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    Horse Latitudes, the Doors song, is actually a named after certain identically-named subtropical latitudes where boats would often be stuck without sufficient wind, and so ship crews would to throw horses overboard in order to get the boat moving and/or to preserve water resources for a longer than expected voyage.