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To: Saije

It is refered to in those parts...as a Defenestration, as I recall.


12 posted on 10/31/2009 6:45:22 PM PDT by nkycincinnatikid
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To: nkycincinnatikid
Cf. Defenestrations of Prague. Love the headings:

First Defenestration of Prague
Second Defenestration of Prague
Further defenestrations

Roman Catholic Imperial officials claimed that the three men survived due to the mercy of angels assisting the righteousness of the Catholic cause. Protestant pamphleteers asserted that their survival had more to do with the horse excrement in which they landed than the benevolent acts of the angels.

"Tragedy is when I get a hangnail, comedy is when you fall into an open manhole and die." - Mel Brooks

17 posted on 10/31/2009 10:09:35 PM PDT by dr_lew
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