Before Elon Musk became the richest man in the world, there was Jacob Fugger, a 16th-century banker worth $400 billion in today's money. But unlike Musk, Fugger knew the limits of his power and ...

Maximilian's Reply to Bishops on Church PropertyThe Gazette de France publishes the text of the reply sent by the Emperor of Mexico to a representation made to him by certain members of the ...

Vintage illustration German etching, From the Weifskunig, Maximilian I Holy Roman Emperor explores the art of cooking, History cookery culinary arts, 15th Century, by Hans Burgkmair.

In Édouard Manet’s painting “The Execution of Emperor Maximilian” — actually a series of works completed between 1867 and 1869 — a firing squad dramatically executes the Hapsburg royal and two ...

An Emperor saved by a Gael - the heroic life of Maximilian O'Donnell In 1853 a trusted chief officer saved the Emperor Joseph I from assassination and was hailed an international hero.

We are also able to announce that the Emperor MAXIMILIAN I. intends to institute a new order of knighthood on the occasion of his accession to the throne of Montezuma.

Two Confederate generals sat down with Emperor Maximilian on Aug. 24, 1865 and presented their bold plan for keeping the Austrian puppet on the Mexican throne. The battle-scarred cavalrymen of the ...

Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.

Emperor Maximilian I was the first and last ruler of the Second Mexican Empire—but his history is so much more sordid than even his doomed title implies. Beginning life as a coddled Austrian ...