"The Portuguese of Hormuz eat in water, because the ground is very hot." An illustration from a sixteenth-century Portuguese codex.
Quite so, and quite literally: that is exactly what they did. Fleeing the unbearable heat, the Portuguese who had settled in the Persian Gulf began to fill part of their houses with water.
In the finale of the Strugatskys' Roadside Picnic, the Golden Ball is told: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to offend nobody, but the digest really does come free of charge. So, here is the main business of 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
