamala canyon
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Protestant church in Thusis
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Thusis train station
UNESCO World Heritage Sites
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A World Heritage Site is a landmark which has been officially recognized by the United Nations, specifically by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Sites are selected on the basis of having cultural, historical, scientific or some form of significance. UNESCO regards these sites as being important to the interests of humanity. The programme catalogues, names, and conserves sites of outstanding cultural or natural importance to the common culture, under certain conditions, listed sites can obtain funds from the World Heritage Fund. The program was founded with the Convention Concerning the Protection of the Worlds Cultural and Natural Heritage, since then,192 state parties have ratified the convention, making it one of the most adhered to international instruments. As of July 2016,1052 sites are listed,814 cultural,203 natural, in 1959, the governments of Egypt and Sudan requested UNESCO to assist their countries to protect and rescue the endangered mon
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Site #252:
Taj Mahal, an example of cultural heritage site
Google Street View
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Google Street View is a technology featured in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides panoramic views from positions along many streets in the world. It was launched in 2007 in several cities in the United States, streets with Street View imagery available are shown as blue lines on Google Maps. Google Street View displays panoramas of stitched images, most photography is done by car, but some is done by trekker, tricycle, walking, boat, snowmobile, and underwater apparatus. Street View had its inception in 2001 with The Stanford CityBlock Project, the project ended in June 2006, and its technology was folded into StreetView. 2007, Launched on May 25 in the United States using Immersive Media technology,2008, In May Google announces that it was testing face-blurring technology on its photos of the busy streets of Manhattan. The technology uses an algorithm to search Googles image database for faces. Street View integrated into Google Earth 4.3, the Maps application on the Apple iPh
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Taken in Oct 2010, a Google Maps Camera Car showcased on Google campus in Mountain View, California
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Google Street View
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Street View Camera showcased on campus.
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Google Street View Camera mounted on a "trike", on display at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.
Grade (slope)
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The grade of a physical feature, landform or constructed line refers to the tangent of the angle of that surface to the horizontal. It is a case of the slope, where zero indicates horizontality. A larger number indicates higher or steeper degree of tilt, often slope is calculated as a ratio of rise to run, or as a fraction in which run is the horizontal distance and rise is the vertical distance. The grades or slopes of existing physical features such as canyons and hillsides, stream and river banks, grades are typically specified for new linear constructions. The grade may refer to the slope or the perpendicular cross slope. There are several ways to express slope, as an angle of inclination to the horizontal, as a percentage, the formula for which is 100 rise run which could also be expressed as the tangent of the angle of inclination times 100. In the U. S. this percentage grade is the most commonly used unit for communicating slopes in transportation, surveying, construction, and c
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Illustration of grades (percentages), angles in degrees and ratio.
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A 1371-metre long stretch of railroad with a 20
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Czech Republic
Landquart railway station
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Landquart is a major railway station on the SBB-CFF-FFS main line from Zürich to Chur as well as a Rhaetian Railway station. Intercity, Regio Express and Regional SBB services stop at the station alongside Regio Express, there are trains to Zürich and beyond in the north and services to Chur and Disentis/Muster in the south. In addition, there are connecting services to Klosters, Davos, there are currently six platforms in use at the station. Platforms 2,3 and 4 are served by SBB and Platforms 5,6 and 8 are served by RhB, Platforms 1 and 7 are not normally used. Landquart station is the start of the Prättigauer Höhenweg, a hiking trail that leads to Klosters. RE2/R21 - 1tph RE3/R31 - 1tph S8 - 1tph Rhaetian Railway
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Landquart station building
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Platforms 1, 2, 3 and 4:
SBB platforms
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Platforms 5, 6, 7 and 8:
RhB platforms
Malans (Rhaetian Railway station)
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Malans is a station on the Landquart-Davos railway line. It is served hourly by RE3 and S8 services. R21 runs during the mornings and late evenings only. The S8 line is part of the Chur S-Bahn network, there are currently two platforms in use at Malans station. RE3 - 1tph R21 - 1tph S8 - 1tph Rhaetian Railway
Grusch (Rhaetian Railway station)
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Grusch is a station on the Landquart-Davos railway line. Westbound, there are two trains per hour towards Lanquart, rE2/R21 trains terminate at Landquart, but hourly S8 trains continues to Rhazuns. Eastbound, there are services to Davos. There is an hourly service as far as Schiers. RE2 runs express services along the Landquart-Davos line, r21 runs stopping services along the same line replacing RE2 services during early mornings and late evenings. The S8 line is part of the Chur S-Bahn network, there are currently two platforms in use at Grusch station. RE2/R21 - 1tph S8 - 1tph Rhaetian Railway
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The station can be seen in the right of the image
Schiers
