Today I Found Out

Today I Found Out

That Time the Citizens of Prague Literally Threw Their Politicians Out of Office (2017x173)


Air date: Jul 17, 2017

If you happen to like our videos and have→“throw the bums out of office,” twice, first in 1419 and again in 1618, frustrated citizens of Prague (today in the Czech Republic) literally threw their leaders out of the upper story windows of their public buildings. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2017/05/the-defenestrations-of-prague/ Sources: http://www.usccb.org/bible/2kings/9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Reformation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague https://www.britannica.com/event/Defenestration-of-Prague-1618 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_of_Augsburg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War Image Credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prager.Fenstersturz.1618.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prager_Fenstersturz_Wahrhafftige_Zeitung_aus_Prag.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Liebscher,_Adolf_-_Svr%C5%BEen%C3%AD_kon%C5%A1el%C5%AF_s_Novom%C4%9Bstsk%C3%A9_radnice_30._%C4%8Dervence_1419.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Luther95theses.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Martin-Luther-1526-1.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Paul_IV#/media/File:PapaPauloIV.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peace-of-augsburg_1555.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Svoboda_(artist)#/media/File:Karel_Svoboda_Defenestrace.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Defenestration-prague-1618.jpg Music from Jukedeck - create your own at http://jukedeck.com.

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