HISTORY By Justin ReynoldsApril 6, 2008 "Vienna 1814: How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made Love, War and Peace at the Congress of Vienna" by David King ...

Despite endless parties, the Congress achieved pioneering work in culture and human rights, including Jewish rights and a vote to abolish slavery.

Excitement is building in Vienna ahead of the 60th annual Eurovision Song Contest later this week. Last year’s winner, Conchita Wurst, can be seen on billboards around the city, a bearded ...

It then gathered for the Congress of Vienna, which authored not a brutal, punitive diktat like the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, but a peace that welcomed a restored France back into the Concert ...