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Switzerland Update #5: Pastries and Bread

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Bread

          Bread is a very Swiss food. Whenever you go to a resteraunt bread is always in the meal you get served. There are different kinds of bread . . . . such as bread with chocolate, raisins, powdered suger, ect. There are also different shapes of bread . . . . . such as bread that is braided, sliced, puffed, ect.

I have some pictures of some breakfast bread that my grandma bought. People don’t eat all of these every day but my grandma got them to show me a variety.

Swiss Breakfast Breads

Swiss Breakfast Breads

Pastries

               The Swiss are famous for thier pastries and you can see why when you look at the picture below. The Swiss eat pastries as a dessert and also as a treat with coffee or tea in the afternoon. The pastries below were for dessert after lunch at Licia’s house. Licia is a friend that my dad grew up with. Her mom is my dad’s god mother. I ate the one with the raspberries and it was very good. (Not to get you waiting but just to clarify that, yes, I will bring back some Swiss treats.)

Swiss Pastries

Swiss Pastries

Germany Facts

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  • Motto:Unity and Justice and Freedom
  • Anthem: Third Stand of Das Lied Der Deutsland
  • Continent: Europe
  • Capital: Berlin
  • Official languages: German
  • Ethnic groups: 91.5 German, 2.4 Turkish, 6.1 other
  • Demonym: German
  • Government:Federal, Republic, Parliamentary
  • German Empire unif: Jan 18, 1871
  • Area: 357021 sqare KM
  • Population: 82,060,000images
  • Currency : Euro
  • Flag: Black, Red, Yellow
  • A “Did you know the Roman Empire use to rule over Germany.

    • Here is an official website of Germany, just click this. If you want another link click on this. The sources I used are: C.I.S. World Fact Book  and Wikipedia.

    Greece facts

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    • Motto:”Freedom or death”
    • Anthem: “Hymn to liberty”
    • Continent: Europe
    • Capital: Athens
    • Official languages:Greek, English, French
    • Ethnic groups: Greek
    • Demonym (Demo = people; -onym = name):Greek
    • Government: preadent: Karolos     prime minster: Kostas
    • Independence: march 25 1821
    • Area (include % water, if you can find it): 131,990km (0.8669% water)
    • Population (current estimate & density): 10,737,428
    • Currency: Euro
    • Flag:White and blue white is the color of freebom blue is the color of the sea and a color that is sopost to be lucky and word off evil.

    • A “Did you know” fact of your choosing: MT. Olympia is the tallest mounten in greece the gods(Zuse, heara, apallo,for ex.)were said to live there.
    • Any other facts you find interesting/noteworthy: greece has olny 81 air ports and 9 hellacopters.  all Apallo 11 astronauts were greek.

    sorses: Wiki     CIA world fact book

    • Current eventsreferences and sources!  And remember, when in doubt, be curious!

    Italy facts by ella.

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    Map-Italy[1]italy facts

    by ella kiwala

    •  Motto – doesn’t have one . but a
    • common saying is ” ars longa, vita brevis ” it means art is long ,life is short. and reflects on the italian i love of leisure.

    Anthem – l ” lnno di mameli ”

    • Continent – Europe
    • Capital – Rome
    • Official languages – Italian , french , German , and ,Slovene
    • Ethnic groups – 94.2% Italian ,1.94% Romanian, albiol and Ukrainian.
    • Demonym (Demo = people; -onym = name) – Italians
    • Government – republic ( presdiant Yiorgo Napolitano.)
    • Independence – march 17th 1861
    • Area (and in water): 301,338 km squared , water – 2.4%
    • Population (current estimate & density) 58,126,212 ( Jan 2009 )
    • Currency  – euro
    • Flag -green ( hope ), white ( faith ) ,red (charity )
    • A “Did you know” fact of your choosing – that the average Italian  consumes 1\2 a pond of bread a day, and 26 gallons of whine a  year! 
    • Any other facts you find interesting/noteworthy
    • did you know that the ice cream cone ,the typewriter, eyeglasses, the piano, espresso machine, and the thermometer were all invented in Italy!

    here is a interesting link to the official italian website! – http://www.italiantourism.com/ 

    soursces: wikipedia (  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki ) and the CIA  world factbook (  https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/ )