Wonderful article. Amazing how many interesting facts there are hidden in history. With regard to the Turks taking Budapest, I recall as a child, growing up in Vienna, how much pride the Viennese took in the fact that the advance of the Turks was stopped at Vienna. Prinz Eugen der edle Ritter, and all that. I was not born in Vienna, but, mimicking JFK, I wanted to shout, "Ich bin auch ein Wiener." George A. Marquart