Historieföredrag i Prag

Ska följa med som spouse på guild con i Prag. Nej, dom tar inte med sig datamaskinerna och lanar EQII så jag ska nog överleva. Öl finns ju alltid att tillgå. Men jag tänkte bibringa dem en smula historia, förkovra dem. "Dem" kommer från alla hörn av Europa, mest från Det Förenade Kungadömet Storbritannien och Nordirland, kanske även från Amerikat. Följande tänkte jag köra, sen vettefaan om man hinner hitta alla fönster:

1st defenestration - 1419. Town hall: judge, mayor etc by Hussites, pre-Luther protestants. Started the Hussite wars 1419-1436 (Jan Hus, executed 1415 saying "in a hundred years, God will raise up a man whose calls for reform cannot be suppressed". Martin Luther nailed his theses in Wittenberg 102 years later) But also a quite nationalistic movement, therefore a localized conflict. Friend of Wycliffe, John. So quite some time before Henry VIII decided to make some other religion than catholicism up due to horniness

(mid defenestration) 1483: old-town mayor, from old town hall, and 7 already dead other guys from new town hall.

2nd defenestration, 1618. 3 catholic governor guys threwn out for violations of freedom of religion, 100ft from the castle, onto a dung heap and survived. Thereby starting the 30 years' war. Which ended in us Swedes sacking the city (although we lost our king the lion of the north, Gustavus Adolphus in 1632 at Lutzen) in 1948 (at least the other side of the bridge). Of course in the interest of freedom of religion. As long as you choose the right religion and hand over all your cool bibles.

300 years later, 1948, the foreign minister Jan Masaryk was found under a state department toilet window, Cernin Palace, during the communist proper takeover. Died like Elvis, leaving his brown mark. Suicide or murder?

And for some reason author Bohumil Hrabal fell from his Bulovka hospital window in 1997 feeding birds