Talk:Mercury fountain

Dangerous?
Isn't this thing fantastically dangerous? Are the fumes from it sealed/vented in some way? Richard W.M. Jones 10:55, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Duh - ignore that. It's mentioned in the article that it is sealed behind glass. Richard W.M. Jones 10:55, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Mercury Fountain's in Islamic Spain?
Noticed this addendum. Skeptical. Sources please?


 * Addendum; I nerfed the section entirely after searching the entire net for references to such but finding none. 211.30.71.59 08:51, 29 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I found a source, so I will restore.


 * From Blackwood's Magazine, vol. 55 Issue 342, April, 1844:
 * "The palace of Az-zahra, where the eyes of the Greeks were dazzled by this costly pageant, is one of the familiar names of the romance of Spanish history -- it is known to all the world how Abdurrahman, to gratify the capricious fancy of a beautiful and beloved mistress, expended millions, and tasked the labour of thousands, in erecting on the plain beyond Cordova a fairy palace and city which might bear her name and be her own....The famous fountain of quicksilver, which could be set in motion at pleasure, was placed in the Kasr-al-Kholaifa, or hall of the khalifs....'" Kejo13 (talk) 21:24, 18 August 2008 (UTC)