Austria Edge Hungary 4-2 to Make It Two Wins from Two‎

‎Hungary remain winless after two games, sitting above Great Britain only on goal difference following the 4-2 loss...

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Steyr Pistol of Emperor Franz Joseph I, Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1909 AD

https://www.khm.at/en/artworks/selbstladepistole-system-steyr-kleines-modell-374742-1

Steyr Pistol of Emperor Franz Joseph I, Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1909 AD

https://www.khm.at/en/artworks/selbstladepistole-system-steyr-kleines-modell-374742-1

#OTD 1916: #AustriaHungary and the German Empire were the first countries in the world to introduce #DaylightSavingTime to increase the number of hours of usable daylight.

Unfortunately, the agenda item was destroyed by fire—but it is recorded, and resourceful individuals might be able to find a Ministervortrag on the subject in the Kabinettskanzlei...

https://mrp.oeaw.ac.at/pages/show.html?document=MRP-3-0-08-1-19160405-P-0095.xml&searchexpr=sommerzeit#top_MRP-3-0-08-1-19160405-P-0095_1

#histodon #histodons #histodonsDE
#history #HabsburgMonarchy #CouncilofMinisters
#EconomicHistory #WorldWarI #WWI

@tntype @dbellingradt @BiblioWingate @dohanian I found some time yesterday to go over British and American consular trade reports between the 1870s and 1910s and it appears that the majority of printing paper in Bilad al-Sham was imported from Austria-Hungary.

#PaperHistory #PaperTrade #OttomanEmpire #AustriaHungary

Such a beloved holiday song, but its story is quite sad

#Shchedryk was composed by #MykolaLeontovych based on Ukrainian #folkMusic during #WWI, when #AustriaHungary and #Russia waged terrible fighting in #Ukraine

And he composed it in #Pokrovsk

Pokrovsk at this very moment is seeing terrible fighting:

https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4071512-ukrainian-forces-destroy-russian-armored-vehicles-near-pokrovsk.html

Mykola was assassinated at age 43 by a chekist (#Soviet security agent: any Ukrainian seen as nationalistic even remotely was seen as a threat)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykola_Leontovych

A case of the “Spanish flu” in October 1918

The pandemic caught up with him on Monday, 14 October 1918. As the fever overcame him, he fell into a delirium, so he did not notice the large crowd gathering in the square outside. Day by day, while he mumbled and muttered and tossed and turned in his sweated-through sheets,

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I'm epileptic and having 20 seizures a day would be a nightmare. Let the dude have his dumplings. (mat) #Ferdinand #AustriaHungary