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n. angel hair pasta.

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Capellini (, literally "little hairs") with its diameter between 0.85 mm and 0.92 mm is a very thin variety of Italian pasta. Like spaghetti, it is rod-shaped, in the form of long strands.

Capelli d'angelo (, literally angel hair -- hence, "angel hair pasta" in English) with a diameter between 0.78 and 0.88 mm is an even thinner variant of capellini. They are often sold in a nest-like shape. Capelli d'angelo has been popular in Italy since at least the 14th century. As a very light pasta, it goes well in soups or with seafood or light sauces.

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Others, such as Paul Broca, secretary general of the Anthropological Society in Paris, agreed with Capellini that the marks on the whale bones were made by humans.

In deference to Maxwell and Juliana, the cuisine was vegetarian: tofu, lentils, capellini with meatless marinara sauce.

Owen, Collyer, Calvert, Capellini, Broca, Ferretti, Bellucci, Slopes, Moir, Fisher, and Keith.

Some of the bones were from museum collections, and others were excavated personally by Capellini from Pliocene formations around Siena, at places such as Poggiarone.

On a nearly complete whale skeleton excavated by Capellini, the cut marks were found only on bones from one side of the whale.

Paris, agreed with Capellini that the marks on the whale bones were made by humans.

Last night he had barely sat down at one of the cafes on Ocean Drive when a waiter came by and lost his balance, spilling a bowl of capellini pomodoro onto his new shirt.

Consolata Capellini was naked in bed on her hands and knees, the fat tavernkeeper going at her from behind.

Laurie chatted and applauded readily enough, but she picked at both her capellini and dessert, and several times fingered the cell phone on the table beside her elbow.