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Ferdinand VI Ferdinand VI
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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 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
Ferdinand I (Holy Roman Empire) Ferdinand I (Holy Roman Empire)
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Ferdinand II (Holy Roman Empire) 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
Francis Ferdinand 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
Philip I (Spain) 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
Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein
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Ferdinand I (Italy) 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
Graf von Leopold Berchtold 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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