Scarcely credible, but excavations at the ancient city of Irenopolis in Turkey have turned up a 1,300-year-old loaf of bread that has survived to this day.
The Byzantine loaves have come down to us with a stamp and a Greek inscription, which may indicate that they were intended for communion. The bread bears an image of Jesus and an inscription in Greek: "With gratitude, to Holy Jesus."
At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the
Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least
