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From: "Gordon Fitch" <gcf at panix.com>
> >
> > Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare,
terror, murder, and
> > bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci,
and the
> > Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had
500 years of
> > democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo
clock.
> >
> > Harry Lyme
>
> Was it not in Switzerland that Albert Einstein worked out
> the theories of Relativity and published the papers which
> won him the Nobel Prize? Some cuckoo clock!
>
> -- Gordon
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Lets not forget Albert Hoffman and all those other fine Swiss chemists.
Ian