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	Great St. Bernard Pass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Great St Bernard Tunnel (and the main road) plunges through the mountains at the 1,915 m level; after the construction of the Simplon Tunnel further east in 1905, railroad traffic partly superseded the St Bernard road.
		The Grand St.Bernard Pass (which is on the way from Turin to Switzerland) was featured in the film The Italian Job where Michael Caine and his gang crashed their coach full of gold and ultimately came up with the immortal line "hang on a moment lads, I've got a great idea.
		On the south side of the pass, the Great St Bernard Valley is drained by the Artanavaz River, which runs down to Aosta.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_St_Bernard (468 words)

	Mountain pass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Great St. Bernard Pass, still snowy even in June, has long been a major route through the Alps.
		Passes may be very short, consisting of steep slopes to the top of the pass, or valleys of many kilometers, whose highest point is only identifiable by surveying.
		For countries whose borders are delimited by a mountain range, the pass is typically part of the border, and the facilities likely include a border control or customs station, and possibly a military post as well.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mountain_pass (352 words)

	St Bernard Pass - Freepedia
		The Great St Bernard Pass (2,469 m / 8,101 ft) crosses the Valais Alps between Martigny (Switzerland) and Aosta (Italy), and is the home of the St Bernard dog breed.
		The Little St Bernard Pass lies between Mont Blanc and the Graian Alps, connecting Bourg St Maurice (France) to Courmayeur (Italy).
		There are two passes in the Alps named after Saint Bernard of Menthon:
	en.freepedia.org /St_Bernard_Pass.html (74 words)

	st. bernard of menthon
		Monks still staff the hospice in Great St. Bernard Pass, welcoming crowds of visitors, mountaineers and hikers in the summer, and a few hardy pilgrims, climbers and skiers in the winter.
		The monks who staffed these houses, assisted by large dogs that have come to be known as St. Bernards, dedicated themselves to rescuing lost or injured travelers and giving decent burial to those who died in the mountains.
		In 1923, Pius XI named St. Bernard of Menthon patron of mountaineers.
	catholicherald.com /craughwell/05tc/bernard.htm (531 words)

	Aosta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is situated 1910 feet above sea-level, at the confluence of the Buthier and the Dora Baltea, and at the junction of the Great and Little St Bernard routes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aosta (109 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Bernard of Menthon
		For the convenience and protection of travelers St. Bernard founded a monastery and hospice at the highest point of the pass, 8,000 feet above sea-level, in the year 962.
		A few years later he established another hospice on the Little St. Bernard, a mountain of the Graian Alps, 7,076 feet above sea-level.
		The last act of St. Bernard's life was the reconciliation of two noblemen whose strife threatened a fatal issue.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02503b.htm (569 words)

	St Bernard Breeders, Breed Clubs and puppies
		The first record of the St Bernard at the Saint Bernard Hospice is in the early 17th century when they were probably used as guards, and it is thought that their remarkable skills for sensing avalanches and finding people buried beneath the snow was discovered almost accidentally.
		Unsurprisingly, the temperament of the St Bernard is superb; the Standard describes him as "Steady, kindly, intelligent, courageous, trustworthy and benevolent".
		We know, for example, that the Leonberger was created by crossing Newfoundlands with St Bernards and that the monks were given some of the progeny of these matings, which in turn increased the vigour of the St Bernard.
	www.kennels.co.uk /Working/StBernard.html (555 words)

	epistle.txt
		So great is your grandeur and humanity before men, and your piety before the gods, that you alone seem worthy of the great title of the Most Christian King, and to whom the highest authority in all religion should be deferred.
		And it will be in the month of October than the great translation will be made and it will be such that one will think the gravity of the earth has lost its natural movement and that it is to be plunged into the abyss of perpetual darkness.
		Then the impurities and abominations, with a great shame, will be brought out and manifested in the shadows of the veiled light, and will cease towards the end of the change in reign.
	www.dreamscape.com /morgana/damus/epistle.txt (4162 words)

