Figure 1: horsies and mountain

Whoopee! Cold berg!

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October 19th 2008
Ah, another beautiful sunny Unterfränkischer day. There can't be many more of these left in old Mother Nature's gunnysack. But even as I watch the kiddies flying their plastic kites and old couples hobbling, hand-in-hand down leafy ways, my mind drifts to a much colder place, an magical place. In this place, the ground buckles and bends skywards, and in the buckles belt out the trombone-like v ... read more

Europe » Austria » Tyrol

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Once the center of power for the large Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austria was reduced to a small republic after its defeat in World War I. Following annexation by Nazi Germany in 1938 and subsequent occupation by the victorious Allies in 1945, Austria'... ... read more