archduke

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Something like this happened when Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in 1914.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026

When the Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated, it was with a single person.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2025

But all of Archduke Eduard’s aw-shucks baroque kitsch cannot obscure the fact that all the modern horrors that Habsburg laments, from Protestantism and capitalism to secularism and mass democracy, were birthed on his family’s watch.

From Slate • Apr. 21, 2023

She also had the backing of an important patron, Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, who had four of her paintings.

From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2022

Unbuckling his seat belt, he said to Hassan, “I wonder if they keep the Archduke with the soda or the bait.”

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green