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Vision, Language, and Influence:
Photographs of the South by Baldwin Lee, Walker Evans, and Eudora Welty
Knoxville Museum of Art
May 14 – August 1, 2010
Vision, Language, and Influence brings together for the first time the work of three photographers of the American South over a 50-year period. Walker Evans (1903-1976) is represented by incisive images of Alabama sharecroppers stemming from his epic collaboration with James Agee on Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Eudora Welty (1909-2001) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning Southern writer and photographer who traveled across Mississippi in the 1930s and early 1940s taking photographs and documenting rural and small-town life in her home state. Baldwin Lee (born 1951) is a professor of photography at the University of Tennessee, and a former assistant to Walker Evans. Complementing the 50 or so works by Evans and Welty are more than 30 of Lee’s images of African-American life in the South taken during the 1980s with the support of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Vision, Language, and Influence was organized by the Knoxville Museum of Art in collaboration with Baldwin Lee.
Urmia (Turkish language: Urmu, Urmiyə, اورمیه; farsi: ارومیه) variously translitterated as Oroumiyeh, Orūmīyeh and Urūmiyeh, is a city in and the capital of West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 577,307, with 153,570 households.
The city lies at an altitude of 1,330 m above sea level on the Shahar Chay river (City River). Urmia is the 10th most populated city in Iran. The population is mainly mainly Azerbaijanian Turkish(85-90%), with Kurdish, Assyrian Christian, and Armenian minorities.
Urmia is situated on a fertile plain called Urmia Plain, on western side of Lake Urmia; and eastern side of Turkish border and marginal range of mountains.
Urmia is the trade center for a fertile agricultural region where fruit (especially Apple and Grape) and Tobacco are grown. An important town by the 9th cent., Urmia was seized by the Seljuk Turks (1184), and later occupied a number of times by the Ottoman Turks.
Urmiye (Türkçesi:اورمو, Urmu, اورمیه, Urumiyə;Farsça: ارومیه, Orumieh), İran'ın Batı Azerbaycan Eyaleti'nin yönetim merkezi olan şehir. Şehir, bağlı olduğu eyaletin orta kısmında, Urmiye Gölü ile Türkiye sınırı arasında, kendi adıyla anılan ovada kuruludur. Nüfusu 2006 yılı verileriyle 577,307 kişidir ki Urmiye ülkenin en büyük 10. şehridir.
Urmiye şehrinde nüfusun çoğunluğunu (tahmini 90%) Türklerdir, azınlık kısmınıysa Kürtler, Süryaniler ve Ermeniler oluşturuyor.
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, California -- The 2018 Language Day celebration was held by the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center at the Presidio of Monterey, May 11. Language Day is open to the public and attended by schools across the nation to promote an understanding of diverse customs and cultures from around the world. Approximately 6,000 people attended this annual event featuring cultural displays, activities and international ethnic cuisine served by local vendors.
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PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, California -- The 2018 Language Day celebration was held by the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center at the Presidio of Monterey, May 11. Language Day is open to the public and attended by schools across the nation to promote an understanding of diverse customs and cultures from around the world. Approximately 6,000 people attended this annual event featuring cultural displays, activities and international ethnic cuisine served by local vendors.
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Students from the Foreign Languages department on the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois on August 27, 2015. (Jay Grabiec)
Yesterday, the Japanese dictionary explained about the warning sign you see in a Japan's elavator. Those Japanese symbols are used particularly for letting people to know a door in front of them. So they are normally used where an automatic door is used. Today, on the other hand, the ordinally warning is going to be added into our Japanese dictionary. These Japanese symbols are written in kanji characters and they are called Kei Koku. Next to the Japanese kanji symbols, there is a ! mark in a rectangular. That is also the sign of warning which is quite often used in Japan. Although it is black and white, the symbol is colored in yellow.
The first kanji symbol means warning and the second symbol means to tellin Japanese. By combining individual kanji word, it become the warning sign. This method of writting is called kanji compound.
In Japanese language, the method is used quite often when writting words in Japanese kanji.
So we will these Japanese symbols into our Japanese dictionally.
By the way, if you would like to get accurate Japanese symbols, we suggest Takanori Tomita's Japanese translation at www.dsfy.com
UH Hilo Hawaiian language students and high schools students from Nāwahīokalaniʻōpuʻu laboratory school holding ti leaves, symbolizing spiritual blessings for the dedication ceremonies.
