Word: vienna
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...happens that qahwa came into widespread use throughout the Islamic world in the mid-15th century. Fifty years later, Arab power was finished. And soon after, so was the Ottoman Empire. In 1699, the Turkish advance was stopped once and for all at the gates of Vienna. But now it was the Habsburgs' turn. Retreating, the Turks left their coffee sacks behind, and the Austrians took to mocha with the same passion they later devoted to waltzing along the Danube. In Austria's legendary coffeehouses, a great culture grew--from Mozart (who, alas, did not write the Coffee Cantata; that...
After designing acclaimed structures in Vienna, New York, Frankfurt and Lima, the Pritzker Prize winner will soon take his talent to yet another challenging environment--Cambridge...
...were particularly interested in his breadth of work," she explained. Currently, Hollein is also designing the Austrian Embassy in Berlin and serves as the dean of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna...
Hollein grew up among the baroque structures and medieval cathedrals of Vienna and says that as a young boy, he was "always concerned with art, especially fine arts...
Still, parental concerns are understandable. After her 2 1/2-year-old son had a convulsion following a DTP shot and developed learning disabilities, Barbara Fisher, of Vienna, Va., entered the vaccine debate by co-founding the National Vaccine Information Center, a clearinghouse of vaccine data. Says Fisher: "If you question the vaccines, you are somehow [regarded as] bringing death and disease to this country...