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  2. Defenestration - Wikipedia

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    A stuntman diving out a window. Autodefenestration (or self-defenestration) is the term used for the act of jumping, propelling oneself, or causing oneself to fall, out of a window. In the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament, the accidental autodefenestration of a young man of Troas named Eutychus is recorded.

  3. Suicide by jumping from height - Wikipedia

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    Autodefenestration (or self-defenestration) is the term used for the act of jumping, propelling oneself, or causing oneself to fall, out of a window.This phenomenon played a notable role in such events as the Triangle Shirtwaist fire of 1911, the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, and other disasters.

  4. Defenestrations of Prague - Wikipedia

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    The First Defenestration of Prague involved the killing of several members of the city council by a crowd of Czech Hussites on 30 July 1419. [1]Jan Želivský, a Hussite priest at the church of the Virgin Mary of the Snows, led his congregation on a procession through the streets of Prague to the New Town Hall on Charles Square.

  5. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    To be worn out is to be renewed – Laozi, Chinese philosopher (604 BC – c. 531 BC) [10] To each his own; To err is human, to forgive divine; To learn a language is to have one more window from which to look at the world (Chinese proverb) [5] To the victor go the spoils; To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive

  6. Don't throw money out a car window - AOL

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    It may seem like a logical move, but a man in Taiwan didn't understand it: Don't throw money out of a moving car. It could create a mob scene.A 55-year-old man was arrested for throwing $29,600 in ...

  7. Man kicked out of bar punches window, then dies from his ...

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    A man died from a “major arm wound” after punching a window of a bar he was being thrown out of, Illinois cops say. At about 2 a.m. on Monday, July 17, the 32-year-old man from Chicago was ...

  8. Daughter Admits She Used to Throw Plates Away Rather Than ...

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    “Okay, this was mostly in, like, high school, but when I would clean my room and I had dishes in there, I would just throw them away," Sam said, causing her mother to audibly gasp at the admission.

  9. Overton window - Wikipedia

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    It is also known as the window of discourse. The term is named after the American policy analyst and former senior vice president at Mackinac Center for Public Policy , Joseph Overton , who proposed that the political viability of an idea depends mainly on whether it falls within an acceptability range, rather than on the individual preferences ...