MYSTERY: This one might not be in Asia

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This edition’s Mystery Photo certainly doesn’t look like an Asian scene, does it?  You might be surprised as to its location. Start your mind working, then send in your thoughts to elliott@brack.net and be sure to include your hometown.

First in for the last Mystery Photo competition was Ross Lenhart of Pawley’s Island, S.C.: “I took the same picture. Climbed that hill to that castle several times starting during my Army days in the early 60s,” he reported. The photo came to us from Frank Kellert of Norcross, his first contribution.

16-1206-mysteryOthers recognizing the photo were Dewey Bentley, Winder; and Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill; and of course George Graf, Palmyra, Va., who writes: “When I was stationed in Augsburg, Germany, with the U.S. Army, my wife wanted to take the ‘Sound of Music’ tour, so off we went and a stop in Salzburg was included. I was the only one on the tour bus who had never seen the movie and to this day I have not seen it so I was pretty much clueless on the tour.  It was a vast majority of ladies and I was one of the very few men on the tour. Salzburg was once an independent country, but was annexed to the Austrian Empire in 1816.

The world today refers to Salzburg′s most famous son as ‘Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.’ In fact, his name was officially ‘Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgang Theophilus Mozart,’ with ‘Amadeus’ being a Latinised variation of ‘Theophilus.’ Mozart himself signed in his later years as ‘Wolfgang Amade,’ and referred to himself as ‘Amadeus’ only when he was joking.”

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