The Hand of Icarus
I think wikipedia.org will do a much better job summing up the story of Icarus then I ever could:
"Daedalus [Icarus' father] fashioned two pairs of wings out of wax and feathers for himself and his son. Before they took off from the island, Daedalus warned his son not to fly too close to the sun, nor too close to the sea. Overcome by the giddiness that flying lent him, Icarus soared through the sky curiously, but in the process he came too close to the sun, which melted the wax. Icarus kept flapping his wings but soon realized that he had no feathers left and that he was only flapping his bare arms. And so, Icarus fell into the sea in the area which bears his name, the Icarian Sea near Icaria, an island southwest of Samos."
I figure he was close enough to the sun that his hands may have melted a bit, too.
Moral of the story? Don't fly to close to the sun. Or the water. Duh.
