My favourite part of that URL, is that it specifies the year. Because when the rulers of Prague forget they are servants of the people, they get a repeat performance.
Millennial here. I’ve only ever seen it or heard about it in fiction in my time. Being thrown out of a window by another person just seems so fantastical to me, since I’ve never heard of it happening IRL on the news. Just in history and Wikipedia articles.
Always seemed like such a strange word. Like, it’s such a common thing that English needed a word that specifically means to throw someone out a window?
Literally means to throw out a window.
Y’know… To pull a Putin on your political detractors.
Thats such a zoomer reference. Ancient boomers remember the real defensters
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague#The_1618_Defenestration_of_Prague
Never get into an argument with a Czech above the ground floor of a building with big windows. Especially if you’re Austrian.
My favourite part of that URL, is that it specifies the year. Because when the rulers of Prague forget they are servants of the people, they get a repeat performance.
There were 3 so far
Millennial here. I’ve only ever seen it or heard about it in fiction in my time. Being thrown out of a window by another person just seems so fantastical to me, since I’ve never heard of it happening IRL on the news. Just in history and Wikipedia articles.
You’re thinking of the dude who made up the book of Mormon right?
Always seemed like such a strange word. Like, it’s such a common thing that English needed a word that specifically means to throw someone out a window?
I believe it comes from French.
It comes from Latin. De = out/out of, fenestra = window.