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The same head they kept on a pike for three years?

Yep.

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Find out more at History Dispatches.com or wherever you get your podcast app. Hello, my friends, Hello, my friends, Zachary here, and welcome back to another episode of the History of Everything

Podcasts. It is literally the day that I'm supposed to be posting this, but due to a variety

of different things that we've been doing with work and everything else, I have neglected to actually

go and record the podcast episode.

So this is going to be recorded and then very quickly uploaded.

So for those of you who are hearing this immediately, hi, you are hearing this in almost real time.

But for today's episode, we're going to be diving into something that is extra special, something that honestly is one of those great little memes of history.

Like, let me ask you a question, right? New York skyscrapers, Sydney, and its opera house.

London and Big Ben. Prague. It's Windows. All of these things have something in common.

And my friends, let's go ahead and talk about it.

Look, my wife and I recently got back from a trip that included a little bit of a stop in Prague,

and it was lovely. So I thought that it might be fun to explore one of the most, well, how do I put this? Humorous, to be sure, but also simultaneously, very dark events in the long history of Prague.

That's right.

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