RE: [WDSCI-L] Happy New Year!

["Elvis Budimlic" <ebudimlic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

-----Original Message-----
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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