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Davos (German pronunciation; Tavau, archaic Italian: Tavate) is an Alpine town, and a municipality in the Prättigau/Davos Region in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. [1]

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Agnosticism

Agnosticism is the view that the existence of God, of the divine or the supernatural is unknown or unknowable.

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Albula Alps

The Albula Alps are a mountain range in the Alps of eastern Switzerland.

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Alexander Spengler

Alexander Spengler (March 20, 1827 – November 1, 1901) was a German physician and the first physician specializing in tuberculosis in Davos.

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Alps

The Alps (Alpes; Alpen; Alpi; Alps; Alpe) are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe,The Caucasus Mountains are higher, and the Urals longer, but both lie partly in Asia.

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Arosa

Arosa is a statistic town and a municipality in the Plessur Region in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes.

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Aspen, Colorado

Aspen is the home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Pitkin County, Colorado, United States.

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Atheism

Atheism is, in the broadest sense, the absence of belief in the existence of deities.

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Bandy

Bandy is a team winter sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal.

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Bergün

Bergün/Bravuogn (Bergün, Bravuogn, in the local Romansh dialect Brauégn) is a former municipality in the Albula Region in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

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Bern

Bern or Berne (Bern, Bärn, Berne, Berna, Berna) is the de facto capital of Switzerland, referred to by the Swiss as their (e.g. in German) Bundesstadt, or "federal city".

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Birth rate

The birth rate (technically, births/population rate) is the total number of live births per 1,000 in a population in a year or period.

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Canton of Grisons

The canton of (the) Grisons, or canton of Graubünden is the largest and easternmost canton of Switzerland.

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Cantons of Switzerland

The 26 cantons of Switzerland (Kanton, canton, cantone, chantun) are the member states of the Swiss Confederation.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Chamonix

Chamonix-Mont-Blanc,.

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Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland

The Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland is the Swiss member church of the Union of Utrecht of Old Catholic Churches.

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Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland

The Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland (Christlichdemokratische Volkspartei der Schweiz, CVP; Parti Démocrate-Chrétien, PDC; Partito Popolare Democratico, PPD; Partida cristiandemocratica Svizra, PCD) is a Christian democratic political party in Switzerland.

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Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland

The Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland (Bürgerlich-Demokratische Partei Schweiz, BDP; Parti bourgeois démocratique suisse, PBD; Partito Borghese Democratico Svizzero, PBD; Partida burgais democratica Svizra PBD, PBD; all translations mean literally Citizens' Democratic Party of Switzerland) is a conservative political party in Switzerland.

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Crazy Town

Crazy Town is an American rap rock band, formed in 1995 by Bret Mazur and Seth Binzer.

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Cross-country skiing

Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing where skiers rely on their own locomotion to move across snow-covered terrain, rather than using ski lifts or other forms of assistance.

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Davos Dorf (Rhaetian Railway station)

Davos Dorf station is located in the municipality of Davos in the district of Prattigau/Davos in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.

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Davos Platz (Rhaetian Railway station)

Davos Platz station is located in the municipality of Davos in the district of Prattigau/Davos in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.

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Davos Wiesen

Davos Wiesen (in the local Walser German dialect an de Wise, Tain) is a village and one of six parts (former municipalities) of the municipality of Davos besides Davos Dorf, Davos Platz, Davos Frauenkirch, Davos Glaris and Davos Monstein.

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Dialect

The term dialect (from Latin,, from the Ancient Greek word,, "discourse", from,, "through" and,, "I speak") is used in two distinct ways to refer to two different types of linguistic phenomena.

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Eastern Orthodox Church

The Eastern Orthodox Church, also known as the Orthodox Church, or officially as the Orthodox Catholic Church, is the second-largest Christian Church, with over 250 million members.

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Eberhard W. Kornfeld

Eberhard W. Kornfeld (* 23 September 1923 in Basel) is a Swiss auctioneer, gallerist, author, art dealer and collector in Bern.

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Engadin

The Engadin or Engadine (Engiadina, Engadin, Engadina, Engadine; lit.: Valley of the Inn people) is a long high Alpine valley region in the eastern Swiss Alps located in the canton of Graubünden in most southeastern Switzerland with about 25,000 inhabitants.

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Ernst Haefliger

Ernst Haefliger (6 July 191917 March 2007) was a Swiss tenor.

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (6 May 1880 – 15 June 1938) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or "The Bridge", a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th-century art.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Evangelical People's Party of Switzerland

The Evangelical People's Party of Switzerland (Evangelische Volkspartei der Schweiz, Parti évangelique suisse, Partito Evangelico Svizzero, Partida evangelica da la Svizra) is a Protestant Christian-democratic political party in Switzerland, active mainly in the Cantons of Bern, Basel-Land, Basel-Stadt, Aargau and Zürich.

