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Austria /ˈɔːstriə/ (help·info) (German: Österreich (help·info)), officially the Republic of Austria (German: Republik Österreich), is a landlocked country of roughly 8.3 million people in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech...
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| x Gustav Schwarzenegger |
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Gustav Schwarzenegger (August 17, 1907 – December 1, 1972) was an Austrian police chief (Gendarmeriekommandant), postal inspector, a senior non-commissioned military police officer, who later became notable as the father of Hollywood star and...
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| x Carl Schlechter |
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Carl Schlechter (March 2, 1874 - December 27, 1918) was a leading Austrian chess master and theoretician at the turn of the 20th century. He is best known for drawing a World Chess Championship match with Emanuel Lasker.
Schlechter was born into a...
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| x Hermann Bondi |
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Sir Hermann Bondi, KCB, FRS (1 November 1919–10 September 2005) was an Anglo-Austrian mathematician and cosmologist. He is best known for developing the steady-state theory of the universe with Fred Hoyle and Thomas Gold as an alternative to the Big...
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| x Louis Cukela |
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Louis Cukela, born Vjekoslav Lujo Čukela, (Croatian: Vjekoslav Lujo Čukela, pronounced "luyo chukela"; May 1, 1888 – March 19, 1956) was a United States Marine numbered among the nineteen two-time recipients of the Medal of Honor. Cukela was awarded...
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| x Conny Plank |
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Konrad "Conny" Plank (frequently spelled Planck) (May 3, 1940 – December 18, 1987 in Cologne) was a German record producer and musician. His creativity as a sound engineer and producer helped to shape some of the most important and innovative...
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| x Ernst Grünfeld |
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Ernst Franz Grünfeld (November 21, 1893, Josefstadt – April 3, 1962, Ottakring), an Austrian chess player and writer specializing in opening theory, was for a brief period after the First World War one of the strongest chess players in the world....
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| x Bernard Rudofsky |
Bernard Rudofsky (April 13 1905 - 1988) was an Austrian-born American writer, architect, collector, teacher, designer, and social historian.
Rudofsky earned a doctorate in architecture in Austria before working in Germany, Italy, and a dozen other...
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| x Franz Jägerstätter |
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Franz Jägerstätter (May 20, 1907 — August 9, 1943; born as Franz Huber) was an Austrian conscientious objector during World War II and has been declared Blessed by the Roman Catholic Church. As in most countries at the time, refusal to serve...
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| x Crystal Klein |
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Crystal Klein (born 1981 in Austria) is a pornographic actress and model. Klein is one of the few women to have been both a Playboy Playmate (Croatian Playboy, October 2004) and a Penthouse Pet of the Month (March 2005).
Klein studied psychology at...
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| x Bernhard Rammerstorfer |
Bernhard Rammerstorfer (born 1968 in Austria) is an author and film producer.
Since 1994, Bernhard Rammerstorfer, has conducted intensive research that has enabled him to produce a historically accurate record of Nazi concentration camp survivor...
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| x Klaus Biemann |
Klaus Biemann is a Professor Emeritus of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His work was centered on structural analysis in organic and biochemistry. He was admitted to the United States National Academy of Science in 1993. He...
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| x Francis Martin Drexel |
Francis Martin Drexel (April 7, 1792 – June 5, 1863) was a Philadelphia banker and artist. He was the father of Anthony Joseph Drexel, the founder of Drexel University and the grandfather of Saint Katherine Drexel.
Drexel was born in Dornbirn, in...
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| x Matej Kocak |
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Matej Kocak (December 3, 1882-October 4, 1918), a United States Marine Corps sergeant, was posthumously awarded both the Army and Navy Medals of Honor, for "heroism above and beyond the call of duty" in action against the enemy on July 18, 1918....
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| x Venerable Myokyo-ni |
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Myokyo-ni (born Irmgard Schloegl; January 29, 1921 - March 29, 2007) was a Rinzai Zen Buddhist nun and head of the Zen Centre in London.
Raised in Leitersdorf, Styria, Austria, she obtained a Ph.D. degree in Natural Sciences from Graz University...
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| x Henry Bauer |
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Henry H. Bauer (born Austria, 1931) is an emeritus professor of chemistry and science studies, and emeritus dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ("Virginia Tech"). Bauer earned his Ph.D. in...
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| x Paul Kraus |
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Paul Kraus is an Australian author who was born in a Nazi forced labour camp in Viehofen, near St. Poelten, Austria in 1944 and migrated with his parents to Australia as a young child. In the 1960s Paul worked near a factory where asbestos sheets...
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| x Joseph Fitz |
Joseph Fitz (May 24, 1886 Austria & died February 24, 1945 was a United States Navy Ordinary Seaman who was awarded the Medal of Honor for actions on March 8, 1906 during the Philippine-American War. He later obtained the rank of seaman.
Rank and...
