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Three Tells
William Tell (, ; ; ; ) is a legendary folk hero of Switzerland. He is known for shooting an apple off his son's head. According to the legend, Tell was an expert mountain climber and marksman with a crossbow who assassinated Albrecht Gessler, a tyrannical reeve of the Austrian dukes of the House of Habsburg positioned in Altdorf, in the canton of Uri. Tell's defiance and tyrannicide encouraged the population to open rebellion and to make a pact against the foreign rulers with neighbouring Schwyz and Unterwalden, marking the foundation of the Swiss Confederacy. Tell was considered the father of the Swiss Confederacy. Set in the early 14th century (traditional date 1307, during the rule of Albert of Habsburg), the first written records of the legend date to the latter part of the 15th century, when the Swiss Confederacy was gaining military and political influence. Tell is a central figure in Swiss national historiography, along with Arnold von Winkelried, the hero of Semp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Landesmuseum (‘state museum’) may refer to a museum of a state of Germany or a state of Austria: * Hessischen Landesmuseen: ** Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt ** Hessian State Museum, Kassel ** Museum Wiesbaden ** ** Saalburg *Landesmuseum Mainz, Germany *Landesmuseum Württemberg, Germany *Landesmuseum Hannover, Germany *Pomerania State Museum, Greifswald, Germany *Rheinisches Landesmuseum (other), Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Rhineland, Germany **Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn **Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier *State Museum for Work and Technology, Mannheim, Germany *Liechtenstein National Museum, Vaduz, Liechtenstein *Swiss National Museum, Zürich, Switzerland *Universalmuseum Joanneum, Styria, Austria (formerly the Landesmuseum Joanneum) *vorarlberg museum (former Vorarlberger Landesmuseum), Bregenz, Austria *Westphalian State Museum of Art and Cultural History, Münster, Germany {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
