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So what other defenestrations are there? The ones in Prague are the ones I have heard about. I remember some movie scenes also, Axel Foley being defenestrated
by mongol 3y ago
So what other defenestrations are there? The ones in Prague are the ones I have heard about. I remember some movie scenes also, Axel Foley being defenestrated comes to mind. But was the word invented to describe the Prague events ?
- philwelch 3y agoBasketball fans might remember the time Charles Barkley threw a man through a plate glass window: https://archive.is/yZra5 https://archive.is/yZra5
- pndy 3y ago> So what other defenestrations are there? The ones in Prague are the ones I have heard about. All the "window accidents" in Russia involving people who angered Dobby of Kremlin could be counted in, I believe. Polish Wikipedia mentions a defenestration case [1] during urban revolt in Wrocław (back then Vratislav as it was under Czech crown rule) that took place between 18-22 July of 1418, so a year before the Prague's [1] - https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestracja_wroc%C5%82awska https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestracja_wroc%C5%82awska
- 48864w6ui 3y agoI doubt it: there's a castle less than 10 km from me which had a former owner defenestrated during medieval times (when who was left was more important, in property disputes, than who was right)
- 082349872349872 3y ago2 Kings 9:30-33 > And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window. And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Had Zimri peace, who slew his master? And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs. And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her under foot. TIL Gaunt Belter may have been channeling a biblical reference with "Blood's on the wall, beratnas!"
- HPsquared 3y agoSpeaking of defenestration scenes in movies, Die Hard has always been my benchmark.
- inferiorhuman 3y agoThere used to be a defenestration building in San Francisco on Sixth Street. Interesting art installation, but it's long since been dismantled.
- G3rn0ti 3y ago> So what other defenestrations are there? There are three official counts of Bohemian uprising culminating in the defenestration of officials: 1) In 1419 a Hussite crowd killed town council members in the then New Town of Prague. Notably, Hussites were a movement of reformed Christians a hundred years before Protestantism. This first official defenestration triggered the Bohemian Wars a struggle for power between Catholics and Hussites. 2) In 1483 a violent mob ejected the mayor of the Old Town of Prague through a window of the town hall. It established equal rights between the Hussites and Roman Catholics. 3) In 1618 the Catholic counts Martinice and Slavata were thrown out of a window in the K̵a̵r̵l̵š̵t̵e̵j̵n̵ Castle of Prague after they ordered to halt the construction of a Protestant church. Eventually it sparked the Thirty Years‘ War. Most notably there is also: 4) the suicide declared murder of the foreign minister of Czechoslovakia Jan Masaryk in 1948 by Russian agents is also referred to by the „4th defenestration of Prague“. Although used with an ironic undertone AFAIK.
- sideeffffect 3y agoRegarding 3), you probably meant the Prague Castle, not Karlštejn, right? Karlštejn is far from Prague.
- G3rn0ti 3y agoYou are right, of course. I mixed it up because the leader of the „defenestrators“ — Count Thurn — resided in Karlštejn before the event. And I had a reference to him in a precursor of the post.
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- tim333 3y agoFalling out of windows seems a popular way of death for critics of Putin in modern Russia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicious_deaths_of_Russian_businesspeople_(2022%E2%80%932024) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicious_deaths_of_Russian_b... Also a friend of a friend was apparently killed that way by Pete Doherty's drug dealers.
- kjkjadksj 3y agoPopular among the CIA as well.
- pedrosorio 3y agoDuring Portuguese revolts to regain independence from Spain in 1640, the secretary of state was defenestrated too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Vasconcelos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Vasconcelos
- analog31 3y agoI've read that Abraham Lincoln climbed out of a window to prevent the Illinois legislature from having a quorum at one point.