Okay, you ready??? How-about we play a little game... I’ll give you ten seconds to name five famous Austrians... ............................................................,eight.......nine.........., That’s it. Times up! So, how did we do? Well, I’m guessing the Austrians amongst you actually found this pretty easy. The rest of us, though, probably struggled a bit. The sad truth is that outside America, there are very few people who are truly world-famous, who will live on in our collective minds forever. Think a little longer, though, dig a little deeper, and you’ll come to realise that almost everywhere has its own little list of notable heroes and villains, and Austria, it has to be said, has some real crackers... Adolf Hitler, Niki Lauda, Sigmund Freud, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart... more than one or two stories between them, that li
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