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1 day ago · The House of Oldenburg is an ancient dynasty of German origin whose members rule or have ruled in Denmark, Iceland, Greece, Norway, Russia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Livonia, Schleswig, Holstein, and Oldenburg. The current King of the United Kingdom and King of Norway are agnatic members of this house, meanwhile the King of Spain and King of ...
- Elimar I, Count of Oldenburg
Sources. Ǿstergård, Uffe (2015). "Nation-Building and...
- Christoph, Prince of Schleswig-Holstein
Christoph Prinz zu Schleswig-Holstein (22 August 1949 – 27...
- Elimar I, Count of Oldenburg
4 days ago · Franz Joseph I on the invention of the phonograph. Recorded 1900. Franz Joseph I or Francis Joseph I ( German: Franz Joseph Karl [fʁants ˈjoːzɛf ˈkaʁl]; Hungarian: Ferenc József Károly [ˈfɛrɛnt͡s ˈjoːʒɛf ˈkaːroj]; 18 August 1830 – 21 November 1916) was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, and the ruler of the other states of ...
3 days ago · On 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were shot dead after a wrong turn by two gun shots in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, one of a group of six assassins (five Serbs and one Bosniak) co-ordinated by Danilo Ilić, a Bosnian Serb and a member of ...
4 days ago · In Gertrude and Heilke’s latter years, they took up residence in a convent; according to Mulder-Bakker’s convincing hypothesis, they did so after concluding a donation inter vivos with tertiaries, or ‘regel swestern’ (pp. 39-40). The implications of these connections and evolutions would repay further attention.
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5 days ago · 1. Impossible to Remember. As with any member of a European royal family, “Franz Ferdinand” had a long and complicated name. Ferdinand had been christened Franz Ferdinand Karl Ludwig Joseph ...
2 days ago · The task of identifying the country of origin of a particular Ashkenazic name is less trivial. Numerous names that are identical or have a similar structure were acquired at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries in Alsace, German provinces, Austria, Czech lands, Hungary, Galicia, Congress (Russian) Poland and the Russian Pale of Settlement.
3 days ago · assassination, the murder of a public figure. The term typically refers to the killing of government leaders and other prominent persons for political purposes—such as to seize power, to start a revolution, to draw attention to a cause, to exact revenge, or to undermine a regime or its critics. Such politically motivated murders have taken ...
