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  Sophie Chotek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Pope Leo XIII all made representations to Franz Josef on Franz Ferdinand's behalf arguing that the disagreement was undermining the stability of the monarchy.
Franz Ferdinand was allowed to marry Sophie but it was stipulated that her descendants would not be allowed to succeed to the throne.
Franz Ferdinand and Sophie were in the second car with Oskar Potiorek and Count von Harrach.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sophie_Chotek   (1029 words)

  
 World War I - Outbreak of the War
Franz Urban, the Archdukes driver, drove extremely fast and the other five Black Hand members decided it was useless to try and kill the Archduke while the car was going that fast.
Franz Ferdinand was hit in the neck and his wife in the abdomen.
Franz Urban drove the couple to the governor's residence.
techcenter.davidson.k12.nc.us /Group9/outbreak.htm   (1070 words)

  
 Oskar Potiorek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Potiorek was a co-passenger in the car carrying Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Countess Sophie Chotek when they were assassinated in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, in an event which is seen as the start of World War I.
On the way to the hospital, Urban took a right turn into Franz Joseph Street, where one of the conspirators, Gavrilo Princip, was standing on the corner at the time.
Franz Ferdinand was hit in the neck and Sophie in the abdomen.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oskar_Potiorek   (417 words)

  
 Gavrilo Princip - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Franz Ferdinand and Sophia were in the second car with Oskar Potiorek and Count von Harrach.
However, Franz Ferdinand decided to go to the hospital and visit the victims of Čabrinović's bomb.
Franz Ferdinand was hit in the neck and Sophia in the abdomen.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gavrilo_Princip   (667 words)

  
 Propaganda Postcards of the Great War (World War 1), Sarajevo Murder
Franz Ferdinand, eldest son of Carl Ludwig, the brother of emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary, was born in 1863.
Franz Ferdinand's driver, Franz Urban, drove on extremely fast and other members of the "Black Hand" were unable to fire their guns or hurl their bombs at the archduke's car.
Franz Urban drove the couple to Konak, the governor's residence, but although both were still alive when they arrived, theu died from their wounds soon afterwards.
www.ww1-propaganda-cards.com /sarajevo_murder.html   (467 words)

  
 Franz Karun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Mr Franz Karun, 39, was born 2 December 1872 near Milje, Austria-Hungary (modern Slovenia).
Franz was married to Marianna Vombergar and they had five children: Frances, Urban, Manca, Frank and Mary (1).
"Anna" is identified as Franz's niece and the two are reported to have swum away from the wreck before being hauled aboard a passing collapsible when in fact they most likely boarded lifeboat 15 which was lowered from the deck.
www.encyclopedia-titanica.org /bio.php/927.html   (620 words)

  
 Exhibiton 78; Franz Ackermann   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Concurrently to the exhibition of Dietrich Orth, works of the Berlin-based artist Franz Ackermann, born in 1963, can be seen.
The young artistic work of Franz Ackermann, as well as his methods of research, cannot be fixed to a certain genre or to a certain medium.
Cities as spatial but also mental orientations within an urban network; urban structure as a model for cultural and social systems of reference - these are themes Franz Ackermann is preoccupied with in an individual and virulent manner.
www.portikus.de /ArchiveA0078A.html   (236 words)

  
 First World War.com - Who's Who - Oskar Potiorek
Franz Ferdinand arrived in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914, a Sunday, and was met at the railway station by Potiorek, to be taken on to the city hall for the reception and speeches.
However the driver of Ferdinand's car, Franz Urban, was not informed of the change of plan and so took the original route.
Urban drove the car to the governor's residence at Konak; the couple died soon afterwards.
www.firstworldwar.com /bio/potiorek.htm   (581 words)

  
 First World War.com - Who's Who - Gavrilo Princip
Princip was one of three men sent by Dragutin Dimitrijevic, the chief of the Intelligence Department in the Serbian Army and head of the Black Hand, to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, during his visit to Sarajevo on 28 June 1914.
Franz Ferdinand arrived in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914, a Sunday, and was met at the railway station by General Potiorek, to be taken on to the city hall for the reception and speeches.
Gavrilo Princip, who happened to be in Franz Joseph Street at a cafe, seized his opportunity, and took aim at Ferdinand from a distance of five feet.
www.firstworldwar.com /bio/princip.htm   (806 words)

