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An ancient breed once favored by Hungarian nobility, the kuvasz (pronounced KOO-vahz; plural kuvaszok, pronounced KOO-vah-sock) are giant, elegant dogs with a rich history.Sometimes called kuvs ...
Not all dogs are cut out for farm life, but some were practically born for it. When it comes to protecting chickens, certain ...
Emperor Franz-Joseph I of Austro-Hungary granted Engel and his heirs Hungarian nobility in “recognition of economic virtues.” With nobility came the addition of “de” to his surname.
VIENNA, April 6.--An immense sensation has been caused throughout Austria, and, for the matter of that, in every capital of Europe, by the shocking suicide of Count Victor Karolyi, a member of one ...
Countess Katalin Bánffy-Jelen, who has died in Tangier aged 101, came to prominence at the age of 78 when she brought a forgotten masterpiece of European literature to international attention.
Both went by the denomination of count, bestowed upon them as members of Hungarian nobility. Born in Cleveland, Varga wrestled in more than 500 matches from the 1930s to the ’70s and was known ...
The party’s over: Sepy is dead. Sepy was “Baron” Joseph de Bicske Dobronyi, the globetrotting Coconut Grove bon vivant who claimed Hungarian nobility and movie-star girlfriends, — and ...
BERLIN (AP) — Initial details of the reported daylight kidnapping of an elderly woman with links to Austro-Hungarian nobility made the apparent abduction in a small Austrian city sound like ...
He was the Archduke Albrecht of Habsburg, claimant to the Hungarian Throne (TIME, Jan. 24 et ante). As the Black Archduke passed through the Gate of Honor, two lines of guards with leopard skins ...
Alexander and Elizabeth de Halmy, last of Austro-Hungarian nobility, escaped the Nazi Holocaust and communism to find peace by Lost Lagoon.
THE HOUSE IN VIENNA (244 pp.)—Edith de Born—Knopf ($3.95).Aristocracy, like fine cheese, is usually at its most interesting in an advanced state of decay. Chekhov demonstrated this in ...