Don Quixote saw windmills as giants and charged at them with his lance, becoming one of literature's greatest jokes. Today, some Europeans view China's wind turbines as threats, as if these clean ...
This helps to explain how the windmills of La Mancha were mistaken for giants by the fictional, delusional “knight” Don Quixote, his imagination enflamed by reading too many folk tales about ...
The book coined the idiom “fighting windmills.” Over 500 million copies have been sold of Don Quixote since its publication, ...
Verse three talks about los molinos (windmills) that Don Quixote thought were ‘gigantes’ (giants) and they count them ¿Cuántos molinos hay? The chorus features the two men comparing ‘loco ...