defenestration

[Peter Fellows-McCully]

Note the involvement of "Count Thurn" in the second defenestration.

P. 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf Of Henry Musikar
> Sent: 26 March 2009 14:37
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> Subject: RE: defenestration
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> And then a hundred years later... 
> http://tinyurl.com/defenestration-of-prague 
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> http://tinyurl.com/defenestration-prague-posters 
> 
> Henry Mu
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 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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