Globi Globi Globi is a Swiss cartoon character occasionally referred to as Switzerland's Mickey Mouse. He is pictured as an anthropomorphic blue parrot with a yellow beak wearing a black beret and a pair of red and black checkered trousers. He was created by the Swiss cartoonist Robert Lips, as an advertising character for the Swiss department store Globus in 1932 for the company's 25th anniversary. He was originally planned to be called "Kimbukku", but later renamed Globi after the local Basel German "(Baseldytsch)" dialect word for the department store that created him. He initially appeared in a cartoon strip called
Swiss Military TAZ 90 camouflage Swiss Military TAZ 90 camouflage Taz 90 (fr:TASS 90, Swiss Woodland) is the camouflage patterns for current standard issue battledress and service dress uniform of the Swiss Armed Forces. The four-colour pattern consists of tan, brown, green and black and is a development of the "Taz 57" and "Taz 83" (the "Alpenflage") patterns which it replaced in the early 1990s. Even so, the pattern is based on the alpenflage, but with the deletion of the white spots and the red colour found in the alpenflage, along with minor changes. It is planned to equip the Swiss Armed Forces with new