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8 THE PORSCHE TRADITION Ferdinand Anton Porsche was born in 1875 of a Roman Catholic family at Maffersdorf, a town in that most turbulent of political and cultural areas, Bohemia, which at the time was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He seems to have been a precocious youngster, fitting...

Introduction There is somé truth in the stereotyped image of Holland. It is a country of windmills, tulips and clogs - but much more as well. Water is everywhere; in the massive lakes to the north of the country, in the Rhine, Lek and Vecht rivers, flowing through Utrecht and in the countless...

I. AÜSTR1A Josef Werndl founded the Josef and Franz Werndl Company Firearms Factory some 120 years ago, and manufactured the Werndl bolt-action rifle, which was the first breechloader to be used by the Austro-Hungarian Imperial Army. Chief Engineer Ferdinand Mannlicher designed his famous...

INTRODUCTION To the ancient land mass that is the continent of Australia, the 200-year period of western civilization is but a mere speck in time, a fleeting moment in a history of 200 millión years, during which oceans and lakes once fiiled the arid interior and long-extinct volcanoes and...