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Nonpareils are a decorative confections of tiny balls made with sugar and starch, traditionally an opaque white but now available in many colors. They are also known as hundreds and thousands in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, [1] and the United Kingdom. In the United States, the same confectionery topping would generally be referred to ...
Nonpareils date back at least to the late 18th century, if not earlier. They were used as decoration for pièces montées and desserts. Dutch hagelslag (chocolate sprinkles) were invented in 1913 by Erven H. de Jong from Wormerveer. [14] [15] Venz, [16] another Dutch company, made hagelslag popular. Hagelslag is
Nonpareils, a confection of small sweet spheres used to decorate cakes, sweets, and pastries; Jack "Nonpareil" Dempsey (1862–1895), Irish boxer; HMS Nonpareil, several ships; Nonpareil, a rag composed by Scott Joplin published in 1907; Nonpareil, an Al Cohn jazz recording from 1981; Nonpareil, a variety of almond; Nonpareil, a caper (caper ...
The Old Testament consistently uses three primary words to describe the parts of man: basar (flesh), which refers to the external, material aspect of man (mostly in emphasizing human frailty); nephesh, which refers to the soul as well as the whole person or life; and ruach which is used to refer to the human spirit (ruach can mean "wind", "breath", or "spirit" depending on the context; cf ...
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The body caused automatic functions like the beating of the heart and digestion he felt. The body was necessary for voluntary movement as well as the will. However, he believed the power to move the body was wrongly imagined to come from the soul. A sick or injured body does not do what we want or moves in ways we do not want.
Ecce Homo, Caravaggio, 1605. Ecce homo (/ ˈ ɛ k s i ˈ h oʊ m oʊ /, Ecclesiastical Latin: [ˈettʃe ˈomo], Classical Latin: [ˈɛkkɛ ˈhɔmoː]; "behold the man") are the Latin words used by Pontius Pilate in the Vulgate translation of the Gospel of John, when he presents a scourged Jesus, bound and crowned with thorns, to a hostile crowd shortly before his crucifixion (John 19:5).
On the Nature of Man is attributed to Polybus, the son in law and disciple of Hippocrates, through a testimony from Aristotle's History of Animals. [1] However, as with the many other works of the Hippocratic Corpus, the authorship is regarded as dubious in origin. On the Nature of Man attempts to explain the human body in its anatomy and ...