WOW.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Austrian National Library - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_National_Library

    "The historical heritage of the Austrian National Library is not free of injustice and guilt. That is true in a particular manner of the period of National Socialism. Led by a fanatical National Socialist, Paul Heigl , the National Library was an active participant on a grand scale in the systematic robbing in the first place of Jewish citizens, but also of other victims of the Nazi regime.

  3. Stories and Alibis - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stories_and_Alibis

    All songs written by Matchbook Romance, all lyrics written by Andrew Jordan. [6]"Introduction" – 1:34 "Your Stories, My Alibis" – 4:46 "Playing for Keeps" – 3:45

  4. Matchbook - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_matches

    Matchbook cover, World War II, Uncle Sam. A "matchcover", or "matchbook cover", is a thin cardboard covering that folds over match sticks in a "book" or "pack" of matches. Covers have been used as a form of advertising since 1894, two years after they were patented, and since then, have attracted people who enjoy the hobby of collecting.

  5. Geography of Austria - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Austria

    Detailed map of Austria Satellite photo of the Alps. Austria may be divided into three unequal geographical areas. The largest part of Austria (62%) is occupied by the relatively young mountains of the Alps, but in the east, these give way to a part of the Pannonian plain, and north of the river Danube lies the Bohemian Forest, an older, but lower, granite mountain range.

  6. Empress Elisabeth of Austria - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Elisabeth_of_Austria

    Signature. Elisabeth (born Duchess Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie in Bavaria; 24 December 1837 – 10 September 1898), nicknamed Sisi or Sissi, [ 1] was Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary from her marriage to Emperor Franz Joseph I on 24 April 1854 until her assassination in 1898. Elisabeth was born into the Ducal royal branch of the Bavarian ...

  7. List of Austrian flags - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Austrian_flags

    1946. Three equal bands of yellow, red and white (with the state's coat of arms surmounted on the state flag version). Lower Austria (Niederösterreich) 1954. Two equal bands of blue and yellow (with the state's coat of arms surmounted on the state flag version).

  8. Pictures of Matchstick Men - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictures_of_Matchstick_Men

    The song opens with a single guitar repeatedly playing a simple four-note riff before the bass, rhythm guitar, organ, drums and vocals begin. "Pictures of Matchstick Men" is one of a number of songs from the late 1960s which feature the flanging audio effect. The band's next single release, "Black Veils of Melancholy", was similar but flopped ...

  9. Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/.../Rudolf,_Crown_Prince_of_Austria

    Roman Catholicism. Signature. Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria (Rudolf Franz Karl Josef; 21 August 1858 – 30 January 1889) was the only son and third child of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria and Duchess Elisabeth of Bavaria (Sisi). He was heir apparent to the imperial throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire from birth.