In honor of 50 successful years of the English Language Fellow Program, Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Marie Royce hosted a celebratory event on November 5th in the Benjamin Franklin Room at the U.S Department of State to honor the program, its participants, and its partners. Here are some photos of the event!
Students from the Foreign Languages department on the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois on August 27, 2015. (Jay Grabiec)
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, California -- The 2017 Language Day celebration was held by the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center at the Presidio of Monterey, May 12. Language Day is open to the public and attended by schools throughout the region to promote an understanding of diverse customs and cultures from around the world. Approximately 5,000 people attended the annual event featuring cultural displays, activities and international ethnic cuisine served by local vendors on Presidio’s Soldier Field.
The event featured a Vietnam War veterans recognition ceremony. Vietnam War lapel pins authorized by Congress were individually presented by POM Garrison Commander Col. Lawrence Brown and Garrison Command Sgt. Maj. Roberto Marshall to approximately 75 Vietnam War veterans in attendance.
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PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, California -- The 2017 Language Day celebration was held by the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center at the Presidio of Monterey, May 12. Language Day is open to the public and attended by schools throughout the region to promote an understanding of diverse customs and cultures from around the world. Approximately 5,000 people attended the annual event featuring cultural displays, activities and international ethnic cuisine served by local vendors on Presidio’s Soldier Field.
The event featured a Vietnam War veterans recognition ceremony. Vietnam War lapel pins authorized by Congress were individually presented by POM Garrison Commander Col. Lawrence Brown and Garrison Command Sgt. Maj. Roberto Marshall to approximately 75 Vietnam War veterans in attendance.
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The Dongducheon Foreign Language High School invited U.S. Army Garrison
Casey Commander Lt. Col. Steven G. Finley, as a keynote speaker on May 14.
Finley spoke to 113 students and faculty members starting with a brief
biography and he explained why he had joined the U.S. Army. Students asked
questions about his career, family, hobbies, and the daily life of a
Soldier.
Throughout his speech, Finley charged the young Korean students to start
thinking about their future and establish a twenty-year plan, or "road map"
for their life.
Near the end of his speech Finley cheered, "readers are leaders" as way to
motivate the future leaders to develop positive and healthy habits.
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The 2016 Language Day event was held by the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center at the Presidio of Monterey, May 13. Language Day is open to the public and is attended by schools throughout the region to promote an understanding of diverse customs and cultures from around the world.
Approximately 5,000 people attended the annual event featuring cultural displays, activities and international ethnic cuisine served by local vendors on Presidio’s Soldier Field.
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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.
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Karen Sander teaches about the prey and predator relationship to english language learners, Monday, June 10, 2013, at West Boulevard Elementary School. Sander has been teaching english to non-native speakers for nine years.
I tried to clarify the relation between matter and language, from the original chemical components of life (as self-organisation) to the emergence of species, ethno-linguistic groups, programming languages. This cladogram draft permits me to map clearly the shortest path from matter to language (red line). Of all this complexity, interwoven histories, some simplicity should emerge...
The proximity of 2 elements on this tree also make the compatibility of the elements more obvious : compatibility of human and other mamals organ transfert, compatibility of 2 close-by computing syntaxes.
This cladogram is very simplified regarding the complexity of evolution, just a few branches out of the main path. I might continue this research here, feel free to advise me on this subject, if you know a software that does wonderful graphics of interwoven cladograms, I am interested.
research continues here :
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. - The quarterly running of the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center Commander's Cup races was held at the Price Fitness Center Field on Nov. 2. The two-mile run features a men's and women's team representing each military service branch with the best combined times being awarded the coveted Commander's Cup trophy. The Air Force’s winning streak continues as they claimed first place in both the men's and women's division and were presented with the Commander’s Cup.
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Central School of English Language and Literacy
The site is the north-east corner of Gordon and Renfield Street. Being an urban building project it was very important to get the massing and facade design right to fit into Glasgow's particular context.
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The Friars Peace Garden
The concept of creating a Peace Garden within the 42 acres that make up the grounds of The Friars was first discussed in 2006 by the Prior , the Estate Manager, and the Project Manager Jayne Hoose. The idea came about because Jayne Hoose had used the site as a place of escape whilst suffering from ME and felt that producing a Peace Garden was a way of giving something back and providing an additional space which would be open to all who sought the sanctuary she had found there.
