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	Winterthur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Winterthur is a city in the Canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
		Despite being the sixth largest city in Switzerland, Winterthur is relatively unknown to outsiders, perhaps because of its close proximity to Zurich.
		Margrethen connects in Winterthur with the A4 motorway heading north toward Schaffhausen and the A7 motorway heading close to the Swiss-German border at Kreuzlingen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Winterthur (386 words)

	Winterthur, An American Country Estate: Museum, Gardens, Library
		Winterthur, is the former country estate of Henry Francis du Pont (1880-1969).
		Winterthur is set amidst a 966 acre preserve of rolling meadows and woodlands, streams and forest.
		Winterthur is located on Del. Route 52 (Kennett Pike), six miles north of Wilmington, DE, and 5 miles south of U.S. Route 1 in Pennsylvania.
	www.thebrandywine.com /attractions/winter.html (895 words)

	WINTERTHUR - LoveToKnow Article on WINTERTHUR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1878 it had to sell its property in that line, and from 1881 to I885 it was in great difficulties in the matter of a loan of nine million francs guaranteed in 1874 by the town, together with three others in Aargau, to that ill-fated railway.
		As the three co-guarantor towns were unable to pay their share, the whole burden fell on Winterthur, which struggled valiantly to meet its liabilities, and was helped by large loans from the cantonal and federal governments.
		In 7 171726 Zurich tried hard by means of heavy dues to crush the rival silk and cotton industries at Winterthur, which, however, on the whole very successfully maintained its ancient rights and liberties against the encroachments of Zurich.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WI/WINTERTHUR.htm (475 words)

	The Arts & Crafts Society Archive, Winterthur Library
		Winterthur counts among its holdings an extensive collection of material for the study and appreciation of the arts and crafts and colonial revival movements, and the library continues to acquire materials of interest.
		Also of particular value to the researcher is Winterthur's extensive collection of advice books, issued in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to counsel readers on how to decorate their homes, plant their gardens, and create such home-related objects as baskets and hand-woven fabrics.
		Established in 1952 to furnish the staff, students, and general public with research materials, Winterthur Library has grown to become a recognized center for advanced study that is dedicated to the understanding and appreciation of America's artistic, cultural, social, and intellectual history from colonial times into the twentieth century.
	www.arts-crafts.com /archive/winterthur.shtml (1804 words)

	Winterthur Portal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Winterthur is an independent centre within the strongest economic region of Switzerland, the Zurich economic area.
		Winterthur, the sixth largest city in Switzerland, is an independent economic and cultural centre.
		Winterthur is also a city of culture and education.
	www.winterthur-city.ch (169 words)

	Winterthur Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Winterthur Life is to shed up to 60 jobs in Basingstoke this year, in order to cut back its estate agency division.
		Winterthur Life is to cut its ties with the 490-strong direct salesforce of Colonial Life UK, and may relocate the headquarters of the recently-acquired business from Chatham to Basingstoke.
		Winterthur Life is in discussions to acquire the UK life insurance business of Australian financial services group Colonial.
	www.ukbusinesspark.co.uk /wie55538.htm (85 words)

	Winterthur - Chateau Country
		Winterthur was named for the ancestral Swiss home of Jacques Antoine Bidermann, who in 1837 purchased 450 acres of Delaware land with his wife, Evelina Gabrielle du Pont.
		Henry’s son and daughter-in-law, Henry Algernon and Pauline du Pont, inherited Winterthur in 1889.
		The solution was to use some of the existing spaces at Winterthur as display areas, then put a nine-story addition on the mansion and furnish the whole thing with the world’s premier collection of early American decorative arts.
	www.chateaucountry.org /chateaus/winterthur_history.html (686 words)

	_ Winterthur Switzerland guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This is a shame, since Winterthur is easily accessible from Zürich, and serves as a refreshing small-town counterpoint to the place, while still coming up with a full deck of museums and galleries that easily hold their own in comparison.
		Accommodation prices in both Winterthur and Baden can undercut Zürich’s by quite a long way, and with transport to and from Zürich fast and easy, you could save yourself significant sums – and be guaranteed a peaceful night’s sleep – by basing yourself in either town instead of their bigger neighbour.
		Winterthurer architects and engineers visited England in mid-century to study building-design for factories and workers’ housing, and so brought back English ideas for the huge new factories going up to serve Winterthur’s booming textile and railway engineering industries.
	switzerland.isyours.com /e/guide/zurich/winterthur.html (491 words)

	Research Resources & Academic Programs
		Winterthur's library holdings include materials from the 17th century through 1930; museum collections contain domestic artifacts and works of art made or used in America to 1860.
		Winterthur offers a variety of fellowships with tenure ranging from one month to one year.
		The suitability of a project for Winterthur's collections is the primary consideration of the fellowship award committee.
	www.winterthur.org /research/fellowship.asp (300 words)

