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Fritzl begins to turn the hidden cellar into a prison chamber. [11] 28 August 1984: Fritzl lures 18-year-old Elisabeth into the basement and imprisons her. [44] November 1986: Elisabeth has a miscarriage in the tenth week of pregnancy. [53] 30 August 1988: Kerstin is born, and lives in the cellar until the age of 19 in 2008. [53] 1 February ...
Service set - a tray and two jugs, c. 1770. National Museum in Warsaw Chinoiserie plate, 1730–1735, Du Paquier period. Vienna porcelain is the product of the Vienna Porcelain Manufactory (German: Kaiserlich privilegierte Porcellain Fabrique), a porcelain manufacturer in Alsergrund in Vienna, Austria.
The farms are open and accessible and some of them are historically furnished and equipped. In each farm there is a detailed description of its construction, age and original location. As well as farms, the museum also has a school, a shooting range, a watermill, a smithy, a fire station and a public baths.
Hundreds of mammoth bones have been uncovered in an Austrian wine cellar, in a discovery labelled an “archaeological sensation.” The remains are thought to be between 30,000 and 40,000 years ...
An Austrian wine made from Grüner Veltliner, by far the most grown variety in Austria. The Austrian wine seal is used on all wines at Qualitätswein level. Austrian wines are mostly dry white wines (often made from the Grüner Veltliner grape), though some sweeter white wines (such as dessert wines made around the Neusiedler See) are also produced.
Farms up to ten hectares are more often tended by part-time and spare-time farmers rather than by full-time farmers. [1] For most farm owners and workers, nonfarm income is as important, if not more important, than farm income. [1] Despite the decline in the number of farmers and agriculture's share of GDP since 1960, agricultural output has ...
One of the museum's most important objects, the Cellini Salt Cellar sculpture by Benvenuto Cellini, was stolen on 11 May 2003 and recovered on 21 January 2006, in a box buried in a forest near the town of Zwettl. It was featured in an episode of Museum Secrets on the History Channel. It had been the greatest art theft in Austrian history. [7]
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