Word: habsburgs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Habichtsburg ("Hawk's Castle") stood anciently upon a bluff near the confluence of the Rhine and Aar. From it the later Royal and Imperial House of Habsburg took its name almost 1,000 years ago. Once Holy Roman Emperors, at various later periods Emperors of Austria, Kings of Germany, Hungary, Bohemia, Spain and finally Emperors of Austria-Hungary, this potent family reached its apogee during the 68-year reign of the Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary (born 1830, ascended 1848, died 1916). Last week the Hungarian press blazed with rumors that a kinsman of the "Grand Old Emperor...
Archduke Albrecht. The newspaper Magyarsag at Bucharest pointed out exhaustively last week the degree of probability of the following possibilities: 1) Since Hungary is a "kingless-kingdom," the Hungarian Regent, Admiral Nicholas Horthy, might be directed by Parliament to transfer the Crown to the Archduke Albrecht of Habsburg who has a large Monarchist following. 2) This supposititious "King Albrecht of Hungary" might contract a marriage with Princess Ileana of Rumania. 3) Since the Hohenzollern dynasty which now rules over Rumania was elected to that eminence only 60 years ago, it is conceivable that the Rumanian Parliament might transfer the Rumanian...
Juarez and Maximilian-Downfall of an idealist; employing the incident of Maximilian von Habsburg, Emperor of Mexico. For those who take their theatre thoughtfully...
...Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya acts as regent for the kingdom of Hungary because the Allies will not yet allow the people to have what a majority of them almost certainly want, a Habsburg king...
Juarez and Maximilian. History mentions one Maximilian, a Habsburg, appointed Emperor of Mexico by Napoleon Bonaparte; records a successful revolution led by Juarez, the untimely defection of Napoleon's troops, execution of Maximilian. More colorful chronicles relate that Maximilian's proud empress, failing to obtain aid from royal kin in Europe, became insane, another victim of the "curse of the Habsburgs," which has bloodied every generation of that ill-starred line with murder and violence...