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| x Herbert Nitsch |
Herbert Nitsch (born 20 April 1970) is an Austrian free-diver who has held world records in seven of the eight apnea free-diving disciplines recognised by AIDA International and as of 2007 is the current holder of three of the eight.
Nitsch, who...
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| x Franz Wasner |
Franz Wasner (December 28, 1905 – June 21, 1992) was the director and conductor of the Trapp family and a missionary.
Wasner was born on December 28, 1905, in Feldkirchen, a small town in Upper Austria. After graduating from the University of...
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| x Fritz Sauter |
Fritz Eduard Josef Maria Sauter (1906 – 1983) was an Austrian-German physicist who worked mostly in quantum electrodynamics and solid-state physics.
From 1924 to 1928, Sauter studied mathematics and physics at the Leopold-Franzens-Universität...
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Andreas Dober (born March 31, 1986 in Vienna) is an Austrian football player, who currently plays for Rapid Wien.
Dober came through the youth ranks at Rapid and made his professional debut in the 2004/2005 season only to be loaned out to SC...
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| x Rolf Steiger |
Rolf Steiger was an Austrian football defender and then coach in Italian football. Steiger's career revolved around clubs which would eventually become S.S.C. Napoli.
Steiger joined US Internazionale Napoli in 1915, a club who were played in the...
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| x Arthur Casagrande |
Arthur Casagrande (August 28, 1902 – September 6, 1981) was an Austrian-born American civil engineer who made important contributions to the fields of engineering geology and geotechnical engineering during its infancy. Renowned for his ingenious...
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| x Ihsan Poyraz |
Ihsan Poyraz (born March 5, 1988) is an Austrian football player.
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| x Thomas Piermayr |
Thomas Piermayr (born 2 August 1989) is an Austrian footballer who currently plays for Austrian team LASK Linz.
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| x Billy Engle |
Billy Engle (28 May, 1889 – 28 November, 1966) was an Austrian-born American film actor. He appeared in 169 films between 1917 and 1957.
He was born in Austria and died in Hollywood, California, from a heart attack.
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| x Werner Kniesek |
Werner Kniesek was an Austrian mass murderer convicted for the murder of a family of three in 1980. He was on a three-day leave from prison at the time.
Born in 1946, Werner Kniesek was the illegitimate son of an African-American G.I. and his...
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| x Karl Eibl |
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Karl Eibl (23 July 1891 – 21 January 1943) was a German general during World War II and recipient of the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords.
Eibel was killed on 21 January 1943 at Nowy-Georgijewskija, northwest of Stalingrad, when some...
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| x Gustav Bernroider |
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Gustav Bernroider is an Austrian biologist who has made contributions in the fields of neurobiology, philosophy, and quantum mind.
Bernroider is currently Professor for Neurobiology at the University of Salzburg in Austria. He leads a research lab...
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| x Kurt Binder |
Kurt Binder (born 10 February 1944 in Korneuburg) is an Austrian physicist. He received his Ph.D. in 1969 at the Technical University of Vienna, and his habilitation degree 1973 at the Technical University of Munich, before, in the next year,...
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| x A.W. Hackel |
A.W. Hackel (December 18, 1882 - October 22, 1959) was an American film producer who founded Supreme Pictures in 1934.
Hackel contracted Bob Steele for 32 of his Westerns.
In 1936, Republic Pictures needed more Westerns and made a deal with Hackel...
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| x Hubert Pölz |
Hauptmann Hubert Pölz (born 1 January 1917 – missing 7 January 1994 in Spain; declared dead in 2002) was a German World War II Luftwaffe Stuka ace and flew over 1,000 missions during the war.
Hubert Pölz joined the Luftwaffe in 1938. He served on...
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| x Kurt Sametreiter |
Kurt Sametreiter was a Oberscharführer in the Waffen SS who was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Sametreiter was awarded his Knight's Cross during the Battle of Kursk in the tank Battle of Prokhorovka he was a platoon commander in the...
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| x Tova Ilan |
Tova Ilan (Hebrew: טובה אילן, born 1 June 1948) is an Israeli educator and former politician who briefly served as a member of the Knesset for Meimad between January and April 2006.
Born in Austria, Ilan made aliyah to Israel, and was involved in...
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| x Helmut Kämpfe |
Helmut Kämpfe was a Sturmbannführer, in the Waffen SS during World War II. He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, which was awarded to recognize extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership by Nazi Germany during World...
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| x Anna Huber |
Anna Huber is a model from Austria.
She has appeared in numerous ads such as Azzaro 'Visit' fragrance, Canderel, Calzedonia, Damier Azur, Daniel Swarovski, Devernois, House of Fraser, Hugo Boss 'Intense Shimmer' fragrance, John Galliano, Kérastase,...
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| x Hans Reiter |
Hans Reiter was a Untersturmführer in the Waffen SS during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, which was awarded to recognize extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership by Nazi Germany during...
