Near the end of the 17th century, Emperor Leopold I of Austria took refuge in the Shrine of Mary Help of Christians at Pasau, when 200,000 Ottoman Turks besieged the capital city of Vienna ...

nee Princess Louise Augusta of Baden alexander i of russia stock illustrations Portraits of Emperor Alexander I of Russia (1777-1825), with his... The founders of the Holy Alliance ,Frederick William ...

Among the hail and hearty was a Portuguese navigator and explorer Pedro Ferdinand de Quiros who sailed into Australian ... He had named the land after Philip III of Spain, a prince of the House of ...

The last time the veto was used was by Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary in the Conclave of 1903, to block the nomination of Cardinal Mariano Rampolla. As a replacement, Cardinal Giuseppe ...

At a small high-end confectionery in Vienna, chefs put the finishing touches to one of Austria's signature souvenirs: Mozart chocolate balls filled with marzipan, pistachio, and rich almond and ...

The Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies was founded in 2008 to promote an understanding of the historic relationship between the United States and Austria, including the lands of the ...

When the new Ponte Vecchio was completed, it too was home to local food stores until Grand Duke Ferdinand I of the Medici family decided to designate this unadorned bridge the epicenter of the ...

Ascended the throne on 24 March 1603. Coronation: Westminster Abbey, 25 July 1603 as King of Great Britain and Ireland. Died: Theobalds Park, Hertfordshire, 27 March 1625. Buried Westminster Abbey.

Centuries before homosexuality was made legal between consenting adults in 1967, the ‘love that dare not speak its name’ was viewed as a sin in England, particularly by the church, and technically ...