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Sunday, February 11, 2007

World War Site

This site was actually pretty cool and it had so much information on it. There were links to find more information on every page. I think that if you wanted to know anything about world war one you could find something to answer your question through this site. After i clicked on the link for vintage media I looked at the document that was a part of a memoir of Count Franz von Harrach on the assassination of archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie. It was so interesting how they had that on the site. The memoir went into details like what Ferdinand said to Sophie as she was dying. Its so cool to think that we still have records of things from that long ago from a man who was standing right next to the car when the assassination occured. I wish they had had the complete memoir on the website because it would have been interesting to read the whole thing. They even had little video clips of Ferdinand funeral. It was cool to see that media from that long ago can be put onto a website, especially of a man whose death pretty much caused WW1.

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Blogger Unknown said...

I feel the exact same way. It really does amaze me how technology today allows us to be able to show old footage like that. And it was extremely important. The death of Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie really did trigger the war, despite whatever tensions already existed between Serbia and Austia-Hungary. As someone with Austrian descent, I can't help but feel bad for the Archduke. His family went through a lot even after that. His children were thrown in a concentration camp (Dachau) during WWII and somehow they survived and their descendents still live in Austria today. It just goes to show that wars test peoples' endurance and hope and overall willpower.

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