Switzerland
- Wildhans von Breitenlandenberg and 61 companions following the siege of Greifensee during the Old Zürich War (1444)
- Anna Göldi (1782) – Executed as the "last witch in Switzerland"
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Famous quotes containing the word switzerland:
“I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)
“In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed—they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!”
—Orson Welles (1915–84)