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Schiers is a municipality in the Prättigau/Davos Region in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. The first concrete bridge ever built, Salginatobel Bridge, is located in Schiers. Designed by Robert Maillart and completed in 1930, in 1991 it was the first bridge to be designated an International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers, Schiers is first mentioned in 1101 A. D. as Scieres. Schiers has an area, as of 2006, of 61.8 km2, of this area,36. 5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 44. 3% is forested. Of the rest of the land,2. 1% is settled, before 2017, the municipality was located in the Schiers sub-district of the Prättigau/Davos district on the border with Austria. The highest point is the Drusenfluh at 2,828 m and it is located in the lower Prättigau valley at the mouth of the Schraubach. It is the center of the middle and outer Prättigau valley, in 1875 the hamlet of Sigg left Schiers for the municipality of Valzeina. Schiers has a popu
Trimmis
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Trimmis is a municipality in the Landquart Region in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. Trimmis is first mentioned in 765 as Tremine, in 768 it was mentioned as Tremune. Trimmis has an area, as of 2006, of 28.5 km2, of this area,34. 4% is used for agricultural purposes, while 41. 5% is forested. Of the rest of the land,4. 7% is settled, until 2017, the municipality was located in the Fünf Dörfer sub-district of the Landquart district, after 2017 it is part of the Landquart Region. The municipality is located near the Rhine River about 5 kilometers north of the capital of Chur. It consists of the village of Trimmis and the hamlets of Letsch and Talein, in 1880 the Says separated from Trimmis to become an independent municipality. However, in 2008 Says merged back into Trimmis, Trimmis has a population of 3,188. As of 2008,7. 7% of the population was made up of foreign nationals, over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 9. 9%. Most of the population speaks German, with R
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Trimmis
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Trimmis valley from Castle Alt Aspermont ruins
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Alt Aspermont from an illustration from Daniel Düringer
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Ruins of the Ruchenberg keep
Schiers (Rhaetian Railway station)
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Schiers is a station on the Landquart-Davos railway line. Westbound, there are three trains per hour towards Lanquart, rE2/R21 trains terminate at Landquart, but two trains per hour continue to Chur and beyond. Eastbound, there are services to Davos and to Scuol-Tarasp. RE2 runs express services along the Landquart-Davos line, r21 runs stopping services along the same line replacing RE2 services during early mornings and late evenings. The S8 line is part of the Chur S-Bahn network, there are currently two platforms in use at Schiers station. RE2/R21 - 1tph RE3 - 1tph S8 - 1tph Rhaetian Railway
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Schiers, showing the rail line through the village
Chur railway station
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Chur railway station serves the city of Chur, capital of the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. Opened in 1858, it is the most important railway junction in Graubünden, the station is the terminus of the Swiss Federal Railways standard gauge main line from Zürich to Chur, and is also one of the most important stations on the Rhaetian Railway metre gauge network. SBB Intercity, Regio Express and Regional services stop at the station, alongside Rhaetian Railway Regio Express, there are SBB trains to Landquart, and then stations to Zürich and Rhaetian Railway services to many destinations in Graubünden. The Glacier Express also calls and reverses at Chur, planning for a station at Chur began in 1850. After heated debate, the station was built at its present site, just outside the city limits and it was opened on 30 June 1858. The first operator of the station was the United Swiss Railways, initially, only a temporary wooden goods shed was constructed as a station building. But in 1860 wor
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Trains at Chur station.
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Bus terminal, on the upper level
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Chur station platforms
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The bus station on Bahnhofplatz
Fideris
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Fideris is a municipality in the Prättigau/Davos Region in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. Fideris is first mentioned in 1370 as Fidris, Fideris has an area, as of 2006, of 25.3 km2. Of this area,60. 7% is used for agricultural purposes, of the rest of the land,2. 7% is settled and the remainder is non-productive. Before 2017, the municipality was located in the Jenaz sub-district of the Prättigau/Davos district and it is a cross shaped linear village which lies on the Prättigau-Schanfigg route. It consists of the village of Fideris which is made up of the sections of Strahlegg, Fideris has a population of 600. As of 2007,3. 5% of the population was made up of foreign nationals, over the last 10 years the population has decreased at a rate of -1. 8%. As of 2000, the distribution of the population was 48. 6% male and 51. 4% female. The age distribution, as of 2000, in Fideris is,97 children or 16. 6% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 78 teenagers or 13. 3% are between
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Fideris village church
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Fideris from the air, showing the village's cross shape
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Tower house
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Tower house next to other houses of the village
Chur West (Rhaetian Railway station)
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Chur West is a railway station in Chur, Switzerland. It is located on the Chur S-Bahn network and it is served twice hourly by S8 and S9 trains in each direction. Some daytime RE3 services also stop at this station, RE3 - Limited service R11 - 1tph R31 - 1tph S8 - 1tph S9 - 1tph Rhaetian Railway
Chur Stadt (Rhaetian Railway station)
