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    The cover story is about the 2000 year celebration for Carnuntum.
     
    Exatly 2000 years ago, Carnuntum was founded by Tiberius, and just a few years later it became one of the biggest cities of the Roman Empire. The austrian television is in the process of making a documentary of Carnuntum. They invited reenactors from all over Europe to participate in this film. The same people who make this had made in the past the award winning documentary of Oetzi the Iceman, so i am sure this will be fantastic!
     
    Here is an english link to the archaeological park of Carnuntum
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    Here we have a post card from a P.O.W Camp in Halstead Essex, the Camps name is Hasford Lodge. It must be a friend (comrade?) from my grandpa that is still a P.O.W in England while my grandpa is already at home (he was a P.O.W in the USA).
     
    The postal system must be fairly ok at the time, because at the back it says, "got your letter from the 18th September" and this one is dated 29th of September... Other then that he only asks if he (my grandpa) already got married...
     
    This letter was a bit surprising, because i wasn
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    World War 2 Memories

    By Viggen,

    I recently discovered some old stuff from my grandpa (who passed away about 10 years ago) in the attic. It is mostly photographs, postcards and war related documents from 1932 to 1948. I thought i share some images i scanned today over the next few weeks in my personal series "WWII Memories".
     
    The first image i scanned today is actually rather unspectacular. A simple postcard from end of January 1944. From someone unknown to me (Dr.med. Elisabeth Obladen) to my grandma. It is stamped in Stuttgart (strange enough it says Stuttgart - Stadt der Auslandsdeutschen) (something like Stuttgart - City of the foreign born Germans)
     
    The stamp itself shows an image of Adolf Hitler and it looks like it cost back then 6 Reichspfennige?
     
    Next to it is another stamp which says "Nahrung ist Waffe" (Food is a weapon?). At the bottom left there is another imprint "Der F
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    Karelian Bear Dog

    By Viggen,

    Right now, the Karelian Bear Dog is the most named dog in Austria. Given that this breed was basically unknown a couple of days ago here, it is a rather big jump in popularity! So how did this Karelian Bear Dog became so famous overnight?
     
    There is a bear in western austria, he is ratherr naughty and kills sheep, destroys dens and gets closer to humans every day, experts speak about a "problem bear" meaning he lost fear of humans. Now one way would be to just shoot him. However the european brown bear is protected in Austria, so next best thing is to catch him. Thats were the Karelian Bear Dog comes in to play. A handfull of this breed came over to Austria from Finland. and now they search for the bear and Austria is watching....
     
    ...here is an english article about "Bruno" the Bear
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    Currently H&M`s summer collection is heavely advertised in german/austrian television (anywhere else too?), and it is a beautiful ad. Striking good looking women lying on the beach relaxing to the tune of a song that sounds just wonderful. This song is "Just cant get enough" from Depeche Mode, but in a very relaxing version of Nathan Larson. (you can download the mp3 version on the HM site just wait a bit scroll to the right and wait till download link appears.).
     
    Now i wanted to check out the original version from Depeche Mode on Youtube and indeed there it was. And i was thinking OMG; once i was dressed sort of like that too... Although it was like 100 years ago...
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    Dalai Lama Was Here

    By Viggen,

    The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, attended a ceremony on Sunday to launch the building of a Tibetan health and cultural center. Planned at Huettenberg is an international center of Higher Tibetan Studies,' which local Carinthian officials say will include 'the first and only training center for Tibetan medicine in the western world.' via Moster&Critics
     
    Huettenberg (actually in correct german its H
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    China has the most sophisticated and effective Internet censorship regime in the world, employing North American technology from Cisco Systems Inc. and Canada's Nortel Networks Corp., among others, to filter out banned material. But China is just one of a growing number of states censoring the Internet, using primarily American filtering programs.
     
    But the computer smarts of Ron Deibert, Nart Villeneuve, and Michael Hull, combined with their passion for politics and free expression, have led them to develop a highly anticipated software program that allows Internet users inside China and other countries, such as Iran, Saudi Arabia and Burma, to get around repressive censorship and not get caught.
     
    more at Toronto Star
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    Abbey Road

    By Viggen,

    Yesterday I found by accident an old Vinyl of mine in the basement. I had all forgotten about it. The last album from the Beatles. "Abbey Road"
     
    After listening to it for basically the whole of yesterday and today, i have to say. It sounds fresh, vibrant and you can hear at every tune that this is a true master piece. The ending medley espcially Golden Slumber/Carry that Weight/The End is probably one of the best pieces of music ever made. It includes features never heard before by the beatles, rough guitar riffs, one of the few songs to feature harmony vocals from all four Beatles and the only ever drum solo by Ringo Starr...
     
    I am all in love again with the Beatles...
  9. Viggen
    Time for a little bit of statistic...
     
    We have now quite a big list on roman writers on our site, so i thought it might be interesting which ones are visited the most. Below you find the so far top 5 visited Roman Writers on Unrv.com in 2006.
     
    1. Tacitus
    2. Diodorus Siculus
    3. Galen
    4. Cicero
    5. Livy
     
    So, which one is your favourite Writer?
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    You must know, in Austria, sport Nr.1 is alpine skiing. We are crazy about it. During winter season there is only one thing that will gather half of the population in front of the TV ---> a downhill race!
     
    Now our downhillers are our true superstars, and one in particular is Hermann Maier. I was looking on Google Video if there was something about him, and indeed i found the IOC promo with his monster crash in Nagano 1998. If you look at it, one is happy he survived, but as the video says, just a few days later he won two gold medals....
     
