Gavrilo Princip, second right, is arrested after the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand.
This photo is considered to be one of the biggest pictorial scoops.
Musta been one helluva magic bullet!
If the Archduke had never been assassinated, we would be living in a very different world today, one in which Fascism and Nazism and Communism would be mere words in a dictionary instead of affecting hundreds of millions of lives. So yes, one human life is as important as a billion.
My wife and I just saw a program on The History Channel concerning the details of the assasination.
For want of a driver that knew the route....
There was also a third victim; Sophie was pregnant at the time.
Does anybody know exactly which model of Browning Pistol it is??
--yeah--amazing it wasn't found "on the streets" where all those assault weapons are supposed to be---
Somehow, something in the far reaches of my brain hint that you'll be interested in this:-)
"So they've done it to us," said the cleaning woman to Mr. Svejk. "They've killed our Ferdinand."Svejk had been discharged from military service years ago when a military medical commission had pronounced him to be officially an imbecile. Now, he was making his living by selling dogs, ugly mongrel mutants that he sold as purebreds by forging their pedigrees. In addition to this demeaning vocation, Svejk also suffered from rheumatism and was just now rubbing his aching knees with camphor ice.
"Which Ferdinand, Mrs. Muller?" he asked. "I know two Ferdinands. One is the pharmacist Prusa's delivery boy, who drank up a whole bottle of hair potion once by mistake. And then, I know one Ferdinand Kokoska, who collects dog turds. Neither one would be much of a loss."
"But Mr. Svejk! They killed the Archduke Ferdinand, the one from Konopste, the fat one, the religious one."
The opening sentences from The Good Soldier Švejk and His Fortunes in the World War by Jaroslav Hašek (New English translation by Zdenek Sadlon and Emmit Joyce.)
Pretty creepy. Government tyranny killed tens of millions, and the title blames it on a gun. The gun-grabbers would be proud!
You've always struck me as a history buff (maybe it's that book you wrote). Mayhaps you'll enjoy this.
Why would a Catholic want THAT gun?
Gives me the creeps.
That gun needs to be destroyed. It's been used for evil and not something to be venerated. Then again, some are awed by evil and wish to preserve it.
Why would a Catholic want THAT gun?
Gives me the creeps.
That gun needs to be destroyed. It's been used for evil and not something to be venerated. Then again, some are awed by evil and wish to preserve it.
Why would a Catholic want THAT gun?
Gives me the creeps.
That gun needs to be destroyed. It's been used for evil and not something to be venerated. Then again, some are awed by evil and wish to preserve it.
Why would a Catholic want THAT gun?
Gives me the creeps.
That gun needs to be destroyed. It's been used for evil and not something to be venerated. Then again, some are awed by evil and wish to preserve it.
I'd love to know the progression of that dynamic.
Anyone have a pic of hitlers pistol that saved billions of people buy helping him remove hisself from the gene pool ?
You can stand in Gavrilo Princip's footsteps where he fire the fatal shot on a sidewalk in Sarajevo. Or you used to be able to - I guess it's still there.
Yes, Browning pistols are widely known for their political activism and their treacherous deeds. In fact, I think it was a Browning that ordered the Watergate break-in.