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    Why is Switzerland known as 'Playground of Europe'?

    Question #126621. Asked by hithesh111. (Aug 18 12 9:57 AM)


    robert326

    		Leslie Stephen, son-in-law of William Makepeace Thackeray, wrote a book in 1870 about called 'The Playground of Europe' about his travels in Switzerland.

    http://www.vittlesvoyages.com/swiss.html

    Aug 18 12, 10:02 AM

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