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THE ACTUAL FACE OF A EUROPEAN QUEEN
Maria TheresaMay 13 1717 – November 29 1780, MARIA THERESA Archduchess AUSTRIA, CERTIFICATE OF ARMS WAX SEAL GOLD (Absolutely Authentic)
Circa: 1764
Above is the symbol of her Moorish bloodline and below is her actual face.
Maria Theresa was the only female ruler of the Habsburg dominions and the last of the House of Habsburg. She was the sovereign of Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, Mantua, Milan, Lodomeria and Galicia, the Austrian Netherlands and Parma. By marriage, she was Duchess of Lorraine, Grand Duchess of Tuscany and Holy Roman Empress. Four years before the birth of Maria Theresa, due to his lack of male heirs, Charles provided for a male-line succession failure with the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713. The Emperor favoured his own daughters over those of his elder brother and predecessor, Joseph I, in the succession, ignoring the decree he had signed during the reign of his father, Leopold I. Charles sought the other European powers’ approval, but they exacted harsh terms: England demanded that Austria abolish its overseas trading company. In total, Great Britain, France, Saxony-Poland, the Dutch Republic, Spain, Venice, States of the Church, Prussia, Russia, Denmark, Savoy-Sardinia, Bavaria, and the Diet of the Holy Roman Empire recognised the sanction. France, Spain, Saxony-Poland, Bavaria and Prussia later reneged on their agreement. Charles died in 1740, sparking the War of the Austrian Succession, which plagued his daughter and successor, Maria Theresa, for eight years.
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The Island of Zanzibar
19th century photo of the English traveler Sir John Kirk showing a daughter and son of the Sultan of Zanzibar protected by two guards
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Happy Mother’s Day! Here is Coretta Scott King singing and playing the piano with her children Yolanda, Martin III, Dexter (left corner) and Bernice at home after church in November 1964. Photo: Flip Schulke/Corbis.