  
 German Journal of Urban Studies (DfK) | Imprint+Contact | English Version
Since it is not possible to define the urban regions of all East German independent cities in an identical way, only eleven urban regions have been selected, which reduces the general validity of the findings.
This means that, although the level of outmigration from cities into surrounding areas improves the migration balance of the urban field, the deficit of births in the city and in surrounding areas, as well as their negative migration balance with other regions cannot be compensated overall.
Franz 2003, 162 f.) is beyond the scope of this article.
www.difu.de /publikationen/dfk/en/04_1/04_1_franz.shtml   (4257 words)

  
 Sophie Chotek biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Emperor Franz Josef immediately made it clear to Archduke Franz that he would not be allowed to marry Sophie.
To be an eligible partner for a member of the Austro-Hungarian royal family, one must be descended from the House of Hapsburg or from one of the ruling dynasties of Europe.
The only people of the royal family who went to the ceremony was Franz Ferdinand's stepmother and her two daughters.
sophie-chotek.biography.ms   (927 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Franz Urban Pappi was born in Pfarrkirchen, Bavaria, in 1939.
Pappi, Franz Urban; König, Thomas, and Knoke, David (1995): Entscheidungsprozesse in der Arbeits- und Sozialpolitik.
Pappi, Franz Urban and Thurner, Paul W. (2002): Electoral behavior in a two-vote-system: Incentives for ticket splitting in German Bundestag elections.
www.sfb504.uni-mannheim.de /people/pappi   (328 words)

  
 BBC - Radio 1 News Artist A-Z - Franz Ferdinand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Franz Ferdinand are leading the nominations for the NME awards.
Franz Ferdinand are the favourites to walk off with armful of Brits next month.
Franz Ferdinand have added an invite from Buckingham Palace to the Mercury award on their mantlepiece.
www.bbc.co.uk /radio1/artist_area/franzferdinand   (319 words)

  
 Franz Ferdinand - Das Attentat
Franz Ferdinand was in command during the two days of exercises in which the 'North Camp (XV.Armee-Korps) and 'South Camp' (XVI.Armee-Korps) scrambled over craggy rainswept hills, lugging equipment and heavy artillery with unusual efficiency.
Again, Sophie composed her irate husband with the merest touch on his arm, soothing the tense situation, and Franz Ferdinand evenly read the prepared statement, improvising one deft change to consider the welcome extended to his wife and himself as expressions of joy that the attempt on his and his wife's life was foiled.
The second shot had hit Franz Ferdinand in the right side of the neck and his jugular vein was spouting blood from a horrible wound (although this was not immediately visible under his high collar).
www.btinternet.com /~J.Pasteur/Attentat.html   (4969 words)

  
 Franz Strauss
Franz Joseph Strauss was born February 26, 1822 in Parkstein, Bavaria (Oberpfalz), 28 miles from Bayreuth.
This fact was decisive in the future life of Franz Strauss, as musical activities for the Walter family were not only a matter of course but a part of the profession, since Michael Walter (1771-1831) - the grandfather of Franz Strauss-switched from teacher to watchman on the tower (warder) at Parkstein.
Franz Strauss was also involved with the development of the Wagnertuba, even the Rheingold premiere (a special commanded royal performance with 3 rehearsals only !!) had borrowed Euphoniums from the military band.
www.hornplayer.net /archive/a62.html   (2410 words)

  
 Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand, eldest son of Carl Ludwig, the brother of Emperor Franz Josef, was born in 1863.
Franz Ferdinand's driver, Franz Urban, drove on extremely fast and other members of the Black Hand group on the route, Cvijetko Popovic, Gavrilo Princip, Danilo Ilic and Trifko Grabez, were unable to fire their guns or hurl their bombs at the Archduke's car.
Franz Ferdinand was hit in the neck and Sophie von Chotkovato in the abdomen.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWarchduke.htm   (1905 words)

