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I am David Edlinger, a 9-year-old boy. I live at St. Polten, capital of Lower Austria, a state of Austria. My father works in a symphony orchestra and my mother is a staff in the state center hospital. I'm a pupil in grade 4. I...
Titles called "Chancellor" (Kanzler) go way back. The Carolingian Empire and the In the German Empire, the Imperial Chancellor (Reichskanzler) was appointed by the Emperor. The parliament (Reichstag) could do jack shit about it...
Wien (OTS) - Exzellente Forschung von Frauen am Brennpunkt von Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft zu gewährleisten, ist das Ziel der acht, durch eine Impulsaktion eingerichteten "Laura Bassi Zentren". Im Rahmen einer ganztägigen...
Daniel Blitz of Manitowoc survived plane crash, 12 monthsin a POW camp, 185-mile march during World War II Plummeting from the sky aboard a battered B-17 bomber, Air Force Staff Sgt. Daniel Blitz scrambled to save his life....
December Festivals Make Winter Nights Sparkle all over Germany 'Tis the season to head for Germany's legendary holiday street markets, filled with glittering lights, music, handcrafted gifts, traditional foods and hot spiced...
For a film director who demands quite so much of his audience, and even more uncompromisingly of himself, it has taken the Austrian director Michael Haneke a long time (20 years to be precise) to gain the Palme d'Or at Cannes,...
‘I’m a control freak,’ says Michael Haneke, the current holder of the Palme d’Or. The Cannes prize-winning director is talking in a London hotel room, wearing a black shirt and trousers, German words spouting through his Santa...
Fracas aside, Michael Harden is reminded of how good we have it in this city. Hysteria about something that has always been a dark part of Melbourne life (King Street anyone?) can also mask how great - and mostly trouble-free -...
Chechens in Austria – did they escape the conflict? Maybe because the republic of Chechnya is a place where two major armed conflicts including vast human rights violations took place in the nineties. As I am a social...
Four hundred years ago this year, two events marked what scientists and historians today regard as the birth of modern astronomy. The first of them, the beginning of Galileo's telescopic observations , has been immortalized by...
