Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria
| Archduke Franz Ferdinand (right) with family. Image from Photos of the Great War (http://raven.cc.ukans.edu/~kansite/ww_one/photos/greatwar.htm). |
A nephew of the Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria and next in line to the crown following the suicide of his cousin Crown Prince Rudolph at Mayerling (January 30, 1889) and the death of his father Carl Ludwig (May 19, 1896). His marriage (July 1, 1900) to the (relatively low-ranking) Countess Sophie Chotek (henceforth Duchess of Hohenburg) was permitted only after the couple had agreed that the bride would not enjoy royal status and their children would have no claims to the throne. Franz Josef did not attend the wedding.
Franz Ferdinand alienated many sections of Austro-Hungarian political opinion, including Hungarian nationalists who opposed his advocacy of manhood suffrage which would undermine Magyar domination in the Hungarian kingdom, both supporters and opponents of the Empire's existing dualist structure suspicious of his idea for a third Croat-dominated Slav kingdom including Bosnia and Herzegovina as a bulwark against Serbian irredentism, and non-Catholics and anticlericalists angered by his patronage (April 22, 1900) of the Catholic Schools Association.
No evidence has been found to support suggestions that his low-security visit to Sarajevo was arranged by elements within Austro-Hungarian official circles with the intention of exposing him to the risk of assassination so as to remove a potentially troublesome royal personage from the scene.
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into little boxes to take them alive to Japan! Round about the deck
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weapon that we could kill the seal with, so we asked the Japanese
of them were coming across the ice with a seal in front of them;
when it would not go. If it fell into a crack, they dug it up again
in it to be able to escape its tormentors. All this was accompanied
dead, and it was left there till it expired.
On the 19th we had a fresh south-westerly wind and a lot of ice
round among the floes and picking up men, dogs, cases, and so on, as
the ice came out, so the Fram went in, right up to fat. 78°35' S.,
she disappeared. Nor did we see the vessel again, but a couple of
and we drifted so far out in the thick snow that it was only on the
mass of ice. In the course of these two days so much ice had.
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