In 1899, the NW-cars Wien and Nesselsdorf, achieved their first significant racing success on the trotter course at the Prater Park in Vienna.
The Prater is a large park and amusement park in Vienna, a city important to characters in the novel for several reasons.
Author of about 200 works, Translateur's most famous piece remains the Wiener Praterleben waltz, opus 12, which he wrote at the age of seventeen.
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Dave Prater had his last performance with Sam Daniels on April 3, 1988 at a Stax Reunion show at the Atlanta Civic Center, which also featured Isaac Hayes, Eddie Floyd, and Rufus and Carla Thomas.
His work has been produced and presented by numerous venues including La Mama, the Kitchen, Dance Theater Workshop, the Walker Arts Center, On the Boards, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Wexner Center, Kampnagel Theater, Prater Theater, National Theatre of Mexico, Mickery Theater, Theater am Turm, Granada Festival, Eurokaz Zagreb, Bogota International Festival, Vienna Festival,Kyoto Performing Arts Center and Spoleto USA.
The field goal was the second longest in NFL history (at that time), behind the 63-yarders kicked by Tom Dempsey in 1970, Jason Elam in 1998, Sebastian Janikowski in 2011,David Akers, and Matt Prater in 2013.
In 1974 the place in the Prater where Vienna's current planetarium had been erected was named in his honor, and since 2004 the asteroid 29427 Oswaldthomas bears his name.
Prater Violet is based on Isherwood's experience as a screenwriter for the British Gaumont film Little Friend (1934), directed by Berthold Viertel and starring Matheson Lang and Nova Pilbeam.
Tulsa Jack Blake — killed April 4, 1895, near Ames, Oklahoma Territory, by Deputy U.S. Marshals Will Banks and Isaac Prater.