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Episode 224: Jan Zizka, the Undefeated Innovator

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The Hussite Wars - Episode 25 - Defenestration of Prague

The Defenestration of Prague was one of the key events that sparked the Hussite Wars. Jalevsky and his mates chucked some politicians out of a window, killed them which in turn, legend tells us, killed when to slice the fourth. But where is Zyszka? If he's not helping chuck people out of window? Well, he was in Paulson with a radical faction of the Hussites known as the Taberites. They didn't really get on all that well with Catholics but they were just as likely to disagree with each other as their enemies.

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