	AllRefer.com - Winterthur, Switzerland (Swiss Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		An industrial center, it is an important rail junction and has manufactures of railroad equipment (including locomotives and diesel engines) and cotton textiles.
		Winterthur was ruled by the counts of Kyburg (whose castle stands south of the city) until 1264, when it passed to the Hapsburgs.
		It became a free city of the Holy Roman Empire in 1415 and in 1467 was bought by ZUrich.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/Winterth.html (192 words)

	Winterthur Tourism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Winterthur is a small town with great potential, it has culture, it has class.
		The region around Winterthur, which includes the Zürcher Weinland, the Zürcher Oberland and Tösstal, is ideal for cycling, hiking, all kinds of water sports (excursions) and wine tasting.
		Revelation of the Vitodura on the Stadthaus Winterthur
	www.winterthurtourism.ch (175 words)

	Winterthur Insurance v Pal-Ex Kft - Case No. 102971
		Respondent asserts that WINTERTHUR is the name of its business as of December 13, 2001 and presents its Hungarian registration number as proof of this fact.
		Winterthur ranks today as one of top ten insurance companies in Europe and one of the top fifty worldwide.
		WINTERTHUR is a strong brand name in the European Community and that Respondent registered the domain name in order to benefit from this good will and attract people to its domain.
	www.arb-forum.com /domains/decisions/102971.htm (1293 words)

	Winterthur Insurance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Winterthur, an American country estate in Winterthur, Delaware, (north of Wilmington, USA) is the former home of Henry Francis du Pont (1880-1969), an avid antiques collector and horticulturist.
		In the early 20th century, H. du Pont and his father, Henry Algernon du Pont, designed Winterthur in the spirit of 18th- and 19th-century European country houses.
		Winterthur is situated on 979 acres (4 km²;), with 60 acres (0.2 km²;) of naturalistic garden.
	www.wwwtln.com /finance/211/winterthur-insurance.html (1562 words)

	Winterthur on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Winterthur conservation students Simona Cristanetti, left, and Bhtyah Shtrum use acetone to remove residue from the previous of the First Pennsylvania Calvary Monument in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
		Curator of horticulture John Feliciani at Winterthur with his father, Albert who retired in 1982 as the supervisor of the cut-flower gardens.
		Winterthur Life fined GBP500,000 over mortgage endowment sales.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/W/Winterth.asp (491 words)

	Independent Financial Advisers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Winterthur’s new Lifetime Allowance Planner helps you to protect your client’s pension fund from additional tax post A-Day. It quickly identifies whether your clients will reach or exceed the
		Winterthur offers pre and post retirement products through independent financial advisers only.
		Winterthur Life UK Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority and is entered on the FSA register, number 182007.
	www.winterthur-ifa.co.uk (162 words)

	WP: Call for Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The editors of Winterthur Portfolio are seeking article submissions in the field of American material culture.
		Preference is given to articles that are analytical rather than descriptive and to studies that integrate artifacts into their cultural framework and that use objects as evidence, not illustration.
		To accommodate this approach, Winterthur Portfolio welcomes lengthy submissions of 40 to 80 double-spaced typed manuscript pages and publishes, on average, 16 to 18 fl and white illustrations with each article.
	www.journals.uchicago.edu /WP/call.html (275 words)

	Zurich : Side Trips : Winterthur \| Frommers.com
		Winterthur was once a Roman settlement and became the seat of the counts of Kyburg.
		In the United States, the name Winterthur conjures up the du Pont mansion in Delaware with its museum of Americana or else a reference to the financial giant, Winterthur Insurance.
		Seeing the Sights--The skyline of Winterthur is dominated by the twin towers of its parish church, the Stadtkirche, built from 1264 to 1515 (the towers were added later).
	www.frommers.com /destinations/zurich/0069020644.html (250 words)

	JSTOR: Winterthur Portfolio
		The electronic version of Winterthur Portfolio (Spring 2002 - Present) is available at http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/WP/journal/ and contains elements not found in the print version.
		Winterthur Portfolio is an interdisciplinary journal committed to fostering knowledge of the American past by publishing articles on the arts in America and the historical context within which they developed.
		Winterthur Portfolio has been published since 1964 and is sponsored by the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.
	www.jstor.org /journals/00840416.html (250 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: John of Winterthur
		Historian, born about 1300 at Winterthur (Switzerland); died subsequently to 1348, probably at Zurich.
		All that is known of his life is that he attended the school of his native town from 1309 to 1315, and that as a Franciscan he lived at Baslein 1328, at Villingen in 1336, and at Lindau from 1343 onwards.
		It was begun in 1340, and is a full history of events to that year.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/08482a.htm (348 words)

