dog days

Ingrid Newkirk   The “horse latitudes” consist of regions around the equator where the sea is often becalmed and sailors sweat it out without even the slightest breeze. They are so named because, dying of thirst, sailors threw horses overboard to conserve water. Or so the story goes. The “dog days of summer” don’t limit themselves to one spot on the globe; they … [Read more...] about Beware not the Ides of March but the dog days of summer