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Bank for International Settlements (BIS) - Coordinates regulations in the fields of financial services to promote international financial stability. Publications available include a compendium of documents of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.
Boxclub Basel - Boxing training facility offering a club history, lesson schedules, rates, forums, and official rules.
Medical Outpatient Department of the University Hospital Basel - Information on services and clinics, research department directory, and doctor profiles. Available in English and German.
SFSO Cantons in profile: Basle-City - Swiss Statistics key data.
Cultura - The World Art and Antiques Fair - Annual collector's fair with details of exhibitions, floorplans, event schedules, and press releases.
AIESEC Basel - Provides information on trainee exchange programs and reception events in Basel.
Fondation Beyeler - Galerie Beyeler - Art Collection of Classic Medernisme in the museum designed by Renzo Piano.
Fritz Bürgin Museum - Biography and overview of the oevre of the artist.
Iaido Renmei Basel - Muso Jikiden Eishin Ryu dojo. Contains photos, films [QuickTime] about the training, style history, seminars and links. [german/english]
Confiserie Beschle - History of the Bakery, specialties and a order form. [German/English/French]
Müller-Gysin AG - Truck transports, see and air freight, customs clearance, shipment tracking and jobs offered. [German / English]
Museum Jean Tinguely Basel - Dedicated to the life and work of the Swiss artist Jean Tinguely with exhibits spanning three decades of the artist's life. [English / French / German]
EAP Newsletter - Independent newsletter on the activities at the EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg.
Hotel Restaurant Bar Guide - Hotels, restaurants, bars, coffee shops, dance and night clubs, catering and home delivery services in the Basel area. With map.[German / English]
Dominik's Pen House - Writing and translation service. [German / English]
Basel Expats - Volunteer run site for expatriates living in and around Basel. Restaurant reviews, stories of expatriate life, news and events, club information, things to do, local and national information for newcomers. User submissions are welcomed.
Basel Tourismus - Tourist information. Official events calendar, where to stay including online hotel booking form, and descriptions of events to visit. [English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese]
Basel University - Website of the University of Basel. Lots of interesting content in English from many departments. [Mostly German with some English sections]
Basel - Official Cantonal website with interactive street map, webcams, virtual city tour, 3D guide, information about tourism, culture, education, recycling dates, city administration and the economy.
Rugby Football Club Basel - Contains a history of the club, fixtures, results, events, contact, a presentation of the players and a guestbook.
Welcome to Nessie's world online! - A very personal site from a female resident of Pratteln, but with some interesting bits here and there.
Cityrent - Car rental agency featuring fleet photos and specifications, prices, and contact details. English section has no info, so it's German only for this one. Seems to specialise in Smart cars.
A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. -- Adlai Stevenson The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. -- G. K. Chesterton Basel-City Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love. -- French saying It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. -- Abraham Lincoln All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Basel-City If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous. -- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter really Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H. L. Mencken Basel-City "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. -- Tom Stoppard Basel-City Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous. -- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Paul Ehrlich Basel-City We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Basel-City I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said, "Would you like some fries with that?" -- Jay Leno If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. -- Mae West Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Basel-City "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts. - G. B. Burgin blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Basel-City I hate work. That's why I got married. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. -- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Basel-City "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Marriage is a rest period between romances. Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher Von Braun Basel-City Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.' -- Bierce, A I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. -- Albert Einstein Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot The nourishment is palatable. -- Millard Fillmore, dying words Basel-City The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How's the President?" -- Will Rogers The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper. -- Smith & Jones 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. -- ee cummings Basel-City Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total ins The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. -- Nicholas Murray Butler We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. -- G. K. Chesterton To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everythin Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your Basel-City The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. -- Anonymous "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Basel-City Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. -- Will Rogers "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. -- Thomas Carlyle I think, therefore I'm single. -- Female philosopher Basel-City Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger. -- Eleanor Roosevelt When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Sacha Guitry "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Basel-City "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. The time is always right to do what is right. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases. -- Anonymous My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. --Malcolm X Basel-City Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? - H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Basel-City "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it. -- Woodrow Wyatt "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. - Lao-Tzu Basel-City The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. -- John Allston Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. -- G. K. Chesterton Only the little people pay taxes. -- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Basel-City I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. -- Woody Allen The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. -- Oscar Wilde Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. -- Flannery O'Connor Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. -- Adlai Stevenson Basel-City The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. -- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 That government is best which governs least. -- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Basel-City
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