    The infamous Hermann Maier Crash of 1998 in Nagano
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    Well this is not going to make headline news around the world, but it makes me angry. In a few words; A diplomat wants his shoes polished in a noble hotel in Vienna. The bootblack tells him that he is now on a break and he has to wait a bit. The diplomat gets upset starts arguing and eventuelly fires a shot at the bootblack...
     
    Now nothing is going to happen to the diplomat, "Diplomatic immunity ", All we can do is tell him to leave the country... Do you feel this is right?
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    Spam

    By Viggen,

    Wow,
    lately i am getting flooded with spam mails, from pills to *or*, from poker to mortage, from diploma to software.....
     
    People I dont want your crap, stop it!
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    Subfora

    By Viggen,

    Now that we have our first subforum, i would like to know what other topics could we make into a subfora? Keep in mind that it should be related to the parent forum and of course the main forum should be busy enough to support a split into a more specific niche...
     
    cheers
    viggen
  14. Viggen
    Johann who?
    ...you might ask, well he was a great baroque composer and his Canon in D is well known and very often played, a classic so to speak...
     
    Now take Johann Pachelbel`s work Canon in D and add a brilliant taiwanese with a hot electric guitar and you get that!
     
    i only say WOW
     
    regards
    viggen
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    There was always a way to use an integrated spell checker on the forum, however it was only available if you use the rich text editor, and this one had some serious bugs, so i never mentioned it...
     
    With the latest upgrade of our forum software (2.1.4), most of those issues have been fixed, so i am happy to explain it how it works...
     
    First, this only works with Internet Explorer...
     
    You need to install the spell checker software here ---> http://www.iespell.com/download.php then go back to the forum, go to My Controls, there you go to Board Settings, change "Type of text editor to use when posting" to "Rich Text Editor" then save it...
     
    Now you have when you post a new icon on the top bar (says ABC), once you are finished typing your post just click on it and it will spell check the text for you....
     
    cheers
    viggen
     
    p.s. ok the spell checker is not perfect though (it tries to replace viggen to virgin )
  16. Viggen
    My grandma (85 years old) was invited to have dinner with my mother, so we go there in the late afternoon to pick her up. She was almost ready, just need to brush her hair, get dressed and off we go downstairs to the car...
     
    Well she slipped at the last staircase and bang there she was lying on the floor not able to move. We tried to get her up but to no avail. So we call the ambulance, they arrive pretty soon afterwards, moved her to the hospital and there they made x-rays examinations etc...
     
    Well she has broken her left arm, and she got some bruises on her back, but not as bad as we thought at first. My grandma seems now in good hands, she got some pills for the pain, and we will of course visit her tomorrow again...It is now 11 in the evening and i haven thought of christmas once today (in austria we celebrate christmas on christmas eve)...
     
    but in any case, merry christmas to everyone...
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    Krampus

    By Viggen,

    Well i guess the average person outside the alps never heard of that word....
     
    However it is BIG here in Austria, on december 5th, every child goes out and chase and get chased by the mighty Krampus.
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    Where Are People From?

    By Viggen,

    To give you some insight from where visitors to UNRV.com are coming from, here some stats...
     
    United States 60%
    UK 16%
    Canada 6%
    Australia 4%
     
    From all the USA visitors are..
    10% from California, 9% from NY State, 5% from Pennsylvania, 5% from Virginia, 5% from Texas, 5% from Florida and 4.5% from New Jersey....
     
     
    Some exotic places we had visitors from the last couple of days are....
    Tanzania, Sudan, Malawi, Cayman Islands, Uganda, Palestinian Territory, Syrian Arab Republic, Vietnam and Guam....
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    Redbull Is King

    By Viggen,

    I just read this article Red Bull wings its way past diet sodas
     
    It doesnt happen often that an austrian company is known in the USA or worldwide, one example would be PEZ, yeah you heard right, thats from Austria
     
    Now i guess everyone knows RedBull, but did you know it is from Austria? Headquarter is in Salzburg, about an hours drive from my home town.
     
    cheers
    viggen
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    12288 / 1024

    By Viggen,

    12288 / 1024 thats the fastest (and sort of affordable) dsl rate in austria. I know that austria is relatively expensive when it comes to broadband fees, for that 12288 down/ 1024 up connection you pay 89 Euro per month (about 95 dollars), i wonder what the fees are in other places around the world.
     
    Here are some prices for broadband in Austria;
     
    12288 / 1024
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    Google Loves Your Blog!

    By Viggen,

    We only have the Blogs up for a couple of weeks and Google already indexing and ranking it pretty nicely!
     
    Some examples;
     
    Ursus`Blog with the search phrase Another Day In Customer Service 1st!!!!! out of 90 million
     
    Primus Pilus`Blog with the search phrase A Cold in September 1st!!! out of 70 Million!!!!!!!!
     
    Pompeius Magnus Blog with the search phrase Latin Language Education 7th out of 27.3 million!!!
     
    Maximus' Blog with the search phrase Maximus' Blog is 4th out of 600.00!
     
    Zekes Blog with the search phrase Zeke
  24. Viggen
    Well, eventually a usefull invention!
     
    A beer mat that knows when a glass is nearly empty and automatically asks for a refill has been created by thirsty researchers in Germany.
     
    Andreas Butz at the University of Munich and Michael Schmitz from Saarland University came up with the idea while out drinking with their students.
     
    full article at New Scientist
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