Jura

The Swabian Housewife. One should simply have asked the Swabian housewife, said German Chancellor Angela Merkel after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008.

In the east, there is the Jura...

Jura has nine wives, 32 children and 63 grandchildren.

Examples are an alliances with 14 Upper Swabian towns, concluded 27 August 1395 and the Marbachs alliance in 1405.

I left my schoolbag at my house in al Jura, we thought it was temporary.

Joseph Nyamwanda Jura Ondijo treated patients outside of Kisumu, Kenya for AlDS, tuberculosis, infertility, mental illness, evil spirits.

Metzingen is a Swabian city with about 22,000 inhabitants, in the state of Baden Württemberg in the southwest of Germany, south of Stuttgart.

But sometimes when his female patients can't afford his services, their families give the women to Jura in exchange for medical treatment.

The Swiss Plateau or Central Plateau ( ) constitutes one of the three major landscapes in Switzerland alongside the Jura Mountains and the Swiss Alps.

This argument does not hold for a government without its own central bank, in which case it faces exactly the same budget constraint as the oft cited Swabian housewife.

This urban sprawl does not only affect the plateau but also the Jura and the Alpine foothills and there are growing concerns about land use.

The city lies at the foot of the first mountain range of the Jura Mountains area, guarding the only practical connection to Jura in the area, on the northeastern shores of Lake Biel ( Bielersee , Lac de Bienne ), sharing the eastern tip of the lake with its sister city, Nidau, the administrative centre of the District of Nidau.

Hajj Othman Sa d Aldeen al Habbash was born on 29 June 1941 in a small Palestinian village west of present day Ashkelon known as al Jura.

It comprises the regions between the Jura and the Alps, partly flat but mostly hilly, and lies at an average height between 400 and 700 m AMSL.

It was a deception Toussaint was seized and deported to France, where he died of pneumonia while imprisoned at Fort de Joux in the Jura Mountains in April 1803.

Switzerland lies between latitudes 45 and 48 N, and longitudes 5 and 11 E. It contains three basic topographical areas the Swiss Alps to the south, the Swiss Plateau or Central Plateau, and the Jura mountains on the west.

By 1460, the confederates controlled most of the territory south and west of the Rhine to the Alps and the Jura mountains, particularly after victories against the Habsburgs (Battle of Sempach, Battle of Näfels), over Charles the Bold of Burgundy during the 1470s, and the success of the Swiss mercenaries.

Coins depicting a ring of stars (such as the 1 franc coin seen beside this paragraph) were altered from 22 stars to 23 stars in 1983 since the stars represent the Swiss cantons, the design was updated when in 1979 Jura seceded from the Canton of Bern and became the 23rd canton of the Swiss Confederation.