The fundraising was started with a gift of £1000 from the local Funeral director Paul Rowland. The project has also been support by Gallaghers who undertook the preparation of the site for the garden's installation. The fundraising and implementation of the project has involved over 150 different individual volunteers including pupils and staff from St Anselm's school in Canterbury.
A Lottery Grant of £46484.84 was awarded to The Friars in 2010 via Community Spaces and Groundwork UK.
The garden, in the unused main entrance to The Friars Gatehouse, was designed to provide for a quiet space accessible to a wide range of visitors incorporating different seating styles and with flat access for those with mobility problems and families using children's buggies. Texture and scent have been incorporated to widen the garden's appeal and provides interest for those with sight impairment.
The Peace Garden is divided by upright sleepers into several small themed gardens allowing the visitor to view the garden as a whole, whilst enjoying the different smaller areas of planting. The first garden entered takes up the busy stressful mood of many visitors and aims to subtly move this energy to a place of warmth and vibrancy. This then enables the visitor to take onboard the energy reduction of the wind and wave garden. Making use of soothing curves and a mauve and pale yellow palette, this is designed to invoke a mood of gentle flowing calm. The central earth and water garden with a blue and white palette encourages tranquillity and stillness. The visitor, supported by the sounds of the water features, is encouraged to rest and 'to be'
Incorporated throughout the garden are peace tiles in over 200 different languages acting as a symbol of striving for the peaceful integration of all in society - locally, nationally and internationally. Parishioners, visitors and local businesses have sponsored these tiles.
In honor of 50 successful years of the English Language Fellow Program, Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Marie Royce hosted a celebratory event on November 5th in the Benjamin Franklin Room at the U.S Department of State to honor the program, its participants, and its partners. Here are some photos of the event!
Schweiz / Schwyz - Schwyz
seen on the way from Stoos to Fronalpstock
gesehen auf dem Weg von Stoos zum Fronalpstock
Schwyz (German pronunciation: [ʃviːts]; French: Schwytz; Italian: Svitto) is a town and the capital of the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland.
The Federal Charter of 1291 or Bundesbrief, the charter that eventually led to the foundation of Switzerland, can be seen at the Bundesbriefmuseum.
The official language of Schwyz is (the Swiss variety of) German, but the main spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic Swiss German dialect.
Name
The earliest certain record of the name dates to 972, recorded in Medieval Latin as villa Suittes. There are a number of uncertain records dated between 924 and 960, in the form Swites (Suuites) and Switz. The name is recorded as Schwitz in the 13th century, and in the 17th to 18th century often as Schweitz. The name's etymology is uncertain. It was long presented as derived from the name of an eponymous founder in Swiss legend, one Suito or Switer, an explanation found in Swiss school textbooks until the first half of the 20th century. There is currently no consensus on the name's derivation. Isaac Wake, diplomat of King James VI and I in Bern, suggested in 1625 that the name originated in Sweden, among the Suecia, "who in the time of king [sic] Sigebert made a transmigration out of Suecia and planted themselves in this country". A Germanic etymology was suggested by Gatschet (1867), deriving the name from an Old High German verb suedan "to burn" (referring to slash-and-burn clearing of woodland for habitation). Brandstetter (1871) is critical of Gatschet's suggestion and prefers derivation from an Alemannic personal name in Svid- as it were presenting a scholarly defense of the Suito of the founding legend. The etymology proposed for the Schweizerisches Idiotikon by Hubschmied (1929) derives the name from a Gallo-Roman *(alpes) suētas, from the Gaulish or Latin word for "pig", via a Romance *suēdes "(mountain, pasture) of pigs" yielding an Alemannic Swītes. Hubschmied distanced himself from this opinion in 1961, preferring an unspecified pre-Roman (or "Etruscan") source. Sonderegger (1966) revisits Gatschet's suedan "slash-and-burn" proposal, but now claims derivation from a cognate Celtic root, *sveit-, Proto-Celtic *sveitos with a meaning of "clearing" or similar, giving Gaulish *Svētos (the long vowel as in Rēnos "Rhine"), Gallo-Romance *Svēdus, -is, and finally Swītes in Old High German by the 8th century.
