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LOST LANDSCAPES AND ALLEY CATS VISUAL ARTS - Rita Datta Several enquiries overlap in Hungarian ...

21 Dec 2013

Several enquiries overlap in Hungarian artist Anna Kubinyis weaves, seen recently at Victoria Memorial ... Another fascinating aspect the artist brings into focus is the cultural legacy that Csoma embodied. Because he belonged to Transylvania which was once part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and is now in Romania ... In fact, the particular Transylvanian sub-group to which Csoma belonged the Székely people traces its origins to the Huns....(size: 4.7Kb)

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Audio: Eileen Battersby’s top non-fiction books of the year

The Irish Times

21 Dec 2013

1 Albrecht Dürer. His Art in Context. Edited by Jochen Sander (Städel Museum/Prestel). This is a magnificent and near-definitive study of the central figure of the German Renaissance ... 2 An Armenian Sketchbook. By Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler (Maclehose Press) ... A fascinating catalogue that accompanies an exhibition yet is also a social history of the closing days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire ... ....(size: 4.7Kb)

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Peace, love and legalisation on Uruguay's fabulous beaches

The Guardian

20 Dec 2013

The new cannabis law seems to be no big deal in liberal, laid-back Uruguay. Our writer finds the unspoilt beach towns of its Atlantic coast a more compelling reason to visit ... Photograph. Lucas Brentano/Getty ... Photograph ... If I were high on strong marijuana, I might start designing my own house here, like Cacho and his neighbour Flaco (whose real name is Fernando Falconstein, a splendid inheritance from his Austro-Hungarian ancestry) ... ....(size: 11.3Kb)

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NFL Says Hit On Bengals Punter Was Illegal

Deadspin

18 Dec 2013

"Huber, he's a punter. And the key is he's defenseless throughout the down ... Expect Garvin's name to be called when fines are announced on Friday ... O ... 1 ... As pointed out by Ben Austro at Football Zebras, the rulebook defines 10 different instances of a player being in a "defenseless posture." Some we already know, like a receiver in the act of catching a pass, or a quarterback in the middle of, or just after, throwing a pass ... ....(size: 3.7Kb)

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Radio 3 announces January programming for 2014 (BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation)

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18 Dec 2013

(Source. BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation) ... The Strauss extravaganza will launch with two recordings made at the Royal Opera House ... The programme will feature prominent interviews with major figures in the classical music world commencing on the 4 January with the German Conductor Christian Thielemann, widely regarded as one of the greatest living exponents of the Austro-German symphonic and operatic repertoire ... AH. distributed by....(size: 6.5Kb)

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The Wittgenstein Silver Cabinet By The Vienna Workshops Recently Aquired By The Dallas Museum Of Art (Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau)

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18 Dec 2013

(Source. Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau) ... A triumph of early 20th-century design, it is made of silver encrusted with enamel, pearls, opal and other gemstones ... Anderson, the Museum's Eugene McDermott Director ... Kevin W ... This vitrine was purchased at the 1908 exhibition by Karl Wittgenstein (1847-1913), a Viennese iron and steel magnate and the leader of one of the most powerful families in the Austro-Hungarian Empire ... in 1901....(size: 8.2Kb)

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BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Kraus Project’

The Washington Times

18 Dec 2013

Facebook. Follow @washtimes. Will Republicans win meaningful concessions from Democrats on the debt limit next year?. Login to Vote. View results ... A century ago, even as the once-mighty Austro-Hungarian Empire began to disintegrate, Vienna was still a living center of culture and commerce, rivaling Paris, London and Moscow and, at least on the aesthetic and intellectual sides, far outshining its rival German-speaking capital, Berlin ... Mr....(size: 6.2Kb)

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Cafe Vocar opening in Riverwest on Friday

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

17 Dec 2013

..   Cafe Vocar photo ... Wright St. to the public on Friday ... The menu will include foods Vocar grew up with in a household with Croatian, Bosnian, Slovenian and Austro-Hungarian roots, like schnitzel, goulash (in photo above) and burek, and simple desserts....(size: 4.4Kb)

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Ukrainians are rallying for a land of openness

The Washington Post

17 Dec 2013

Judith Baumel is a professor of English at Adelphi University and president of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs ... Please help, she asked. Spread the word ... They don’t want a revolution ... And they are as fascinated as I am by the story of a sophisticated and multicultural Galicia, a region formed by the Austro-Hungarian empire in which German, Polish, Ukrainian and Yiddish literatures thrived separately and together ... ....(size: 4.5Kb)

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The Rhyme of History: Lessons of the Great War (Brookings Institution)

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16 Dec 2013

(Source. Brookings Institution). Earlier this year I was on holiday in Corsica and happened to wander into the church of a tiny hamlet in the hills where I found a memorial to the dead from World War I ... Or would it never have happened had a random event in an Austro-Hungarian backwater not lit the fuse? In the second year of the conflagration that engulfed most of Europe a bitter joke made the rounds ... June 28, 1914 ... Wikimedia Commons ... U.N....(size: 5.7Kb)

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The Horrors of the “Great” War

CounterPunch

16 Dec 2013

Why do we want to commemorate the centenary of the Great War? Because it marked the destruction of the “flower of English manhood”? An odd thought, since it also marked the crushing of the “flower” of French and German manhood ... But Gavrilo Princip’s infamous shot in Sarajevo caused the Austro-Hungarians to declare war on Serbia, and thus Russia had to mobilise and then Germany had to declare war on Russia and … ... ....(size: 7.0Kb)

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Ukraine Protests Become Global Media Event

The Hollywood Reporter

16 Dec 2013

0. 0. 0. 0. 0 ... The power of the images and force of arguments reveal deep schisms in Ukraine, which, generally, is historically divided between an eastern Russian-speaking industrial region -- the heartland of President Yanukovych's Party of Regions -- and a western, largely Ukrainian-speaking and rural area that is more European leaning, as it has at different times been part of Poland, Lithuania and the Austro-Hungarian empire ... 0. 0 ... ....(size: 7.9Kb)

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As we move towards the Great War’s centenary, it’s time to recognise the reality of its horror

Belfast Telegraph

16 Dec 2013

The Great War’s ultimate tragedy is that it led – quite directly – to the even more terrible Second World War. In other words, the 1914-1918 war was to no purpose ... Max Hastings has already told us that we were right to go to war in 1914 ... But Gavrilo Princip’s infamous shot in Sarajevo caused the Austro-Hungarians to declare war on Serbia, and thus Russia had to mobilise and then Germany had to declare war on Russia and… ... Latest Comments....(size: 10.4Kb)

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The Black Hand Society and World War One

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