Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria mb-code SF38087 with two members of the

with two members of the group posing for portraits

Zoological studies of the Florida softshell turtle Apalone ferox

with trees in the foreground

indirect taxation had been quite substantially reduced

Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria mb-code SF38087 with two members of theEmperor Franz Josef I of Austria, 23 July 1914. Acting on the advice of his foreign minister, Leopold von Berchtold, Franz Josef I (1830 1916) issued an ultimatum to Serbia following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Franz Josef's nephew and heir, in Sarajevo. The ultimatum was rejected as unacceptable by the Serbs, prompting Austria to declare war and setting in motion a chain of events that would plunge Europe into the First World War