The name Schwyz was extended to the area dominated by Schwyz (the Canton of Schwyz), and later to the entire Old Swiss Confederacy. Other cantons tended to resent this in the 15th century, but after 1499 the term Schwyzer was widely self-adopted, out of spite so to speak, since it had been employed as a term of abuse by the Swabian side during the Swabian War. Eidgenossenschaft and Schwytzerland (the origin of the English name Switzerland) could be used interchangeably as country names in the 16th century.
The Swiss German pronunciation [ʃviːts] is the same for the name of the town and that of the country (the two are distinguished only by use of the definite article for the latter, [ʃviːts] "Schwyz", [tʃviːts] "Switzerland"). The spelling of y for [iː] originates from the ligature ij in 15th-century handwriting.
History
While a few Roman era coins have been found in Schwyz, the earliest evidence of a settlement comes from the 8th century. The Alamanni cemetery at the parish church and the church itself are both from the first half of the 8th century. This first church was followed by a second ottonian church around 1000, which may have been destroyed by the 1117 Verona earthquake. In 1121 the third church building, a romanesque building, was consecrated. This was followed in the 15th century by the much larger fourth church which was destroyed, along with much of the village, by fire in 1642. The fifth church, an early baroque church was replaced because of serious structural defects by the current late baroque church which was dedicated in 1774.
Because Schwyz was the capital of a canton, many of the government organizations administered both the town and the canton at the same time, and the history of the town is closely tied to the history of the canton.
According to the chronicle of Johann Stumpf from 1548, the old town originally consisted of a village square, the church and its cemetery, the town hall, the inn, the archive tower and a number of scattered wooden houses. Around 1500, to distinguish it from the Canton of Schwyz, Schwyz town was often called Kilchgassen, which meant the village around the church but not the surrounding villages. The fire of 1642, which destroyed 47 buildings in the center of the village, allowed the town to be totally rebuilt. A new, larger town square with major roads radiating out was built in front of the new church and the new city hall. The houses were rebuilt as urban townhouses and a ring of about 30 large patrician farm houses grew up surrounding the village center.
Geography
Besides the town of Schwyz, the municipality includes the settlements of Ibach, Seewen and Rickenbach. To the east, the municipality includes, or borders on, the mountains of Hochstuckli, Kleiner Mythen, Grosser Mythen, Rotenflue, and Furggelenstock. The river Muota flows out of these mountains and through the municipality on its way to Lake Lucerne. The Haggenegg Pass and Holzegg Pass both cross to Alpthal, whilst the Ibergeregg Pass crosses to Oberiberg.
Schwyz has an area, as of 2006, of 53.2 square kilometers (20.5 sq mi). Of this area, 46.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while 39.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 8.7% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (5.8%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).
Heritage sites of national significance
The Bundesbriefmuseum (Museum of the Swiss Charters of Confederation), the Dominican nuns Convent of St. Peter am Bach, the entire medieval and early modern settlement, the Hermitage and chapel, the Forum der Schweizer Geschichte (Forum of Swiss History), the Ab Yberg im Grund House, the Bethlehem House at Reichsstrasse 9, the Ceberg im Feldli house at Theodosiusweg 20, the house at Gotthardstrasse 99 in Ibach, the Grosshus at Strehlgasse 12, the Immenfeld house, the house at Langfeldweg 14 in Kaltbach, the house at Oberschönenbuch 79 in Ibach, the Herrenhaus Waldegg, the Hettlingerhäuser, the Hofstatt Ital Reding, the Catholic Parish Church of St. Martin, the Maihof, the Palais Büeler, the Rathaus (Town council house), the Reding House, the State Archives of Schwyz and the Köplihaus house are listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance. The entire old city of Schwyz is part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.
Economy
As of 2010, Schwyz had an unemployment rate of 1.8%. As of 2008, there were 484 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 174 businesses involved in this sector. 2,756 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 179 businesses in this sector. 7,099 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 696 businesses in this sector.
In 2008 the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 8,570. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 303, of which 273 were in agriculture and 30 were in forestry or lumber production. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 2,647 of which 1,589 or (60.0%) were in manufacturing, 8 or (0.3%) were in mining and 928 (35.1%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 5,620. In the tertiary sector; 1,357 or 24.1% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 306 or 5.4% were in the movement and storage of goods, 272 or 4.8% were in a hotel or restaurant, 136 or 2.4% were in the information industry, 733 or 13.0% were the insurance or financial industry, 427 or 7.6% were technical professionals or scientists, 260 or 4.6% were in education and 1,053 or 18.7% were in health care.
