The largest cavalry charge in history broke the 1683 Siege of Vienna, effectively ending Ottoman expansion into Western ...

“A Thimbleful of Grass, the Siege of Vienna, Noon Marks, Some Elaborate Oysters, and a Very Old Bee” by Emily Maxwell was published in the print edition of the November 30, 1963, issue of The New ...

In the summer of 1683, the fate of Europe hung in the balance as the powerful Ottoman Empire laid siege to the city of Vienna. With over 100,000 soldiers camped at the gates, it looked like the heart ...

Vienna hadn’t heard such music in years—and it was all because the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra’s two conductors hated each other so. Wilhelm Furtwängler had the edge in prestige but Herbert von ...