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
Snowflake (slang) to refer to those who opposed the abolition of slavery. The term referred to the color of snow, referring to valuing white people over black people. This usage was not believed to have extended beyond the state of Missouri in the 1800s. In the 1970s, according to "Green's Dictionary of Slang", snowflake has been used to describe "a white person or a black person who was perceived as acting too much like a white person". In December 2016, the term snowflake was referenced in the ABC sitcom "Last Man Standing", in an episode titled "Precious Snowflake" about microaggressions and politically