Bad Dog Needs Rotten Home

THE NEW HOME FOR THE BEST STUFF ON THE WEB.

WHAT YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT AUSTRIA

Added on: 2nd Jan 2016

 

 

EVER SINCE THE END OF THE WORLD WARS,

AUSTRIA HAS SWORN ITSELF TO A POSITION

OF PERMANENT NEUTRALITY

world war

 

 

SO, ALTHOUGH IT IS PART OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

IT IS NOT A MEMBER OF NATO

nato

 

 

BEETHOVEN WAS NOT AUSTRIAN, HE WAS GERMAN.

BUT HE DID LIVE A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF HIS

LIFE IN AUSTRIA

beethoven

 

 

MOZART WAS AUSTRIAN THOUGH, SO WERE HAYDN,

SCHUBERT, AND STRAUSS. AUSTRIA IS FAMOUS

FOR MUSIC.

composers

 

 

YOU THOUGHT HITLER WAS GERMAN? NOPE.

HE WAS AUSTRIAN TOO.

hitler

 

 

AND YOU PROBABLY ALREADY KNOW THE MOST

FAMOUS CURRENTLY LIVING AUSTRIAN,

ARNOLD SCHWARZENNEGER

Arnold Schwarzenegger

 

 

THE EISRIESENWELT, GERMAN FOR "WORLD OF

THE ICE GIANTS" IS THE LARGEST ICE CAVE

IN THE WORLD

Eisriesenwelt

 

 

AUSTRIA'S OFFICIAL NAME IS REPUBLIK ÖESTERREICH,

WHICH MEANS "THE EASTERN REALM"

Austria

 

 

ITS FLAG IS ONE OF THE OLDEST IN THE WORLD

austria flag

 


View by Month