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Zurich

Zurich
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About Zurich

Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich. As of the end of 2024, the municipality had a population of 436,551, while the urban area was home to 1.45 million people (2020), and the Zurich metropolitan area had a total population of 2.1 million (2020). Zurich is a hub for railways, roads, and air traffic. Both Zurich Airport and Zurich's main railway station are the largest and busiest in the country.

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In 1917, Lenin was taken in a secret sealed train, which was kind of officially given Russian embassy status. He was taken from Zurich to Petersburg so that he could start the revolution.

from 567: No Such Thing As A Honey Badger On Toast, 2025-01-23 at 00:29:02 · read transcript

Other times Zurich came up

  1. They made the handles out of knives or something. That's sexy. They're made now. There is this the town that it's produced in as a it's just outside of Zurich and it's called Kusnacht. It's where they manufacture or where the headquarters for this razor company is without the name razor, his original company. It's a really cool town. It sounds like there's a lot of amazing stuff that's happened and going on there.

    263: No Such Thing As Millipede Lipbalm, 2019-04-05 · listen

  2. I read about a block of flats near Zurich This is for people who claim to suffer from hypersensitivity to chemicals and electromagnetic radiation And there are apartments there that have been designed specifically So there's no smoking no perfume no mobile phones And it's supposed to be for people who.

    NSTAAF International Factball: Italy v Switzerland, 2014-06-20 · listen

  3. Oh, yeah There was a battle between Zurich and zugg rather nicely in 1529 War was declared but before any fighting could take place The two teams or the two groups of soldiers sat down Settle the differences and called off the war and the soldiers from both sides sat.

    NSTAAF International Factball: Italy v Switzerland, 2014-06-20 · listen

  4. He's 25 years old. He's just turned 25. He was born in, and still lives in Geneva, because he's quite slow moving, and he hasn't managed to leave yet. Hopefully in about 50 years he'll be in Zurich. Exactly. This is all from a great piece, just about a minute times, by the way. He lives in the Natural History Museum. and he sounds like a great guy.

    No Such Thing As Genghis Khan in Wimbledon, 2022-09-22 · listen

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