Defenestration!?

[oblio-]

Defenstration is kinda historic habit in my country. There are even some jokes in popular culture about them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague

Your defenestration is international, we learned it at school

 

[Knut Skallagrim]

And yes it's latin as someone stated, comes from fenestra. Doing some research i even discovered that the middle german term prolly comes from latin too. Modern italian? Finestra (window). almost half of modern english vocabs come from latin. Another funny one i always like to remember is Plumber which comes from latin Plumbeum (italian: Piombo, chemical element Pb) which actually refers to the material that was composing the pipes in antiquity (lead. and, yes, it was very toxic) but in english has been used as a noun for the operator. I can imagine these protoenglish watch the latin engineer come from rome to fix the hydraulics of their town, hearing him say "nefastus acqueductum plumbeum est ubique" and calling the operator everytime he comes "plumbeum magisteeeer, pluuumbeeeeer".

/OT and sorry è.è gimme eu4 new patch pls

 

[Xaster]

That's indeed not right. This resulted in some pretty weird monarchs for Bohemia and Austria after the event too.
Thanks for reporting, This will be fixed in a future patch.

Hey I'm useful!

 

[grommile]

Thought that this was only a thing in Portugal. Nice to learn that it has a meaning all over europe!

The Second Defenstration of Prague is probably the most famous defenstration in history, since it basically kicked off the 30YW.

 

[BFTeixeira]

The Second Defenstration of Prague is probably the most famous defenstration in history, since it basically kicked off the 30YW.

I don't know much about the 30YW. That's what i love about history: you've got always something to learn about!

 

[BarskiPatzow]

And yes it's latin as someone stated, comes from fenestra. Doing some research i even discovered that the middle german term prolly comes from latin too. Modern italian? Finestra (window). almost half of modern english vocabs come from latin. Another funny one i always like to remember is Plumber which comes from latin Plumbeum (italian: Piombo, chemical element Pb) which actually refers to the material that was composing the pipes in antiquity (lead. and, yes, it was very toxic) but in english has been used as a noun for the operator. I can imagine these protoenglish watch the latin engineer come from rome to fix the hydraulics of their town, hearing him say "nefastus acqueductum plumbeum est ubique" and calling the operator everytime he comes "plumbeum magisteeeer, pluuumbeeeeer".

/OT and sorry è.è gimme eu4 new patch pls

Dafuq did I just read? Jk, good stuf.

 

[stevieji]

Defenstration is kinda historic habit in my country. There are even some jokes in popular culture about them.

I first came across the term in Dario Fo's 'Accidental Death of an Anarchist', but I had a feeling it had Czech origins. According to Wikipedia -

"Defenestration is the act of throwing someone or something out of a window.[1] The term was coined around the time of an incident in Prague Castle in the year 1618.

The term originates from two incidents in history, both occurring in Prague. In 1419, seven town officials were thrown from the Town Hall, precipitating the Hussite War.

In 1618, two Imperial governors and their secretary were tossed from Prague Castle, sparking the Thirty Years War."

Quite the national sport, it seems.

 

[PreXident]

I first came across the term in Dario Fo's 'Accidental Death of an Anarchist', but I had a feeling it had Czech origins. According to Wikipedia -

"Defenestration is the act of throwing someone or something out of a window.[1] The term was coined around the time of an incident in Prague Castle in the year 1618.

The term originates from two incidents in history, both occurring in Prague. In 1419, seven town officials were thrown from the Town Hall, precipitating the Hussite War.

In 1618, two Imperial governors and their secretary were tossed from Prague Castle, sparking the Thirty Years War."

Quite the national sport, it seems.

And there are even more!

More events of defenestration have occurred in Prague during its history, but they are not usually called defenestrations of Prague.

A defenestration (chronologically the second defenestration of Prague, sometimes called one-and-halfth defenestration) happened on 24 September 1483, when a violent overthrow of the municipal governments of the Old and New Towns ended with throwing the Old-Town portreeve and the bodies of seven killed aldermen out of the windows of the respective town halls.

Sometimes, the name the third defenestration of Prague is used, although it has no standard meaning. For example, it has been used to describe the death of Jan Masaryk, who was found below the bathroom window of the building of the Czechoslovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 10 March 1948. The official report listed the death as a suicide. However, it was widely believed he was murdered, either by the nascent Communist government in which he served as a non-partisan Foreign Minister, or by the Soviet secret services. A Prague police report in 2004 concluded after forensic research that Masaryk had indeed been thrown out the window to his death. This report was seemingly corroborated in 2006 when a Russian journalist claimed that his mother knew the Russian intelligence officer who defenestrated Masaryk.

 

[Apolojuice]

I'm going to guess that if you live in Prague, the more windows you have, the more you pay in life insurance.

"This package covers fire, flood, defenestration, but not act of God".