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The Defenestrations of Prague: A bizarre tradition of window-tossing

The Defenestrations of Prague are one of those historical events that sound more like a Monty Python sketch. This involved literally throwing people out of windows as a form of political protest. Not once, but on THREE separate occasions (1419, 1483, 1618). The third time sparked the Thirty Years' War, …
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