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Lausanne

ˌlɔˈsæn
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Cartoon at the conference in Lausanne, 1922-1923, in which peace was negotiated in the Greco-Turkish War. John Bull (England) gets angry after an accident with a broken glass and bottle of wine at a table where Greece and Turkey are playing a game of cards. Representatives from other European countries are presented as visitors to the inn.
Cartoon at the conference in Lausanne, 1922-1923, in which peace was negotiated in the Greco-Turkish War. John Bull (England) gets angry after an accident with a broken glass and bottle of wine at a table where Greece and Turkey are playing a game of cards. Representatives from other European countries are presented as visitors to the inn.
  1. (n) Lausanne
    a city in western Switzerland; cultural and commercial center
Illustrations
Map of Lausanne. Plate No. 329 in part XIV of the print work: Les Forces de l'Europe, Asia, Afrique 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 Lausanne. Plate No. 329 in part XIV of the print work: Les Forces de l'Europe, Asia, Afrique 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.
View of Lausanne, with a view of the castle and the cathedral, in the background Lake Geneva (Lac Léman).
View of Lausanne, with a view of the castle and the cathedral, in the background Lake Geneva (Lac Léman).
Usage in the news

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — On the day Andy Roddick announced his retirement from tennis, he helped Bulgarian player Dimitar Kutrovsky receive a reduced ban in a doping case. therepublic.com

Melody Swartz, 43, Lausanne , Switzerland. courant.com

Dobyns-Bennett beat Lausanne School 59-49 in the third round of the Ladies' Classic tournament Tuesday night. greenevillesun.com

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The International Olympic Committee stripped a London Games bronze medal from an Uzbekistani wrestler Wednesday because of a doping violation. therepublic.com

About a dozen cars parked along Lausanne Avenue near Bonnie Street had mud caked up to the top of their wheels or higher, but no homes were flooded or damaged, officials said. insidebayarea.com

In this Nov 17, 2012 file picture Thun coach Bernard Challandes reacts during a Swiss League match between FC Thun and Lausanne Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland. innipegfreepress.com

Lausanne, MUS fourth at state. commercialappeal.com

President of the International Olympic Committee, IOC, Jacques Rogge from Belgium waits for the opening of the IOC executive board meeting, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Tuesday, Dec 4, 2012. eveningsun.com

Usain Bolt celebrates after his 200m victory in the Diamond League meeting in Lausanne. cnn.com

Usain Bolt wins 200m at Diamond League meeting in Lausanne. cnn.com

Jamaican sprinter runs 9.69 in 100 meters at Lausanne. ashingtontimes.com

The medals could come up for review at the IOC's executive board meeting next month in Lausanne, Switzerland. nbcsandiego.com

Public works and water crews clean up on Lausanne Avenue after a river of mud rolled through a neighborhood following a water line break from a hilltop reservoir in Daly City, Calif on Tuesday, Nov 13, 2012. sfgate.com

Released this week by the IMD business school of Lausanne, Switzerland, the rankings are based on a study of 61 national and regional economies. beefmagazine.com

A picture taken on September 18, 2011 shows a sign of the Swiss banking giant UBS in Lausanne. money.cnn.com

Usage in scientific papers

Ratiu and R˘azvan Tudoran, Section de math´ematiques, ´Ecole Polytechnique F´ed´erale de Lausanne.
Symmetry breaking for toral actions in simple mechanical systems

Thesis, Ecole Polytechnique F´ed´erale de Lausanne, 2003.
The largest eigenvalue of small rank perturbations of Hermitian random matrices

Frossard are with ´Ecole Polytechnique F ´ed ´erale de Lausanne (EPFL), Signal Processing Laboratory - LTS4, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Navigation domain partitioning for interactive multiview imaging

J. ˇCern´y, On two properties of strongly disordered systems, aging and critical path analysis, Ph.D. thesis, EPF Lausanne, 2003.
Dynamics of trap models

Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Ecole Polytechnique F ´ed ´erale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2005 and 2010, respectively.
Graph-Constrained Group Testing

Usage in literature

We nearly lost our Naturalist between Paris and Lausanne. "Faces and Places" by Henry William Lucy

LITERARY LABOUR AT LAUSANNE. "The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete" by John Forster

He made his summer residence at Lausanne, taking a villa (Rosemont) there, from May till November. "The Letters of Charles Dickens" by Charles Dickens

Townshend I suppose to have left Lausanne somewhere about this day. "The Letters of Charles Dickens" by Charles Dickens

Five scholars of Lausanne, the, martyrdom of, i. "History of the Rise of the Huguenots" by Henry Baird

In the Lausanne section, individual types abound. "The Forerunners" by Romain Rolland

Of Lausanne I recall little but an endless mounting and descending of stairs. "An American Girl Abroad" by Adeline Trafton

A price was set on the life of Court; and in 1730 he escaped to Lausanne. "Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6" by Various

Curchod became the wife of M. Necker, an event which caused rejoicing from Lausanne to Geneva. "Women of Modern France (Illustrated)" by Hugo Paul Thieme (1870-1940)

M. Theophile A. Steinlen, born at Lausanne in 1859, went to Paris in 1881. "Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3" by Various