Marie Antoinette of Austria is Archduchess of Austria, Princess Imperial, Princess Royal of Hungary and Bohemia, Dauphine of France, Queen of France and Navarre. Died guillotined in 1793, she was very badly perceived during her lifetime and remains a controversial personality. Bride by proxy Bor
Shivajis kingdom was now very big. The Mughal armies in South India were completely ruined by the wounds of Shivajis sword. The old sultans of Bijapur and Golconda were dead and the new sultans had no power to resist. Therefore Shivaji was now the sovereign master of his kingdom. The general public
Eliška Junková (1900 – 1994), born Alžběta Pospíšilová, was a Czech racing driver and the only woman to win a Grand Prix event. Clandestine driving lessons Eliška Junková was born on November 16, 1900 in Moravia, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Daughter of a blacksmith, she is the sixth of eight c
The Bourbon Louis Stanislas Xavier, Count of Provence, is the brother of Louis XVI. When the latter tries to flee the Tuileries and the horrors of the Revolution, the one who is called Monsieur goes into exile in Brussels and then on the banks of the Rhine. On the death of his brother, he proclaimed