The hand of God The hand of God The hand of God is the name given to the goal scored by Argentine footballer Diego Armando Maradona in the quarter-final match between Argentina and England at the 1986 World Cup on 22 June 1986 at the Azteca Stadium in Mexico City. The game ended with a 2-1 win for the Argentinians, thanks to the so-called "Goal of the Century", also scored by Maradona. Diego Maradona himself declared after the match that the goal had scored "a little with his head and a little with the hand of God", and from there the world press baptized
The writing hand The writing hand The writing hand is a mechanical automaton created by Friedrich von Knauss in 1764. A clockwork mechanism moves a hand which dips a pen into an inkstand and writes the phrase ""Huic Domui Deus / Nec metas rerum / Nec tempora ponat"" ("May God not impose ends or deadlines on this house") on a small card. On the silver-coating of the mechanism are the words ""Pro patria"". The instrument was dedicated by von Knauss to the House of Lorraine, which ruled at that time in Tuscany. The object is housed in Room 10 of the Museo Galileo