My grandmother told me that in Prague one day, when she was a child, she saw a man throwing coins onto the street and yet nobody was picking them up. Then her mother explained that those coins weren’t ...

The decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was a result of deep-seated internal pressures. This video examines the critical factors from 1916 to 1918, including inefficient military command, severe ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Radetzky March is an important novel, since it singularly conveys the constrained spirit that some leaders of the Great Powers in Europe must have experienced ...

On Jan. 22, 1919, following the collapse of the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires, one of Ukraine’s most significant historical events occurred. Two separate Ukrainian states in the heart of ...

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 ...

Hologryph is immortalizing the history of Western Ukraine—while developing its game in a war-stricken country. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

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 ...

The best novels, with only a small number of notable exceptions—“Don Quixote,” “In Search of Lost Time,” “Ulysses”—have been family novels. “War and Peace,” “Anna Karenina,” “The Brothers Karamazov,” ...