HANDS !

Hands ... when was the last time you really looked at them?
They are two multi-fingered body parts, and contain the densest area of nerve endings on our body.
Each one contains 27 bones and a myriad of different muscles.
Robert Wadlow has the largest recorded hand span ever recorded at 32.4 cm !
We use them to greet each other, in a handshake; to applaud performances and deeds, by clapping.
We can make them into fists to fight with them, or undertake hand-to-hand combat, or curl our fingers and hold a pen, to handwrite with them.
We even speak with them using sign language, communicate with them via computers; we can move with them, supporting our entire body weight on them..
We measure animals in handspans, and there are 324 words in the dictionary containing the word 'hand'.
We name sports , accessories, books, transport, weapons, people, professions, actions and objects .. all using the word 'hand'. Hand-made crafts are the most expensive and handsome men, the most wanted !
We decorate our hands with jewels and polish their nails, clothe them in gloves, oil them, cream them, wash them and build sculptures of them, all over the world..
Here are some that we have seen.