Two distinct and conflicting forms of nationalism – civic and ethnic – helped create the nation-states of Europe ...

Art remains unfinished business in Austria. Some masterpieces are still awaiting repatriation but one of the greatest works, ...

Hungarian-Swedish microbiologist George Klein, who in 1944 escaped from a train destined to Auschwitz, once wrote that his ...

On its journey from the Black Forest mountains in the west of Germany to the Black Sea, this river has inspired some of ...

On the former status of nobility in Burgenland, which was part of the Kingdom of Hungary until 1921, see Hungarian nobility. Unlike the nobility in Bohemia (Czechoslovakia), Poland, Russia, or the ...

I started playing violin in 2008. I was 56 years old. My wife and I were on a weekend trip to New York. We had just seen some ...

Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, was infamous for his eccentricity. Driven by a quixotic obsession with chivalry, he spent much of his reign waging wars, and would ride out into battle wearing ...

Awarded slave compensation in Mauritius as partner in Sir Charles Cockerell & Co. Son of John Larpent (1741-1824) and Anna Margaretta Larpent (1758-1832). Entered the East India house of Cockerell and ...

Technically, the flock is distinct from a cord, which is seen in dogs like the Hungarian puli ... whose influence prompted other nobility to adopt their own Skye Terriers. In recent years, fewer Skye ...