RE: Happy New Year!

As always, interesting stuff Vern!
To add my bit to this interesting piece of trivia, das Fenster literally
means the Window in German (pulling this from elementary school classes).  
So, literally de-window-ation :)

Happy new years and wish you all the best!

Elvis

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Subject: RE: [WDSCI-L] Happy New Year!

i wondered about that, too. Maybe he means, get it OUT of Windows?

BTW, the 30 years War was touched off by what is called the Defenestration 
of Prague (1618). A couple vice-regents of the Austrian emperor were thrown 
out a window in the castle in Prague, over an issue of religious freedom. 
Britannica says they were not severely injured (the first such action in 
the 1400s had a number of people thrown onto some sharp spikes). That is a 
nice way of saying it - one source says they were thrown into a ditch, 
another that they were thrown into a pile of garbage, mostly straw, that 
had collected in the moat. But where did used straw come from, eh?

So this looks like a Czech tradition - what's your heritage, Joe?

;-)

At 07:05 AM 1/2/2005, you wrote:
> > And to usher in the new year, I have a new tagline...
> >
> > Joe
> >
> > -- Defenestrate WDSC!
>
>Throw it out the window?
>
>--
>Jeff Crosby
>jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Opinions expressed are mine only and not necessarily the views of my
>company.  Unless I say so.
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