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> 1903 and 65 years later landed on the moon. 65 years and Two World Wars later... This quote [1] from the movie 'The Third man' might be relevant. >in Italy

> 1903 and 65 years later landed on the moon. 65 years and Two World Wars later... This quote [1] from the movie 'The Third man' might be relevant. >in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock? [1]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041959/quotes?item=qt0359443 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041959/quotes?item=qt0359443

Piko 11y ago
Nice quote, but also wrong. The Swiss had tons of wars, both internally and externally [1] and provided many other countries' armies with their mercenaries [2]. Also, the cuckoo clock comes from Germany, specifically the Black Forest [3]. Full disclosure - I'm Swiss. As our history teacher put it: "The Swiss were always fighting, and if they weren't fighting each other they were hired by others and fought other Swiss mercenaries on the battlefield under different banners." [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Switzerland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Switzer... [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_mercenaries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_mercenaries [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo_clock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo_clock