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Sphinx Observatory
The Sphinx Observatory is an astronomical observatory located above the Jungfraujoch in Switzerland. It is named after the ''Sphinx'', a rocky summit on which it is located. At above mean sea level, it is one of the highest observatories in the world. Accessible to the public, it is also the second highest observation deck in Switzerland. The mountain top has been tunneled to fit an elevator which ascends to the observatory from the Jungfraujoch railway station, the highest such train station in Europe. The building is located on the Valais side of the border, only a few metres from the canton of Bern, although it is accessed via the Jungfrau Railway from the Bernese Oberland. The open viewing deck accessible to the public is adjacent to the observatory. It offers views of the Jungfrau, Mönch, and Eiger peaks, all within a few kilometers. Science The scientific part of the Sphinx observatory includes two large laboratories, a weather observation station, a workshop, two t ...
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Valais
Valais ( , ; ), more formally, the Canton of Valais or Wallis, is one of the cantons of Switzerland, 26 cantons forming the Switzerland, Swiss Confederation. It is composed of thirteen districts and its capital and largest city is Sion, Switzerland, Sion. Valais is situated in the southwestern part of the country. It borders the cantons of Canton of Vaud, Vaud and Canton of Bern, Bern to the north, the cantons of Canton of Uri, Uri and Ticino to the east, as well as Italy to the south and France to the west. It is one of the three large southern Alps, Alpine cantons, along with Ticino and Grisons. It is a bilingual canton, French and German being its two official languages. Traditionally, the canton is divided into Lower, Central, and Upper Valais, the latter region constituting the German-speaking minority. Valais is essentially coextensive with the valley of the Rhône from its headwaters to Lake Geneva, separating the Pennine Alps from the Bernese Alps, the two largest mount ...
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École Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne
The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (, EPFL) is a public university, public research university in Lausanne, Switzerland, founded in 1969 with the mission to "train talented engineers in Switzerland". Like its sister institution ETH Zurich, EPFL is part of the ETH Domain, Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain which groups several universities and research institutes under the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research. As of 2024, EPFL enrolled 14,012 students from over 130 countries. EPFL has an Lausanne campus, urban campus that extends alongside Lake Geneva, and includes the Swiss Innovation Park, EPFL Innovation Park as well as university research centers and affiliated laboratories. History The roots of modern-day EPFL can be traced back to the foundation of a private school under the name ''École spéciale de Lausanne'' in 1853 at the initiative of Louis Rivier, a graduate of the and John Gay, the then professor and rector ...
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The Pentaverate
''The Pentaverate'' is a Canadian and American comedy television miniseries created by Mike Myers for Netflix, inspired by conspiracy theories from his 1993 film ''So I Married an Axe Murderer''. The series premiered on May 5, 2022, and consists of six episodes. Premise Since the 1347 outbreak of Black Death, five men have been working together to influence world events for the greater good. One unlikely Canadian journalist finds himself involved in a hidden conspiracy in the middle of a mission to expose the truth behind the secret society and, in the process, saves the world. Cast * Mike Myers as: **Ken Scarborough: a Canadian TV journalist attempting to expose the Pentaverate and win back his news network job **Anthony Lansdowne: a New England conspiracy theorist determined to expose the Pentaverate **Rex Smith: a popular far-right radio host and prominent conspiracy theorist **Lord Lordington: the oldest and highest-ranking member of the Pentaverate, seated at the dais as "C ...
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Ubisoft
Ubisoft Entertainment SA (; ; formerly Ubi Soft Entertainment SA) is a French video game publisher headquartered in Saint-Mandé with development studios across the world. Its video game franchises include '' Anno'', '' Assassin's Creed'', '' Driver'', '' Far Cry'', '' Just Dance'', '' Prince of Persia'', '' Rabbids'', '' Rayman'', '' Tom Clancy's'', and '' Watch Dogs''. Ubisoft first achieved commercial and critical success with their 1995 platform game Rayman. In 1996, the company began to expand to other parts of the world, opening studios in Annecy, Shanghai, Montreal and Milan. In recent years, Ubisoft has struggled financially, with a strong decline in revenue in 2024, and laying off 185 employees in 2025. History Origins and first decade (1986–1996) By the 1980s, the Guillemot family had established itself as a support business for farmers in the Brittany province of France and other regions, including into the United Kingdom. The five sons of the family – C ...
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Steep (video Game)
''Steep'' is a sports video game developed by Ubisoft Annecy and published by Ubisoft. It was released worldwide on 2 December 2016 for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One. Developed by Ubisoft Annecy beginning in 2013, it was their first original game. It is set in the Alps, where players can participate in several winter and action sports disciplines, skiing, snowboarding, paragliding and wingsuit flying. With later downloadable content, mountains in Alaska, Japan and Korea were also included in the game and rocket-powered wingsuit flying, sledding, BASE jumping, and speed riding were incorporated as additional sports. Furthermore, two of the game's expansions allowed the player to take part in the Winter X Games and the 2018 Winter Olympics. The game places a great emphasis on online multiplayer, focusing on competing in various winter sporting challenges with other players online. Upon release, the game received mixed reviews. While critics lauded the overall grap ...
