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Banknotes of the Swiss franc, the Glossary

Banknotes of the Swiss franc are issued by the Swiss National Bank in denominations of 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 and 1,000 Swiss francs.^[1]

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Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti (10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker.

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Albrecht von Haller

Albrecht von Haller (also known as Albertus de Haller; 16 October 170812 December 1777) was a Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist, encyclopedist, bibliographer and poet.

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Ammonoidea

Ammonoids are extinct spiral shelled cephalopods comprising the subclass Ammonoidea.

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Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran

The Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran (Officially named the "Major Papal, Patriarchal and Roman Archbasilica, Cathedral of the Most Holy Savior and Saints John the Baptist and the Evangelist in Lateran, Mother and Head of All Churches in Rome and in the World", and commonly known as the Lateran Basilica or Saint John Lateran) is the Catholic cathedral of the Diocese of Rome in the city of Rome, and serves as the seat of the bishop of Rome, the pope.

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Arthur Honegger

Arthur Honegger (10 March 1892 – 27 November 1955) was a Swiss composer who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris.

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Atmospheric pressure

Atmospheric pressure, also known as air pressure or barometric pressure (after the barometer), is the pressure within the atmosphere of Earth.

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Auguste Forel

Auguste-Henri Forel (1 September 1848 – 27 July 1931) was a Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist, psychiatrist and eugenicist, notable for his investigations into the structure of the human brain and that of ants.

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Banknotes of the pound sterling

The pound sterling (symbol: £; ISO 4217 currency code: GBP) is the official currency of the United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, British Antarctic Territory, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, and Tristan da Cunha.

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Baton (conducting)

A baton is a stick that is used by conductors primarily to enlarge and enhance the manual and bodily movements associated with directing an ensemble of musicians.

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Bern

Bern, or Berne,Bärn; Bèrna; Berna; Berna.

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Cantons of Switzerland

The 26 cantons of Switzerland are the member states of the Swiss Confederation.

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Cell (biology)

The cell is the basic structural and functional unit of all forms of life.

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CERN

The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN (Conseil européen pour la Recherche nucléaire), is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world.

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Chamonix

Chamonix-Mont-Blanc (Chamôni-Mont-Blanc), more commonly known simply as Chamonix (Chamôni), is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Southeastern France.

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Chandigarh

Chandigarh is a city and union territory in northern India, serving as the shared capital of the states of Punjab and Haryana.

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Charles Ferdinand Ramuz

Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (24 September 1878 – 23 May 1947) was a French-speaking Swiss writer.

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Cherry

A cherry is the fruit of many plants of the genus Prunus, and is a fleshy drupe (stone fruit).

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Coins of the Swiss franc

The coins of the Swiss franc are the official coins used in Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

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Columbidae

Columbidae is a bird family consisting of doves and pigeons.

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Conrad Gessner

Conrad Gessner (Conradus Gesnerus 26 March 1516 – 13 December 1565) was a Swiss physician, naturalist, bibliographer, and philologist.

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Constellation

A constellation is an area on the celestial sphere in which a group of visible stars forms a perceived pattern or outline, typically representing an animal, mythological subject, or inanimate object.

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Contour line

A contour line (also isoline, isopleth, isoquant or isarithm) of a function of two variables is a curve along which the function has a constant value, so that the curve joins points of equal value.

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).

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Danse Macabre

The Danse Macabre, also called the Dance of Death, is an artistic genre of allegory from the Late Middle Ages on the universality of death.

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Eugène Burnand

Eugène Burnand (30 August 1850 – 4 February 1921) was a Swiss painter and illustrator.

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Euro banknotes

Banknotes of the euro, the common currency of the eurozone (euro area members), have been in circulation since the first series (also called ES1) was issued in 2002. Banknotes of the Swiss franc and euro banknotes are banknotes of Europe.

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Federal Assembly (Switzerland)

The Federal Assembly is the federal bicameral parliament of Switzerland.

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Federal Reserve Note

Federal Reserve Notes are the currently issued banknotes of the United States dollar.

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Ferdinand Hodler

Ferdinand Hodler (March 14, 1853 – May 19, 1918) was a Swiss painter.

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Florence

Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.

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Fossil

A fossil (from Classical Latin) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

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Fountain of Youth

The Fountain of Youth is a mythical spring which allegedly restores the youth of anyone who drinks or bathes in its waters.

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Francesco Borromini

Francesco Borromini, byname of Francesco Castelli (25 September 1599 – 2 August 1667), was an Italian architect born in the modern Swiss canton of Ticino Encyclopædia Britannica. Web.

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Gamma function

In mathematics, the gamma function (represented by, the capital letter gamma from the Greek alphabet) is one commonly used extension of the factorial function to complex numbers.

