Tilting at windmills policies. The movie "They Might Be Giants" (1971) features a reference to Don Quixote thinking that the windmills are giants, and the movie is named after that reference. Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, in a 1972 album release by the same name, wrote and recorded the song Don Quixote which contained the lines "through the woodland, through the valley, comes a horseman wild and free; "tilting at the windmills passing", who can the brave young horseman be...". The alternative Santa Barbara band Toad the Wet Sprocket released the album "Dulcinea" in 1994. Named for the love interest of Don Quixote, the
Windmills in the Isle of Man the 1870s. The tower was diameter at the base and high The six storey tower was reduced to a two storey base in the 1960s and the mill is now a house conversion. Windmills in the Isle of Man The Isle of Man has had a number of windmills over the centuries. They were mostly threshing mills, with a few corn mills. NX 398 012 This small mill at Andreas was a threshing mill built c.1870. It was derelict in 1952. In 2007, it was proposed to add the mill to the Isle of Man's Protected Buildings Register. A skeletal