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Switzer

Switzer \Switz"er\, n. [Cf. G. schweizer. Cf. Swiss.] A native or inhabitant of Switzerland; a Swiss.

Gazetteer
Switzer, WV -- U.S. Census Designated Place in West Virginia
Population (2000): 1138
Housing Units (2000): 537
Land area (2000): 9.618496 sq. miles (24.911788 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 9.618496 sq. miles (24.911788 sq. km)
FIPS code: 78796
Located within: West Virginia (WV), FIPS 54
Location: 37.793612 N, 81.987386 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Switzer

Switzer may refer to:

People
  • A person from Switzerland
    • Specifically, one of the Swiss mercenaries
  • Switzer (surname)
Places in the United States
  • Switzer, Kentucky
  • Switzer, South Carolina
  • Switzer, West Virginia
  • Switzer Canyon, San Diego, California
  • Barry Switzer Center, University of Oklahoma
  • Mary Switzer Building, Washington D.C.
  • Nicholas Switzer House
Other
  • Switzer Unlimited, Canadian talk show television series
  • Skinner v. Switzer, a legal dispute that was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court
Switzer (surname)

Switzer is the surname of the following people

  • Barry Switzer (born 1937), American football coach
  • Bill Switzer (born 1984), Canadian actor
  • Bob Switzer (1914–1997), American inventor of fluorescent paint
  • Carl Switzer (1927–1959), American actor and singer
  • Carroll O. Switzer (1908–1960), American judge and politician
  • Craig Switzer (born 1984), Canadian ice hockey defenseman
  • George Switzer (born 1973), English footballer
  • George Switzer (mineralogist) (1915–2008), American mineralogist
  • Harold Switzer (1925–1967), American child actor and child singer
  • Jon Switzer (born 1979), former baseball player
  • Kathrine Switzer (born 1947), American author
  • Kyle Switzer (born 1985), Canadian actor
  • Mary E. Switzer (1900–1971), American social reformer
  • Michael Switzer, American film and television director
  • Patrick Switzer (born 1987), Canadian downhill longboard skateboarder
  • Richard Switzer (born 1995), American film producer
  • Rick Switzer (born 1944), Canadian sculptor
  • Robert M. Switzer (1863–1952), U.S. Representative from Ohio
  • Ryan Switzer (born 1995), American football wide receiver
  • Stephen Switzer (1682–1745), English garden designer and writer
  • Tom Switzer (born 1971), Australian newspaper editor
  • Veryl Switzer (born 1932), American football player
  • William Switzer (1920–1969), politician from Alberta, Canada

Usage examples of "switzer".

There marched therein grim knights of the Teutonic and other orders, fur-clad Poles and Rus-Goths, squadrons of slant-eyed Kalmyks and Lithuanians, Prussians, Bohemians, Saxons, Bavarians, Brandenburgers, Tyrolers, Styrians, Carinthians, Savoyards, Switzers, men of Franche-Comte, Marburg, Munster, Cassel, Frankfort, Koln, Luxemburg, Stuttgart, Regensburg, Hamburg, and Bremen.

English-Welsh-Norman-Breton-Angevin host marched toward Edinburgh, ships were landing parties of crusaders along the east coastdescendants of Vikings from the Kingdom of Denmark-Norway, Goths from Sweden, Frisians and Flemings, Burgundians, French, Leonese, Portuguese, Granadans, fighting men representing most of the small states that made up the Holy Roman Empire, a few Switzers, some Italians of various kinds, Castilians, Navarrese, Moors, and even a few scarred, black-skinned noble knights of the Kingdom of Ghana.

Peter Switzer took a deep breath of the salt air and opened the door to the small cottage that had been his home since he was born.

Ten months, or eleven, some say, following the proclamation of the marriage-tie, a son was born to Countess Fanny, close by the castle of Chillon-on-the-lake, and he had the name of Chillon Switzer John Kirby given to him to celebrate the fact.

When this once begins in a Switzer, the only thing is to take him home to the mountain, the lake, or the valley, where he was born, or else he will infallibly die.

Jesuits in the Clementinum, but since then it had been soundly refuted by Casaubon, a Switzer, a Huguenot who had come to England at the invitation of King James.

By day Dave Switzer is a mild-mannered instructor of computer science.

They progressed from higher mountains down to lower mountains, from lower mountains down to the foothills, they passed from out the fiercely republican cantons of the Switzers onto Empire lands, marching directly into a new war.

The cable hat-band, or the three-piled ruff, A yard of shoe-tie, or the Switzers knot On his French garters, should affect a humour!