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Videogame
A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality headset. Most modern video games are audiovisual, with audio complement delivered through speakers or headphones, and sometimes also with other types of sensory feedback (e.g., haptic technology that provides tactile sensations). Some video games also allow microphone and webcam inputs for in-game chatting and livestreaming. Video games are typically categorized according to their hardware platform, which traditionally includes arcade video games, console games, and computer games (which includes LAN games, online games, and browser games). More recently, the video game industry has expande ...
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Switzerland
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland is geographically divided among the Swiss Plateau, the Swiss Alps, Alps and the Jura Mountains, Jura; the Alps occupy the greater part of the territory, whereas most of the country's Demographics of Switzerland, 9 million people are concentrated on the plateau, which hosts List of cities in Switzerland, its largest cities and economic centres, including Zurich, Geneva, and Lausanne. Switzerland is a federal republic composed of Cantons of Switzerland, 26 cantons, with federal authorities based in Bern. It has four main linguistic and cultural regions: German, French, Italian and Romansh language, Romansh. Although most Swiss are German-speaking, national identity is fairly cohesive, being rooted in a common historical background, shared ...
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The Amazing Race (American TV Series)
''The Amazing Race'' is an American reality competition show in which teams of two race around the world (except the ''Family Edition'' which featured 10 teams of four and was contested entirely within North and Central America). Each season is split into legs, with each leg requiring teams to deduce clues, navigate themselves in foreign areas, interact with locals, perform physical and mental challenges, and travel by airplane, boat, taxi, and other public transportation options on a limited budget provided by the show. Teams are progressively eliminated at the end of most legs, while the first team to arrive at the end of the final leg wins the grand prize of . As the original version of the ''Amazing Race'' franchise, the CBS program has been running since September 5, 2001. Numerous international versions have been developed following the same core structure, while the American version is also broadcast to several other countries. The show was created by Elise Doganieri ...
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The Amazing Race 22
''The Amazing Race 22'' is the twenty-second season of the American reality competition show ''The Amazing Race (American TV series), The Amazing Race''. Hosted by Phil Keoghan, it featured eleven teams of two, each with a pre-existing relationship, competing in a race around the world to win US$1,000,000. This season visited five continents and eleven countries and traveled over during twelve legs. Starting in Los Angeles, racers traveled through French Polynesia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Botswana, Switzerland, Germany, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and England before returning to the United States and finishing in the Washington metropolitan area, National Capital Region. A new twist introduced in this season includes awarding the winners of the first leg two Express Passes, one for them and one to give to another team. The season premiered on CBS on February 17, 2013, and the two-hour season finale aired on May 5, 2013. Professional hockey players and brothers Bates Bat ...
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Krrish 3
''Krrish 3'' is a 2013 Indian Hindi-language superhero action thriller film written, produced and directed by Rakesh Roshan, who wrote the screenplay with Honey Irani and Robin Bhatt. It is the third film in the ''Krrish'' series, following '' Koi... Mil Gaya'' (2003) and ''Krrish'' (2006). The film stars Hrithik Roshan, Vivek Oberoi, Priyanka Chopra and Kangana Ranaut. In the film, Krishna Mehra, also known as Krrish, with his wife, Priya Mehra, and his scientist father, Rohit Mehra, face an elaborate conspiracy orchestrated by the mad scientist Kaal and his gang of mutants, led by the ruthless Kaya. ''Krrish 3'' was initially scheduled to release as a 3D film. However, due to lack of release time to convert the film to 3D, it was released only in the 2D format. ''Krrish 3'' released worldwide on 1 November 2013. Produced on a budget of , the film grossed worldwide. It has received generally positive reviews from critics. ''Krrish 3'' has maintained a position among the to ...
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Love Story Of A Spy
''The Hero: Love Story of a Spy'' is a 2003 Indian Hindi-language spy film directed by Anil Sharma and produced by Time Magnetics. It stars Sunny Deol, Preity Zinta and Priyanka Chopra in her Hindi film debut. The film tells the story of an undercover Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) agent who must gather intelligence about cross-border terrorism and stop the terrorist responsible for it and his separation from his fiancé. Sharma had long contemplated making a spy film but felt this was not economically viable for the Indian market because Indian films did not have sufficient budgets. He first planned a film about India's spy network set in the early 2000s but made the 2001 film '' Gadar: Ek Prem Katha'', which became one of the highest-grossing Indian films of all time. Following the record-breaking success of that film, Sharma decided to make ''The Hero: Love Story of a Spy''. The Shah Brothers were engaged to produce the film, which was touted to have a huge budget and sc ...
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The Grand Budapest Hotel
''The Grand Budapest Hotel'' is a 2014 comedy-drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Wes Anderson. Ralph Fiennes leads a seventeen-actor ensemble cast as Monsieur Gustave H., famed concierge of a twentieth-century mountainside resort in the Ruritanian romance, fictional Eastern European country of Zubrowka. When Gustave is framed for the murder of a wealthy dowager (Tilda Swinton), he and his recently befriended protégé Zero (Tony Revolori) embark on a quest for fortune and a priceless Renaissance art, Renaissance painting amidst the backdrop of an encroaching Fascism in Europe, fascist regime. Anderson's American Empirical Pictures produced the film in association with Studio Babelsberg, Searchlight Pictures, Fox Searchlight Pictures, and Indian Paintbrush (company), Indian Paintbrush's Scott Rudin and Steven Rales. Fox Searchlight supervised the commercial distribution, and ''The Grand Budapest Hotel''s funding was sourced through Indian Paintbrush and German gover ...
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