Posted on 02/23/2020 2:36:53 PM PST by NRx
A world gone by. Colorized film from the last years of the Austro-Hungarian Imperial Court showing Franz Joseph, Archduke (later Emperor) Karl and the Archduchess Xenia, and I think I saw the ill-fated Franz Ferdinand in there as well. Background music is the old imperial anthem Gott Erhalte Franz den Kaiser.
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For your interest. :)
At 2:21, notice the tall guy standing between the dignitaries and the crowds. Now we might think of him as being 6’-6” or higher but back then I wonder if he’s six feet tall?
Beautiful work. It all fell so very quickly. The Romanov, Habsburg, and Ottoman empires all gone in the blink of an eye.
I was thinking of the kid at 0:57 and the stories he would tell his kids and grandchildren... “Yep, reminds me of when I used to go hunting with the Emperor...”
The wealthiest and most advanced civilization the world has ever known.
It simply shriveled on the vine, then was burned to ash.
Oops. I meant: At ~06 seconds, notice the tall guy standing between the dignitaries and the crowds. Now we might think of him as being 6’-6” or higher but back then I wonder if he’s barely six feet tall?
Civilizational suicide in the space of four years.
One wonders if any of the people seen in the video had any clue as to what was about to happen?
1797..?
The year of the national anthem.
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Fascinating! Thanks for posting.
Look at the aftermath ever since. The Habsburg, Romanov, and Hohenzollern empires would never have welcomed in hordes of Muslim invaders to destroy their societies from within.
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That was beautifully done. Very well-colored and sharp.
It makes me sad though, that the uniqueness of a number of cultures has vanished in the last century, and very few remnants remain.
Peter the Great stood six feet eight inches tall, and that was well before this timeframe.
Maybe not, but two of those three had significant Muslim indigenous populations.
At the end of the Second World War the crown jewels were recovered in Mattsee, Austria, on 4 May 1945 by the U.S. 86th Infantry Division.[14] The crown jewels were transported to Western Europe and eventually given to the United States Army by the Hungarian Crown Guard for safekeeping from the Soviet Union.[15] For much of the Cold War the crown was held at the United States Bullion Depository (Fort Knox, Kentucky) alongside the bulk of America's gold reserves and other priceless historical items. After undergoing extensive historical research to verify the crown as genuine, it was returned to Hungary by order of U.S. President Jimmy Carter on 6 January 1978. Most current academic knowledge about Hungarian royal garments originates from this modern research. Following substantial U.S. political debate, the agreement to return the jewels contained many conditions to ensure the people of Hungary, rather than its Communist government, took possession of the jewels.[16] The majority of the Hungarian-American population opposed the decision to return the crown.[17] On January 6, 1978, US Secretary of State Cyrus Vance returned the Crown to Hungary in Budapest.
What year is the actual video from?
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