To be fair, anyone with a mustache like that has got to have testicular fortitude. Observation: Who still goes and does his job after surviving a grenade attack? I barely went to work when I stubbed my toe. Ferdinand made his appointment at the town hall, where he zinged the mayor and gave a speech. Dejected and hungry (my natural state), Princip headed to Moritz Schiller’s Deli for a sandwich. Princip and the rest of the assassins scattered, expecting to regroup and plan another attempt. This is where the sandwich comes into play. The added excitement of the attack caused the streets to become more chaotic and the motorcade to speed away. Čabrinović attempted suicide by ingesting a cyanide pill and jumping into the River Miljacka failed and he was taken into custody. He threw a bomb at the car, but it missed and injured the people behind the Archduke’s car. The first assassin missed his chance at the motorcade, so it was on Nedeljko Čabrinović (I cut and pasted that name). Princip, along with six other would-be assassins On Jin Sarajevo the Archduke and his wife were touring around the city with a light security force and city officials. Working with the secret society known as the Black Hand, Young Bosnia set out to assassinate the Archduke while in Sarajevo. Developing a sense of Serbian nationalism, Princip joined “Young Bosnia.” Much to my disappointment, Young Bosnia wasn’t a boy band with matching haircuts But a group of students who advocated for Pan-Slavic ideologies.

Princip would eventually move to Sarajevo, where he attended school. Gavrilo Princip, the infamous assassin of the Archduke was a 19 year old Bosnian Serb who grew up on a farm in Northwestern Bosnia. Gavrilo Princip That righteous hair is perfect for hiding club sandwiches. He was ordered by his uncle to observe military operations and various affairs of state. In 1914, The Archduke with his righteous dude mustache and wife (Duchess Sophie Chotek) traveled to Sarajevo, the Capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. For those of you who don’t, He was the heir presumptive to the crown of Austria-Hungary meaning that he would take the crown from his uncle, Emperor Franz Joseph I once he passed. If you’ve taken a high school European history class, chances are you know who Archduke Franz Ferdinand is. It’s around this time (1908) that the nation of Bosnia and Herzegovina was formally annexed by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, adding to the seeds of resentment that would lead to that fateful day.Īrchduke Franz Ferdinand That Mustache is ideal for capturing crumbs and melted cheese. Alliances and agreements between nations roped everyone into a precarious situation that was a powder keg ready to explode. Suffice it to say, a combination of resentment from past conflicts (look up Revanchism and the Balkan wars, etc) mixed with policy change and imperialism put the powers of Europe at odds with each other. It’s a complicated web of shifting alliances that aren’t sandwich based(whether or not these countries decided to share preferred bread cutting methods or mustard/mayo ratios with one another is a mystery lost to the sands of time). The dangerous political climate of Europe in the early 1900’s was due to a myriad of factors and unintended consequences. We can’t move forward with the sandwich story without laying down some context so here’s my C- 6th grade (at best) breakdown of Europe leading up to World War 1: This would be the coolest Wedding Conga line ever if it didn’t start such a devastating war. Europe Leading up to World War 1 A line of European nations entering into a volatile political climate. How could something so objectively wonderful be responsible for the “War to end all Wars?” Let’s journey back 100 years ago and find out.

Yeah, a sandwich, that thing I write about on a weekly basis. But some believe that a sandwich was the reason behind the “spark” that lit the powder keg that was Europe in 1914. Did a sandwich start one of the greatest conflicts in modern history? no.

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