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The first world war wasn’t the first world war

30 September 2023

5:00 PM

30 September 2023

5:00 PM

For reasons that not even Czechs can explain, in the past they developed a habit of throwing their rulers out of windows. It started in the early 15th century, but it was in Prague in 1618 that the word ‘defenestration’ entered the English language. The word derives from the Latin word for window, fenestra.

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