Word: habsburgs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cajetanus Pius Ignatius, Emperor (by theoretical title) of Austria, King of Hungary, Bohemia and Jerusalem, Margrave of Moravia, Grand Voivode of Serbia, Duke of Lorraine and Auschwitz, Lord of Trieste, etc., etc. On the pretender's shoulders lay the jewel-studded collar of the Golden Fleece, symbol of Habsburg knighthood. Inside the cushion before him was scattered a handful of Austrian earth -all he had left of the land from which his house had been banished...
Died. Karl Renner, 80, President of Austria; in Vienna. A lifelong Socialist, peasant-born Karl Renner became the first Chancellor of the newborn Republic of Austria after the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy in 1918. After the Nazi regime caved in, he became the first Chancellor of the Austrian provisional government, was elected President in December...
...Named for the town of Lipizza, near Trieste, onetime site of the old Habsburg stud farm...
When the $80 million Habsburg collection was on exhibition in Washington last winter, the most popular of its 131 paintings turned out to be Dutch Master Jan Vermeer's The Artist in His Studio and Venetian Jacopo Tintoretto's Susanna and the Elders. Last week Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum found that New Yorkers' tastes were just about the same-with one difference: Rembrandt van Rijn's dark and pensive Portrait of the Artist, painted when he was 46, had moved into second place, pushed Tintoretto's plump, golden-haired Susanna into third...
Married. Carl Ludwig von Habsburg, Archduke of Austria, 31, fourth son of Emperor Karl I, last ruler (1916-18) of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; and Princess Yolande de Ligne, 26, daughter of Prince Eugene de Ligne, Belgian ambassador to India; in an elaborate ceremony performed by the Primate of Belgium, at the De Ligne family castle, Beloeil, Belgium...