The wars of religion had been raging for years now and left their mark on the nations of Europe.  Catholics and Protestants had been at each other’s throats fighting for the souls of men for what seemed like forever.  However, the fighting took a strange form in what is now the Czech Republic.  They liked to throw people out windows. The first instance of this was on July 30, 1419 when Jan Želivsky, a follower of the Czech reformer Jan Hus, led a procession through the streets to Charles Square to demand the release of Hussite prisoners.  The Catholic town council refused and somehow a stone was thrown at Želivsky…