In olden days, a glimpse of stockings / Was looked on as something shocking; / Now, heaven knows, / Anything goes.

Easy to account for those trends - but what of post-Vietnam America and its generation of little Noahs? Were we expecting a flood momentarily?

If the ace and king of a suit have been played, the queen is the king card of the suit.

Part of the genius of Andalusi filahah was its water management, still light years ahead of industrialised modern agriculture, which decimates forests for high-output farms that dry up streams and springs and desertifies fertile terrain.