The Spanish Riding School in Vienna, famed for its Lipizzaner horses, has admitted two female riders for the first time in its 430-year history.
(In a further break with "tradition" they have accepted a non-Austrian, 17- year-old British girl Sojourner Morell. In exchange for her training she will commit herself to working for the school for at least 10 years! I thought indentured labour was illegal!)
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Interesting Place # 74 - Vienna
Posted: October 18th, 2008, 8:01pm EDT by Your Teacher
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Interesting Fact # 777 - Domestic Appliances
Posted: April 17th, 2008, 3:27pm EDT by Your Teacher
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Austria has the highest number of old domestic appliances still in use in the EU.
(Their solution? Well seemingly the Austrian government are sending out a census to every household where people can write in the appliances and then an expert will calculate how much energy (and money) they could save if they bought a new one. I have to say it's a good idea because the English club bought a new fridge a year ago and the electricity bill was halved.)