The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was only the trigger — the real causes ran deeper. Austria-Hungary saw a chance ...

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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 ...

As we all know, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip on June 28th, 1914, and set off a series of events that led to World War I.<P>What is often not addressed, however, is the ...

The imperial couple was on a tour of the Bosnian province that Austria had won from Turkey six years earlier. A young Serbian student was the shooter, believing that province must be Serbian. A second ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie on June 28, 1914, is widely seen as the central, precipitating event of the First World War: the spark that lit the conflagration.

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 ...

Who knew that the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria — the event that reputedly triggered the start of World War I — could be so ridiculously witty? Apparently playwright Rajiv Joseph ...

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