Alps

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Instead, he reverted to being the gangly 24-year-old from the Italian Alps hoping to avoid a sunburn.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

G7 heads of state will meet in Evian in the French Alps in mid-June.

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

Although he fled Europe in 1949, Mengele had a skiing holiday in the Swiss Alps with his son Rolf in 1956.

From BBC • May 15, 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