Word: habichtsburg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...restoration of 21-year-old Archduke Otto von Habsburg to the throne of Austria, Hungary, or possibly both. The House of Habsburg traces its ancestry straight back to a Germanic chieftain known as Guntram the Rich who died around 950 A. D. and whose grandson built the castle of Habichtsburg or Habsburg ("Hawk's Castle") on the Aar near its junction with the Rhine. The House has never produced a great statesman or a great warrior. Two traits its sons have in- herited, a prognathous jaw and enormous physical fertility. They became successively Kings of the Germans, Emperors...
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