In 2000, there were 4,484 workers who commuted into the municipality and 2,168 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 2.1 workers entering the municipality for every one leaving.[20] Of the working population, 13.6% used public transportation to get to work, and 45.3% used a private car.
Religion
From the 2000 census, 11,269 or 81.6% were Roman Catholic, while 675 or 4.9% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 423 members of an Orthodox church (or about 3.06% of the population), there were 7 individuals (or about 0.05% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 155 individuals (or about 1.12% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 5 individuals (or about 0.04% of the population) who were Jewish, and 502 (or about 3.64% of the population) who were Islamic. There were 42 individuals who were Buddhist, 31 individuals who were Hindu and 7 individuals who belonged to another church. 377 (or about 2.73% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 385 individuals (or about 2.79% of the population) did not answer the question.
Weather
Schwyz has an average of 149.2 days of rain per year and on average receives 1,629 mm (64.1 in) of precipitation. The wettest month is August during which time Schwyz receives an average of 199 mm (7.8 in) of precipitation. During this month there is precipitation for an average of 13.9 days. The month with the most days of precipitation is June, with an average of 14.8, but with only 182 mm (7.2 in) of precipitation. The driest month of the year is February with an average of 99 mm (3.9 in) of precipitation over 13.9 days.
Transport
The A4 motorway, between Zürich and the Brunnen passes through the west of the municipality, and the town is linked to it by main roads and motorway junctions. Other main roads connect the town to Lucerne (along both banks of Lake Lucerne), to the Gotthard Pass and southern Switzerland, and to Pfaffikon and Einsiedeln in the north of the canton of Schwyz. A minor road crosses the Ibergeregg Pass to Oberiberg, providing an alternative route to Einsiedeln. Other minor roads reach to near the summits of both the Haggenegg Pass and Holzegg Pass, but only hiking trails actually cross these passes and continue to Alpthal.
Schwyz railway station, on the Gotthard railway, is located about 2 km (1.2 mi) outside the town, in the parish of Seewen. The station is served by InterRegio and S-Bahn trains.
Early plans for the Schweizerische Südostbahn included a proposal for what is now the Pfäffikon SZ–Arth-Goldau railway to terminate at Brunnen railway station instead of Arth-Goldau railway station. If that proposal had come to fruition, the Schwyz town centre would have had a railway station – initially on the Kollegi football field, and later in Steisteg.
From 6 October 1900 to 14 December 1963, the Schwyzer Strassenbahnen linked the Schwyz railway station with the town centre. On 8 May 1915, the additional section between Schwyz and Brunnen See was opened – and on the same day, the Schwyz SBB–Schwyz line was shut down. The trams were eventually replaced by the Auto AG Schwyz, which today operates 12 bus lines in the cantons of Lucerne and Schwyz.
The Rotenfluebahn, a gondola lift, links Rickenbach with the summit of the Rotenfluh mountain, which is, in summer, a popular vantage point over the Lake Lucerne region, and, in winter, a ski area.
(Wikipedia)
Schwyz ([ʃviːts]; französisch Schwytz oder Schwyz, italienisch Svitto, rätoromanisch Sviz) ist eine politische Gemeinde und Hauptort des Kantons Schwyz sowie des gleichnamigen Bezirks.
Name
Da sich der Name des erstmals 924/960 als in Suuites bezeugten Ortes Schwyz weder aus dem Alemannischen noch aus dem Romanischen erklären lässt, muss er aus vorrömischer Zeit stammen. Eine sichere Deutung liegt jedoch bis heute nicht vor. Am wahrscheinlichsten ist eine Herleitung von der indogermanischen Wurzel *sueid- «glänzen, schimmern» oder *sweit- «sengen, brennen», womit es sich beim Ortsnamen Schwyz entweder um einen Gewässernamen (ursprünglich für die Muota?) mit der Bedeutung «die hell Leuchtende»[8] oder um einen vorlateinischen Rodungsnamen handeln würde, der als «Lichtung» oder «Brandrodung» zu deuten wäre.
Der Ortsname Schwyz wurde früh auf den ganzen Kanton übertragen; der Kanton Schwyz gab schliesslich der Schweiz ihren Namen.
