August 6, 1806: The Holy Roman Empire is Dissolved
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The dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire occurred de facto on August 6, 1806, when the last Holy Roman Emperor, Franz II of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, abdicated his title and released all imperial states and princes from their oaths and obligations to the empire.
Franz II-I, Holy Roman Emperor and Emperor of Austria
The empire was dissolved following a military defeat by the French under Napoleon at Austerlitz. Napoleon reorganized much of the Empire into the Confederation of the Rhine, a French satellite.
Emperor Franz survived the demise of the Holy Roman Empire by continuing to reign as the Emperor of Austria.
Holy Roman Empire in 1806
In 1804 Emperor Franz united his hereditary lands as Archduke of Austria and Kings of Hungary, Bohemia and Croatia into The Austrian Empire. Prior to the creation of this empire the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperors ruled these lands in person union and…
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Japan’s largest cat cafe in Kabukicho, Shinjuku, Tokyo was a relaxing and cute paradise
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Kemi Badenoch MP Oct 20, 2020 FULL SPEECH on Critical Race Theory
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No ‘Right’ Place: Industrial Wind Turbines Don’t Belong In ANYONE’S Backyard
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As wind turbines are incapable of generating power on demand and wouldn’t last a second without massive subsidies, there is no ‘right’ place for them. Any power generation source that can’t deliver electricity on demand is pointless, so talk about appropriate siting is pure nonsense. Why bother?
Rent seekers and crony capitalists are the only ones pushing to jam these things in your backyard, but rural America is pushing back.
American farming communities clearly have the upper hand in the fight to save their homes and livelihoods from the wind and solar ‘industries’ intent on destroying them.
Rural Americans are on the warpath and refuse to become roadkill for the profiteers determined to destroy their peaceful and prosperous communities. The scale and success of their resistance has clearly caught the wind and solar ‘industries’ flat-footed.
Faced with their constituents’ growing fury, local governments have sided with them; introducing laws, for…
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Franz II, the Last Holy Roman Emperor
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From the Emperor’s Desk: Tomorrow, August 6th, is the anniversary of the abdication of Holy Roman Emperor Franz II, and also the disillusion of the Holy Roman Empire itself. Today I’m featuring a small biography of Emperor Franz II, and tomorrow I will give a brief telling of the end of the Holy Roman Empire, and starting next week I will do a detailed series on the end of the Holy Roman Empire.
Imperial Standard of the Holy Roman Empire
Franz II (February 12, 1768 – March 2, 1835) was the last Holy Roman Emperor (from 1792 to 1806) and, as Franz I, the first Emperor of Austria, from 1804 to 1835. He also served as the first president of the German Confederation following its establishment in 1815.
Early life
As Archduke Franz of Austria he was a son of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II (1747–1792) and his wife…
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Spectator TV: Douglas Murray: Why the culture wars are getting uglier
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Douglas Murray, The Spectator’s associate editor, speaks to Kate Andrews about Drag Queen Story Hour, and the right’s response to it. Have they gone too far?
Read Douglas’s piece here – https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/w…
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Shakespeare’s play, Julius Caesar, was first produced, in all probability, in 1599. The plot is based entirely on three of Plutarch’s biographies of eminent Romans, which Shakespeare found in Sir Thomas North’s translations into English of The Lives of the Most Noble Greeks and Romans, first published in 1579. The three lives he drew from are those of:
As you can see, whereas the assassination only takes up the last tenth of Caesar’s life, and the period from the assassination to the Battle of Philippi only takes up ten of Antony’s 87 chapters, the assassination and aftermath constitute almost all of Plutarch’s life of Brutus which may, at a very basic level, explain why Brutus emerges as the hero’ of Shakespeare’s play.
Brief synopsis
The figure the play is named after, Julius…
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