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Defenestrations

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Anyone who watches Westerns will have probably seen someone thrown through a saloon window. It’s long been a trope of the genre. Fortunately saloons are on the ground floor, so death is often avoided. But things are different when the window is higher off the ground.

Two deadly examples, known as the Defenestrations of Prague, sparked actual wars. In 1419, seven officials were thrown from the T...


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