India may not be heading for the same fate as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but that doesn’t mean the example is flawed. Last week, Franz-Stefan Gady wrote an excellent article comparing India to the ...

Viktor Ullmann (January 1, 1898 – October 18, 1944) was a Silesia-born Austrian composer, conductor and pianist.

In Montenegro, dozens of 19th century forts built by the Austro-Hungarian Empire have been either abandoned to the elements or sold to foreign investors with little to show in return. From a roadside ...

A GOLDEN late-summer light filters through the windows of the Café Landtmann. Bow-tied waiters move among towering hot-house plants. Officials huddle around a table. They are fretting about ...

The world’s first naval-launched air raid took place during the siege of Tsingtao in the first year of World War I. India may not be heading for the same fate as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but that ...

Kremlin propagandists have suggested on state TV that Russian authorities create a new empire in Europe. The idea was floated by Vladimir Solovyov, one of the most well-known figures in Kremlin-backed ...

Look, plenty of games have wacky premises, but "dystopian open-world survival set in an alternate future where the Austro-Hungarian empire discovered interplanetary travel on the eve of World War 1" ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On March 31, 22, Beijing time, Zhai Peng, the founder of the great renaissance of Chinese culture, planned and created a large jade sculpture group work, the original Austro ...

For the past decade, wines from the "New World" (basically everywhere outside Europe) have burst onto the imbibing scene and established a firm foothold. Turns out, though, that the Old World wasn't ...

As we all know, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip on June 28th, 1914, and set off a series of events that led to World War I.<P>What is often not addressed, however, is the ...

Mott Greene is affiliate professor of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is the author of Alfred Wegener: Science, Exploration and the Theory of Continental Drift.