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"Bella gerant alii, tu felix Austria, nube." — Let others wage war; you, happy Austria, marry. — the Habsburg family motto, wielded like a pun (and a strategy) by Empress Maria Theresa
A summer breeze, a rooftop, a birthday. We were looking out over the horizons of the land from
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