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.

Saturday marked one hundred years since the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. In hindsight, the assassination clearly marks the beginning of the process ...

Metallica didn't take their name from a historical Austrian archduke. But in a bit of proof that the band appeals across generations better than others, some students recently guessed that they did.

On June 28, 1914, Gavrilo Princip gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, as they rode through the streets of Sarajevo. Journalists and pundits have relied on a few select metaphors ...

Franz Ferdinand may be the biggest thing to hit the U.K. recently, but the band will soon find out whether or not it has what it takes to succeed in the American music industry. The group's ...

Three hapless and hungry young men fumble their way through history as they take on a mission of martyrdom. Are they fighting for Serb independence or a sandwich? Patriotism or pudding? With Archduke ...

This darkly comic and unexpectedly human take rewinds history to reveal the fateful journey of Gavrilo Princip—best remembered as Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassin—and his fellow revolutionaries in ...

Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos responded with some dismay to the fact that his band had inadvertently started trending as people drew comparisons between the assassination of the group’s ...

For all the horror that his assassination caused, Archduke Franz Ferdinand the man remains under-recognized. Made heir after his cousin committed suicide and his father declined the throne, Ferdinand ...

As we all know, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip on June 28th, 1914, and set off a series of events that led to World War I.<P>What is often not addressed, however, is the ...