During the religious wars of the 1600s the owners of Prague castle took to throwing Catholics out the windows - hence defenestration (The word comes from the Latin de- down or away from and fenestra window or opening).
Prague castle sits on a high cliff. However, the Catholics who largely survived, invoked divine intervention. In reality 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!
Once again Neha has won the Quiz. Well done!
1 comment:
Defenestration? Oh yeah, how could I ever forget that word for throwing shit out the window? Pretty soon I'm going to think you two are just making shit up - as in Nelasaffication.
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