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Friday, July 8, 2011
Otto von Habsburg aka the Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary aka Franz Joseph Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Max Heinrich Sixtus Xavier Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetan Pius Ignatius von Habsburg
The last crown prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and subversive activist -- via the New York Times. He worked for freedom, most notably as an organizer of the Pan-European Picnic, a demonstration that enabled the defection of hundreds of East Germans in 1989, triggering the collapse of the Iron Curtain.
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