It is well known that air bubbles attach to hydrophobic surfaces; in other words, such surfaces are partially dewetted by water.

In the celebrated Aldobrandini fresco-painting, found in the baths of Titus, the bride is seated veiled on a bed, with the pronuba or bridesmatron near her, whilst the bridegroom sits at the foot of the bed.

I pray you, tell my kind cousin, if he loves such companions, he had best keep them in his own estates; for here they are like to meet short shrift and a tight cord.

Thus, by the end of the twentieth century, Christian scholars of Islam had become the unwitting guardians and perpetuators of the myth of Islamic tolerance.