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Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Dan Simpson / The end of empires has not been kind to Bosnia; it deserves better

Dan Simpson / The end of empires has not been kind to Bosnia; it deserves better

One hundred years ago Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo, setting off a lot of history

The 100th anniversary on June 28 of the assassination in 1914 of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina, after which Europe rapidly descended into what became World War I, and later, arguably, World War II, gripped me.

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