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| x Karl Liecke |
Karl Liecke was a Obersturmbannführer in the Waffen SS during World War II. Who was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, which was awarded to recognize extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership by Nazi Germany during...
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| x Helmut Kinz |
Helmut Kinz was a Sturmbannführer in the Waffen SS during World War II. Who was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, which was awarded to recognize extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership by Nazi Germany during World...
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| x Rudolf Rott |
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Rudolf Rott was a Hauptsturmführer in the Waffen SS during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, which was awarded to recognize extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership by Nazi Germany during...
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| x Friedrich Herzig |
Friedrich Herzig (1915–1954) was a Sturmbannführer in the Waffen SS during World War II who wore the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, which was awarded to recognize extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership by Nazi Germany...
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| x Aleksandar Popović |
Aleksandar Popovic (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Поповић )(born 2 November 1983 in Klagenfurt) is an Austria born Serbian football player. He was the team captain in Serbian Superliga club FK Vojvodina, and in summer 2009, he moved to Super League...
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| x Veit Heiduschka |
Veit Heiduschka (born 20 May 1938) is an Austrian film producer. He has produced 50 films since 1985.
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| x Michael Wolf |
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Michael Wolf is an ice hockey player.
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| x David Witteveen |
David Witteveen (born 5 May 1985) is a professional football player, currently playing for Scottish Premier League side Heart of Midlothian.
David Witteveen has previously had spells at Austrian sides FC Red Bull Salzburg and WAC St. Andrä. He...
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| x Hainburg an der Donau |
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Hainburg an der Donau is a place in the Bruck an der Leitha district, Lower Austria, Austria.
The city is located next to the Danube river and Bratislava in Slovakia. It is part of the Industrial Quarter Industrieviertel in Lower Austria.
45.87% of...
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| x Bruck an der Leitha |
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Bezirk Bruck an der Leitha is a district of the state of Lower Austria in Austria.
Towns (German: Städte) are indicated in boldface; market towns (Marktgemeinden) in italics; suburbs, hamlets and other subdivisions of a municipality are indicated in...
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| x Baden bei Wien |
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Baden (Slovene: Kopanje pri Dunaju) is a spa town in the Austrian state of Lower Austria and the capital of the Baden district. Located about 26 kilometres south of Vienna, frequently the name is given as Baden bei Wien (Baden near Vienna); this...
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Bezirk Baden is a district of the state of Lower Austria in Austria.
Towns (Städte) are indicated in boldface; market towns (Marktgemeinden) in italics; suburbs, hamlets and other subdivisions of a municipality are indicated in small characters.
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| x Vienna |
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Vienna (pronounced /viːˈɛnə/; German: Wien [ˈviːn]) is the capital of the Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million (2.3 million within the urban area,...
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| x Schönbrunn Palace |
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Schönbrunn Palace (German: Schloss Schönbrunn [ʃøːnˈbʁʊn]) is a former imperial summer residence in Vienna, Austria. One of the most important cultural monuments in the country, since the 1960s it has been one of the major tourist attractions in...
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| x Minoritenkirche, Vienna |
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The Minoritenkirche, formal name: Italienische Nationalkirche Maria Schnee (English: Greyfriars Church or Minorite Church, formal "Italian National Church of Mary of the Snows") is a church built in French Gothic style in the Altstadt or First...
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St. Stephen's Cathedral (German: Stephansdom) is the mother church of the Archdiocese of Vienna and the seat of the Archbishop of Vienna, Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, OP. Its current Romanesque and Gothic form seen today, situated at the heart of...
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| x Imperial Crypt, Vienna |
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Since 1633 The Imperial Crypt in Vienna has been the principal place of entombment for members of the Habsburg dynasty.
The Imperial Crypt (in German: Kaisergruft but usually called the Kapuzinergruft, "Capuchins' Crypt") lies below the Capuchins'...
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| x Belvedere |
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The Belvedere is a baroque palace complex built by Prince Eugene of Savoy in the 3rd district of Vienna, south-east of the city centre. It houses the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere museum.
After buying the plot of land in 1697, Prince Eugene had...
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| x Kunsthistorisches Museum |
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The Kunsthistorisches Museum (English: "Museum of Art History", also often referred to as the "Museum of Fine Arts") in Vienna, housed in its festive palatial building on Ringstraße, crowned with an octagonal dome, is one of the premier museums of...
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| x Karlskirche, Vienna |
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The St. Charles's Church (German: Karlskirche) is a church situated on the south side of Karlsplatz, Vienna. It is located on the edge of the 1st district, 200 metres outside the Ringstraße. It is one of the most outstanding baroque church...
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| x Albertina, Vienna |
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The Albertina is a museum in the Innere Stadt (First District) of Vienna, Austria. It houses one of the largest and most important print rooms in the world with approximately 65,000 drawings and approximately 1 million old master prints, as well as...
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