================================================== Pandora's Word Box Ideas in Words Medical Humanities - Fine Arts - Bioethics ================================================== To: Esteemed Colleagues, Scholars, Educators, Students, Poets and others who may enjoy the beauty and elegance of ideas in words illustrated by fine arts. From: W. Wertelecki M.D. ================================================== Current Posting Midget Dwarf Cretin This is one of three overviews concerned with "little people" who may be called MIDGET, DWARF and by any number of other terms ... MIDGET or NANISM refers to beings of smaller size. MIDGET implies diminutive or small and that the body proportions are near average. The roots of midget point toward "mukha" or "musca", Ukrainian and Latin terms for FLY or "GNAT" which points to GNOME and GNOSIS as well as KNOW implying that GNOMES KNOW ... Continued in: http://www.consultsos.com/pandora/intro.htm Illustrations: Works by De Silva, De Goya, Bosch, Von Schwind ... ================================================== PLEASE SHARE THE ABOVE MESSAGE ================================================== Dedicated to the prevention of Developmental Disabilities and Birth Defects. ================================================== Questions and Comments: http://www.ibis-birthdefects.org http://www.pandorawordbox.com Subscribe/Unsusbribe: http://www.consultsos.com/pandora/pwblogin.htm Sponsors/Champions/Advertisements http://www.consultsos.com/pandora/advertise.htm Note: web pages read per week ~ 15000. ==============================================