The incident took place at 9 a.m. in Menznau, about 30 kilometers (19 miles) outside Lucerne.
At the northern end of Lake Lucerne is Lucerne itself, which became member number four of the confederation in 1332.
The most illuminating chapter is perhaps the final one, about the relationship between Claudio Abbado and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra.
Police said seven people were hurt in the attack, six of them seriously, according to the Lucerne-based daily Neue Luzerner Zeitung.
The situation is under control, said Lucerne county police spokesman Urs Wigger, and officers have cordoned off a wide area around the factory.
The Swiss national first picked wild garlic shoots in the Nidwalden canton near Lucerne, before discovering that he could eat berries and a variety of mushrooms.
Above the village of Stoos, a chairlift climbs up to the Fronalpstock, where a viewing platform looks over Lake Lucerne, nearly a mile below.
Set on the western edge of the lake, the town of Lucerne is as placid as the waters in which its medieval buildings are reflected.
One of five such vessels plying Lake Lucerne's gleaming waters for more than a century, its mechanism was a marvel of the late Victorian age.
The journey northwest to Lake Lucerne involves three trains and a paddle steamer in a single afternoon, each one running on a schedule as precise as Swiss clockwork.
"The art market seems to have cut off from all the negative economic news, " says Urs Meile, who runs a gallery in Beijing, China, and one in Lucerne, Switzerland.
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Some 700 years ago, the story goes, a sadistic bailiff called Gessler decided to teach the people living around the many arms of mountain-flanked Lake Lucerne a lesson in obedience.
Two of those stalwarts, captain Alex Frei of FC Basel and Lucerne striker Hakan Yakin, will be hoping to add to their respective 40 and 20-goal international tallies in South Africa.
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There is another Buick, called the Lucerne, a throwback small wagon called the Chevy HHR and a redesigned Chevy Impala that was not received warmly at its introduction at last year's Los Angeles auto show.
In a case filed in Lucerne County, Pennsylvania, it has been alleged that there may have been a pay-to-play scheme involving vendors to the pension making political contributions to elected pension board members in return for pension contracts.
What led him to open fire with a handgun as employees were taking a morning break is not yet clear, but a hotline set up after the incident has been "widely used, " according to a Lucerne police statement.
The earlier recall covered the Lucerne, Albertson, Mountain Dairy, Ralph's, Boomsma, Sunshine, Hillandale, Trafficanda, Farm Fresh, Shoreland, Lund, Dutch Farms and Kemps brands that were marked with with a three-digit code ranging from 136 to 225 and plant numbers 1026, 1413 and 1946.
After the publication of a draft agreement following the 8th round of negotiations held in April 2010, in New Zealand, negotiating States of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement ( ACTA) met in Lucerne from 28 June to 1 July 2010 for a 9th round of negotiations.
Commissioned as part of the UNESCO-USA-Brazil project Teaching Respect for All and carried out in cooperation with the Centre of Human Rights Education, Lucerne, Switzerland, the study also makes recommendations in terms of content, methodology, usability and process for the future development of education materials against racism, discrimination and intolerance.
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