Antares [antares] as a boys' name is pronounced an-TARE-ees, an-TAHR-ees. It is of Greek origin. The name of a giant red star, the brightest in the constellation Scorpio. ASSOCIATED WITH greek, red.
World War I (WWI) was sparked by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 and ended with the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. Find out what happened in between these momentous events in this WWI timeline. In a Tumultuous 1914, World War I Begins
The First World War killed 17 million people, traumatised a generation, overturned old empires and changed the world's political order â and yet its origins often seem obscure. How did WWI start? The simplest answer is that the immediate cause was the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, the archduke of Austria-Hungary. His death at the hands of Gavrilo Princip â a Serbian nationalist with ties to the secretive military group known as the Black Hand â propelled the major European military powers towards war.