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  • Colorized film from the twilight of the Hapsburg Monarchy

    02/23/2020 2:36:53 PM PST · by NRx · 64 replies
    YouTube ^ | 09-02-2018 | Danilo Sias
    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.
  • Brian registers an amazing discovery

    11/12/2004 4:14:18 AM PST · by Jane_N · 15 replies · 1,824+ views
    Southern Daily Echo ^ | Friday 12 November 2004 | by David Newble
    IT WAS a shot that echoed round the world. When Archduke Franz Ferdinand - heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire - was assassinated in the Balkan city of Sarajevo more than 90 years ago it heralded the beginning of the most brutal conflict the world has ever seen. Yet during this week of remembrance commemorations which culminates in Remembrance Sunday on November 14, a Hampshire man has made an incredible discovery. Historian, Brian Presland, from Chandler's Ford visited the Vienna Military Museum where the car which the archduke took his last fatal drive is preserved to this day. When he got...