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Executive (government)

The executive is the organ exercising authority in and holding responsibility for the governance of a state.

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Fachhochschule

A Fachhochschule (plural Fachhochschulen), abbreviated FH, or University of Applied Sciences (UAS) is a German tertiary education institution, specializing in topical areas (e.g. engineering, technology or business).

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FDP.The Liberals

FDP.The Liberals (FDP.Die Liberalen, PLR.Les Libéraux-Radicaux, PLR.I Liberali, PLD.Ils Liberals) is a liberal political party in Switzerland.

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Filisur

Filisur is an Alpine village and former municipality in the Albula Region in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

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First-past-the-post voting

A first-past-the-post (FPTP) voting method is one in which voters indicate on a ballot the candidate of their choice, and the candidate who receives the most votes wins.

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FIS Alpine Ski World Cup

The FIS Alpine Ski World Cup is the top international circuit of alpine skiing competitions, launched in 1966 by a group of ski racing friends and experts which included French journalist Serge Lang and the alpine ski team directors from France (Honore Bonnet) and the USA (Bob Beattie).

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Flüela Pass

Flüela Pass (elevation 2383 m) is a high mountain pass in the Swiss Alps in the canton of Graubünden.

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Four nation bandy tournament in 2014

The four nation bandy tournament in 2014 was held as a centenary celebration of the 1913 European Bandy Championships.

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German language

German (Deutsch) is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe.

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Glarus Süd

Glarus Süd is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Glarus.

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Green Liberal Party of Switzerland

The Green Liberal Party of Switzerland (Grünliberale Partei der Schweiz, glp; Parti vert'libéral, pvl), abbreviated to glp, is a centrist Green liberal political party in Switzerland.

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Guano Apes

Guano Apes is a rock band formed in 1994 in Göttingen, Germany.

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Hamlet (place)

A hamlet is a small human settlement.

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Harry Clarke

Harry Clarke (17 March 1889 – 6 January 1931) was an Irish stained-glass artist and book illustrator.

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HC Davos

Hockey Club Davos is a professional Swiss ice hockey club based in Davos, Switzerland.

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High Middle Ages

The High Middle Ages, or High Medieval Period, was the period of European history that commenced around 1000 AD and lasted until around 1250 AD.

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Ice hockey

Ice hockey is a contact team sport played on ice, usually in a rink, in which two teams of skaters use their sticks to shoot a vulcanized rubber puck into their opponent's net to score points.

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Ice skating

Ice skating is the act of motion by wearer of the ice skates to propel the participant across a sheet of ice.

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Iouri Podladtchikov

Iouri Iourеvich Podladtchikov (Юрий Юрьевич Подладчиков, born 13 September 1988) is a Russian-born Swiss snowboarder.

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Islam

IslamThere are ten pronunciations of Islam in English, differing in whether the first or second syllable has the stress, whether the s is or, and whether the a is pronounced, or (when the stress is on the first syllable) (Merriam Webster).

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Jakobshorn

The Jakobshorn (2,590 m) is a mountain of the Albula Alps, overlooking Davos in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.

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Jürg Federspiel

Jürg Federspiel (28 June 1931 – 12 January 2007) was a Swiss writer, born in Kemptthal, Canton Zurich.

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Judaism

Judaism (originally from Hebrew, Yehudah, "Judah"; via Latin and Greek) is the religion of the Jewish people.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Klabund

Alfred Henschke (4 November 1890 – 14 August 1928), better known by his pseudonym Klabund, was a German writer.

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Klosters

Klosters is a Swiss village in the Prättigau, politically part of the municipality of Klosters-Serneus, which belongs to the political district Prättigau/Davos in the canton of Graubünden.

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Lake Davos

Lake Davos (German: Davosersee) is a small natural lake at Davos, Switzerland.

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Landquart, Switzerland

Landquart is a municipality in the Landquart Region in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.

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Landwasser

The Landwasser (German, lit.: water of/for the land) is a river in Switzerland, canton of Graubünden.

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Langwies

Langwies is a former municipality in the district of Plessur in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

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League of the Ten Jurisdictions

The League of the Ten Jurisdictions was the last of the Three Leagues founded during the Middle Ages in what is now Canton Graubünden of Switzerland.

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Legislature

A legislature is a deliberative assembly with the authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country or city.

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Lenzerheide

Lenzerheide (Romansh: Lai) is a mountain resort in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland at the foot of the Parpaner Rothorn.

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List of cities in Switzerland

Below is a list of towns and cities in Switzerland.

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List of ski areas and resorts in Switzerland

This is a list of ski areas and resorts in Switzerland.

