How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? dancing on a needle's point occurs in an expository work by the English divine, William Sclater (1575-1626). In "An exposition with notes vpon the first Epistle to the Thessalonians" (1619), Sclater claimed that scholastic philosophers occupied themselves with such pointless questions as whether angels "did occupie a place; and so, whether many might be in one place at one time; and how many might sit on a Needles point; and six hundred such like needlesse points." Harrison proposes that the reason an English writer first introduced the "needle’s point" into a critique of medieval angelology is that it makes for
Back Sides made in honour of Stanley Kubrick's film "Dr. Strangelove". The cover of the album repeats the cover of "All the Time in the World", showing the same TV, but now from the back and on the dark background, and highlighting the relation of the albums. Back Sides Back Sides is a third studio album by American alternative rock band Lazlo Bane and their first digital only release. "Back Sides" consists of tracks that were written by the band during their work on the previous album, "All the Time in the World", but for any reasons didn't make into the final