defenestration

[Glenn Scheper]

I thought it a cute P-list coinage, but stumbled across it:

As a former monk, John of Selau, was leading a procession a stone was thrown at 
him from a window of the town hall. The throng, led by the knight John Zizka of 
Trocnov, attacked the town hall and threw the judge, the burgomaster, and 
several members of the town council out of the window into the street, where 
they were killed by the fall. This is known in history as the "First 
Defenestration of Prague". King Wenzel was so excited by the episode that he was 
struck with apoplexy and died.
  -- http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02121b.htm
  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Austro-Hungarian Monarchy

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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