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See also:THUN (Fr. Thoune) , a picturesque little See also:town in the Swiss See also:canton of See also:Bern, built on the See also:banks of the See also:Aar, just as it issues from the See also:Lake of Thun, and by See also:rail 19 m. S.E. of Bern, or 171M. N.W. of See also:Interlaken. It is the See also:capital of the Bernese Oberland, the snowy peaks of which are well seen from it. It has 6030 inhabitants, mostly See also:German-speaking and Protestants. The 18th-See also:century See also:parish See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church and the 15th-century See also:castle rise in a striking See also:fashion above the town, in the See also:chief See also:street of which are arcades (locally called Lauben) as in Bern. There is a museum in the See also:tower of the castle, while in and near the town (in the Heimberg valley) are several See also:potteries of See also:local See also:ware. From its local lords it passed by 1127 to the See also:house of See also:Zahringen, and on its extinction (1218) to the See also:counts cf Kyburg. The heiress of that See also:family brought Thun (and See also:Burgdorf) in 1273 to the See also:cadet or Laufenburg See also:line of the See also:Habsburg family, her See also:mother having (1264) granted the town a See also:charter of liberties that See also:con-firmed an earlier See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant of 1256. In 1375 the town was mortgaged to Bern, to which it was sold outright in 1384. From 1798 to 1802 Thun was the capital of the canton Oberland of the Helvetic See also:Republic. (W. A. B.
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