"Someone with the vision and the spirit of the creator of S'Estaca,
Archduke Ludwig Salvator."
Meanwhile, Shaikh Khalifa bin Ali hailed the visit of
Archduke Von Habsburg and Archduchess Margarete to Bahrain last March to present the Premier with the Flame of Peace honour in recognition of his statesmanship and leadership.
Archduke SEindor Von Habsburg conferred two commemorative medals on Shaikh Khalifa bin Rashid Al-Khalifa and Shaikh Khalifa bin Ali Al-Khalifa on this occasion.
On display at the Austrian Military Museum are several items relating to the 1914 assassination of
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, including the uniform he was wearing when it happened.
A Handful of Bullets: How the Murder of
Archduke Franz Ferdinand Still Menaces the Peace
In 1918, Gavrilo Princip, the assassin of
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and the
archduke's wife, Sophie, died in prison of tuberculosis.
It was in on a Sarajevo street corner on June 28, 1914, that a Bosnian Serb nationalist shot dead the Austrian
Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, setting off a chain of events that sucked Europe's great powers into four years of violence unprecedented in its scale and intensity.
In his waistband was a .38 pistol, a weapon Princip could not use just about an hour ago in a failed bid to assassinate
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro- Hungarian empire.
The ceremony, held on the centenary of the shooting of Austrian
Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, featured a march by reservists accompanied by the Honourable Artillery Company band.
The city of Sarajevo yesterday marked 100 years since the assassination of
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which triggered World War I.
He was
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire, who was assassinated in Sarajevo exactly 100 years ago today.
"
Archduke Francis and his wife die by hand of student assassin," the newspaper reported a day later.
An evil
archduke with a twitching moustache arrives and tries to buy the box of yarn.
If the pay-TV universe can be thought of in terms of world wars, we may have just witnessed the assassination of
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.
The legendary
Archduke Joseph Diamond sold for $21,474,525 (AED 79 million) in November to an anonymous bidder, setting a new world record for a colourless diamond at auction and equating to $280,000 (AED 1,028,190) per carat.
