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Habsburg

House of Habsburg
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About Habsburg

The House of Habsburg, also known as the House of Austria, was one of the most powerful dynasties in the history of Western civilization. They were best known for ruling vast realms throughout Europe and the Americas during the Middle Ages and early modern period, including the Holy Roman Empire, the Habsburg monarchy and Spain.

On the show โ€” 4 mentions total

This is in a kind of sport, but a very old-fashioned European spot. Marrying the Habsburg. Queen Yes, that's a sport Very good No, it's In bull fighting It's when you get Gaud by a bull It's known as a horning It's been a horning in the morning Yes Morning Horning Would be a good Royal Rumble Thing for bullfighting Just in case the bullfighting People are listening Wanting to rev it up a bit Yeah The record for most hornings.

from 597: No Such Thing As Love Spaghetti, 2025-08-21 at 00:41:08 ยท read transcript

Other times Habsburg came up

  1. One more thing is that the Habsburg realm had a lot of Latin going on, which means that actually Croatia also had Latin as its main language until 1847. Yes. Again, because it was an old Habsburg realm. Yeah.

    No Such Thing As A Fence Made of Sausage, 2026-07-23 ยท listen

  2. A nightmare. A nightmare. A nightmare. One more thing is that the Habsburg realm had a lot of Latin going on, which means that actually Croatia also had Latin as its main language until 1847.

    No Such Thing As A Fence Made of Sausage, 2026-07-23 ยท listen

  3. It was a ruler called Maria Theresa who sort of stamped this in stone in the 1700s when people were thinking, shall we give up this whole dead language thing? She was a Habsburg, right? Yeah. Then there was the War of Austrian Succession where someone had died, she was in charge,.

    No Such Thing As A Fence Made of Sausage, 2026-07-23 ยท listen

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