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04/05/2004 12:08:35
 
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Visual FoxPro
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Miscellaneous
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>>On the subject of different views on the same chapter of history it was very interesting for me visit the War Museum in Vienna last year. As a student of military history I try to visit every history type of museum I can. Anyway, I got to see the car where Archduke Ferdinand was killed (see picture I took here). That event, as you most probably know, was the spark that started WWWI. The amazing thing to me was the explanation card for the event given at the Museum. My books on history had always referred to Gavrilo Princip as an Anarchist, yet the Museum (my first reading from the "other" side of the story) referred to "a terrorist", not even giving his name or trying to explain the whys from the perpetrator point of view.


Additions and corrections:

- I should've typed WWI (I wonder where my fingers got the idea for 2 W's :)
- I did not mention that the museum room where this car was, was basically a shrine to the Archduke Ferdinand, showing some of his belongings, portraits of him and family, etc.

Maybe I should start another History thread on another of the Military Museums I visited a while ago, this one in Madrid where there was a whole room dedicated as a shrine to Franco. It was interesting - and kind of disgusting IMHO - but being a museum of the military by the military it kinda made sense.


Alex Feldstein, MCP, Microsoft MVP
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