The district of Karlin in Prague, just east of the tourist centre, has an interesting history, and for me its is where the Museum of Prague is located. Tourists are rare here, the area run-down, so I had the freedom to explore it at my leisure.
The sign said no photos, but we all understand the drill here.
Amongst its notable achievements it is where the foundations of German and Czech primary and secondary schooling were started. The museum is undergoing external renovations, there are more friendly staff than tourists, and I commend it to you - the story follows.
I like the word 'defenestration' in the last frame. It simply means the act of throwing someone out of a window. A 14 letter big word to add to my vocabulary.
ReplyDeleteActually like many big words it's meaning follows redundantly in the sentence which says 'defenestration ... from the windows ...'. This is illogical as there is presumably no other 'defenestration' except from aforesaid windows.
Worse still, the origin of the word is 17th century Latin according to my dictionary. So in 1419 they could not have been 'defenestrated' because the word would not have been invented for 200 years or so.
Malcolm
Worse again, it is claimed that 'The reformist movement entered it's armed phase, with the defenestration of councillors ...'. In fact, if they were armed the councillors would have been shot not chucked out the window by the defenestrators. (As the defenestratees were dead anyway this nuance matters little to them.)
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