Today’s quiz involves not the bridge but the place on the hill. Here people often made hasty, inconvenient and unplanned exits from the building. A name was given to these exits. What was it? Why did few people get hurt and who tended to leave in a hurry?
Who will win the last quiz of the year? Will it be Neha or Mary?
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is it the act of bouncing as in a bouncer?
Did try but am stumped.
Defenestration of Prague
Regents appointed by the Emperor out the window "as is customary", bribed their way into the Prague Castle (the Hradschin) where the Regents were meeting. Finding only four of the Regents along with their secretary in attendance they demanded the Regents admit they had been responsible for Klesl's letter. The first two denied responsibility and were removed from the room leaving only Count Vilem Slavata, Count Jarolslaw Martinitz (who had replaced Thorn as Castellan), known Catholic hard-liners, and the secretary to the Regents. Slavata and Martinitz had been the intended victims all along. Many in the room later claimed that they thought the two Regents were only going to be arrested and by the time they realized what was happening it was too late. The Regents were thrown out the third floor window along with the Regents' secretary, Philip Fabricius. They fell 30 metres and landed on a large pile of manure in a dry moat and survived. Philip Fabricius was later ennobled by the emperor and granted the title von Hohenfall (lit. meaning "of Highfall").
Congratulations I would never have gotten it!!!
Well done Neha! I hope you found it a fascinating little piece of history. During the religious wars the owners of Prague castle took to throwing Catholics out the windows - hence defenestration. The Catholics who largely survived invoked divine intervention. However the truth was that people routinely used to empty their toilets out the windows and the defenestrated Catholics were saved by landing in a pile of crap!
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