FACTS are stranger than HISTORICAL FICTION

ALL THE LOCAL NEWS THAT WAS FIT TO PRINT IN VIENNA, 1896. The Viennese newspaper, Neue Freie Presse, had a daily column bringing its...

THE ADMIRABLE AND NOT-SO-ADMIRABLE SIGMUND FREUD. Here is a mixed list. ADP= admirably put, NSAD = not so admirable, CMUM = can’t ma...

DEAR ALFRED, SEND MONEY! A LETTER FROM SOPHIE HESS TO HER LOVER, ALFRED NOBEL Alfred Nobel met Sophie when she worked in a flower sho...

NOBEL PRIZE FOR THE IDEAL WOMAN? Beatrice Cenci -- from Nobel's collection Alas, no. But if there was a prize, Alfred Nobel...

BEFORE INTERNET DATING: WANT AD IN VIENNA NEWSPAPER 1922 This ad ran in the Neues Wiener Tagblatt , November 1922: Distinguished ...