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

Some mountains in the Alps see thousands of climbers on their summits each day, he added.

From BBC • May 22, 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

In the bottom-left-hand corner of Apian’s diagram he has drawn some mountains, suggestive of a real place, perhaps even a reference to the Alps.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton