December 2010
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On May 23, 1618, the balmy air below Prague Castle thickened with the smell of a large pile of horse manure festering in the dry moat. About mid-afternoon, three figures could be seen flying out of an upper window. Following their thirty-meter descent into the opportune manure pile, the two Imperial Regents and their secretary climbed out unharmed, though entirely unrecognizable. This is the...
