Bicycles, Dom, Graz, Austria
Originally, the Dom’s exterior would have been covered in Gothic frescoes such as the famous Landplagenbild.
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Originally, the Dom’s exterior would have been covered in Gothic frescoes such as the famous Landplagenbild.
The Black Death, Turks, locusts. It was tough staying alive in the medieval world. A.D. 1480 was – to put it mildly – not a good year for Graz. Barbarians were at the gates of the city, locusts had decimated the harvest, and bubonic plague was stalking the streets. Death
There were 53 million people in the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the start of World War I. By the end, 1,200,000-1,494,200 of these men and women were dead or missing in military action; another 467,000 civilians had died of disease or malnutrition. If you want to get a sense of how
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With one eye laughing, Austrians went off to war in 1914 with flowers and tinsel in their hats. They quickly realized they would need helmets. What’s more, they started it. In a tinder keg of aggression – with Wilhelm II of Germany and Great Britain building up their naval fleets
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If nothing else, the Habsburgs believed in making a grand exit. In 1614, Archduke Ferdinand commissioned his beloved court architect Giovanni Pietro de Pomis to build his Mausoleum and St. Catherine’s Church (both pictured here). But when Ferdinand became Emperor and de Pomis died, the half-finished Mausoleum was left to
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