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Question of the Day! by kickstart2006-11-19 12:23:33
  Defenestration by bladedancer 2002-06-19 07:38:19
Grovel before me, peon, or face defenestration! [1]

(wow. I can actually spell that before coffee.)

[1] oed.com:
[mod. f. L. DE- I. 1, 2 + fenestra a window: so in mod.F.]
The action of throwing out of a window.
(this apparently happened often enough it got its own word, which is just cool.)

Defenestration of Prague, the action of the Bohemian insurgents who, on the 21st of May 1618, broke up a meeting of Imperial commissioners and deputies of the States, held in the castle of the Hradshin, and threw two of the commissioners and their secretary out of the window; this formed the prelude to the Thirty Years' War.

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