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INTERVIEW-Austria says peackeepers may quit Golan if EU arms rebels
ReutersBy Michael Shields VIENNA, May 21 (Reuters) - Austria may pull its peacekeeping troops from the Golan Heights, evacuating the U.N. buffer zone, its defence minister warned on Tuesday, as Syria and Israel exchanged fire across a long dormant frontline now...Tags: Religion and Belief, Wars and Interventions, Austria, Yom Kippur, Israel
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Harbor Springs Area Historical Society receives competitive grant
HARBOR SPRINGS — Soon, a different kind of bicentennial war exhibit will open at the Harbor Springs Area Historical Society, thanks in part to an $8,000 grant from the Michigan Humanities Council that the society received May 10. The exhibit,...
Tags: Museums, Sociology, Arts, Andrew Jackson, War of 1812
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Travel Postcard: 48 hours in Vienna for gay travelers
VIENNA, March 29 -- Vienna's opulent Habsburg-era coffee houses, architecture, palaces, operas, and other cultural institutions give the city an air of imperial grandeur. Yet the Austrian capital with 1.7 million residents is not stuck in the past,...
Tags: The Third Man (movie), Museums, Architecture, Dining and Drinking, Entertainment
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Thoughts from Dr. Joe: When classrooms aren't classrooms
I’m still at loss for words trying to express the essence of the La Caņada High School choral artists’ Cantemus tour through Central Europe. If you remember, when I last wrote, the choir had just finished singing in Bratislava, Slovakia....Tags: Austria, Music, Prague (Czech Republic), Entertainment, Artists
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Patrons get naked for Vienna exhibition on nudity
What the above photograph doesn't show is that shoes were allowed during a recent naked art tour held at Vienna's Leopold Museum. The highly unconventional gallery excursion -- in which guests were invited to strip down and walk about -- was tied to the...
Tags: Museums, Arts, Artists, Arts and Culture
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Gerda Lerner dies at 92; pioneered field of women's history
Gerda Lerner spent her 18th birthday in a Nazi prison in Vienna and feared that birthday would be her last. Her jailers meant to starve her, but her cellmates — two gentile women imprisoned for their anti-fascist views — shared their rations...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Stanford University, Columbia University, Book, University of Oxford
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Nudists welcome to tour 'Nude Men' art exhibition in Vienna
An art exhibition in Vienna dedicated to the male nude is reportedly welcoming nudists to experience the galleries au naturel after public hours. A spokesman for the Leopold Museum in Vienna told Reuters that there was a request by an association...
Tags: Museums, France, Travel, Arts, Australia
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Wine pairings for three Vietnamese dishes
Green papaya salad Look for a white blend from Vienna or Austria that's sweet with a crisp minerality, such as a Gemischter Satz. Phan especially likes it with the 2011 Bernreiter Gemischter Satz, a field blend grown within the city limits of Vienna,...Tags: Alcoholic Beverages, Wines, Austria, Lemons
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The Rev. Eric W. Gritsch, 81, noted Lutheran theologian, author
The Rev. Eric W. Gritsch, a prominent Lutheran theologian, educator and author whose teaching career at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg, Pa., spanned more than three decades, died Dec. 29 at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center of...Tags: Religion and Belief, Roland Park, Teaching and Learning, Seminaries, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
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Vienna Philharmonic attacked for past Nazi ties, being too white
The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra has garnered a loyal television audience around the world with its annual New Year's concert broadcasts, which air in the U.S. on PBS. But this New Year's celebration was somewhat marred by attacks made on the orchestra...
Tags: World War II (1939-1945), PBS (tv network), Nazi Party, Music Industry, Julie Andrews
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Critic's Notebook: Gustavo Dudamel wraps up an ambitious year
NEW YORK — The hair jokes may have grown old, what with a slight fleck of gray peeking through his now shortened and tamed curls. The Dude nickname is pretty much over as well. And no longer is Gustavo Dudamel as tempted to head for Pink's hot dog...
Tags: Opera (genre), Music Industry, Mark Swed, Where the Wild Things Are (movie), Awards and Prizes
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Vienna Boys Choir to perform sold-out concert in Pa.
chrisc@herald-mail.comHow do you balance the expectations of tradition and the demands of contemporary audiences when planning music for a centuries-old, world-famous musical group? Conductor Kerem Sezen said it's important to include both old and new. "Times change, and...Tags: Eminem, Travel, Austria, Tourism and Leisure, Entertainment
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