Chronisten des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts berichten, das Volk der Schwyzer sei zur Zeit einer grossen Hungersnot vom Norden her eingewandert. Die Sage erzählt von Suit (Swit), der seinen Bruder Scheijo im Zweikampf besiegt habe und darum dem neubesiedelten Land den Namen geben durfte. In seiner 1554 veröffentlichten Schwytzer Chronica berichtet Johannes Stumpf folgende – von ihm auf das Jahr 99 v. Chr. datierte – Geschichte aus der Zeit der Kimbernkriege über die Entstehung des Namens:
«Die Cimbrier zugend über das Trientisch gebirg in Italiam schlugend O. Luctatium Catul den Landpfläger der inen den wäg verhalten solt in gewaltige flucht. Die Cimbrier wurdend von Mario und Catulo den Römische väldherrn in einem näbel angriffen, gschlagen und bey nach grundtlich vertilckt, ire künig Lugius und Baiorich blibend tod, Claodicus und Genferich wurdend gefangen, weyb und kind weertend sich bis in tod, erwürgtend sich zeletst selbs. Die überblibnen Cimbrier in kleiner anzal liessend sich nider im Alpgebirg bey ire pundsgnossen den Tigurine und Tuginern mit iren hauptleüten. Schwyter und Tschey satztend sich mit irem völckli den Cimbriern im Zürychg in das gebirg bey dem grossen see, sübertend und bauwtend das land, das ward dem hauptmann nachbenennt Schwytz.»
„Die Kimbern zogen über das trientische Gebirge nach Italien, schlugen O. Luctatium Catulum, der ihnen den Weg verstellen sollte, in die Flucht. Die Kimbern wurden von Gaius Marius und Catulus, den römischen Feldherren, in einem Nebel angegriffen, geschlagen und beinahe gründlich vernichtet, ihre Könige Lugius und Baiorich blieben tot zurück, Claodicus und Genferich wurden gefangen, Weib und Kind wehrte sich bis in den Tod, erwürgte sich schliesslich selbst. Die übriggebliebenen Kimbern liessen sich in kleiner Anzahl im Alpgebirge bei ihren Bundesgenossen den Tigurinern und Tuginern mit ihren Hauptleuten nieder. Schwyter und Tschey liessen sich mit ihrem Völkchen den Kimbern im Zürichgau in das Gebirge bei dem grossen See nieder, säuberten und bebauten das Land, welches nach dem Hauptmann Schwytz benannt wurde.“
– Johannes Stumpf: Schwytzer Chronica
Geographie
Der Dorfplatz von Schwyz liegt auf 516 m ü. M. am Südhang am Fuss der Mythen zwischen Lauerzersee und Vierwaldstättersee.
Die Gemeinde Schwyz setzt sich aus den Ortsteilen Schwyz, Rickenbach, Ibach und Seewen zusammen. Die Ortschaft Schwyz selber wird auch Flecken Schwyz genannt, da der Ort zwar über das Markt-, nicht aber das Stadtrecht verfügte. Die drei übrigen Ortsteile werden auch als Filialen bezeichnet, also Filiale Ibach, Filiale Seewen und Filiale Rickenbach. Diese Filialen führen, obwohl sie heute miteinander verwachsen sind, ein dörfliches Eigenleben, besitzen auch ihre eigenen Kirchen sowie Wappen. Daneben gibt es noch Weiler, die jeweils einem der Ortsteile zugewiesen werden: Auf Iberg, Haggenegg, Hesisbol, Holzegg, Oberschönenbuch, Perfiden, Ried-Haggen und Tschütschi.
Religionen
Die Bevölkerung ist mit 70 % mehrheitlich römisch-katholisch, während 6 % der evangelisch-reformierten Kirche angehören (Stand 2019).
Zahlen zu weiteren Religionsgemeinschaften in Schwyz wurden letztmals bei der Volkszählung im Jahr 2000 erhoben. Damals gehörten 3 % der Bevölkerung einer anderen christlichen Konfession (weder katholisch noch evangelisch-reformiert) an, 4 % waren muslimischen Glaubens und 1 % bekannte sich zu einer anderen Religion. 3 % waren konfessionslos und weitere 3 % machten keine Angabe zu ihrer Religion.
