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The first time I saw it, I almost rear-ended the car in front of me. Who would expect a gigantic basket on the side of the highway?
Tag: <span>History</span>
Christmas is approaching, the most beautiful celebration of the year for many. Many years ago, a friend of mine asked how Christmas used to be celebrated in Tyrol, Austria, and so a reflective journey into a bygone era that was very different from today began. Not much has changed in how Christmas is celebrated. With my friend’s permission, I have translated the interviews and will post them on my blog on different days.
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Berlin, early 1933: The Nazis are on the verge of their projected election victory, the Reichstag is burning, and mass madness is shown everywhere. Then a phone call! Her father leaves Berlin the next day shortly afterward the girl Anna travels to Switzerland with her family.
The athletes of the ancient Olympic Games fought naked, just as the statues of the gods were naked, which were modeled like the bodies of the athletes. They were admired by everyone for their strength and boldness. Sometimes they died from the blows they received in fistfights. During chariot racing, it could happen that the chariots overturned in the curve and this led to the death of men and horses. The athletes preferred to risk their own lives to avoid the humiliation of defeat. As is still the case today, the dedication to training and the effort of competition have only one goal…Victory.
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Happy 4th of July to everybody here in the US. A day for celebration with family and friends. Perhaps a cookout, or a picnic? Our brisket is in the smoker, guarded by our dogs, who successfully stole a few slices the last time we made one. Dogs don’t forget.
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I didn’t hear about her in school, but read about her later, in my early 20s in a book about her remarkable life. I had paid 3 Austrian shillings (fifty cents) for the novel in an old second-hand bookstore in Vienna. The title of the paperback “Theodora, from Prostitute to Empress.”
The Cemetery of the Nameless is not easy to find. Only a few signs along the way point to this place only thirty minutes from downtown Vienna, the Capital of Austria.
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Something happened last week, that made me rethink and reevaluate my beliefs (?) or perhaps as someone who claims to be agnostic, I should not use the word BELIEVE, but instead call it opinion.
Yulia received her special bonus a few days ago. “For the election,” the supervisors stated bluntly. Yulia, in her early 40s, works in the administration of a state energy company.…
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There are so many wonderful life-altering inventions, too many to list. Fire or the wheel? Internet or Telephon? Robots or Computers? Inventions have changed mankind throughout the centuries and made our lives better – or perhaps not.