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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.
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.
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.
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
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 ...
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 ...
“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.
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 ...