What do you do with the house Hitler was born in? For years the building in the Austrian town of Braunau am Inn has been rented by the Austrian interior ministry to prevent misuse by neo-Nazis. It was once a day-care centre for the disabled. Now it is empty, as the owner has not agreed to…
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A Distant Corner of the Eastern Front, 1914
Two Jews stand disconsolately among the ashes of wooden houses burnt to the ground in their Galician town in 1914, only brick chimney stacks left standing. A photograph that was probably taken in August or September during or shortly after what was known as the Battle of Galicia, which ended in a crushing Russian victory…
BBC News – Roman ‘gladiator school’ recreated virtually
BBC News – Roman ‘gladiator school’ recreated virtually Archaeologists have made a virtual reconstruction of a Roman gladiator school discovered on the banks of the River Danube in Austria. http://antiquity.ac.uk/ant/088/ant0880173.htm
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