101 Facts about Austria: History - Culture Nature Curiosities: 18

A country everyone believes they know the same things about.Radetzky did not bring the Wiener schnitzel back from Milan - the story first appears in 1969. The first Viennese coffeehouse belonged to an Armenian merchant, not to a conqueror of Turks. Mozart was never called Amadeus and was not buried in a pauper's grave. And the most famous mummy in the Alps lay 305 feet beyond the border. 101 facts. Each one on its own page. Made for opening anywhere, sorted into six chapters: - Geography & Nature - glaciers, a steppe lake, a lake with no border- History & Archaeology - Venus of Willendorf, Habsburgs, the victim thesis- People, Language & Cities - treaty-protected words, municipal housing, bilingual signs- Music, Stage & Coffeehouse - Mozart, Falco, Silent Night- Food & Drink - schnitzel, Sachertorte, pumpkin seed oil- Business, Records & Everyday Life - Red Bull, the snow globe, Córdoba 1978 The difficult chapters are here too. > Checked, not copied. >With a country profile, timeline, glossary, and index for looking things up. Useless knowledge can be many things. Wrong should not be one of them.