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5 days ago · In Switzerland, the term canton is used to refer to each of the 26 states that make up the Swiss Confederation. Some cantons, like Unterwalden, Basel, and Appenzell, are further subdivided into demicantons or half cantons, which function as full cantons.
4 days ago · Geneva, city, capital of Genève canton, in the far southwestern corner of Switzerland that juts into France. One of Europe’s most cosmopolitan cities, Geneva has served as a model for republican government and owes its preeminence to the triumph of human, rather than geographic, factors.
2 days ago · The Canton Christian College (1888) and Hackett Medical College for Women (1902) were both founded by missionaries and now form part of Guangzhou's Lingnan University. Since the opening up of China in the 1980s, there has been renewed interest in Christianity, but Guangzhou maintains pressure on underground churches which avoid registration ...
Turtleboy (TB) was in Canton and stopped at CF Mccarthys (a bar/restaurant), Colin Albert happened to walk by as TB was going into the bar and Colin was talking shit, TB snapped a picture of him.
3 days ago · The principal valleys, running southwest to northeast, are those of the Upper Rhine. The valleys were originally settled by the Raeti (Rhaeti), a people probably Celtic in origin. Most of the modern canton formed the southern part of Raetia, a province set up by the Romans in 15 bce.
1 day ago · "Cantonese" as used to refer to the language native to the city of Canton, which is the traditional English name of Guangzhou, was popularized by An English and Cantonese Pocket Dictionary (1859), a bestseller by the missionary John Chalmers. Before 1859, this variant was often referred to in English as "the Canton dialect".
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5 days ago · Karen Read called John O’Keefe’s phone more than 50 times and left him profanity-laced voicemails in the hours leading up to the discovery of his body in the snow outside a home in Canton in ...
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