	VTLS Chameleon iPortal
		Since records for imprints, periodicals, rare printed materials, manuscript and ephemera holdings, photographs, and archival resources have been combined into a single database, researchers can determine the library's holdings on any given topic, person, or organization through one search.
		Winterthur Archives records the creation and development of Winterthur as a private estate and a public museum.
		The Archives includes papers relating to Winterthur compiled by Henry Francis du Pont including items that document his collecting activities and his immediate family as well as records of Winterthur Farms and administrative documents of the museum.
	library.winterthur.org:8000 /cgi-bin/webgw (441 words)

	Furniture Society - Furniture in the News - The Winterthur Museum
		One example of the impact of the past 45 years of study in American decorative arts is the re-attribution by Winterthur of the origin of many objects in the collection from New York and Philadelphia to the New England area, and to Boston in particular.
		A Card Table with distinctive scroll feet, first thought to be from Philadelphia and later attributed to Newport, is now identified as being made in Boston, based on the similarity of its carvings and stipplework to other known examples.
		That decision is hard to understand, given the fact that none of the images from the 1952 book seem to have been re-used, and all of the furniture had to be re photographed.
	www.furnituresociety.org /fin/winter.html (892 words)

	About Winterthur
		The conservators at Winterthur call on their many years of experience to address the types of problems that collectors commonly encounter.
		Author Donald L. Fennimore, senior curator of metals at Winterthur, narrates the fascinating social, technical, and artistic tale of American silver spoons whose bowls were struck with bird images: from the dove and olive branch to the bald eagle.
		Seven sketchbooks now in the library at Winterthur contain approximately 700 separate drawings, ranging from quick pencil sketches to finished watercolor pictures, and are the key to reconstructing Krimmel's conceptual processes.
	www.winterthur.org /about/our_publications.asp?sub=decorative_arts (2247 words)

	Winterthur Program in Early American Culture Description
		The Winterthur Program in Early American Culture is a two-year program leading to a Master of Arts.
		The Program is a cooperative effort of the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum and the University.
		The Winterthur Program takes two years of full-time study to complete, beginning in July of the year of acceptance.
	www.udel.edu /provost/gradcat/gradcat99/as/eamc/intro.html (556 words)

	cidoc: corporate identity related news - A fresh face for «Winterthur»
		Winterthur Group has revamped its logo, which it will be introducing on a step-by-step basis in all the Winterthur markets over the next three years.
		Using a new and clear image, Winterthur wants to establish a uniform market presence and give the Winterthur umbrella brand a more pronounced profile.
		A central element in the new brand image is the revamped logo, which will be introduced in all the Winterthur Group markets over the next three years on a step-by-step basis.
	www.cidoc.net /001917.html (177 words)

	künstlergruppe winterthur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Die Künstlergruppe Winterthur vereinigt die bildenden Künstlerinnen und Künstler der Region.
		Die Künstlergruppe veranstaltet Ausstellungen, Werkstatt- und Podiumsgespräche zu aktuellen Themen und engagiert sich für die Belange der bildenden Kunst in der Region.
		Neben aktuellen Informationen rund ums «Kunstgeschehen» in der Region Winterthur, haben Sie jährlich Anrecht auf eine Arbeit, welche von einem Aktivmitglied im besonderen für die Gönner geschaffen wird.
	www.kuenstlergruppe.ch (112 words)

	Winterthur - WintiNet, City-Server for town and region (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It is well known not only for its high quality engineering industry and the insurance company named after the town but also for its famous art-collections and exciting museums.
		Situated 25 km north-east of Zurich by the rivers of Eulach and Toess it is easily accessible by train, car and plane (15 min from Zurich Airport).
		ith its charming old town, the four castles from the Middle Ages, its cultural diversity and many annual events/festivals, Winterthur is an ideal resort for sightseeing holidays as well as a starting point for walks and hikes in the surrounding hills and especially into the beautiful Toess Valley (Winterthur city-guide).
	www.winti.ch /english/winti.htm (267 words)

	Samaritervereinigung Winterthur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In Winterthur engagieren sich über 200 Samariter in 5 lokalen Vereinen.
		In der Samaritervereinigung der Stadt Winterthur sind folgende Vereine vertreten:
		Der Samariterlehrerverband Winterthur und Umgebung ist für die Beratung und Unterstützung in Aus- und Weiterbildungsfragen zuständig.
	www.samariterverein.ch (112 words)

	Winterthur -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Winterthur was founded about 1175 by the counts of Kyburg, who granted it a charter with extensive privileges.
		Occupying a mansion built in 1839 by James Antoine Bidermann and his wife, the great-aunt of Henry Francis du Pont, the museum limits its collections to American domestic architecture, furniture, metalware, textiles, paintings, prints, and other objects made...
		(born 1933), Swiss professor of chemistry at Federal Technical Institute (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, or ETH), in Zürich, born in Winterthur; earned chemistry diploma at ETH 1956; earned Ph.D. in physical chemistry at ETH 1962; immigrated to U.S. 1963 to work as research scientist at Varian Associates, Calif.; returned to Switzerland 1968 to teach at ETH;...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9077239?tocId=9077239 (514 words)

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