Maggiore, lake
Monta Rosa massif
Merz, Hans Rudolf, politician
Monstein, brewery
Mollendruz pass
Mosses pass
Maluns, fried potatoes
Oberwald
Oldenhorn
Oberalpass
Obersee
Pastetli, meat pie
Piz Corvatsch, mountain
Pontresina, town,
Picard, Auguste, scientist
Pfingstsonntag, whitsunday
Quelle - naturlich
Quark - curds for cottage cheese and other cheese stuff.
Rippli, pork
Ruebli kuchen, carrot cake
Rhone, river
Tabakspfeife = those really neat smoking pipes.
Tafeln = great food...................
Ticken = the sound of clocks
Uri, canton
Unterwalden, canton
Umbrail, pass
Unteraar, glacier
Unter Grindelwand, glacier
Universitat
Valais canton
Valle Maggia
Wurstsalat, sausage salad
Wilhelm Tell
Werner, Alfred, Nobel Prize Winner
Wuthrich, Kurt, " " "
Weisshorn, mountain
Waldgeist - forest ghost
Wandervolk - hikers
Wildbad - hot springs
Winter sports
Wunderschon - landscapes
x rays
They really have no direct link to Switzerland apart from the fact that their inventor, Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, who was unable to meet the enrollment requirements for university entry, enrolled at the Zurich Polytechnic in 1865. This enabled him to graduate from the University of Zurich with a Ph.D in 1869. He married Anna Bertha Ludwig of Zurich in 1872. He went on to become a professor of Physics.
If someone can come up with something better, please do.
Zwischenbergen - between mountains.
Zurich
Zeitung - newspaper
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Famous royals from families throughout history.
Agrippina (c.14 BC-AD 33)
Albert, Prince (1819-61)
Abbas (c.566-c.652)
Bernadotte, Royal House of Sweden, 1818 to present
Bourbon, House of, 16,17, and 18th Century
Bonaparte Family, France, 1799 to 1879
Catherine de' Medici (1519-89)
Charlotte de Bourbon (1546-82)
Ci-Xi or Tz'u-hsi (1835-1908)
Caesar, Gaius Julius (101/0-44BC)
Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (Caligula) (12-41AD)
Charlemagne (742/7-814)
Catherine the Great (1729-1796)
Charles I of England (1600-1649)
Charles II of England (1630-1685)
David, King of Israel (c1005BC-965BC)
Darius the Great, King of Persia (c549BC-485/6BC)
How come there were no yodels or zithers at the end of Switzerland?
Erik The Red (viking)
Elizabeth (versions I & II)
Ethelred The Unready (dark age king of England)
