June 28, 1914 –Archduck Franz Ferdinand was having an extremely bad day. He was touring Serbia with his wife, the Mallard Sophie. The purpose of his tour was to get Serbia to calm down, it having become extremely irritable for reasons known only to itself -possibly related to Austria’s occupation of the region. (Either thatContinue reading “The day the world changed”
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European history would have been dramatically different—if only for a higher-fiber diet. One of the most decisive battles in European history was fought in Belgium on June 18, 1815, as a resurgent Napoleon Bonaparte launched his final military offensive against the Duke of Wellington and the Prussian Marshal Blücher. Nearly 50,000 men were killed inContinue reading “Brought to you by Metamucil”
The Haus of Dcaligari 