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Lower Engadine

The Lower Engadine (Engiadina Bassa, Unterengadin) is part of the Engadine, traversed by the river En (Inn) and located at the most eastern part of Switzerland in the Canton Graubünden.

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Madrisa

The Madrisa (or Madrisahorn) is a mountain in the Rätikon mountain range, overlooking Klosters in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.

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Marc Forster

Marc Forster (born 30 November 1969) is a German-born filmmaker and screenwriter.

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Microclimate

A microclimate is a local set of atmospheric conditions that differ from those in the surrounding areas, often with a slight difference but sometimes with a substantial one.

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Mortality rate

Mortality rate, or death rate, is a measure of the number of deaths (in general, or due to a specific cause) in a particular population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit of time.

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Municipalities of Switzerland

Municipalities (Gemeinden, Einwohnergemeinden or politische Gemeinden; communes; comuni; vischnancas) are the lowest level of administrative division in Switzerland.

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National Council (Switzerland)

The National Council (Nationalrat, Conseil national, Consiglio nazionale, Cussegl naziunal) is the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Switzerland, the upper house being the Council of States.

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National League (ice hockey)

The National League (NL) is a professional ice hockey league in Switzerland.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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Pantheism

Pantheism is the belief that reality is identical with divinity, or that all-things compose an all-encompassing, immanent god.

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Parsenn

Parsenn is a renowned ski area near Davos, Switzerland, offering 35 ski runs.

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Parsenn Funicular

The Parsenn Funicular (Davos Parsenn Bahn, DPB) is a funicular railway in the resort of Davos in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.

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Paul Accola

Paul Accola (born 20 February 1967 in Davos) is a Swiss former Alpine skier.

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Peder Østlund

Peder Østlund (7 May 1872 – 22 January 1939) was a Norwegian speed skater.

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Pischahorn

The Pischahorn is a mountain of the Silvretta Alps, located east of Davos, in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.

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Piz Kesch

Piz Kesch (German) or Piz d'Es-cha (Rumantsch) is a peak in the Albula Alps of the Rhaetian Alps in Switzerland.

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Plessur Alps

The Plessur Alps are a mountain range in the Alps of eastern Switzerland.

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Prättigau

The Prättigau, in the canton of Graubünden (Grisons), Switzerland, is the geographical region consisting of the main valley of the river Landquart and the valleys of its side-rivers and creeks, which drains into the Alpine Rhine in the village of the same name, and is on its upper end home to the world-famous ski resorts of Klosters.

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Prättigau/Davos Region

Prättigau/Davos Region is one of the eleven administrative districts in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

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Precipitation

In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls under gravity.

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Primary sector of the economy

An industry involved in the extraction and collection of natural resources, such as copper and timber, as well as by activities such as farming and fishing.

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Respiratory disease

Respiratory disease is a medical term that encompasses pathological conditions affecting the organs and tissues that make gas exchange possible in higher organisms, and includes conditions of the upper respiratory tract, trachea, bronchi, bronchioles, alveoli, pleura and pleural cavity, and the nerves and muscles of breathing.

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Rhaetian Alps

The Rhaetian Alps (Alpi Retiche; Rätische Alpen) are a mountain range of the Eastern Alps.

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Rhaetian Railway

The Rhaetian Railway (Rhätische Bahn, Ferrovia Retica, Viafier Retica), abbreviated RhB, is a Swiss transport company that owns the largest network of all private railway operators in Switzerland.

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, musician and travel writer.

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Romansh language

Romansh (also spelled Romansch, Rumantsch, or Romanche; Romansh:, rumàntsch, or) is a Romance language spoken predominantly in the southeastern Swiss canton of Grisons (Graubünden), where it has official status alongside German and Italian.

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Romanticism

Romanticism (also known as the Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.

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S-chanf

S-chanf (Scanfs; Scanevo) is a municipality in the Maloja Region in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg (p) is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with 5 million inhabitants in 2012, part of the Saint Petersburg agglomeration with a population of 6.2 million (2015).

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Sanada, Nagano

was a town located in Chiisagata District, Nagano Prefecture, Japan.

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Scaletta Pass

Scaletta Pass (Romansh: Cuolm S-chaletta, Scalettapass) (el. 2315 m) is a mountain pass in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland.

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Schwarzhorn (Flüela)

The Flüela Schwarzhorn is a mountain of the Albula Alps, overlooking the Flüela Pass, in the canton of Graubünden.

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Schwarzsee (Davos)

Schwarzsee is a lake at Laret, between Davos and Klosters in the Grisons, Switzerland.

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Secondary sector of the economy

The secondary sector of the economy includes industries that produce a finished, usable product or are involved in construction.

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Sertig

The Sertig Valley is located in the municipality of Davos, south of the town, in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.

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Ski resort

A ski resort is a resort developed for skiing, snowboarding, and other winter sports.

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Social Democratic Party of Switzerland

The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (also rendered as Swiss Socialist Party; Sozialdemokratische Partei der Schweiz, SP; Parti socialiste suisse, PS; Partito Socialista Svizzero; Partida Socialdemocrata de la Svizra) is a political party in Switzerland.

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Sokołowsko

Sokołowsko (Görbersdorf) is a village and traditional climatic health resort in Gmina Mieroszów, within Wałbrzych County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.

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Sophie Taeuber-Arp

Sophie Henriette Gertrude 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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Speed skating

Speed skating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in travelling a certain distance on skates.

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Spengler Cup

The Spengler Cup is an annual invitational ice hockey tournament held in Davos, Switzerland.

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Subarctic climate

The subarctic climate (also called subpolar climate, subalpine climate, or boreal climate) is a climate characterised by long, usually very cold winters, and short, cool to mild summers.

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Sum 41

Sum 41 is a Canadian rock band from Ajax, Ontario.

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Susch

Susch (formerly Süs) is a municipality in the district of Inn in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.

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Swiss federal election, 2015

Federal elections were held in Switzerland on 18 October 2015 for the National Council and the first round of elections to the Council of States, with runoff elections to the Council of States being held in various cantons until 22 November.

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Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National and Regional Significance

The Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National and Regional Significance (Schweizerisches Inventar der Kulturgüter von nationaler und regionaler Bedeutung; Inventaire suisse des biens culturels d'importance nationale et régionale; Inventario dei beni culturali svizzeri d'importanza nazionale e regionale) is a register of some 8,300 items of cultural property in Switzerland.

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Swiss People's Party

The Swiss People's Party (Schweizerische Volkspartei, SVP; Partida populara Svizra, PPS), also known as the Democratic Union of the Centre (Union démocratique du centre, UDC; Unione Democratica di Centro, UDC), is a national-conservative and right-wing populist political party in Switzerland.

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Swiss Reformed Church

The Swiss Reformed Church (Evangelisch-reformierte Kirchen der Schweiz, "Evangelical Reformed Churches of Switzerland") refers to the Reformed branch of Protestantism in Switzerland started in Zürich by Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531) and spread within a few years to Basel (Johannes Oecolampadius), Bern (Berchtold Haller and Niklaus Manuel), St. Gallen (Joachim Vadian), to cities in southern Germany and via Alsace (Martin Bucer) to France.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Tertiary sector of the economy

The tertiary sector or service sector is the third of the three economic sectors of the three-sector theory.

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The Magic Mountain

The Magic Mountain (German: Der Zauberberg) is a novel by Thomas Mann, first published in German in November 1924.

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Thomas Hirschhorn

Thomas Hirschhorn (born 16 May 1957 in Bern) is a Swiss artist.

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Thomas Mann

Paul Thomas Mann (6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.

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Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB).

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Ultra-prominent peak

An ultra-prominent peak, or Ultra for short, is defined as a mountain summit with a topographic prominence of or more.

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Ursula Wyss

Ursula Wyss (born 8 February 1973 in Davos) is a Swiss politician and economist.

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Vaillant Arena

Vaillant Arena (Eisstadion Davos) is an arena in Davos, Switzerland.

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Valtellina

Valtellina or the Valtelline (occasionally spelled as two words in English: Val Telline; Vuclina, Valtelina); Veltlin, Valtellina, Valtulina, Vuclina, is a valley in the Lombardy region of northern Italy, bordering Switzerland.

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Vaz/Obervaz

Vaz/Obervaz is a municipality in the Albula Region in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

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Verkehrsbetrieb der Landschaft Davos Gemeinde

Verkehrsbetrieb der Landschaft Davos Gemeinde is a bus operating company in the municipality of Davos, Switzerland.

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Viva La Bam

Viva La Bam is an American reality television series that starred Bam Margera and his friends and family.

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Voter turnout

Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election.

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Walser

The Walser are the speakers of the Walser German dialects, a variety of Highest Alemannic.

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Weissfluhjoch

The Weissfluhjoch is a summit southeast of the Weissfluh situated in the Plessur Range in Graubünden.

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Winter sport

A winter sport or winter activity is a recreational activity or sport which is played on snow or ice.

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Wolfgang Pass

Wolfgang Pass (also known as Wolfgang pass auf) (el. 1631 m.) is a high mountain pass in the Alps in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

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World Economic Forum

The World Economic Forum (WEF) is a Swiss nonprofit foundation, based in Cologny, Geneva, Switzerland.

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1913 European Bandy Championships

1913 European Bandy Championships was the first, and so far the only, European Championship tournament in bandy.

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References

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

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