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Berne

bərn
WordNet
Citizen woman from Bern, to the right, a top hat on her head over a white headscarf that is wrapped around her chin. She wears a dark overgarment with short puff sleeves over a dark undergarment.
Citizen woman from Bern, to the right, a top hat on her head over a white headscarf that is wrapped around her chin. She wears a dark overgarment with short puff sleeves over a dark undergarment.
  1. (n) Berne
    the capital of Switzerland; located in western Switzerland
Illustrations
Map of Bern. Plate No. 327 in part XIV of the print work: Les Forces de l'Europe, Asia, Africa et Amerique ... Comme aussi les Cartes des Côtes de France et d'Espagne from 1726, this second part with 271 hand-numbered plates of renowned strong cities and fortifications in the context of the War of the Spanish Succession 1701-1713. Most of these plates are copied from the anonymous French plates of renowned strong cities and fortresses: in Les forces de l'Europe and in: Le theater de la guerre, dans les Pays-Bas, both originally published by Nicolas de Fer in Paris (1693-1697) as part of the Nine Years' War. Title and captions in French.
Map of Bern. Plate No. 327 in part XIV of the print work: Les Forces de l'Europe, Asia, Africa et Amerique ... Comme aussi les Cartes des Côtes de France et d'Espagne from 1726, this second part with 271 hand-numbered plates of renowned strong cities and fortifications in the context of the War of the Spanish Succession 1701-1713. Most of these plates are copied from the anonymous French plates of renowned strong cities and fortresses: in Les forces de l'Europe and in: Le theater de la guerre, dans les Pays-Bas, both originally published by Nicolas de Fer in Paris (1693-1697) as part of the Nine Years' War. Title and captions in French.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) Berne
    See bern.
Usage in the news

Breaking News &Weather For Eastern North Carolina: Greenville NC, New Bern, Jacksonville NC, Kinston, Washington NC, Morehead City & Havelock WITN 7 NBC For Pitt County, Onslow County & All of East Carolina. itntv.com

Culver , 73, of Berne, died Wednesday at Chalet Village. decaturdailydemocrat.com

Wife, Janice (Hay) Culver of Berne. decaturdailydemocrat.com

The research team includes, from left, Andrew Brooks, Gregory Berns and Mark Spivak. foxnews.com

The Upper Bern Township supervisors are considering a solicitation ordinance designed to protect residents from door-to-door scam artists. readingeagle.com

BERN, Switzerland — Four-time World Cup downhill champion Didier Cuche will help coach his former Switzerland teammates after their slow start to the season. therepublic.com

The event is part of Art Walk The Fashion Runway Weekend and will be held at The Sidney and Berne Davis Art Center Sept 7 at 7:00 pm. naplesnews.com

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon listens to speech in the Swiss National Council during his visit in the Autumn Parliament Session in Bern ( PASCAL LAUENER, REUTERS / September 11, 2012 ). kwch.com

Daughter Vicki (Lynn) DeArmond of Berne. decaturdailydemocrat.com

Berne City Council on Monday approved a state-mandated plan that will bring the city into compliance with Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). decaturdailydemocrat.com

Fabian Käser is a representative of Berne University of the Arts, Switzerland. adhesivesmag.com

The United Methodist Women's group who helped with the Holiday Garage Sale Saturday included (from left) Judy Anderson, Dorothy Bretthorst, Mary Clark, DiAnne Berning, Judy French and Julie Seveland. basehorinfo.com

As we drove to the site of the big hornussen festival outside of Bern, Switzerland, we knew very little about it. espn.go.com

JAMESTOWN — As Shar Berns' husband looked her in the eyes and told her that her best friend, a woman she had come to love in the past eight years, was dead, Berns could hardly muster a response. times-online.com

Born Sept 9, 1931, at Berne, IN, she was a daughter of the late Werner and Ilma Franz Geiser. tuz.com

Usage in scientific papers

Puhov, Inequalities for the Kolmogorov and Bernˇste˘ın widths in Hilbert space, Math.
On mean outer radii of random polytopes

The successful irradiation experiments with neutrons encouraged us to plan a prototype SSG dark matter detector to be placed in the underground laboratory of the Bern University in a depth of 70mwe. A possible setup for the dark matter search experiment is sketched in Fig. 2a.
Feasibility study of a Superheated Superconducting Granule detector for cold dark matter search

It is important to note, that in the neutron irradiation experiment, we were able to clearly distinguish single from multiple flips The background studies in the Bern underground laboratory are under way as well as the investigation of the radioactivity of the materials. .
Feasibility study of a Superheated Superconducting Granule detector for cold dark matter search

The successful irradiation experiments with neutrons encouraged us to plan prototype Sn and Zn SSG dark matter detectors to be operated in the underground laboratory of the University of Bern.
Feasibility study of a Superheated Superconducting Granule detector for cold dark matter search

This work was supported by the Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Foerderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung and by the Bernische Stiftung zur Foerderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung an der Universitaet Bern.
Feasibility study of a Superheated Superconducting Granule detector for cold dark matter search

Usage in literature

A dispatch from Berne reproached the authorities for their imprudence in allowing the noble wanderers an asylum. "Louis Philippe" by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

Such are "The Priest of Kalenburg," "Dietrich of Berne" and innumerable others. "Epistle Sermons, Vol. II" by Martin Luther

Then Lassalle was already with this Helena in Berne. "Dreamers of the Ghetto" by I. Zangwill

An army has been ordered to march to Berne. "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846" by Various

We were forced to wait in Geneva until five o'clock for a train to Berne, where we finally arrived at nine this evening. "The Note-Book of an Attache" by Eric Fisher Wood

From Paris we went to Berne. "Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife" by Marietta Holley

Konrad Bern had been effectively isolated. "Psichopath" by Gordon Randall Garrett

According to the law of Berne, what the married woman earns belongs to her husband. "Woman under socialism" by August Bebel

MS. Library of Berne. "History of the Rise of the Huguenots" by Henry Baird

EMANUEL VON FELLENBERG was born of a patrician family of Bern. "The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865" by Various

Usage in poetry
So gladly rode they to Bern again;
King Diderik gladdest of all:
There caus’d he Vidrik Verlandson
To sit next him in the hall.
King Diderik sits in the halls of Bern,
And he boasts of his deeds of might;
So many a swain in battle he’s fell’d,
And taken so many a knight.
“If thou from the Giant hast got a blow,
Thy life must be nigh its close;
We’ll ride swift back to the halls of Bern,
No man more will we lose.”
King Diderik sits in the halls of Bern,
And he strikes his moony shield;
“O, would that I knew of a hero now,
‘Gainst whom I could take the field.”