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- proper noun A
canton ofSwitzerland (its German name).
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As the conquest of the Aargau was the first made by the Confederates, their delegates (or the federal diet) naturally met at
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
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High rents have forced thousands of Zugers out of the canton altogether, to nearby regions such as Aargau and Lucerne where property is much cheaper.
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The case came to light in March, after two male residents of a care home in the northeastern canton of Aargau informed their parents of sexual contact with the therapist.
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Her father Sigi Dreifuss (1899 – 1956) was from Endingen (Canton of Aargau), one of the two villages of old Switzerland in which Jews could live before the emancipation in 1866.
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Conquest in the north of the Aargau, from Frederick of Austria, at the behest of his rival, the Emperor Sigismund.
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Most powerful of the Swabian families was the rising house of Habsburg (whose original lands expanded in the 13th century into the Aargau, Breisgau, and Alsace).
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The Aargau, Thurgau, Ticino, and parts of Vaud were governed by the confederation or one or more of its members.
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Switzerland, on January 12th, 1899, and his early childhood was spent at Lenzburg, Aargau, the birthplace of his father who was an employee of the Swiss Federal Railway.
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It is unknown on whose recommendation Mind, in his eighth year, was placed at the academy for poor children, which Pestalozzi had previously instituted at Neuenhof, near Bern, Aargau; but, in the year 1778, we find, in the authentic account of that institution, published by the
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 333, September 27, 1828
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Bullinger by his wife Anna (Wiederkehr), was born at Bremgarten, Aargau, on the 18th of July 1504.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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