Europe is home to some of the most breathtaking palaces in the world, each one built to showcase power, wealth, and royal ...

Nash, Joseph, 1809-1878; Haghe, Louis, 1806-1885; Roberts, David, 1796-1864; Dickinson Brothers (Firm) Publication date 1852 Topics Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England) Publisher London : ...

Pope Leo XIV has appointed Chinese Bishop Joseph Lin Yuntuan as an assistant in Fuzhou, the capital of China's south-eastern Fujian province. It's his first appointment under a controversial ...

Austria came to a standstill on Wednesday to mourn victims of one of the worst outbreaks of violence in its modern history, as authorities search for clues to why a 21-year-old gunman shot dead 10 ...

View Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria - tea set (1907) By J. C. Klinkosch; silver, partly ivory handles and insulations; height of hot water kettle with rechaud 28.5 cm (without handle), tray 62.5 x ...

xvi, 547 pages 23 cm Published also in German Archduke Franzi -- The young emperor -- Dictating a constitution: absolutism transitional and permanent -- Francis Joseph his own foreign minister -- ...

PART TWO OF A FOUR PART SERIESTHE ARCHDUKE IS A HARD MAN TO SATISFYArchduke Franz Ferdinand was told by local aboriginal guides he “couldn’t go wrong” on the hunt his party was planning up ...