Alps

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Barbara Stanwyck plays a celebrated concert pianist being treated for tuberculosis in an elite Swiss Alps sanitarium.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

"It was a success!" said Domenico Giardini, one of the lead researchers on the project, as he inspected a crack in the rock wall lining a narrow tunnel far below the Swiss Alps.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

He talks about a trip he took one summer to the French Alps doing research with artisan cheese makers.

From Salon • Apr. 25, 2026

Number two: the Roman historian Livy’s book about the Second Punic War, with Rome against the invading North African armies from Carthage and Hannibal’s war elephants crossing the Alps.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

What about the African elephants with which Hannibal’s armies crossed the Alps?

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond