News Austria History: Was This Photo of an Austrian Empress the World's First Paparazzi Photo?
Empress Elisabeth of Austria. Elisabeth had what today would be diagnosed ... What we do know is that Karl Lagerfeld, who left us this year but knew his history and his glamour better than anyone—not ...
News Austria History: A History of the Army's Long Courtship with Glock Guns
Why has it replaced 1911s, Sigs and Berettas as the sidearm of elite units? Despite being designed for an Austrian military contract, the first official adopters of the Glock in the United States ...
News Austria History: Garden Spot High School students travel to Germany and Austria
Innsbruck, Austria, where students experienced the Swarovski ... Bike tour through Munich. The history-heavy tour included a stop for lunch in a traditional German biergarten — though no beer ...
News Austria History: Fragment of Medieval Poem About a Talking Vulva Found in Austrian Library
The surprising discovery of a fragment inscribed with an old German poem, in which a female virgin argues with her genitals about who is more desirable to men, pushes the origin of the poem back 200 years, changing our conceptions of sexuality in the Middle Ages.
News Austria History: There’s a Massive Jester Floating on Austria’s Lake Constance
On July 17, the 74th season of Austria's Bregenz Festival will begin ... the scene of one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in U.S. history: the disappearance of an entire colony of English settlers. ...
News Austria History: New angles on post-war Germany and Austria
Anne McElvoy and new angles on post-war Germany and Austria via history, film, literature with Florian Huber, Sophie Hardach, Adam Scovell and Tom Smith. Show more Anne McElvoy and new ways of ...
News Austria History: Austria’s first female chancellor, Brigitte Bierlein, in power until September election
The appointment comes after Sebastian Kurz became the first chancellor in Austrian history to be thrown out of office by a no-confidence vote of MPs, on Monday. Opposition MPs had brought the motion ...
News Austria History: Landscapes, History and Incentives Lure Producers to Austria
Going back to the sweeping mountain vistas of 1965’s The Sound of Music and the pulse-racing action sequences of 1991’s Point Break, Austria has long been a favored destination for ...
News Austria History: Austria gets first female chancellor
The appointment comes after Sebastian Kurz became the first chancellor in Austrian history to be thrown out of office by a no-confidence vote of MPs on Monday. Opposition MPs brought the motion as ...
News Austria History: How a Secret Video Felled Austria’s Wunderkind Leader
Now he’s also the shortest-serving chancellor in Austrian history and the first to be thrown out of office since the country was reconstituted after World War II. The rise and fall of Kurz is ...
News Austria History: Austria's ousted leader vows to win his job back after no-confidence vote
No-confidence votes are common in Austrian politics, but this is the first one to have succeeded in its modern history. The result makes Kurz the shortest-serving chancellor since 1945 with 525 days ...
News Austria History: Austria: Top court justice to lead caretaker government
Austria's president said Thursday he will appoint the head of the country's top court to lead a caretaker government until new elections in September, after the previous one collapsed over a video scandal.
News Austria History: Gradinger makes history with first podium for Austria in WorldSSP
In a year where records are tumbling at every round, Thomas Gradinger made it a memorable Assen weekend for Austria! There seems to be record after record in the WorldSBK paddock in 2019, with history ...
News Austria History: World War I, Revisited: How the Great War Changed History Forever
On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, visited the city of Sarajevo and were assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, a 20-year-old ...
