As strange as it may seem, many discoveries have been made purely by chance or by 'mistake'. And that is exactly what happened in the Czech Republic. Some hikers, while climbing in ...

The reluctant empress known as "Sisi" painstakingly crafted her image through portraits and photographs, ensuring she would ...

The name "Kúty" is derived from its position at the confluence of the Morava and Myjava rivers, as well as at the borders of ...

One by the Archbishop of Oaxaca of a view of the baroque Cathedral and a picture of the Valley of Mexico from the Hill of Santa Isabel presented by a representative of the Austro-Hungarian Empire who ...

However, our current geopolitical scenario makes it all the more important to remember the enormous significance of the ...

Working Papers describe research in progress by the author(s) and are published to elicit comments and to further debate This paper investigates the currency reforms undertaken subsequent to the ...

Earlier during World War I, the Austro-Hungarian empire sent Russian POWs to Goli Otok. The name means “barren island” in Croatian, because the surface is almost completely devoid of vegetation.

Mendel Mueller, a Jew born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was incarcerated in two Nazi concentration camps: Buchenwald in northern Germany and Auschwitz in Poland. An investigation of the ...