Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Latin Bridge near the assassination site. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand triggered World War I. Ironically, ...

A loving couple. An heir to the throne. A wife shunned by her husband’s family. Two countries bitterly at odds. A shadowy secret organization. Security officials indifferent to their responsibilities.

The heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire's throne was assassinated in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. The killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, set off a chain events that led to the ...

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One hundred years ago Saturday in Sarajevo, a Serb nationalist shot to death at point-blank range the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his wife Sophie.

This summer marks the one hundred years since the beginning of World War I, a military action proclaimed to be the "War to End All Wars." While it did not accomplish that, the war did change the world ...

From 5 to 23 November, this year's Autumn Auction at Hermann Historica GmbH offered buyers the usual wide range of high quality, precious objects from numerous eras and from every corner of the globe.

“Archduke,” the title of Rajiv Joseph’s new play, sounds like the answer to a high school social studies quiz on 20th century European history. As I hope all of you remember, the assassination of ...