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Geneva

Geneva (Genève)Genf; Ginevra; Genevra.

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Golden eagle

The golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) is a bird of prey living in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Gottfried Keller

Gottfried Keller (19 July 1819 – 15 July 1890) was a Swiss poet and writer of German literature.

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Guillaume Henri Dufour

Guillaume Henri Dufour (15 September 178714 July 1875) was a Swiss military officer, structural engineer and topographer.

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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Hans Erni

Hans Erni (February 21, 1909 – March 21, 2015) was a Swiss graphic designer, painter, illustrator, engraver and sculptor.

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Helvetia

Helvetia is a national personification of Switzerland, officially Confoederatio Helvetica, the Swiss Confederation.

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Hexagon

In geometry, a hexagon (from Greek ἕξ, hex, meaning "six", and γωνία, gonía, meaning "corner, angle") is a six-sided polygon.

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Historia animalium (Gessner book)

("History of the Animals"), published in Zurich in 1551–1558 and 1587, is an encyclopedic "inventory of renaissance zoology" by Conrad Gessner (1516–1565).

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Horace Bénédict de Saussure

Horace Bénédict de Saussure (17 February 1740 – 22 January 1799) was a Genevan geologist, meteorologist, physicist, mountaineer and Alpine explorer, often called the founder of alpinism and modern meteorology, and considered to be the first person to build a successful solar oven.

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Hornblende

Hornblende is a complex inosilicate series of minerals.

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Hybrid paper-polymer banknote

A hybrid paper-polymer banknote or Composite Substrate is a banknote made from a mixture of paper and polymer substance.

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International Date Line

The International Date Line (IDL) is the line between the South and North Poles that is the boundary between one calendar day and the next.

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International Phonetic Alphabet

The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script.

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Jacob Burckhardt

Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt (25 May 1818 – 8 August 1897) was a Swiss historian of art and culture and an influential figure in the historiography of both fields.

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L'Homme qui marche I

L’Homme qui marche I (The Walking Man I or The Striding Man I) is the name of any one of the cast bronze sculptures that comprise six numbered editions plus four artist proofs created by Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti in 1961.

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Lac de Derborence

Lac de Derborence is a mountain lake in the municipality of Conthey, Valais, Switzerland, located near the hamlet of Derborence.

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Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle collider.

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Lavaux

Lavaux is a region in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, in the district of Lavaux-Oron.

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Lötschberg Base Tunnel

The Lötschberg Base Tunnel (LBT) is a railway base tunnel on the BLS AG's Lötschberg line cutting through the Bernese Alps of Switzerland some below the existing Lötschberg Tunnel.

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Le Corbusier

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 188727 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner and writer, who was one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture.

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Legal tender

Legal tender is a form of money that courts of law are required to recognize as satisfactory payment for any monetary debt.

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Leonhard Euler

Leonhard Euler (15 April 170718 September 1783) was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geographer, logician, and engineer who founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made pioneering and influential discoveries in many other branches of mathematics such as analytic number theory, complex analysis, and infinitesimal calculus.

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Lernaean Hydra

The Lernaean Hydra or Hydra of Lerna (Lernaîa Húdrā), more often known simply as the Hydra, is a serpentine lake monster in Greek mythology and Roman mythology.

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Les Diablerets

Les Diablerets is a village and ski resort located in the municipality of Ormont-Dessus in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland.

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Locarno

Locarno (Ticinese: Locarno; formerly in Luggarus) is a southern Swiss town and municipality in the district Locarno (of which it is the capital), located on the northern shore of Lake Maggiore at its northeastern tip in the canton of Ticino at the southern foot of the Swiss Alps.

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Locarno Film Festival

The Locarno Film Festival is a major international film festival, held annually in Locarno, Switzerland.

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Louis Agassiz

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz FRS (For) FRSE (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history.

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Manuela Pfrunder

Manuela Pfrunder (born 25 March 1979 in Lucerne, Switzerland) is a Swiss graphic designer.

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Martin of Tours

Martin of Tours (Martinus Turonensis; 316/3368 November 397), also known as Martin the Merciful, was the third bishop of Tours.

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Mont Blanc

Mont Blanc (BrE:; AmE:; Mont Blanc; Monte Bianco, both meaning "white mountain") is the highest mountain in the Alps and Western Europe, and the highest mountain in Europe outside the Caucasus mountains, rising above sea level, located on the Franco-Italian border.

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Mont Blanc du Tacul

Mont Blanc du Tacul (4,248 m) is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif of the French Alps situated midway between the Aiguille du Midi and Mont Blanc.

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Neuchâtel

Neuchâtel (Neuenburg) is a town, a municipality, and the capital of the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel on Lake Neuchâtel.

