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“Crossroads of Civilization - A History of Vienna” is available in print form, with beautiful photographs, and as an audiobook too. Recently published to critical acclaim in North America, the book has now been commended by the most famous of Austrian-Americans: Arnold Schwarzenegger. "From the Congress of Vienna to the Austria World Summit, the city of Vienna has hosted key meetings on peace ...

The Tomaselli is the oldest coffee house in Austria. According to research on Tomaselli’s history, the origins of the coffee house can be traced back to 1700. The Tomaselli is located directly on the Alten Markt and starts serving a typical Austrian breakfast in the early morning hours. During the day, the guests can expect a wide variety of coffee creations and the most delicious homemade ...

It is one of the most exciting locations and at the same time one of the absolute gourmet hotspots: With 2 stars in the Michelin Guide, 5 forks in the Falstaff, and 4 toques in the Gault & Millau, the SENNS.Restaurant in the Salzburg Gusswerk building is one of the best addresses in Europe. The SENNS.Restaurant is located in an abandoned bell foundry on the outskirts of the city. Only the best ...

Believe it or not, Mozart was an original Salzburger. When Mozart was born, the town of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical principality of the Prince-Archbishopric of Salzburg and a state of the Holy Roman Empire.Salzburg is a city with deep-rooted traditions with vibrations of vitality. The UNESCO World Heritage City of Salzburg is a small, world-class town with an excellent reputation for top-class ...

Wir freuen uns, euch heute MiaMax Jewelry, ein Family-Business aus Seattle vorstellen zu dürfen!Die Founder, eine Wiener Familie, lebt seit 10 Jahren in Washington. Mama Christina ist eine Personal-Trainerin und mit 2 Kindern den ganzen Tag im Einsatz.Sie hat Jewelry gesucht, die hochwertig aber erschwinglich ist und beim Tragen zu Hause, bei Aktivitäten mit den Kids, im Gym, oder Outdoors bei ...

Hello my fellow Austrian friends, wir sind die Edelsbacher Family in den USA. Yep, die einzigen Edelsbachers, die es in den USA gibt:) Seit 20 Jahren sind wir schon in Sarasota Florida, und legen grossen Wert darauf, unsere Traditionen beizubehalten. Natürlich haben wir sie ein wenig ausgebaut, man nimmt sich von beiden Seiten das Beste, right? ZB wird erst mal kräftig Thanksgiving gefeiert, ...

A pioneering Austrian entrepreneur has spoken of how he found fortune in America by creating one of the world's most important online business platforms. Günther Edelsbacher left his Upper Austrian hometown Steyr almost ten years ago and says he has no intention of coming back to Europe anytime soon. But Edelsbacher only planned to stay a short while in the US when he arrived there in September ...

What made us move I am Guenther Edelsbacher, married to Elke and 2 kids, Kimmy & Nina-Vienna. We were the typical Austrian tourists - 3 weeks winter vacation in Florida. On one of our trips, daughter Kimmy was already around, we discovered the Headquarter of The Montessori Foundation in Sarasota Florida. Elke wanted to give Kimmy the opportunity to learn English at their model school, so we ...

What a Puppettheater and Accordion music? My name is Silvia Eberly (born Weiss) I grew up in Vienna inthe 50's and my parents worked as a Policeman and my momworked in the Postaldepartment as a Switchboard operator.I lived with my grandmother in the 10th district (Favoriten)Went to Elementary and Hauptschule and did finish as a Kaufman im Grosshandel working for AG for Bauwesen andthe ...

Barbara Geiger - An Entrepreneurial Woman Ahead of her Time In the beginning it was the courage of a woman, Barbara Geiger, who in 1906 decided to use her knitting talent not only for domestic purposes, but also as a business. At the dawn of the last century Barbara Geiger was living in the small Tyrolean town of Schwaz with her husband and her six children – an average size family for those ...

Club Background Alt-Washingtonia Schuhplattler- Verein's roots go back to post-World War II days when our founder, Dave Rosenberg, came to Washington, D.C. A Bostonian of Bavarian descent, he was already known as a pioneer and influential leader of the international folk dance community. He became associated with a group of men from Bad Tölz, Bavaria, who had come to the nation's capital ...

Biography Christa Neuhauser, the publisher of RoadRUNNER Magazine, has been a motorcycle enthusiast since her early days. The first motorcycle she owned was a sporty two cylinder Yamaha TDM850, and today she enjoys riding a Triumph Speed Triple. Motorcycling is not only her passion but also her profession.After graduating from college with a Bachelor Degree in Business, she trained and worked as ...

Jonathan's Grand father John. J. Krach came to America in 1909 from Orzana, Austria hoping for a better life as a Black Smith and Carriage Builder. Soon after he arrived in America the automobile was to become the newest mode of transportation - he believed unlike most people, he would need to re-invent him self to stay alive. The Black smith & Carriage maker was to become extinct.He was later ...

A world-traveler, at home everywhere - that's me My private life has been full of tragedies - tragedies, that I had to observe. I wrote about many of them, and maybe, one day, they'll be movies.The early death of my brother of cancer certainly made a difference in how I am seeing life today.I lived with heavy drug-users (without having EVER tried drugs myself, and I mean that) ... I saw people ...

