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Christmas in Vienna - The Nutcracker

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December 20th 2013
I had been looking forward to the Nutcracker ever since I bought my ticket about two weeks ago. I had decided to splurge a little and get a good seat. You don't pick the individual seat, but a group area. Well, when they sent me my seat number and I looked it up.... my excitement got kicked into high gear. I was in an upper balcony seat, immediately next to the highest price group. I bought a ... read more

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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