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You can't forget the Austo-Hungarian Empire using the assassination of Franz Ferdinand as a pretext to invade Serbia.

When Dr Ferdinand Porsche first created his company, his Porsche 64 was created using many parts from the VW Beetle.

I like how desperately this article tries to portray Ferdinand Piëch as a genius when he just got lucky.

Let's hope this plane won't be the Franz Ferdinand 100 years later.

From Ferdinand Marcos[a], Robert Mugabe[b], Suharto's closest advisors[c], the Chinese princelings[d], Burma's military junta[e], Russia's oligarchs[f] etc etc.

In the 1930's, my grandfather Ferdinand Bernauer, set up measuring stations in Iceland in an attempt to prove the theory of continental drift by showing that Iceland was spreading apart.

> Let's hope this plane won't be the Franz Ferdinand 100 years later.

- Report of the committee organized in 1486 by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain to study Columbus' plans to find a shorter route to India.

According to Hobsbawm, the main source for this subject is Ferdinand Brunot (ed.), Histoire de la langue française, Paris, 1927–1943, 13 volumes, in particular volume IX.

Ferdinand Piëch said in his autobiography: "[The leader] must have a technical background, as a development- or production technician.

Fun fact: The Beetle was originally designed by Ferdinand Porsche, so you'd even drive a "real" Porsche in both cases.

"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.

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.

Ferdinand Piech is as tech and business savvy as he is diabolical, and this article gives you a little perspective of that.

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

It seems so Archduke Ferdinand-esque to me.