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The Cimetière des Rois (French for ''Cemetery of Kings'') is a cemetery in Geneva, Switzerland, where people such as John Calvin, the great reformer, Jorge Luis Borges, the famed Argentine fantasy writer, and Sérgio Vieira de Mello, the former United Nations diplomat to Iraq, are buried. (...)
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The Barbier-Mueller Museum, founded in 1977, is located, 10 rue Jean-Calvin, in Genève (Switzerland). Its collection contains over 7,000 pieces and includes works of art from Tribal and Classical antiquity as well as sculptures, fabrics and ornaments from "primitive" civilizations around the world (...)
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, John Calvin, Theodore Beza, and John Knox. The Christogram can be seen below the statues. The International Monument to the Reformation (French: ''Monument international de la Réformation'', German: ''Internationales Reformationsdenkmal''), usually known as the Reformation Wall,It is sometimes translated into other forms, including 'Wall of the Reformation' and 'Wall of the (...)
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's chair The St. Pierre Cathedral is a cathedral in Geneva, Switzerland, belonging to the Swiss Reformed Church. It was begun in the 12th century, and includes an eclectic mix of styles. It is best known as the adopted home church of John Calvin, one of the leaders of the Protestant Reformation. Inside the church is a wooden chair used by Calvin (...)
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La Gare de Cornavin (the station of Cornavin) is Geneva's main train station, located in the center of the city. The immediate area surrounding it is known as Cornavin; both names can be used interchangeably to refer to each other. The station has over 100 train arrivals and departures every day, not including non-stop trains and at least 6 tracks, 4 ticket counters and 6 ticket (...)
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in Geneva. It was founded in 1559 by John Calvin. (...)
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in Geneva, Switzerland, and is one of the city's most famous landmarks, being featured on the city's official tourism web site and on the official logo for Geneva's hosting of the 2008 UEFA Championships http://www.geneve-tourisme.ch/. It is also one of the largest fountains in the world (...)
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The International Federation of Building and Wood Workers (IFBWW) is a global union federation of trade unions in the building, building materials, wood, forestry and allied industries, established in 1934 by a merger of the Building Workers International and Wood Workers International (...)
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The Building and Wood Workers' International (BWI) is the global union federation of democratic and free trade unions in the building, building materials, wood, forestry and allied industries. Established in 2005 by a merger of the International Federation of Building and Wood Workers (IFBWW) and the World Federation of Building and Wood Workers (WFBW) (...)
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: "Palace of Nations") in Geneva, Switzerland, was built between 1929 and 1938 as the headquarters of the League of Nations. Since the 1950s, it has served as the home of the United Nations Office at Geneva, although Switzerland did not become a member of the UN until 2002. An architectural competition held in the 1920s to choose a design for the complex described the project as follows: (...)
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