Gruess Gott! My name is Lisa Velazquez, geborene Schlechter. I grew up in Koessen/Tirol, near Kitzbuehel. As long as I can remember I wanted to live in different countries and that's just what I did after I finished my schooling in Austria. I started my journey by working for Siemens in Munich and Johannesburg, South Africa. Moving on, I worked for the Austrian Foreign Ministry at the Austrian ...

Anita M. Cassard, Ph.D., is an expert in the practical application of leadership and management styles/theories, with over 20 years of domestic and international business experience across diverse sectors. She was born and raised in Vienna/Austria, where she completed her undergraduate coursework at the Economic Research Institute and Institute of Advanced Studies. She received her MPS from The ...

Peter H. Koppi Kurze Version: Geb. In Wien, 20-11-42. Helga geheirated am St Valentins Tag 1964. Ausgewandert, 3. Juli 1964, (“Hochzeitsreise” Paris-Le Havre). Arrived in NYC July-15-64 via SSAmerica. We Settled in St Clair Shores near Detroit 7-16-64. Build Models for Auto Industry. Helga popped 3 Kids, Bridget, Christian and Nicole. Settled in Sterling Heights in March 1974. My hobby than ...

That's my story and I'm sticking to it... One evening in 1994, while still living and working in Austria, I entered a room in my company's building to attend a Business English class. As always, I was the last one to appear. In front of the class...stood the woman who's now my wife, Sarah.We moved to Arlington, MA, a suburb of Boston, in 1997. At that time, Sarah worked for the private Foundation ...

I studied Flute, Musicology, Italian and arts administration in Vienna and came to New York in 1998 with one suitcase to attend an arts administration program at NYU. I never left and eleven years later still live in- what I consider-the greatest city in the world. After having worked with instrumentalists and singers at Colbert Artists Managment and at Carnegie Hall for a total of 8 years, I ...

I left Innsbruck, Austria at age twenty to explore the world. My first stop was South Africa, where I arrived with fifty Rand to my name, two small suitcases and limited English at my command. The intention was to stay two years, which ultimately turned into almost eleven. A husband job transfer brought us to Boulder, Colorado in April 1982. Since then I have also lived in Southern California, ...

From Vienna to Chicago via Amsterdam Ever since I was a little girl I wanted to travel. I remember watching Loveboat when I was three years old and thinking to myself, I wish I could be on that boat and see the world.So when I finished school in Austria (I went to a school called Handelsakademie) and I graduated in Marketing, I decided to try some other places. Since I didn't have much work ...

In 1992 i moved from Graz/Austria to Boston/MA to accept a scholarship. In 1996 I graduated summa com laude from the prestigious Berklee College of Music and moved to New York City the following year. In 2000 I graduated with a BFA from Mannes College for Jazz and Contemporary Music (New School University).A lot has happened since…..I am endorsed by Sadowsky, Fodera and Lakland basses, Epifani ...

What About Andre Have you ever had or done something in your past that you thought may be of interest to others? And perhaps thought - OK, how do I share that experience. For me, my site www.allthingsaustria.com and companion book on Austria, the land of my birth, is one such step. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed creating it.To me, life is a journey and this is a very personal one that ...

Fred from Vienna I was raised in Vienna most of my live, except for 5 years I lived in Bern Switzerland, and one year in Budapest Hungary. My father worked for the Austrian office of foreign affairs. In 1966 I moved to Canada on a adventure trip, Lived in Sarnia Ontario and worked as an electrician for one year. My father was transferd to NY, so I decided to move to Connecticut. i went back to ...

Warum ich in den USA lebe - Sylvia Smetana In Klosterneuburg geboren, in Tulln an der Donau aufgewachsen und dort auch zur Schule gegangen, hat mich dann die Sehnsucht nach mehr zunaechst zum Studium nach Wien gebracht. An der WU Wien habe ich dann Betriebswirtschaft studiert und bin danach fuer meinen ersten Vollzeit Job nach Zell am See gegangen. War schoen dort - im speziellen das Schifahren ...

Growing up in Europe has given me the foundation of a very healthy and happy lifestyle. I continued on this path when I moved to the United States in the 1980's and have since passed this kind of lifestyle on to my husband of over 20 years and two beautiful daughters. My continues education in the field of psychology and nutrition over the years has lead me to work with developmentally delayed ...

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From Vienna to MiamiI love my home town Vienna where I grew up and spent most of my life. I still remember the guy at the immigration of Miami Airport asking me why on earth I would leave Vienna to settle down in Miami. Well there is one answer: Love! Once my husband was born in Miami and owns a travel agency ( I have been in the travel business for most of my life) and I absolutely adore the ...

Do you ever just crave snow? It's the middle of July in Austria, and you decide you want to have a snowball fight, where do you go? No you don't need to spend a ton of money or go on a vigorous trek, you just need to go to a glacier. One of the best known glaciers in Austria is the Weißsee Gletscher. This has got to be one of my favorite activities over the summer. Let me walk you through a ...

It was a beautiful Miami evening when US Austrians met in Miami for the Grand Opening VOKA. Frank Stronach invited to this special evening at his Gulfstream Park and personally introduced the Austrian artist, who is at least as colorful as his huge acrylic creations! Meeting with fellow Austrians in the USA is always a great deal, but this time it was very special for us, since the VIP list had a ...