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There was a question about the Habsburg Empire in the mix that I wanted to answer but it just kept spinning out of control and I had to skip it. Sorry! But maybe on some rainy day we’ll get a post about it holding together and “the martians” turning Austria-Hungary into the scientific superpower of the 20th century.

Until then, on to more pressing matte…

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