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Vienna library starts erotica hotline Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
This isn't the typical whispering you might expect to hear at a library. Vienna's City Hall has launched a ``sex hotline'' to raise money for the capital's main public library.
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Pakistani sets new world record in ‘ear-lifting’ Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
A Pakistani man broke the world record for "ear-lifting" in Vienna Sunday, carrying almost 62 kilograms (137 pounds) from a cord attached to his right ear.
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Women ride Vienna dancing horses after 436 years Posted: 1 month ago by smarty1052
An Austrian and a Briton have made history at Vienna's Spanish Riding School by becoming the first female riders to pass the entrance exam and trial period in 436 years.
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Vienna to host "divorce fair" Posted: 1 year ago by TheStep
With a divorce rate of 66%, Vienna is holding a fair where couples can come and get divorced. As well as lawyers and mediators, estate agents and DNA testers are turning up, too.
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Spencer Tunick does Vienna Posted: 6 months ago by pocksucket
Pop your tops off and leave them over there. That's lovely. All 1,800 of you.
Showing no signs of giving it a rest, Spencer Tunick got a bunch of Austrians to pose in the nip in Ernst-Happel Stadium
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'Cannibal' arrested after eating homeless man's organs Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
Police in Vienna are interrogating a man suspected of murdering a fellow homeless man and possibly eating his organs.
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Oops, wrong door Posted: 2 years ago by moebel
Vienna has launched a new anti-bias campaign for signs in public places to make people rethink gender-based stereotypes
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Daughter kept in cellar for 24 years Posted: 7 months ago by dollyllama
A father allegedly kept his daughter captive in a cellar for 24 years, Austrian police said Sunday.
*Update to this story here.
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Latest twist: Austrian incest dungeon paid for with government grant Posted: 7 months ago by tigertony
He got thousands of pounds of funding made available by the authorities to create nuclear shelters in the Seventies Cold War era.
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Paris Hilton to attend Vienna Opera Ball Posted: 2 years ago by foxygirl
Each year, wealthy Austrian businessman Richard Lugner invites a celebrity to be his guest at Vienna's exclusive Opera Ball. This year, Lugner and his wife will be accompanied by Paris Hilton
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Josef Fritzl forced daughter to dig own prison Posted: 7 months ago by tigertony
Elizabeth Fritzl revealed yesterday that she was forced to dig out the chambers by hand, working for hours at a time over the course of nearly a decade.
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Nudists to Pack Soccer Stadium for Photo Shoot Posted: 7 months ago by mutil8or
It might be a good time to make strategic use of a yellow card.
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Woman lived for months with dead partner Posted: 10 months ago by buddha
Um...Eww
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Fake Food...Why? Posted: 1 month ago by maven
Bac-Os, Quorn Dogs, Cool Whip, near beer, sea legs, fish balls, Tang and Vienna sausage.
That's a pretty vile menu. But it's great food for thought for anyone who wishes to consider the existence of food impersonators in our midst.
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Gold Scroll Discovered: Earliest Evidence Of Jewish Inhabitants In Austria Posted: 8 months ago by AutumnLotus
Archaeologists from the Institute of Prehistory and Early History of the University of Vienna have found an amulet inscribed with a Jewish prayer in a Roman child’s grave dating back to the 3rd century CE at a burial ground in the Austrian town of Halbturn. This amulet shows that people of Jewish faith lived in what is today Austria since the Roman Empire.
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Forgetful doctor left body for 9 days in Vienna flat Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
The body of a 76-year-old woman found dead in her Vienna flat was left there for nine days because a doctor who registered the death forgot to notify a removal service.
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Beethoven's death linked to lead poisoning Posted: 1 year ago by marli
Ludwig van Beethoven died on March 26, 1827, after four months of misery on a dirty straw mattress in Vienna. What brought on that downward spiral? Lead poisoning accidentally caused by his own doctor, says a journal article published today.
I didn't find a dupe when I searched, but I'm still skeptical...
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Get ready for Window Vienna Posted: 2 years ago by bonsai1776
That's right! Microsoft revealed today intentions to start work on the next OS.
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Former hostage is transformed into TV star Posted: 6 months ago by bevissimo
VIENNA, Austria - Television was once her only window on the world. Now Natascha Kampusch — still adjusting to life after spending 8 1/2 years in an underground cell — is starting an improbable new career as a TV talk show host.
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Peter Narins needed a way to convince real frogs that a male intruder has just hopped into their territory Posted: 2 years ago by Bornbad
A professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and his colleagues at the University of Vienna glued a condom to the jaw of a robotic frog equipped with an air pump and speaker.
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