archduke

Captain Blackadder: I think you mean it started when the Archduke of Austro-Hungary got shot.

The entire planet gets into a war in the early 1900s because some two-bit archduke of something-or-other got shot?

One could argue that if the Archduke had lived something else would've triggered the war and you may well be right.

Great powers were already on the brink by the time the archduke thing happened.

It is a weekend of programming, not the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand.

I think if social media is WW1, then the launch of Facebook will be considered as the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

It seems so Archduke Ferdinand-esque to me.

Most of the countries in WWI - which this poem is about - entered the war because of existing alliances, not because they were personally affected by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

In 1913, China assembled its first democratically assembled parliament, weeks after the leader of its largest party, Song Jiaoren, had been assassinated -- a murder that perhaps changed the course of global history as much as the far more famous killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary in Sarajevo a year later.

How do you differ from "If you don't censor your newspapers about the Archduke's death, we will invade?"

>> How do you differ from "If you don't censor your newspapers about the Archduke's death, we will invade?" If you make a bad argument, admit it.

So for instance on WWI, we learnt not only about Archduke Ferdinand and the Serbian "Black Hand" movement, but also about the geopolitical frictions that already existed between Austria-Hungary and Russia over the Balkan situation, etc.

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and subsequent events leading to the start of the First World War, were filled with errors and stupidity, so much that history mostly lumps them all under the term "July Crisis", and rarely goes into detail.

You still have cause-end-effect responsibility; if you leave a coffee cup on the wrong table and the wrong Bosnian assassinates the wrong Archduke, you were causally involved, but the nature of your moral responsibility is different.

Later, when the Duchy of Carinthia had fallen to the Habsburgs, the idea that it was actually the people from whom the Duke of Carinthia received his legitimation was the basis of the Habsburgs' claim to the unique title of Archduke.