Basel
About Basel
Basel, also known as Basle, is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine. Basel is Switzerland's third most populous city, with 177,595 inhabitants within the city municipality limits.
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In Basel, in Switzerland, they had 20,000 pigeons. Then from 1961 to 1985, they killed around 100,000 every year. The population stayed stable.
from No Such Thing As Billions Of Checkers Boards, 2026-03-05 at 00:27:12 · read transcript
Other times Basel came up
It had a location transmitter and an Israeli identification tag on it. I suppose the thinking was that Israeli spies would have written, this is a spy on a bird. Yeah. In 1471 a chicken in Basel was found guilty of laying a brightly colored egg, which was thought to be in defiance of natural law. What was the penalty? Unfortunately, it wasn't let free like the Israeli one.
104: No Such Thing As A Herd Of Koalas, 2016-03-11 · listen
There's like one of his famous poems, which is called Isabella. It's about a woman who keeps the head of her love, of her father, lover, one of the two. I think lover. Lover. Lover in a pot of Basel. He explains what it looks like, this, you know, decapitated head. We think because he works as a surgeon, he knew, you know, he knew what dead bodies were like. His poems were real.
No Such Thing As Purplue, 2023-07-06 · listen
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Coordinates: 47.5547, 7.5906