Jacques of all Trades

I love democracy, but I’d hate to be the hand-counter!

fotojournalismus:

People raise their hands to vote during the annual Landsgemeinde meeting at a square in the town of Appenzell, April 29, 2012. Appenzell is one of Switzerland’s two remaining Landsgemeinden, a 700-year tradition of an open-air assembly in which citizens can take key political decisions directly by raising their hands.

[Credit : Christian Hartmann/Reuters]

inothernews:

Ice covered a car at a boardwalk near Lake Geneva in Geneva Monday. Overwhelmed by deep snow and harsh temperatures, some countries in Europe closed schools and struggled to run transit systems amid the deadly cold snap, which has also killed hundreds of residents across several countries. (Photo: Salvatore Di Nolfi / EPA via the Wall Street Journal)

Skipping lightly through a field of pandas…

nationalpost:

Photos of the day
A child runs amongst some of the 1,600 papier mache pandas set up in Geneva by World Wildlife Fund members to celebrate their 50th anniversary, Sept. 2, 2011. (Sebastien Feval/AFP/Getty Images)

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Tightrope riding? Yikes!

thedailywhat:

Everybody Needs A Hobby of the Day: Eschewing both balancing pole and safety harness, 46-year-old Swiss stuntman Freddy Nock scaled Germany’s highest mountain — the Zugspitze — by way of its 1,000 meter-long cable car cable.

His feat has yet to be officially recognized by the Guinness Book of Records, but its place is certainly secure in the pages of the Big Book of Badassery.

See the terrifying tightrope act below:

[telegraph / blick / arbroath.]

(Source: thedailywhat)

inothernews:

AND AWAY   A skier sat in a lift as Switzerland’s aerobatic Air Force team Patrouille Suisse flew during an air show in Wengen, Switzerland, Thursday. (Photo: Pascal Lauener / Reuters via the Wall St. Journal)

The Moon moments before the eclipse on Switzerland.

Source: AP. (via itsfullofstars)