	NZKC - Breed Standard - St Bernard - Utility
		At the height of the Great St Bernard Pass, 2469m (8100ft.) above sea level, a hospice was founded by monks in the 11th century as a refuge for travellers and pilgrims, and large mountain dogs have been kept there for watch and protection since the middle of the 17th century.
		This Swiss breed is named after St. Bernard of Menthon, who lived from 996 to 1081, and who founded the Hospice at the pass between Italy and Switzerland.
		During the International Canine Congress of June 2nd 1887, the St Bernard was officially recognized as a Swiss breed and the breed standard was declared as binding.
	www.nzkc.org.nz /br676.html (1203 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Great St Bernard Pass
		Great Saint Bernard Pass, mountain pass, western Europe, on the Swiss-Italian border, east of Mont Blanc, about 2,468 m/8,098 ft above sea level....
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	St. Bernard of Aosta
		(Mont-Joux, or "Mons Jovis" is simply the name of the mountain crossed by the Great St. Bernard Pass.)
		The Bernard of the Alps is variously called St. Bernard of Menthon, St. Bernard of Mont-Joux ("Jove Mountain"), or St. Bernard of Aosta.
		By now the reader of this sketch will probably have recognized that these mountain passes were evidently named after some St. Bernard, and that the ancient travelers' hospices still functioning there have a connection with that particular saint.
	www.stthomasirondequoit.com /SaintsAlive/id607.htm (689 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - St Bernard Great
		St Bernard, Great, mountain pass, western Europe, on the Switzerland-Italy border, east of Mont Blanc, about 2,472 m/8,110 ft above sea level.
		Great Pyrenees, also called Pyrenean Mountain Dog, breed of working dog, whose ancestors probably came from Central Asia or Siberia; fossil remains...
		St Bernard, breed of working dog, which originated in Europe before the Christian era, probably from a large Asian dog taken to Europe by Roman...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /St_Bernard_Great.html (103 words)

	Rick Steves' Europe: Archive: Germany, Austria, Switzerland & Prague 2000
		From the north, Hazmburk is a great castle in ruins in the Bohemian highlands.
		Great pub nearby is Petra's Pilstube and her mother's hotel down the block.
		It is off the beaten path, the architecture is great (never bombed), it used to be a major ecclesiastical center (lots of great old churches) and it has 10 breweries for its 60,000 inhabitants.
	www.ricksteves.com /graffiti/archives/gasp2000.html (14235 words)

	_ history Grand St Bernard saint pass Grand-Saint-bernard Grand-St-Bernard Switzerland guide
		(Some fifteen pure-bred St Bernard puppies are born every year, each with a tidy price-tag of Fr.1700.) With the construction of the Simplon Tunnel further east in 1905, trains rapidly superseded the St Bernard road, and in 1964 a motorway tunnel opened beneath the pass in order to safeguard traffic flow year-round.
		They ejected the heathens in short order, whereupon the archdeacon of Aosta, one Bernard of Menthon, who’d spent years tending to travellers coming down off the pass stripped of all their belongings, oversaw the construction of a hospice on the pass.
		First mention of the famous St Bernard dogs – product of an unknown cross between a mastiff, Great Dane and/or Newfoundland – was in 1708.
	www.isyours.com /e/guide/valais/grandstbernardhistory.html (705 words)

	Great Saint Bernard Pass -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Bernard of Clairvaux led the Cistercian order of White Monks, who adhered to the strictest form of Benedictinism, to its greatest growth and the height of its influence.
		"Great Saint Bernard Pass." Encyclopædia Britannica from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service.
		Bernard is considered the founder of the Cistercian order and the last of the Fathers of the Church.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9037879 (797 words)

	The Great St. Bernard Hospice - Switzerland
		The Pass of the Great St. Bernard was a well-known one long before the hospice was built.
		To Bernard de Menthon is due the credit of the mountain hospice.
		First there is a level stretch, then a long, steady climb, after which begins the real road to the pass.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles13/travel-180.shtml (535 words)

	Aosta Valley - The Great St Bernard Valley
		You are particularly advised to visit the Great St Bernard Valley during the carnival season, a strong local tradition; the village youths wear splendid colourful costumes recalling the uniform of Napoleon's soldiers, who in May 1800 crossed the Great St Bernard pass.
		It is at 1299 metres, in the heart of the valley of the Great St Bernard, on the slopes of Mont Velan.
		As you ski down the view opens out over the whole of the Great St Bernard Valley.
	www.fromitaly.it /english/region/aosta/tourism/gsbern/gsbernar.htm (344 words)

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		Great War is an alternate history trilogy by Harry Turtledove, which follows How Few Remain.
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		The Greening Earth Society is a public relations organization founded, funded, and controlled by the Western Fuels Association, an alliance of coal-burning utility companies.
	www.elexi.de /en/s/sp/space_1999__festival.html (398 words)

	Napoleon
		The beginning of the crossing of the Great St Bernard Pass by the Armée de réserve.
		From Napoleon& crossing of the Great St Bernard Pass
		The army was forced to go around the heavily fortified stronghold and to pass via mountain routes but without the artillery.
	www.napoleon.org /en/reading_room/timelines/files/chrono_second_italian_campaign.asp (745 words)

	Swiss bus plunges into ravine, 6 killed - NDTV.com - News on Swiss bus plunges into ravine, 6 killed
		The Great St Bernard pass is one of the main routes through the western Alps near the borders of France and Italy.
		A Swiss tourist bus with 27 people on board plunged into an Alpine ravine near the Great St Bernard Pass in southern Switzerland today.
		The bus was carrying 24 passengers, two experienced drivers and a hostess, Marti said.
	www.ndtv.com /morenews/showmorestory.asp?slug=Swiss+bus+plunges+into+ravine,+6+killed&id=71659 (233 words)

