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20 Minuten ( German-language edition) OCLC number. 427962538. Website. 20min.ch/fr. Media of Switzerland. List of newspapers. 20 minutes is a French-language newspaper published in Switzerland, launched on 8 March 2006 by Tamedia for the Romandie. As of 2008, it had a circulation of 221,560.
Romandy ( French: Romandie or Suisse romande; Arpitan: Romandia) [ note 1] is the French-speaking historical and cultural region part of Switzerland. In 2020, about 2 million people, or 22.8% of the Swiss population, lived in Romandy. [ 1] The majority of the romand population lives in the western part of the country, especially the Arc ...
Ansermet was born in Vevey, [1] Switzerland. Originally he was a mathematics professor, teaching at the University of Lausanne. He began conducting at the Casino in Montreux in 1912, and from 1915 to 1923 was the conductor for Diaghilev 's Ballets Russes. Travelling in France for this, he met both Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, and consulted ...
Built in 1909 and 1910 at a cost of $500,000 ― roughly $15 million in today’s dollars ― Des Moines City Hall was seen as a celebration of the city’s adoption in 1907 of a new commission ...
Residents work to clear fallen trees from streets after a tornado swept through the Des Moines metro on Monday, July 15, 2024, in the Merle Hay Neighborhood. On Tuesday morning, city of Des Moines ...
Tyler Jett is an investigative reporter for the Des Moines Register. Reach him at tjett@registermedia.com , 515-284-8215, or on X at @LetsJett. He also accepts encrypted messages at tjett@proton.me.
Swiss French ( French: français de Suisse or suisse romand) is the variety of French spoken in the French-speaking area of Switzerland known as Romandy. French is one of the four official languages of Switzerland, the others being German, Italian, and Romansch. In 2020 around 2 million people, or 22.8% of the population, in Switzerland spoke ...
Victoria Hall. Principal conductor. Jonathan Nott. Website. Official website. The Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (OSR [ 1]) is a Swiss symphony orchestra, based in Geneva at the Victoria Hall. In addition to symphony concerts, the OSR performs as the opera orchestra in productions at the Grand Théâtre de Genève .