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  Vienna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vienna is Austria's primate city; with a population of about 1.6 million (2.2 million within the metro area), Vienna is by far the largest city in Austria as well as its cultural, economic and political centre.
Vienna is the seat of the Viennese Roman Catholic archdiocese, and its acting Archbishop is Cardinal Christoph Schönborn.
Nearly all of Vienna's drinking water is brought to the city via two large water pipelines, built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and stretching 120km (75 miles) and 200km (124 miles), respectively, from the Alps to the city's Hietzing district.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vienna   (4717 words)

  
 Vienna Encyclopedia Articles @ LaunchBase.com (Launch Base)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Legally, they are not districts in the sense of administrative bodies with explicit powers (such as the districts in the other Austrian states), but mere subdivisions of the city administration.
Ruprecht's Church">St. Ruprecht's Church (the oldest in Vienna) and the Fleischmarkt became populated with bars etc. and became known as the "Bermuda Triangle" (the name starting as a local joke that in this area there are so many bars that you can disappear there completely and reappear days later, remembering nothing).
The names are usually one used for draft beer, as it is dispensed into glasses of the same name.
www.launchbase.com /encyclopedia/Vienna   (3114 words)

  
 Indiana Freemasons Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
In Vienna, Mozart achieved his greatest fame as a composer, but was never able to secure a decent paying post.
And it was in Vienna that he became a Freemason.
Because he was to be in Vienna but a short time, his progress through the degree work was expedited.
www.indianafreemasons.com /imosanctum/mozartandmasonry.html   (2595 words)

  
 Paul Feyerabend
Paul Feyerabend (b.1924, d.1994), having studied science at the University of Vienna, moved into philosophy for his doctoral thesis, made a name for himself both as an expositor and (later) as a critic of Karl Popper's “critical rationalism”, and went on to become one of this century's most famous philosophers of science.
At the University of Vienna, although he had originally planned to submit a thesis on physics, Feyerabend swapped to philosophy when he got nowhere with the electrodynamics problem he was calculating (the philosopher of science as failed scientist?).
Feigl had been a member of the Vienna Circle until his emigration to the USA in 1930, but he had never given up the “realist” view that there is a knowable external world.
plato.stanford.edu /entries/feyerabend   (16088 words)

  
 Jascha Horenstein A CD Discography by Donald Clarke - MusicWeb(UK)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Vienna Symphony Orchestra signed a contract with Philips in April of 1952; after that, it was still free to record with other labels, but not under its own name.
The name Vienna State Philharmonia was used for a short period by Vox to disguise Vienna Symphony recordings, but that resulted in a suit by the Vienna Philharmonic (objecting that the closeness of the pseudonym to their own name resulted in unfair competition).
The legendary mono with the Vienna S.O. from c.1952 is on Vox CDX2 5509 with Kindertotenleider by the Bamberg S.O. with Norman Foster c.1955.
www.musicweb.uk.net /classrev/2001/Dec01/Horenstein_Discography.htm   (4985 words)

  
 Classical Music online store - product index - page 18
Mahler: Symphony No 5 / Maazel, Vienna Philharmonic
Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos / Prohaska, Vienna Co Mozart: Requiem / Pearlman, Boston Baroque
The Essential Strauss / Falk, Vienna Volksoper Orchestra
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