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Entry: An Inconvenient Miracle Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/an_inconvenient_miracle#17348 Post contents: I have no clue about Karl, as he is pretty much a non-entity as far as Balkan history goes. I have no doubt he loved his wife, was good to his children, and kind to stray animals. But this Hapsburgostalgia is abolute crap. The Empire was originally a grouping of several differing Kingdoms in order to fight the Turks. It succeeded, but sort of like NATO today, lingered on, lookin for a purpose. The subtlety of the history might escape some of you wackier Catholic traditionalists, but by the late 18th century the Old Empire was one of the primary supporters of the 'Enlightenment'. Wiki Maria Teresa and Joseph II. By the 19th century it turned its back on Christians of the Eastern Kind, being more concerned with its state interests than with its original purpose. It was neld together through spies and censorship. It tried to impose German language on a both the Hungarians and Croatians (eliminating not Hungarian or Croatian but Latin as the language of politics, btw). When it occupied Bosnia it systematically favored the Muslims to the detriment of both Catholics and Orthodox. The late Austro-Hungarian empire was evil. Sent at: 2008 07 08