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Chur Stadt is a small railway station on the Chur-Arosa line of the Rhaetian Railway. It is situated near the old town of Chur, on Plessurquai by the Plessur river, the halt is closer to the shops, bars and attractions of the old town than the main station. A number of local and Postauto bus services converge at Malteser, a footbridge connects the halt with Lindenquai, on the other side of the river. The Chur stadtbahn is the part of the RhB line from Chur to Arosa which passes through the centre of the city of Chur, the line starts on Bahnhofplatz, in front of the main railway station, where that stations platforms for the Arosa line are. Shortly after Sand, at Sassal the line diverges from the road, which crosses the Plessau, Postauto bus services 90.001,90.041,90.042, and 90. 181/182 call at the nearby Malteser bus stop. Hourly passenger services operate on line, between Chur and Arosa. The route is shown as timetable 930 in the Swiss national timetables, currently passenger trains
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The halt with St Martin's Church behind and the Cathedral further to the right
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Chur stadtbahn (Engadinstrasse)
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Chur Sand depot; the Plessur and main running line are on the left
Kublis (Rhaetian Railway station)
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Kublis is a station on the Landquart-Davos railway line. Westbound, there are two trains per hour towards Lanquart, and one train per hour continues through Chur to Disentis/Muster, eastbound, there are hourly services to Davos and to Scuol-Tarasp. RE2 runs express services along the Landquart-Davos line, r21 runs stopping services along the same line replacing RE2 services during early mornings and late evenings. There are currently two platforms in use at Kublis station, rE2/R21 - 1tph RE3 - 1tph Rhaetian Railway
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Küblis station platform
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Kublis station from above
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Route from Kublis to Saas
Domat/Ems (Rhaetian Railway station)
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Domat/Ems is a railway station in Ems, Switzerland. It is located on the Chur S-Bahn network and it is served twice hourly by S8 and S9 trains in each direction. Some daytime RE1 and RE3 services also stop at this station, RE1 - Limited service RE3 - Limited service R11 - 1tph R31 - 1tph S8 - 1tph S9 - 1tph Rhaetian Railway
Sassal (Rhaetian Railway station)
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Sassal was a small railway station on the Chur-Arosa line of the Rhaetian Railway. It was situated on the outskirts of Chur, by the Plessur river. The small community of Sassal is located on the side of the river. The RhB has closed Sassal halt due to the danger of falling rocks, low passenger numbers and this location has suffered from notable landslides in recent times - the mountainside to the rear of the station is unstable - with the railway line and road sometimes obstructed by rockfall. An alternative public transport service is provided by Chur town bus services run through to Meiersboden. The nearest open station is now the RhBs Chur Stadt. Immediately after Sassal, the line goes through the three Sassal tunnels, the first tunnels on the route up from Chur to Arosa, photo of the location of Sassal station
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The lower entrance to the first of the Sassal tunnels; the former station is just down the line from here
Reichenau-Tamins (Rhaetian Railway station)
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Reichenau-Tamins is a railway station serving the communities of Reichenau and Tamins in Switzerland. It is an important station for connections between the Chur-Thusis line and the Chur-Disentis line as it is where the two lines diverge, from this station, there are trains to Chur, Disentis, Scuol, St. Moritz and Thusis. At Chur, there are also mainline connecting services to Zurich, rE1/R11 - 1tph RE3/R31 - 1tph S8 - 1tph S9 - 1tph Rhaetian Railway
Klosters Dorf (Rhaetian Railway station)
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Klosters Dorf is a station on the Landquart-Davos railway line. It is the station in the village of Klosters, but is served less frequently than Klosters station itself. The station is served hourly by RE3 trains in each direction, there is currently one platform in use at Klosters Dorf station. RE3 - 1tph R21 - 1tph Rhaetian Railway
Klosters (Rhaetian Railway station)
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Klosters station is located in the municipality of Klosters-Serneus in the district of Prattigau/Davos in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. It is a station on the Landquart-Davos railway line, westbound, there are two trains per hour towards Lanquart, and one train per hour continues through Chur to Disentis/Muster. Eastbound, there are services to Davos and to Scuol-Tarasp. The hourly express service from Lanquart to Davos is also complemented by an off-peak stopping service along the same route, the station also serves as the central terminus for local bus services. RE2 runs express services along the Landquart-Davos line, r21 runs stopping services along the same line replacing RE2 services during early mornings and late evenings. The station currently has three platforms in use, RE2 trains usually stop at platforms 1 and 3 eastbound and westbound respectively. RE3 trains tend to stop at platform 2 only, rE2/R21 - 1tph RE3 - 1tph Rhaetian Railway
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Klosters station building
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Train arriving at platform 2
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Trains at platforms 1 and 2
Peist (Rhaetian Railway station)
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Peist is a railway station on the Chur-Arosa line of the Rhaetian Railway. It is situated very near to Peist, postauto bus service 90.041 terminates/begins at Peists Schulhaus, which is slightly less than a kilometre from the station. The bus route serves, Sankt Peter, Pagig, Tura, Castiel, Calfreisen, Sax and Maladers, hourly passenger services operate on this line, between Chur and Arosa. The route is shown as timetable 930 in the Swiss national timetables, currently passenger trains stop at Peist only on request and the morning/late afternoon express services run in January & February do not call here. Rhaetian Railway SBB Next departures from Peist
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Peist station from above.
