Holiday Homework
Prague has an ancient and noble tradition of defenestration.
This began in July 1419 when the Catholic Church (that would be us again) “purified” a local sect and, in retaliation, surviving protestors threw the local mayor and a few of his advisors out of his office window.
Since then, over the centuries, numerous civil leaders have been thrown out of windows in response to the Catholic persecution of Protestant minorities. You’d have thought that, after a hundred years or so, the locals would have worked out who was causing the trouble and dealt with them directly.
Just to be on the safe side, this Catholic is going to make sure that his hotel room is on the first floor – above the bar.
Thrown out of windows for being Catholic, and thrown out of bars… do you have an excuse for that?
Comment by simon — July 1, 2004 @ 6:18 pm
Ah, the infamous Defenestration of Prague. What’s amusing is the story associated therewith. Those poor sods actually survived getting thrown out of the window. One side of the story says they were grabbed by angels who lowered them gently to the ground below. The other side says the landed in a massive dung heap.
Which is true, I wonder? Perhaps a group of angels grabbed them as they were falling and threw them in a dung heap…
Comment by Faelaern — July 1, 2004 @ 10:39 pm
You know that there have been at least three notable defenestrations in Prague? There’s 1419, 1618 (start of the Thirty Years War) and 1948.
Lucky you came out intact (without need for either divine intervention or a dungheap).
Comment by Ancarett — July 3, 2004 @ 10:27 pm