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Beware of getting nerd-sniped by solid phase H₂O: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon#Death
Ancient egyptian ice-making (by radiative coupling to a sink at a few K) was impressive, as was the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakhchāl .
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Off topic, but as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11836805 no longer admits comments:
> "¶ Howe is it possible, that women should haue faces of Angelles, and heddes of deuilles?
> Be not Deuilles called Angelles in holie write? Reade the scriptures and ye shal be resolued."