Creative History

  At one time, during the epoch in European history that is known today as the High Middle Ages, perhaps sometime between the year 1000 and 1100, the city of Klagenfurt which is located in present day southern Austria, was founded in the marshy wetlands and along the muddy banks of the River Glan.  The city was established by a wealthy and high-born Duke, and was protected by a veritable army of brave and heavily armed knights.   But, there was one problem with the founding of Klagenfurt.  The city was being threatened by a vicious, fire-breathing winged dragon.  The dragon, at least according to legend, prevented any outsiders from crossing the River Glan to enter the city and constantly ravaged the homes and properties of the townspeople with devastating floods. Klagenfurt is definitely an historic city, whose picturesque architecture, even today, gives the town a medieval feel.  The city itself  is not far, less than fifty miles in fact, fr...

  Built by the Russian Empire of Czar Nicholas II during the 1880’s Osowiec Fortress, located in modern day northeastern Poland, was designed with its large caliber artillery and concrete steel-reinforced bunkers to repel even the most determined German assault on northern Russia in the direction of the Czar’s capital city of St. Petersburg. In the years 1914 and 1915 during the First World War Osowiec Fortress was the scene of near constant bloodshed as the highly trained and technologically advanced German forces of Kaiser Wilhelm II repeatedly attempted to storm the fortress, overwhelm the numerically superior Russian garrison and drive towards St. Petersburg.  In fact, from the start of World War One in August of 1914, until German forces finally overran the fortress one year later in August of 1915, no fewer than four major battles encompassing six total months of daily hand to hand combat took place in and around the fortifications of Osowiec Fortress. Osowiec Fortre...