In Austria, a district (Bezirk) is an administrative division normally encompassing several municipalities, roughly equivalent to the Landkreis in Germany. The administrative office of a district, the Bezirkshauptmannschaft, is headed by a Bezirkshauptmann.
New! The Horses of the Plains. Most of the evolutionary development of the horse (54 million years ago to about 10,000 years ago) actually took place in North America, where they developed the very successful strategy of grazing (eating grass) rather than browsing (eating softer succulent leaves).
Based on archaeological evidence , it had long been thought that horse domestication originated in the western part of the Eurasian Steppe ( Ukraine , southwest Russia and west Kazakhstan ) ; however , a single origin in a geographically restricted area appeared at odds with the large number of female lineages in the domestic horse gene pool , ...