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A Business Economist With Swiss Heritage Looks At Switzerland, Donald P. Hilty

Swiss American Historical Society Review

For many in the United States, the word "Switzerland" conjures up pleasant thoughts of cows, mountains, Heidi, democracy -- maybe also a proud heritage and some dear friends -- but, perhaps, a country that is a bit dull. The purpose here is to alert this audience: Switzerland is not dull. It is in the big leagues of international business. This small country in the middle of Europe has gained the stature of an economic giant, not just in relation to its size but in absolute terms.

Hans Heinrich Felder, Jr., Captain In South Carolina's Revolutionary Army, 1778, Walter Lips

Swiss American Historical Society Review

The progenitor of the American Felder family was Hans Heinrich Felder who was born in Wiedikon, Canton Zurich, Switzerland, about 1701. He, his wife Ursula, and their ten-year old son Hans Heinrich, Jr., later John Henry, settled in Orangeburg Township, South Carolina in 1735. The family was granted 350 acres of land, that is more than half a square mile, on September 17, 1738 by King George II of England. Hans Heinrich Felder, Sr., however, died that same year, and his wife passed away a year later in 1739. Their son John Henry Felder was only 14 years old when …

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American Irish Newsletter - January 2001, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

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Swiss In South Dakota: A Preliminary Sketch, Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Prepared in Commemoration of the Opening of the

Midwest Dairy Institute, Milbank, South Dakota, June 7, 200 I

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Taking The Scenic Route: From Denmark To America Via Australia, Borge M. Christensen

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From Copenhagen across the Atlantic to America, occasionally via Germany or England, Danish emigrants usually followed the most direct route. The Atlantic is the ocean in the Danish Immigrant Museum's trademark "Across Oceans, Across Time." A few found their way to the New World via South America. But the young cabinetmaker in this story went the other way around. He circumnavigated the globe and stopped a few years in Australia before he finally settled in America.

A "Target Switzerland" Evening, Ted Hattemer

Swiss American Historical Society Review

The Swiss Benevolent Association (SBA) of Greater Cincinnati invited

members and friends residing in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana as well as in

Detroit and Chicago to attend a "Target Switzerland" Evening on Saturday,

April 28, 2001 at the Drawbridge Inn in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky. The SBA

believed that it was most important that Americans in general and Swiss

Americans and their descendants in particular know the true story of

Switzerland's situation and actions during the Second World War.

Review Essay, Stefan Maechler, John E. Woods

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Stefan Maechler, The Wilkomirski Affair: A Study in Biographical Truth.

Translated by John E. Woods. New York: Random House , 2001.

vii, 496 pp. Paperback, $16.95.In

Biblical Assyria And Other Anxieties In The British Empire, Steven W. Holloway

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The successful “invasion” of ancient Mesopotamia by explorers in the pay of the British Museum Trustees resulted in best-selling publications, a treasure-trove of Assyrian antiquities for display purposes and scholarly excavation, and a remarkable boost to the quest for confirmation of the literal truth of the Bible. The public registered its delight with the findings through the turnstyle- twirling appeal of the British Museum exhibits, and a series of appropriations of Assyrian art motifs and narratives in popular culture - jewelry, bookends, clocks, fine arts, theater productions, and a walk-through Assyrian palace among other period mansions at the Sydenham Crystal …

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Dedication of the Midwest Dairy Institute (MDI)

Milbank, South Dakota, June 7, 2001

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Impressions Of Danishness In Chicago And Racine: Selected Results From A Questionnaire, Birgit Flemming Larsen

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At the beginning of 1999, The Danish Emigration Archives in cooperation with the Royal Danish Consulate General in Chicago undertook a preliminary investigation of Danish emigrants and their descendants in Chicago and Racine, both of them cities that have attracted large numbers of Danes over a long period of time. According to the 1990 federal census, 1,634,669 Americans claim Danish ancestry. Of these, 70,586 reside in Illinois and 80,791 in Wisconsin. The goal was to obtain a picture of the Danish-American societies in the two selected communities by distributing an extensive questionnaire followed up by personal interviews with selected individuals …

An Error Analysis Of The Use Of The Past Tense In French By Malay Students, Sep Neo Lim

Student Works (2000-2009)

The objectives of this study are (a) to analyse and categorise the errors made by Malay students of French when using the two French conversational past tenses: the imparfait and the posse compose; (b) to compare and contrast the French past tenses with the Malay expressions of past times; and (c) to suggest some pedagogical strategies. The subjects of this study comprise Malay undergraduates of BA English and BA Malay doing a French proficiency course at Universiti Putra Malaysia. The instrument used is a test consisting of four passages. The respondents have to use the correct past tense of the …

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Multicultural Literature: A Study Of A Berks County, Pa High School, Amy Mcfeaters, Sara Smith, Lucy Chen, Rose Thoma

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

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The Sonnet As Mirror: Metapoetry And Self-Referentiality In Lope Devega's Rimas', Mark J. Mascia

Languages Faculty Publications

A study of the metapoetic and self-referential aspects of Lope de Vega's poetry. For this study, metapoetry is to be understood as lyrical works that refer in some way to their existence as artistic constructs and those which include an evaluation or examination of poetry.

Christian Petersen, Sculptor, J. R. Christianson

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Christian Petersen (1885-1961), a native of Dybb0l in what was once Prussian Schleswig and today is Danish S0nderjylland, became the first artist-in-residence at any American college or university in 1934. The most recent book about him and his art, by Lea Rosson DeLong and others, places Petersen alongside Grant Wood, John Steuart Curry, and Thomas Hart Benton as one of the leading American Regionalists of the nineteen-thirties and 'forties. DeLong also reveals Petersen's strong Danish-American ties and some of the Danish elements that helped to shape his art.

Pablo Neruda And The Construction Of Past And Future Utopias In The Canto General, Mark J. Mascia

Languages Faculty Publications

Presents information on the poetry collection 'Canto General,' by Pablo Neruda. Elements of 'Canto General'; Significance of the first poem of the collection 'Amor Am é rica'; Description of the construction of a future utopia; Basic principles of Neruda for human interaction, government and self-fulfillment.

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My Danish Background, Waldemar Westergaard

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Editor's Note: This essay brought back fond memories for me, because I had the opportunity, some forty years ago, to meet Professor Waldemar Westergaard (1882-1963) in his pension in Store Kongensgade, near Kongens Nytoro in Copenhagen. It was the summer of 1962. My graduate school advisor, Professor Lawrence D. Steefel, was an old friend of his and recommended me to him. Professor Westergaard was eighty years of age but full of energy, charm, and good stories. He gave me the names of all kinds of people to contact in Copenhagen. The cordiality and intellectual acumen that characterize the following memoir …

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Comments And Announcements, Lukas F. Burckhardt

Swiss American Historical Society Review

The Swiss General Strike of 1918

Lukas F. Burckhardt, Bern