A British hobby historian and photographer is appealing for help in tracking down background to a series of 70 black and white pictures taken by a British embassy employee in Austria sometime around 1938. Ken Johnston, who lives in North West England, is a company director, but he’s also somebody who in his spare time […]
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The following films are on at the English language Haydn Cinema on the Mariahilferstrasse between June 20 and 26. Iron Man 3D: When Tony Stark’s world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution. Star Trek 3D: After the crew of the Enterprise find an […]
The Mayor of Adolf Hitler’s home says he doesn’t want the building where the dictator was born to be turned into a memorial because the Fuhrer “only lived there for three years anyway”. Mayor Hannes Waidbacher from the conservative People’s party (OVP) said that instead he was keen to see the property that was previously […]
Woody Allen on time travel
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Woody Allen has revealed all eras are “horrible” in his opinion. The celebrated director – whose new movie “Midnight in Paris” will be on at Vienna’s Burgkino this weekend (19 to 21 August) – told the Salzburger Nachrichten newspaper today (Weds): “I have to admit I consider all epochs as horrible. We live in a […]
President of the Austria for Africa Association John Morris looks at the crisis in Africa and asks what can be done in this special report. Like me, do you look at Africa and feel De je vu? History seems to be repeating itself in East Africa: drought, famine, civil wars, excessively high unemployment, more than […]
Hand grenade found in Tyrol
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Innsbruck police evacuated a park after a man discovered a hand grenade.The object was found near a waterfall yesterday morning (Sun). Strong rainfalls may have unearthed the grenade, police said today (Mon). It was defused and removed by experts of the federal interior ministry.The ministrys teams have offices across the country to be on site […]
Builders find WWI grenades
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Two hand grenades have been discovered during construction works in Vienna.Shocked workers called the police when they found the missiles at a building site in Vienna-Margareten yesterday (Weds).Police officers consulted explosives experts of the interior ministry for assistance. The specialists defused the World War One (WWI) grenades. No one was injured.Around 28 tons of unexploded […]
Builders find WWII bomb
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An aerial bomb dropped by US troops during World War Two (WWII) was discovered in Upper Austria.Officials in the city of Linz said the 50-kilo bomb was found during construction work near the citys zoo this morning (Thurs). A special police force decided to evacuate everyone within a radius of 100 metres.The federal interior ministry […]
Another aerial bomb found in Vienna
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Dozens of flats in Vienna-Wieden had to be evacuated after a World War Two (WWII) bomb was discovered at a housing estate yesterday (Tues).No one was injured when the 200-kilo aerial bomb was defused and removed by a team of explosives experts sent out by the federal interior ministry.Only last month, two similar bombs were […]
The discovery of a wartime hand grenade caused panic in Vienna yesterday (Tues).Workers called the police after unearthing the World War Two era grenade during excavation activities at a building site in Landstraße district yesterday morning, police in the capital announced today.Explosives experts of the federal interior ministry, who were alerted by police, secured the […]