Wirtschaft
Zu erwähnen sind bekannte Unternehmen wie die Victorinox AG als Hersteller des Schweizer Taschenmessers, das Einkaufszentrum Mythen Center, die seit 1908 ebenfalls in Ibach ansässige Max Felchlin AG als Hersteller von Schweizer Schokolade und weiteren Confiserie-Produkten.
Sehenswürdigkeiten, Kultur und Brauchtum
In Schwyz befindet sich das Bundesbriefmuseum mit dem Bundesbrief von 1291 und anderen alten Urkunden und Bannern der alten Eidgenossenschaft. Die Hauptfassade wird von einem Wandbild des Urner Malers Heinrich Danioth geschmückt.
Reich ausgestattet ist das Wohnmuseum im Ital-Reding-Haus. Zu besichtigen ist auch das alte Haus Bethlehem aus der Zeit der Gründung der Schweiz sowie der Schwyzer Schatzturm.
Einen Kontrapunkt setzt das moderne Forum der Schweizer Geschichte. Hier findet die Geschichte nicht in der blossen Rückwärtsbetrachtung statt, sondern wird zur lebendigen Auseinandersetzung mit Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft.
1991 wurde mit dem «Mythenspiel» ein neuer Ansatz für die dramaturgische Inszenierung der Gründungsgeschichte gewagt. Alte Bräuche wie das Chlefelen und in der Fasnacht mit dem rhythmischen Narrentanz der historischen «Maschgraden-Figuren» werden u. a. durch die «Schwyzer Nüssler» gepflegt.
Das markanteste sichtbare Kennzeichen von Schwyz sind die Felspyramiden über dem Talkessel: der Grosse und der Kleine Mythen. Insbesondere der Grosse Mythen ist ein Ziel für Wanderer.
Bemerkenswert sind auch die katholische Pfarrkirche St. Martin mit Rokoko-Altären und Kanzeln aus Marmor und Stuckmarmor des Altarbauers Carlo Andrea Galetti aus San Fedele Intelvi, das Dominikanerinnenkloster St. Peter am Bach, der Kerchel (Beinhaus) mit der Heiligkreuzkapelle und das Rathaus.
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Schienenverkehr
Der an der Gotthardlinie gelegene Bahnhof Schwyz befindet sich rund zwei Kilometer ausserhalb des Dorfes Schwyz im Gemeindeteil Seewen. Der Bahnhof wird von Interregios und S-Bahnen angefahren.
Erste Planungen der Schweizerischen Südostbahn sahen eine Linienführung der heutigen Bahnstrecke Biberbrugg–Arth-Goldau zum Bahnhof Brunnen anstatt zum Bahnhof Arth-Goldau vor. In diesem Fall hätte auch der Dorfkern von Schwyz einen Bahnhof erhalten – zunächst auf dem Kollegi-Fussballplatz, später im Steisteg.
Ganz im Südosten des Gemeindegebiets verkehrt seit 1933 die Standseilbahn Schwyz–Stoos vom Schlattli auf den Stoos. Sie wird im Dezember 2017 durch die neue Standseilbahn Schwyz–Stoos ersetzt, die zweitsteilste Standseilbahn der Welt.
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Vom 6. Oktober 1900 bis zum 14. Dezember 1963 verbanden die Schwyzer Strassenbahnen den Bahnhof Schwyz mit dem Ortskern. Am 8. Mai 1915 wurde noch das Teilstück Schwyz–Brunnen See eröffnet – es wurde am selben Tag stillgelegt wie die Linie Schwyz SBB–Schwyz. Ersetzt wurden die Tramlinien durch die Auto AG Schwyz, welche heute in den Kantonen Schwyz und Luzern 12 Buslinien betreiben.
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The Modern Language Center has arranged for a special trip in downtown Amman. The reason for the Arabic students to acquaint themselves with the archaeological and landmarks in the capital city Amman. They took advantage of their being downtown, had the chance to eat our national sweets “Kenafa”.
They enjoyed the trip very much.
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The 2016 Language Day event was held by the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center at the Presidio of Monterey, May 13. Language Day is open to the public and is attended by schools throughout the region to promote an understanding of diverse customs and cultures from around the world.
Approximately 5,000 people attended the annual event featuring cultural displays, activities and international ethnic cuisine served by local vendors on Presidio’s Soldier Field.
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Students from the Foreign Languages department on the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois on August 27, 2015. (Jay Grabiec)