Established in 1954, CERN is based in a northwestern suburb of Geneva, on the France–Switzerland border... A large portion of CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics, is located within the territory of Saint-Genis-Pouilly..
the ALICE experiment is located on the periphery of the town, and the main entrance to the primary CERN campus (Meyrin) and the ATLAS experiment are located only 3 km from the centre of St Genis
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Pouilly comes from the Latin "Appoliacum" and it is probable that, under Roman occupation,
the village temple was dedicated to Apollo
Saint-Genis-Pouilly appears to have been the seat of an important Roman colony
"Around 1666, the 300 or so inhabitants lived in a very simple way: from vines, a little wheat, hemp. They had to maintain "3 stone bridges, 3 wooden bridges and 2 planks", thrown over the rivers Lion and Allondon "..
"These bridges were more of a burden than a profit since only a few mules, loaded with goods and coming from Lyon to reach Switzerland, used them. The product of the toll was therefore very meager.."
"In the Book of Revelation of the New Testament, an angel called Abaddon is described as the king of an army of locusts; his name is first transcribed in Koine Greek (Revelation 9:11—"whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon,") "
"And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit,
whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon "
"As paraphrased by Burgess, early modern divine-righters argued that “It was wicked to resist an English monarch; fortunately, it was also unnecessary. The English constitution ensured that its monarchs ruled well.” Why? The reasoning seems a bit mystical: The English imbued
their constitution with tremendous powers, including an exceptional defense of ancient liberties, which no wise king would think of side-stepping.
“The ideological point of divine-right theory,” writes Burgess, “was to condemn disobedience, or more particularly, rebellion..”
Y'all don't yet understand the scale of the psyop , and probably, neither do I
"In the Middle Ages, Geneva was ruled by a count under the Holy Roman Empire until the late 14th century, when it was granted a charter giving it a high degree of self-governance
"Around this time, the House of Savoy came to at least nominally dominate the city. In the 15th century, an oligarchic republican government emerged with the creation of the Grand Council
In the first half of the 16th century, the Protestant Reformation reached the city, causing religious strife, during which Savoy rule was thrown off and Geneva allied itself with the Swiss Confederacy
In 1541, with Protestantism on the rise, John Calvin, the Protestant Reformer and proponent of Calvinism, became the spiritual leader of the city and established the Republic of Geneva
In 1798, revolutionary France under the Directory annexed Geneva. At the end of the Napoleonic Wars, on 1 June 1814, Geneva was admitted to the Swiss Confederation. In 1907, the separation of Church and State was adopted. "
Let's hop over to French Wikipedia now
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On June 1, 1814, Swiss troops landed in Geneva in accordance with the decisions of the Congress of Vienna , and on September 12, the Diet officially confirmed Geneva's admission as the 22nd canton of the Confederation..
French and Sardinian territories were added to the canton in the Second Peace of Paris (1815) and the Treaty of Turin , giving the Geneva area a land connection to the rest of Switzerland
"In order not to isolate Geneva economically from its surroundings, several duty-free zones were created around Geneva..In 1821 the Société genevoise des missions évangéliques was founded on the model of the Basel Mission
In May 1838 the Grütliverein was founded in Geneva
a patriotically oriented workers' association. It was founded on May 20, 1838 by Johannes Niederer in Geneva , at the suggestion of Albert Galeer, with the collaboration of Heinrich Grunholzer
The symbol of the hammer and sickle in a crossed form is now considered the most recognizable symbol of communism . For the founder of modern communist ideology, Karl Marx , however, the symbol was still completely unknown de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammer_un…
From 1920 to 1946, Geneva was the seat of the League of Nations , which Switzerland joined after the 19 May 1920 referendum
The coat of arms of Geneva represents the connection between the bishop (key of Saint Peter ) and the free imperial city ( imperial eagle ). It appeared for the first time in the 15th century
The European Commission, U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division and UK Competition and Markets Authority conducted unannounced searches at Geneva-based Givaudan and Firmenich International, as well as International Flavors & Fragrances in New York and Symrise in Germany 🤔