  
 PortlandTribune.com
Franz Bakery’s expansion at its historic location on the central east side depends on the relocation of a sewer line underneath Northeast 11th Avenue, which runs through the middle of the bakery’s complex.
But Franz, which purchased the part of Northeast 11th Avenue that runs through its complex from the city in the 1970s, has offered to split the costs with the PDC if it is done sooner, said Doug Fish, a spokesman for Franz’s parent, U.S. Bakery.
Kelly Bruun, chairman of the Urban Renewal Advisory Committee and a partner in Lorentz Bruun Contractors, said the decision on whether to extend the central east-side district “is a no-brainer.
www.portlandtribune.com /archview.cgi?id=28893   (1004 words)

  
 Eduard Heimann: Franz Oppenheimer's Economic Ideas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
n Franz Oppenheimer the social sciences have lost a man in whom the great emancipators of the human mind in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries seemed to have risen again, in new and original incorporation.
In a harmonious system, where the land is not appropriated, an urban worker would demand and get as much as he could otherwise receive as an independent peasant on free land; in the hybrid structure the wage is pressed down to that of an agricultural serf.
This makes urban capital property a means of exploitation alongside great landed property: the propertyless suffers a deduction from his rightful wage, the product of his work, to the profit of the big owners.
www.opp.uni-wuppertal.de /oppenheimer/eh44a.htm   (3832 words)

  
 Gavrilo Princip biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Gavrilo Princip (July 25, 1894 – April 28, 1918) was a Bosnian Serb nationalist who killed Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, and his wife Countess Sophie in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, prompting the Austrian action against Serbia that led to World War I.
Born in Obljaj, Bosansko Grahovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Princip was a member of the Serb group Young Bosnia (Mlada Bosna), which advocated Bosnia's unification with Serbia.
General Oskar Potiorek, Governor of the Austrian provinces of Bosnia-Herzegovina had invited Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Sophie to watch his troops on maneuvers.
gavrilo-princip.biography.ms   (553 words)

  
 BBC - Radio 1 News - Brits25 - What do you think
franz ferdinand are good but not really rock, but as someone said anybody weilding a guitar is seen as 'rock'.
Yes it was competitive and franz are a good band but muse are quite obviously a "better" band.
Franz are a real 1 trick pony with only 1 good tune that has now been played to death.
www.bbc.co.uk /radio1/news/brits2005/wdyt_2.shtml   (6775 words)

  
 Fourth Research Programm of the MZES (1999 - 2001)
Research Area 4 is identical to the interdisciplinary research group initiated by Franz Urban Pappi and approved by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Franz Urban Pappi co-ordinates the group at the MZES.
The names of the candidates supervised by Beate Kohler-Koch and Franz Urban Pappi and the working titles of their dissertations are:
www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de /res_prog_e_99/fp_99101.htm   (883 words)

  
 Franz Ackermann - The Saatchi Gallery - The Triumph of Painting
Inspired by the phenomena of urban generation, globalism and cultural commodification, Ackermann is a contemporary explorer, scavenging the world in search of exotica.
German artist Franz Ackermann is a perpetual tourist, but not of the ordinary kind.
Inspired by the phenomena of urban generation, globalisation and cultural commodification, Ackermann’s paintings adopt the modern superficiality of pop.
www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk /artists/ackermann.htm   (910 words)

  
 [06-03-96] Franz Schurmann, Can Cities Feed Themselves? Worldwide Turn to Urban Gardening Signals Hope
All over the world there is a turn to urban gardening that, combined with technological breakthroughs on the energy front, offers hope for a sustainable future.
PNS editor Franz Schurmann, a professor emeritus of history and sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, has traveled widely in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
In a recently published report entitled Urban Agriculture, the UN Development Program documents how urban farming is spreading in every part of the world, both developed and developing.
www.pacificnews.org /jinn/stories/2.12/960603-habitat.html   (847 words)

