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A series of unfortunate events: the almost failed assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

This is the last photo of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and his wife Sophie, before they were assassinated in 1914. The event would be the catalyst that plunged Europe in World War I, but it almost didn’t happen. The story does not begin with Bogdan Žerajić, but it’s a good place to start. Žerajić had plannedContinue reading “A series of unfortunate events: the almost failed assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand”