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Body odour ban for Zurich workers Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
The Swiss city of Zurich has banned municipal workers from having overbearing body odour.
The ban is part of a draconian list of rules on behaviour and dress code issued by city officials, which includes bans on strong perfume and plunging necklines.
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Van Gogh, Monet art goes in $90M heist Posted: 2 years ago by dollyllama
Works by Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh were stolen from an art foundation's gallery in Zurich, Switzerland.
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Musical Roller Coaster Posted: 2 years ago by theamelianator
Awesome ad for the Zurich Chamber Orchestra.
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Google's Zurich office Posted: 2 years ago by ted
This may be the most fun place to work in the world.
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Swiss town erects giant plastic Michael Jackson Posted: 9 months ago by topofall
A giant plastic statue of Michael Jackson has been unveiled...
Comments: 1 Score: [-] 72 [+].
World's Top 100 Most Livable Cities Posted: 2 years ago by karenben
Mercer study ranks cities by the quality of life they offer expatriate executives and their families across the world.
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Dada Posted: 2 years ago by 86Apex
I was looking for this a while back and never found it, so glad I remembered to look for it today. :)
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Huge Inflatable Plane - Plane Landing Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
Plane Landing is a sculpture of an airplane in a permanent state of landing. On July 4 and 5, 2008 Plane Landing appeared at the Zurich Airport as part of the show 'Shifting Identities - (Swiss) Art Now', curated by Mirjam Varadinis for Kunsthaus Zurich.
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Cracks In The Foundation: Fundamental Geological Assumption Relating To Planet Earth Not Quite True Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Chondritic meteorites have a similar chemical composition to the sun and are therefore reliable witnesses as to what the solar nebula, from which the planets formed, was composed of. This can be used to deduce what the Earth consists of chemically. However, ETH Zurich researchers have now discovered that strictly speaking this fundamental geological assumption is not true.
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Quality of Living global city rankings 2009 Posted: 10 months ago by bornbad
Vienna has passed Zurich to take the top spot as the world’s city with the best quality of living, according to the Mercer 2009 Quality of Living Survey. Geneva retains its position in third place, while Vancouver and Auckland are now joint fourth in the rankings.
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Chicken or Beef? Posted: 1 year ago by suebe
After a nearly three year battle, a man who punched an American Airlines flight attendant on a plane traveling from Zurich to New York has been unable to clear his name.
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The World's Best Places to Live 2008 Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Mercer Consulting's annual roundup of the global cities with the best quality of life is here, and Zurich once again comes out on top. The best place in the U.S.? Honolulu at No. 28.
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TV fire image has viewer calling for help Posted: 9 months ago by kakana
Zurich authorities say police and firefighters were called to the house of an elderly woman early Thursday after she reported her television set was burning.
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Google's Office in Zurich Posted: 1 year ago by Ankabout
That's it. I'm applying for a job at Google!
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Chef Prudhomme grazed by bullet at golf event Posted: 2 years ago by ImNotBlue
GRETNA, La. (AP) - Paul Prudhomme was setting up his cooking tent on the practice range at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans golf event when he felt a sting in his right arm, just above his elbow.
Prudhomme shook his shirt sleeve and a .22-caliber bullet fell to the ground, a spokesman for the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office said.
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OneThousandPaintings.com article in Wired Magazine Posted: 3 years ago by c1010010
A forward thinking artist from Zurich started an internet phenomenon, paintings of numbers, between 1 and 1000. How are they valued?
Value = 1,000 – number
The idea and experience is written up in the December issue of Wired Magazine
Comments: 1 Score: [-] 10 [+].
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