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    Verkehrshaus der Schweiz (literally "Transportation House of Switzerland") in Lucerne opened in July 1959 and exhibits all forms of transport including trains...
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  • Bern-Lucerne Railway (Bern-Luzern-Bahn, BLB) was a railway company in Switzerland, which opened the Langnau–Lucerne line, now part of the Bern–Lucerne railway...
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    Basel/Zürich–Lugano–Milan journey time for passenger trains by one hour (and from Lucerne to Bellinzona by 45 minutes). After 64 percent of Swiss voters accepted...
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    company was called the Jura–Bern–Luzern (Jura–Bern–Lucerne, JBL) from 1 July 1884. The Jura–Bern–Lucerne merged with the Western Switzerland–Simplon Railways...
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  • (passenger) Packard One-Twenty convertible Küssnacht am Rigi, near Lake Lucerne, Schwyz, Switzerland As the Queen pointed out something on a map to her...
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    the Brünig line into Lucerne, the whole railway was converted to the same electrical system (15 kV  16.7 Hz AC), and new rolling stock acquired. The line...
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    and Tessin favored a tunnel through the Lukmanier, while Basel, Uri and Lucerne tried to prevent this at all means. In 1852, the British supported a tunnel...
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  • Kingdom) The Most Beautiful Boy in the World (SVT2) (Sweden) My Life as a Rolling Stone (BBC Two) (United Kingdom) My Name Is Gulpilil (ABC) (Australia)...
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    Minnesota for the next three months. In May, they tried to rob the bank in Lucerne, Indiana, and robbed the bank in Okabena, Minnesota. They kidnapped Dillard...
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  • Andermatt   Switzerland 1995–2001 22 22 Known as the "Death-Keeper of Lucerne"; nurse who killed 22 patients; most prolific Swiss serial killer in history;...
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    Gütsch Funicular (category Transport in Lucerne)
    simply the Gütschbahn, is a funicular railway in the city of Lucerne in the Swiss canton of Lucerne. The line links a lower station located on Baselstrasse...
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  • it's all reet with Magritte". The original photograph was shot on South Lucerne Avenue just south of West 2nd Street in Windsor Square, about 10 miles...
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  • Standseilbahn Hotel Montana (category Transport in Lucerne)
    Standseilbahn Hotel Montana is a funicular in Lucerne, Switzerland. It leads from Haldenstrasse at the shore of Lake Lucerne to the entrance of Hotel Montana at...
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    planned for August 2022. Hagen is divorced with two children, and lives in Lucerne, Switzerland. His daughter Karine Hagen works for Viking River Cruises...
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    "Bürgenstock eckt mit Preispolitik an". Luzerner Zeitung (in German). Lucerne, Switzerland. Retrieved 3 August 2017. Media related to Bürgenstock-Bahn...
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    pigeons Archangel showing its extensive iridescence Old Dutch Capuchine Lucerne Gold Collar Oriental Frill Old German Owl Old Dutch owl English Owl Chinese...
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    between Lucerne and Lugano. Erstfeld, at an altitude of 472 metres (1,549 ft), is reached via Altdorf. The depot at Erstfeld station houses rolling stock...
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    coming next in the list, and being followed by the wholly Swiss lakes of Lucerne and of Zurich. Then come Lake Lugano, Lake Thun, Lake Biel, Lake Zug, Lake...
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    globally, thanks to its energy efficiency and potentially high speed. Rolling stock on rails generally encounters lower frictional resistance than rubber-tyred...
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    Balls Festival in Lucerne, Switzerland. While recording his album, Dust Bowl (and listening to the expanded edition of the Rolling Stones' Get Yer Ya-Ya's...
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    system of rail transport whose rolling stock is levitated by electromagnets rather than rolled on wheels, eliminating rolling resistance. Compared to conventional...
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    204-metre-long (669 ft) footbridge crossing the River Reuss in the city of Lucerne in Switzerland. It is the oldest wooden covered bridge in Europe, and one...
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    railway above Lake Lucerne at Stansstad, Nidwalden, Switzerland. The line led from the bath in Harissenbucht, a bay of Lake Lucerne, at 437 m to the Hotel...
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    between Bern and Lucerne. It has about 9,000 inhabitants and is the most important market place in the region. It is set among rolling hills. The average...
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    Ludwig installed Wagner at the Villa Tribschen, beside Switzerland's Lake Lucerne. Die Meistersinger was completed at Tribschen in 1867, and premiered in...
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    railway line, which had been opened in 1888 from Brienz eastwards towards Lucerne. However, the Brünig railway was not extended westward to Interlaken until...
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    Johannesburg, South Africa; Berlin, Germany; Rome, Italy; Barcelona, Spain; Lucerne, Switzerland; New York, New York; Chicago, Illinois; Memphis, Tennessee;...
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    The plateau also produces wheat, barley, millet, beans, opium, cotton, lucerne, and tobacco. The barley is fed mainly to horses. Sesame is grown and made...
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    railways on the mountain Rigi, located between two of the arms of Lake Lucerne, in Switzerland. They include two standard gauge rack railways, the Vitznau–Rigi...
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    employed for mountain ascent — San Francisco, Scarborough, Rigi, Monterey, Lucerne, the Rhine, Mount Vesuvius — and returned to Hong Kong thoroughly convinced...
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