Jon Boyes/ Photographer's Choice/ Getty images. Hans Riegel invented gummi bears (the first gummi candy) and gummi candy during the 1920s. Riegel was the owner of the German candy company Haribo. Haribo went on to manufacture the first American made gummi candy in 1982.
paraphilia â(plural paraphilias or paraphiliae) 1  An abnormal sexual attraction, typically of extreme or pathological nature.
Noun. 1. syphilis-a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta). lues, lues venerea, pox, syph.rimary syphilis-the first stage; characterized by a chancre at the site of infection. secondary syphilis-the second stage; characterized by eruptions of the skin and mucous membrane.