WHAT YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT AUSTRIA
Added on: 2nd Jan 2016
EVER SINCE THE END OF THE WORLD WARS,
AUSTRIA HAS SWORN ITSELF TO A POSITION
OF PERMANENT NEUTRALITY
SO, ALTHOUGH IT IS PART OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
IT IS NOT A MEMBER OF NATO
BEETHOVEN WAS NOT AUSTRIAN, HE WAS GERMAN.
BUT HE DID LIVE A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF HIS
LIFE IN AUSTRIA
MOZART WAS AUSTRIAN THOUGH, SO WERE HAYDN,
SCHUBERT, AND STRAUSS. AUSTRIA IS FAMOUS
FOR MUSIC.
YOU THOUGHT HITLER WAS GERMAN? NOPE.
HE WAS AUSTRIAN TOO.
AND YOU PROBABLY ALREADY KNOW THE MOST
FAMOUS CURRENTLY LIVING AUSTRIAN,
ARNOLD SCHWARZENNEGER
THE EISRIESENWELT, GERMAN FOR "WORLD OF
THE ICE GIANTS" IS THE LARGEST ICE CAVE
IN THE WORLD
AUSTRIA'S OFFICIAL NAME IS REPUBLIK ÖESTERREICH,
WHICH MEANS "THE EASTERN REALM"
ITS FLAG IS ONE OF THE OLDEST IN THE WORLD
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