Franz-Josef

For all the wonders of high-tech, Lepage's giants, Fasolt (the woofy Franz-Josef Selig) and Fafner (the more authoritative Hans-Peter König) looked like a cross between the Geico cavemen and the Vikings in that ad for the Capital One credit card (are these references to TV a blow for pop culture?).

The Met's 'Das Rheingold': Cast for the simulcast? Anne Midgette 2010

Raise these matters with Bentley's recently retired Chief Executive Franz-Josef Paefgen and he will not offer to light your cigar, I assure you.

Massive, but Not for the Masses Dan Neil 2011

One of the researchers behind the new discovery, Franz-Josef Ulm offers, “More durable concrete means that less building material and less frequent renovations will be required.”

MIT Discovery Means Next-Gen Concrete Could Last for 16,000 Years | Inhabitat 2009

Brian Harris headed Cardiff level with just over 10 minutes to play and another play-off seemed to be on the cards before Franz-Josef Honig scored the winner for the visitors with the last kick of the game.

Which teams from outside the top flight have gone furthest in Europe? 2011

If he does not emerge as an attractive figure from his biographies, or from Flashman's brief sketch on short acquaintance, it is still hard not to feel sympathy for Franz-Josef.

Watershed 2010

This is the first substantial reference in the Papers to Flashman's sojourn in Mexico in the latter half of the 1860s; hitherto we have known only that he spent time in a Mexican prison, and was an aide-de-camp to the unfortunate Emperor Maximilian, younger brother of Emperor Franz-Josef of Austria.

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Flashman's brief acquaintance with Franz-Josef illustrates many of the Emperor's characteristics: his passion for the military, his poor grasp of languages other than his own, his rather stuffy formality, his devotion to administrative detail, and the simplicity of his tastes - boiled beef and beer was a favourite meal.

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Kralta asked: "Did the Emperor Franz-Josef shake hands with you?"

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And it's just a lost trick in the game, anyway - I'll settle Franz-Josef, one way or t'other, and before long, too.

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Elisabeth bore Franz-Josef three daughters and a son, Rudolf, who is remembered only as the chief actor in the tragedy of Mayerling, where he took his own life and that of his mistress in 1889.

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