Schwamendingen is a quarter in the city of Zürich in Switzerland. It is District number 12.
The district comprises the quarters Schwamendingen Mitte, Saatlen and Hirzenbach.
Until 1934 it was a municipality on its own. It was then incorporated into Zürich.
Seebach (Zürich)
Seebach is a quarter of the district 11 of Zürich in Switzerland.
Until 1934 it was a municipality on its own. Then it was added into Zürich.
Witikon
Witikon is a quarter in district 7 in the Swiss city of Zürich. Until 1934 it was a municipality on its own. Then it was added into Zürich.
Töss
Töss can mean:
Affoltern
Affoltern may refer to the following places in Switzerland:
Töss (river)
The Töss is a river of the canton of Zurich, Switzerland. The river begins in the Zürcher Oberland. It flows along the Töss Valley ("Tösstal") past Winterthur. It joins the Rhine at Tössegg near Teufen.
Isar
The Isar is a river in Tyrol, Austria and Bavaria, Germany. Its source is in the Karwendel range of the Alps in Tyrol; it enters Germany near Mittenwald. The Isar flows through Bad Tölz, Munich and Landshut before reaching the Danube near Deggendorf. The length is . It is the fourth largest river in Bavaria (after Danube, Inn and Main). The Isar is the second most important tributary of the Danube in Germany, after Inn.
Geneva, Ohio
Geneva is a city in Ashtabula County, Ohio, United States. It is named after Geneva, New York. The population was 6,215 at the 2010 census.
Plaxton Beaver
The Plaxton Beaver, (previously known as the Reeve Burgess Beaver), is a series of step-entrance minibus bodies built by Plaxton.
The first Beaver was built between 1987-1995 mainly on Mercedes-Benz van chassis such as the 709D and 811D. It was also built on the Renault S56 and Renault S75 chassis until 1992. Some were also built on Iveco 49.10 chassis.
The second Beaver (known as Beaver 2) was built on Mercedes-Benz Vario chassis. It replaced the first Beaver in December 1996.
In 2006 Plaxton launched the Beaver 3, which is the Beaver 2 body combined with the front end of another bus called the Plaxton Cheetah.
Bréchaumont
Bréchaumont is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.
Breitenbach-Haut-Rhin
Breitenbach-Haut-Rhin is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.
Bretten, Haut-Rhin
Bretten is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.
Brinckheim
Brinckheim is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.
Bruebach
Bruebach is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.
Peristeri
Peristeri () is a suburban municipality in the northwestern part of Athens agglomeration, Greece. It has 139,981 inhabitants (2011 census). It is the seventh-largest municipality of Greece by population. It is about .
Bouaké
Bouaké (or Bwake) is the second-largest city in Ivory Coast. It is in the central part of Ivory Coast about northeast of Lake Kossou, the country's largest lake. It has 536,189 people.
Bouaké is twinned with:
Braggio
Braggio is a former municipality of the district of Moesa in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. On 1 January 2015 the former municipalities of Braggio, Arvigo, Cauco and Selma merged into the new municipality of Calanca.
Nenets Autonomous Okrug
The Nenets Autonomous Okrug (Russian: Не́нецкий автоно́мный о́круг, "Nyenetskiy avtonomnyy okrug", Nenets: Ненёцие автономной ӈокрук, "Nenjocije awtonomnoj ŋokruk") is a federal subjects of Russia. It is located in northwestern Russia. The capital is Naryan-Mar. The okrug has a population of 44,110 (2020 census), making it the least populated federal subject in Russia.
The oil and gas industry make up 99% of the okrug's industrial activity. In 2015, the okrug had the highest gross domestic product in Russia.
Much of the okrug has Subarctic climate. This means the okrug experiences mild and short summers, along with long and very cold winters. Most of the okrug is also above the arctic circle, meaning polar nights occur every year.
In 2010, ethnic Russians were 66.1% of the population. Nenets were 18.6% of the population, the Komi people were 9.0% of the population and other ethnicities were 6.3% of the population.
In 1989, the population was at 54,840 people, but a rapid decrease in population occurred shortly afterwards. The population has seen a slow increase since 2002.
Mercedes-Benz T2
The Mercedes-Benz T2 (Transporter 2) is a series of vans and step-entrance minibuses produced by Daimler-Benz in two generations from 1967-1996.
The first generation T2 was launched in 1967 and it was available as a box van or a flat bed light truck.
The second generation T2 was introduced in 1986, and was built until 1996, It was only available as a minibus.
The T2 is still built in Argentina as the L 710 and the LO 915
In 1996, the T2 was replaced by the Mercedes-Benz Vario.
Léopold Sédar Senghor
Léopold Sédar Senghor (9 October 1906 – 20 December 2001) was a Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist. He was the first president of Senegal (1960–80). He was part of the Négritude movement. Some people called him an African socialist, but many Senegalese socialists thought he was not really socialist because he was supported by France and put communists in Senegal in jail. He also started the Senegalese Democratic Bloc party.
Senghor was the first African allowed to join the "Académie française". Many people think he is one of the most important intellectuals from Africa during the 20th century.
Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir (; 15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French-American movie director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. His father was artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
As a movie director and actor, he made more than forty movie from the silent era to the end of the 1960s. His movie "La Grande Illusion" (1937) and "The Rules of the Game" (1939). He received a Lifetime Achievement Academy Award in 1975 for his contribution to the motion picture industry.
Renoir died in Beverly Hills, California on February 12, 1979 at the age of 84.
Jerry Remy
Gerald Peter Remy, commonly known as Jerry Remy, (born November 8, 1952) is an American Major League Baseball broadcaster and former Major League Baseball second baseman. An all-star second baseman originally drafted by the California Angels in 1971, he was traded to his hometown Boston Red Sox in 1977. After a series of injuries forced his retirement in 1985, he began a career in broadcasting.
In 1988 he joined NESN as a color commentator for Red Sox broadcasts, a job he has held continuously (except for some time off for health problems) since then.
Remy was born in Fall River, Massachusetts. He grew up in nearby Somerset, Massachusetts. He studied at Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island.
Remy suffers from depression. In 2008, Remy was diagnosed with lung cancer and underwent surgery. On June 12, 2017, Remy announced that the lung cancer returned. His cancer treatment ended in January 2018, but the cancer returned in August 2018.
Remy is married to Phoebe Remy. Together, they have three children. On August 16, 2013, his son, Jared, was arrested in the fatal stabbing of his girlfriend, Jennifer Martel, a charge he pleaded guilty to on May 27, 2014 and was sentenced to life in state prison without the possibility of parole.
Walter Fillmore
Walter Daniel Fillmore (January 7, 1933 – June 25, 2017) was an American general officer in the United States Marine Corps. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland. From 1957 to 1963, he was based at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina and the Navy base at Little Creek in Virginia serving in various reconnaissance billets. Fillmore completed his airborne training during this time and was also promoted to Captain in January 1959.
Fillmore died in Virginia Beach, Virginia from vascular dementia on June 25, 2017, aged 84.
Brunstatt
Brunstatt is a former commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune Brunstatt-Didenheim.
Deaths in July 2017