Today I Found Out
That Time the Citizens of Prague Literally Threw Their Politicians Out of Office (2017x173)
Date de diffusion: Juil 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.
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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
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