Our struggle to predict the future is partly a failure of language. Phrases like “fair chance” and “highly likely” are vague and ambiguous.

When Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, on June 28, 1914, few could have known it would reverberate for four years of brutal war ...

An assassination attempt against Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico has sent shockwaves through a country where such violence is ‘unprecedented’. Central and Eastern European politicians ...

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand led to events that meant even if people didn’t want to fight, they had made promises which had to be kept. 28th July 1914 – Austria-Hungary ...

The heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, tours one of his territories; Sarajevo, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The empire – a mix of European nations with different ...

It confirms, in fact, all that we have said of the project, conceived at Paris and presented at Vienna, of placing the Archduke MAXIMILIAN on the throne of Mexico. At any rate, on this point we ...

A bout 700 feet from Zambezi National Park and less than a 10-minute drive to Mosi-oa-Tunya, a.k.a. Victoria Falls, one of ...

Who: Bosnian-Serbian nationalist who, at 19, assassinated heir-apparent to the Austro-Hungarian throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, the Duchess of Hohenberg. Why is he important?: ...

The Road to War uses elaborate and fascinating computergenerated recreations and archives never seen before to examine how the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 was used by the ...