Too cold to swim?
How the Little Ice Age could be at least in part responsible for Europe’s swimming drought in the Middle Ages. By Elaine K Howley.
In a quirk of human history, some of the earliest, most cogent artistic representations of humans swimming hail from an incredibly arid region where there’s not a drop of swimmable water.
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