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Ferdinand VI
FERDINAND VI (SPAIN) (1713 Read more |
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Franz Ferdinand
Franz FerdinandRock group In the late 1990s, the world of mainstream pop was dominated by teen-pop groups like the Backstreet Boys and N*Sync, as well as hip-hop and R&B. Come the new millennium, however, rock and roll seemed to start kicking back, bolstered by the newfound success of bands... Read more |
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Gavrilo Princip
Gavrilo Princip It would have been incomprehensible, at the turn of the nineteenth century, to believe that the actions of one man could set in motion a series of events that would reverberate through history for the next nine decades. Yet when Gavrilo Princip (1894-1918) stepped in front of the... Read more |
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Ferdinand I (Holy Roman Empire)
FERDINAND I (HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE) (1503 Read more |
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Ferdinand II (Holy Roman Empire)
Ferdinand II 1578-1637, Holy Roman emperor (1619-37), king of Bohemia (1617-37) and of Hungary (1618-37); successor of Holy Roman Emperor Matthias. Grandson of Ferdinand I , son of Archduke Charles of Styria, Ferdinand was educated by the Jesuits and supported the Counter Reformation. He was... Read more |
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Francis Ferdinand
Francis Ferdinand 1863-1914, Austrian archduke, heir apparent (after 1889) of his uncle, Emperor Francis Joseph. In 1900 he married a Czech, Sophie Chotek. She was made duchess of Hohenberg, but because she was of minor nobility their children were barred from succession. Laboring to transform the... Read more |
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Philip I (Spain)
Philip I (Philip the Handsome), 1478-1506, Spanish king of Castile (1506), archduke of Austria, titular duke of Burgundy, son of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I and Mary of Burgundy . Heir to his mother's Burgundian dominions (which included the Low Countries), he was held prisoner after her... Read more |
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Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein
Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein , 1583-1634, imperial general in the Thirty Years War , b. Bohemia. He attended the Lutheran academy at Altdorf but at the age of 20 converted to Roman Catholicism. He advanced his fortune by marriage to a wealthy widow, and for his support of Archduke... Read more |
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Ferdinand I (Italy)
Ferdinand I 1751-1825, king of the Two Sicilies (1816-25). He had previously been king of Naples (1759-99, 1799-1805, 1815-16) as Ferdinand IV and king of Sicily (1759-1816) as Ferdinand III. A Spanish Bourbon, Ferdinand succeeded (1759) to the two kingdoms when his father and predecessor became... Read more |
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Graf von Leopold Berchtold
Leopold Berchtold, Graf von , 1863-1942, Austro-Hungarian foreign minister (1912-15). During the Balkan Wars he successfully worked for the creation of an independent Albania to block Serbian access to the Adriatic Sea. After the assassination (June 28, 1914) of Archduke Francis Ferdinand at... Read more |
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