Calliope articles from May 2001

Calliope archives from May 2001

Musings.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
May 1, 2001... [This] truth I have had daily set before my eyes and have fully understood [it], that I do not belong to myself but only to the public. WHO WAS THIS MARIA THERESA who placed the welfare of her people above all else? Few history texts devote...

THE ORIGINS OF THE HOUSE OF HABSBURG.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... TO SEEK THE ORIGINS OF THE HABSBURGS, IT IS NECESSARY TO look not in Austria, BUT in Switzerland. The earliest Habsburgs are shadowy figures about whom we know little more than their names. The first member of the family known by that name was...

`The Sun Never Set on This Empire'.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN'S MARRIAGE POLICIES REALIZED THEIR GREATEST SUCCESS IN THE PERSON OF HIS GRANDSON, CHARLES. BORN IN 1500 IN THE TOWN OF GHENT IN THE DUCHY OF BURGUNDY, Charles grew up as a French-speaking, Burgundian prince. He learned the...

`NO RENUNCIATION, NO ARCHDUCHESS'.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... MARIA THERESA WAS ONLY SIX YEARS OLD WHEN SHE MET THE LOVE OF HER life. Not only would she marry him, but they would have 16 children. Even after his death, she would continue to love him and no one else. Who was this man who inspired such...

Marriage and Empire.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Throughout history, royal families have used marriage as a means of diplomacy. Royal weddings helped seal pacts between rulers, and even solved problems of succession when a reigning monarch had no male heir. The Habsburgs had also resorted to...

THE ORDER OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... One of the most energetic and dynamic areas in Europe during the 1300s and 1400s was Burgundy, a territory in what is present-day France, Belgium, and the Netherlands. During this time, a powerful symbol of Burgundian influence was the Order of...

Problems of Inheritance.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... MARIA THERESA HAD NO LIVING BROTHERS. STRANGE AS IT MAY SEEM, THAT PIECE OF TRIVIA was to determine the course of her long and eventful life. To understand why, we need to look at the life of her father, the mediocre Charles VI, leader of the...

Rivals for Life.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... In October 1740, the Emperor Charles VI returned home from hunting on a cold, wet day. Chilled and drenched, He soon came down with a fever. Nine days later, he died. The throne now passed to his daughter, Maria Theresa, who was 23 years old,...

ARMIES AND WAR.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... War was almost a constant in the 1700s. The European powers fought one another with increasingly large armies: Prussia had 39,000 soldiers in 1713 and 200,000 in 1786. States were also fighting on all corners of the globe. While Austria and...

Maria Theresa THE REFORMER.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... WHEN MARIA THERESA BECAME RULER, SHE WAS FORCED TO FIGHT A LONG WAR WITH AN EMPTY TREASURY, A POORLY ORGANIZED ARMY, AND A WEAK GOVERNMENT. "I QUICKLY REALIZED WHAT WAS GOING ON," SHE SAID LATER, "AND WHY, STEP BY STEP, I TOOK MY MEASURES TO...

Maria Theresa at Home.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... As empress, Marie Theresa ruled the vast Habsburg monarchy and kept her eye on all of Europe. As a wife and mother, she watched over her family, caring for her husband Francis Stephen and for their children. Although she relied on advisors to...

MATCHMAKING SCHEMES.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Have you ever dreamed of being a prince or princess? Would you still take the role if your parents, not you, had to choose your spouse? Such was the case in Maria Theresa's time. For Maria Theresa, the underlying purpose of each match was...

Marie Antoinette.(portion of a letter to queen of France from her mother)
May 1, 2001... On December 5, 1777, Maria Theresa wrote a letter to her daughter, Marie Antoinette, trying to curb her participation in political plots. "Your luck can all to easily change, and by your own fault you may well find yourself plunged into deepest...

MAKE YOUR OWN Baiser Mit Schlag.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Austrians love their desserts. One favorite is called baiser mit schlag (bay ZAY mitt shlahg) or "kiss with whipped cream." Place small meringues, which are delicate confections of egg whites and sugar that are often called kisses, on a plate...

NOBLE AND SWEET: PAPRIKA, THE HUNGARIAN SPICE.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... In the fall, the pepper plants in the fields of southern Hungary are dotted bright red. When the ripe pods have been picked, they are sun-dried on wooden frames or draped on the sides of buildings before being sent in bags to processing plants....

A MAGNIFICENT CITY.(Vienna, Austria)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... VIENNA, THE CAPITAL OF THE HABSBURG MONARCHY, HAS A COLORFUL AND DIVERSE HISTORY THAT SPANS more than 2,000 years. Once a Celtic settlement, then a Roman camp, then a medieval town, the city did not begin to expand and prosper until the...

The Father of Schonbrunn ZOO.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... On July 31, 1752, Francis Stephen presented his small menagerie of exotic animals to the city of Vienna at the grand opening of the Schonbrunn Zoo. Today, the original 30 animals of the zoo can be seen in the oil paintings hanging above the...

BY COACH WITH THE QUEEN.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... IN MARIA THERESA'S DAY, TRAVEL WAS BY HORSE and carriage. The Habsburgs owned a magnificent fleet of coaches, sleighs, and sedan chairs for state occasions, as well as for everyday family life. The best coachmakers, saddlers, and craftsmen were...

The Arts at Schonbrunn.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... In 1762, six-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his older sister, Maria Anna (also known as Nannerl), performed a duet for Maria Theresa and her family at their summer palace, Schonbrunn. After Mozart finished, the emotional young prodigy...

A Merry Marionette.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Why are string puppets called marionettes? While it is certain that the word "marionette" comes from the French word "Marion," a form of the name "Marie," no one knows why they were named for Marie. In fact, marionettes have been around for so...

Maria Theresa's Legacy.(former Hapsburg ruler)
May 1, 2001... IN 1780, MARiA THERESA WAS 63 YEARS OLD. ALTHOUGH she had grown very heavy and suffered from rheumatism in her hands and arms, she continued to be as involved as ever with the lives of her family and with the affairs of state. She wrote daily...

INTERVIEW Karl Habsburg.(descendent of former Austrian ruling family)
May 1, 2001... What was it like growing up as a Habsburg? I grew up in exile in Germany, since at the time of my childhood my family was not yet allowed to return to Austria. My parents were, nevertheless, very keen on us having, on one side, a special...

Fun With Words.(origins of words)
May 1, 2001... WORD STORIES Cravat Travel to England and you'll find that there a necktie is called a "cravat." The reason dates to the Thirty Years' War in the 1600s, when a regiment of mercenaries (paid soldiers) from Croatia (which was part of...

BOOKS.(history reference books)
May 1, 2001... Encyclopedia of World History, introduction by Patrick K. O'Brien (Facts On File, 2000), includes more than 6,500 A-to-Z concise entries, including several on the Habsburgs, which present a panorama of people, dates, and events over the past...

MEDIA.(video recordings available about the Hapsburg Empire)
May 1, 2001... The Hapsburgs (Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1995) includes four 53-minute color videos titled: The Dream of an Empire, Cross and Crescent, The Jewel in the Crown, and Between Empire and Nation, all of which use on-site footage,...

ALSO RECOMMENDED.(books about revolution and the Hapsburg Empire)
May 1, 2001... The Age of Revolution by J.M. Roberts (Oxford University Press, 1999), Volume 7 in the 10-volume series titled The Illustrated History of the World A History of the Habsburg Empire 1273-1700 and A History of the Habsburg Empire 1700-1918...

ON THE NET.(web sites about the Hapsburg Empire)
May 1, 2001... For more information about the Habsburgs, check out: http://tschwarzer.tripod.com/ovh.htm www.geocities.com/Vienna/8253 For information about Schonbrunn palace, click on: www.schoenbrunn.at/e/homepage.html ...

TIGER LILY.(Poem)
May 1, 2001... Tiger Lily both orange and black Looks like a girl with freckles on her back. Grandpa said, "You're as pretty as can be," But that does not seem to be true to me. I looked at pictures in a beauty magazine But without...

Maria Theresa.(Poem)
May 1, 2001... I am a soldier. I live in the Schonbrunn Palace. Lots of armies are trying to conquer our land, but they can never get past us. Maria Theresa has a very nice palace. She really loves music. Last night, a boy came to...

The Piano.(Poem)
May 1, 2001... The piano My way of expressing my feeling Through the song of my choice. I play so the time passes me by. All on my own. The piano I picture myself in front of a vast crowd. A roar of the ocean as an applause...

MARIA THERESA.
May 1, 2001... Maria Theresa's titles were "Holy Roman Empress," "Queen of Hungary and Bohemia," and "Archduchess of Austria." She was born in 1717 and died in 1780. She was 63 when she died. Her father died in 1740. She was 23, both ...

Maria Theresa's Crown.(Poem)
May 1, 2001... Maria Theresa's crown They all say it's divine. I hope she's quite nice. Has she ever touched wine? They all love to greet her, They love her golden crown. I like to see her smile, She never feels down. ...