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Editor's note: On June 27, 1964, Newsday published this article that went "Behind the Headlines," examining the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand 50 years after it occurred. We republish it ...
This summer marks the one hundred years since the beginning of World War I, a military action proclaimed to be the "War to End All Wars." While it did not accomplish that, the war did change the world ...
June 28 is the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, in Sarajevo. Though this event in 1914 is often seen as the catalyst that ultimately ...
One hundred years ago Saturday in Sarajevo, a Serb nationalist shot to death at point-blank range the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his wife Sophie.
Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos responded with some dismay to the fact that his band had inadvertently started trending as people drew comparisons between the assassination of the group’s ...
TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...
User-Created Clip by CSPANCLASSROOM November 11, 2014 2013-12-15T20:00:33-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/960/20131215200309001_hd.jpgMargaret MacMillan ...
ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND LIVES!: A WORLD WITHOUT WORLD WAR IBy Richard Ned Lebow Palgrave MacMillan, $27, 256 pages One bullet: That’s all it took to make (or perhaps unmake) the 20th century. Just ...
From 5 to 23 November, this year's Autumn Auction at Hermann Historica GmbH offered buyers the usual wide range of high quality, precious objects from numerous eras and from every corner of the globe.