  
 Assassination at Sarajevo
General Oskar Potiorek, Governor of the Austrian provinces of Bosnia-Herzegovina, invited Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Inspector of the Austro-Hungarian Army, and his wife, Sophie von Chotkovato, to watch his troops on maneuvers in June, 1914.
Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, knew that the visit would be dangerous.
Two hours before Franz Ferdinand arrived in Sarajevo all the twenty-two conspirators were distributed 500 yards apart over the whole route along which the Archduke must travel from the railroad station to the town hall.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWassassination.htm   (2599 words)

  
 Powell's Books - Netzstadt: Designing the Urban by Franz Oswald and Peter Baccini
It facilitates the differentiated portrayal of an urban development which has characterized cities and landscapes since the middle of the twentieth centruy.
A scientific approach to urban planning and urban development is rare—here a fascinating publication which fills a gap in contemporary literature.
Franz Oswald is Professor of Architecture and Design, Peter Baccini is Professor of Resource and Waste Management at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, both at the ETH in Zurich.
www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=4-3764369639-0   (338 words)

  
 Prof. Dr. Franz Urban Pappi
Pappi, Franz Urban / Shikano, Susumu (2004): Ideologische Signale in den Wahlprogrammen der deutschen Bundestagsparteien 1980 bis 2002.
Pappi, Franz Urban (2004): Koalitionstheoretische Kriterien zur Beurteilung der Regierungsbildung in den Ländern der Europäischen Union.
Pappi, Franz Urban / Gschwend, Thomas (2003): Partei- und Koalitionspräferenzen der Wähler bei der Bundestagswahl 1998 und 2002.
www.sowi.uni-mannheim.de /lehrstuehle/lspol1/pappi.htm   (1194 words)

  
 Great war 1914 begun with assassination Archiduc Francois Ferdinand: pictures.
The three men were instructed to commit suicide after Archduke Franz Ferdinand had been killed as it was important to Dimitrijevic that the men did not have the opportunity to confess that members of the Serbian Army were involved in the assassination.
Franz Ferdinand and Sophie von Chotkovato were in the second car with Oskar Potiorek and Count von Harrach.
A hundred and twenty policemen were placed along the route that the royal party was to take on its way to the City Hall but it was decided that the 70,000 Austro-Hungarian soldiers in Sarajevo were to be kept in their barracks.
www.glacombe.com /war14.html   (1253 words)

  
 The Archduchess Sophie of Hohenburg
The couple fell in love but although Sophie came from a prominent Bohemian family, Franz Ferdinand knew that she would not be accepted as the wife of the future emperor.
Sophie was immediately dismissed and the knowledge of her relationship with Franz Ferdinand created a public scandal.
Franz Ferdinand's driver, Franz Urban, drove on extremely fast and other members of the Black Hand group on the route, Cvijetko Popovic, Gavrilo Princip, Danilo Ilic and Trifko Grabez, decided that it was useless to try and kill the archduke when the car was going at this speed.
members.fortunecity.se /mikaelxii/ww1/sophie.html   (990 words)

  
 Congressional Medal of Honor - World War I Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients History and Citation Index
The only people of the royal family who went to the ceremony was Franz Ferdinand's stepmother, Maria Theresia, and her two daughters.
Franz Ferdinand knew that the journey would be dangerous.
Stay alive for our children!" Franz Urban drove the royal couple to Konak, the governor's residence, but although both were still alive when they arrived, they died from their wounds soon afterwards.
www.medalofhonor.com /WorldWarI.htm   (1502 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Ghosty Men: The Strange But True Story of the Collyer Brothers, New York's Greatest Hoarders: An ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
When 65-year-old Homer Collyer, blind and crippled by rheumatism, was found dead in his dilapidated, junk-filled Harlem brownstone in March 1947, the discovery made all of New York's newspapers, as did the subsequent hunt for his younger brother, Langley, whose body was finally located under piles of debris.
In this slim volume, part of Bloomsbury's Urban Historicals series, Lidz, a memoirist (Unstrung Heroes) and senior writer at Sports Illustrated, examines the Collyer brothers' intriguing, baffling lives.
The compulsive hermits came from a respected, well-to-do family and were educated at Columbia, Homer as a lawyer and Langley, who was a talented pianist, as an engineer.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/158234311X   (1474 words)

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