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Oberhasli

The Oberhasli is a historical Landvogtei or Talschaft in the Bernese Highlands, Switzerland, bordering on the cantons of Obwalden (OW), Nidwalden (NW), Uri (UR) and Wallis (VS).

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Olive

The olive, botanical name Olea europaea, meaning 'European olive', is a species of small tree or shrub in the family Oleaceae, found traditionally in the Mediterranean Basin.

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Orell Füssli

Orell Füssli is a Swiss banknotes printing and bookselling company, established by Christoph Froschauer in 1519 as a book printer and publisher.

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Pacific 231

Pacific 231 is an orchestral work by Arthur Honegger, written in 1923.

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Palazzo Strozzi

Palazzo Strozzi is a palace in Florence, Italy.

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Pappus (botany)

In Asteraceae, the pappus is the modified calyx, the part of an individual floret, that surrounds the base of the corolla tube in flower.

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Perch

Perch is a common name for freshwater fish from the genus Perca, which belongs to the family Percidae of the large order Perciformes.

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Polyhedron

In geometry, a polyhedron (polyhedra or polyhedrons) is a three-dimensional shape with flat polygonal faces, straight edges and sharp corners or vertices.

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Prism (optics)

An optical prism is a transparent optical element with flat, polished surfaces that are designed to refract light.

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Quartz

Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silica (silicon dioxide).

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Rail transport in Switzerland

The Swiss rail network is noteworthy for its density, its coordination between services, its integration with other modes of transport, timeliness and a thriving domestic and trans-Alp freight system.

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Right-hand rule

In mathematics and physics, the right-hand rule is a convention and a mnemonic, utilized to define the orientation of axes in three-dimensional space and to determine the direction of the cross product of two vectors, as well as to establish the direction of the force on a current-carrying conductor in a magnetic field.

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Roger Pfund

Roger Pfund (28 December 1943 – 16 March 2024) was a Swiss graphic artist.

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San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

The church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (Saint Charles at the Four Fountains), also called San Carlino, is a Roman Catholic church in Rome, Italy.

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Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza

Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza (lit. 'Saint Ivo at the Sapienza (University of Rome)') is a Catholic church in Rome.

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Scale (zoology)

In zoology, a scale (lepís; squāma) is a small rigid plate that grows out of an animal's skin to provide protection.

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Sea level

Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured.

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Seven Bridges of Königsberg

The Seven Bridges of Königsberg is a historically notable problem in mathematics.

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Shellfish

Shellfish is a colloquial and fisheries term for exoskeleton-bearing aquatic invertebrates used as food, including various species of molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms.

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Solar System

The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies.

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Sophie Taeuber-Arp

Sophie Henriette Gertrud Taeuber-Arp (19 January 1889 – 13 January 1943) was a Swiss artist, painter, sculptor, textile designer, furniture and interior designer, architect, and dancer.

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Swiss Alps

The Alpine region of Switzerland, conventionally referred to as the Swiss Alps, represents a major natural feature of the country and is, along with the Swiss Plateau and the Swiss portion of the Jura Mountains, one of its three main physiographic regions.

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Swiss franc

The Swiss franc, or simply the franc (Swiss German; franc; franco; franc), is the currency and legal tender of Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Banknotes of the Swiss franc and Swiss franc are Currencies of Switzerland.

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Swiss National Bank

The Swiss National Bank (SNB; Schweizerische Nationalbank; Banque nationale suisse; Banca nazionale svizzera; Banca naziunala svizra) is the central bank of Switzerland, responsible for the nation's monetary policy and the sole issuer of Swiss franc banknotes.

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Taraxacum

Taraxacum is a large genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, which consists of species commonly known as dandelions.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.

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Thistle

Thistle is the common name of a group of flowering plants characterized by leaves with sharp prickles on the margins, mostly in the family Asteraceae.

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Thorax

The thorax (thoraces or thoraxes) or chest is a part of the anatomy of mammals and other tetrapod animals located between the neck and the abdomen.

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Time zone

A time zone is an area which observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial and social purposes.

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University of Lausanne

The University of Lausanne (UNIL; Université de Lausanne) in Lausanne, Switzerland was founded in 1537 as a school of Protestant theology, before being made a university in 1890.

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Valais

Valais, more formally, the Canton of Valais, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of thirteen districts and its capital and largest city is Sion. Valais is situated in the southwestern part of the country. It borders the cantons of Vaud and Bern to the north, the cantons of Uri and Ticino to the east, as well as Italy to the south and France to the west.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknotes_of_the_Swiss_franc

Also known as 50 Swiss franc bank note, Banknotes of Switzerland, CHF bills, List of Swiss banknotes, Paper money of the Swiss franc, Swiss banknotes, Swiss franc notes.

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