	Valais : Introduction Frommers.com
		The Celts used the Great St. Bernard Pass and Simplon Pass, and then the Gauls held the territory for 500 years.
		Raclette, the classic Swiss dish, is usually made of the rich, unskimmed milk from the Bagnes Valley, near the Great St. Bernard Pass.
		Chances are if you're visiting the Valais by train you'll land at the major rail terminus of Martigny, which also attracts visitors heading across the Great St. Bernard Pass.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/valais/2583010001.html (655 words)

	Great Saint Bernard Pass
		Perhaps no pass is more identified with the Alps than the great St. Bernard, the mighty climb through immense valleys in Switzerland and Italy.
		The pass has had some of its teeth drawn with the opening of the Great St. Bernard Tunnel, which saves cars and trucks a couple thousand feet of climbing, or so it seems to me!!
		One of the things that passes such as the St Bernard do to me is make me amazed, even after all my miles of riding, of just how MUCH effort goes into crossing one of these passes.
	www.cyclingscholar.com /grand.html (329 words)

	MSN Encarta - Dictionary - Great St. Bernard Pass
		MSN Encarta - Dictionary - Great St. Bernard Pass
		Great St. Ber·nard Pass mountain pass in western Europe, on the border between Valais, central Switzerland, and Aosta Province, Piedmont, northern Italy.
		Founded in the 11th century, it is named for the hospice founded at its summit by the French monk St. Bernard.
	encarta.msn.com /dictionary_1861675855_1861675846/nextpage.html (93 words)

	alps.ca - St Bernard Pass
		_ history Grand St Bernard saint pass Grand-Saint-bernard Grand-St-Bernard Switzer...
		Hardaway scores four TDs as Cavaliers bounce back from tough loss to rout St. Bernard in Del Rey League play.
		Renowned Saint Bernard training experts finally share their secrets.
	www.alps.ca /St-Bernard-Pass/reference/fullview/wikipedia/293704 (201 words)

	Cycling Bicycling Long Distance UK
		Against this, the Petit St Bernard and, especially, the Roselend, are probably better ridden in the opposite direction to the one we took.
		The main problem is the Grand St Bernard which I think would have been extremely difficult and far less enjoyable taken north-to-south, and there are also two long main road drags, around Chamonix and toward Aosta, which we took in a downhill direction which is surely preferable.
		A minor pass, of little interest although the heath-like surroundings at the summit were attractive and very unusual, but then, the view from the top - there it was at last, dead ahead.
	members.aol.com /francooke/blanc.htm (2018 words)

	Guardian Unlimited The Guardian Last orders for brandy-bearing St Bernard rescue dogs
		Monks founded the hospice at the summit of the St Bernard Pass in the 11th century, as a refuge for travellers.
		It is unrecorded when the dogs first started to rescue people, but they are credited with saving some 2,000 travellers over the past 200 years on the St Bernard Pass on the border with Italy.
		Switzerland's noble St Bernard, famous for rescuing avalanche victims buried in the Alps through the centuries, is finally bowing its sad, massive head, the barrel around its neck replaced with a for sale sign.
	www.guardian.co.uk /international/story/0,3604,1324940,00.html (374 words)

	St. Bernard Pass :: Travel Tidbits
		Saint Bernard of Menthon built a hospice at the top of this mountain in the 10th century, and since the 12th century, Augustinian monks — with the help of Saint Bernard dogs — have rescued stranded travelers.
		As we drove, we passed a tiny old Swiss village with wood-sided houses with slate roofs, and we saw many cows in many pastures, as we followed the winding road toward the mountain in the distance.
		The atmosphere, the surroundings and the equipment were just about, but not quite, what one would expect at this ancient, storied mountain top.
	www.travel-tidbits.com /tidbits/001999.shtml (492 words)

	James Fenimore Cooper - The Headsman - Or, The Abbaye Des Vignerons
		The principal scenes of this tale are Lake Leman, now generally called the Lake of Geneva, and the Hospice of St. Bernard, on the Great St. Bernard Pass.
		Great pains had been taken to ascertain the identity of these various personages, for it was currently reported that Balthazar, the headsman of Bern, was to take passage in the Winkelried, and none cared to trust himself on the seas with such a person.
		Signore Grimaldi, noting from Herr Muller's timid and subdued answers that the personal nature of the conversation was distressful to him, turned the talk by asking the monk of St. Bernard about his mountain home, which, he said, should prove a passport to the favor of every Christian.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles25/cooper-13.shtml (3703 words)

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