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36 unusual facts about Eye


Antoine-Alfred Marche

He made a large collection of bird specimens from the Marianas between 22 April 1887 and May 1889 and some of them included new bird species (such as the Golden White-eye which were described by Émile Oustalet.

Arthur Ashe Stadium

Arthur Ashe Stadium is equipped with the Hawk-Eye electronic system which allows tennis players to challenge the umpire's decision on calls made throughout championships.

Black-crowned White-eye

The Sangihe White-eye (Z. nehrkorni) and the Seram White-eye (Z. stalkeri) were formerly included in Z. atrifrons, as is still, on occasion, the Black-fronted White-eye (Z. minor).

Black-fronted White-eye

Some sources include this species within Z. atrifrons, the Black-crowned White-eye.

Bridled White-eye

The Rota subspecies Zosterops rotensis is listed as critically endangered with an estimated population of only 720 birds.

Cameroonian Highlands forests

Seven species of birds are strictly endemic: the Bamenda Apalis (Apalis bamendae), Bangwa Forest Warbler (Bradypterus bangwaensis), White-throated Mountain-babbler (Kupeornis gilberti), Banded Wattle-eye (Platysteira laticincta), Bannerman's Weaver (Ploceus bannermani), Mount Kupe Bush-shrike (Telophorus kupeensis) and Bannerman's Turaco (Tauraco bannermani), which is a cultural icon for the Kom people who live in the area.

Epiphragm

It protects certain species of snail if they are eaten by birds (such as Japanese White-eye).

Eye, Herefordshire

Eye has a historic small church with a square tower and some wonderful effigies; beside it is Eye Manor, noted for its fine decorated plaster ceilings.

Grey White-eye

the Mascarene White-eye (Zosterops borbonicus) of Mauritius and Réunion

Grey-throated White-eye

It is found on Guadalcanal and Makira Islands in the Solomon Islands and on Bougainville Island, geographically part of the Solomons but belonging to Papua New Guinea.

It is also known as Zosterops ugiensis because Z. rendovae has often been used for the Solomons White-eye (Z. kulambangrae).

Hartismere Hundred

Hartismere also gives its name to the 11-19 Co-educational Foundation School based in Eye.

Hartismere School

Hartismere is a state funded co-educational day school for scholars aged 11–18 in Eye, a town in High Suffolk.

Many of those evacuated from London had never heard a bomb falling on London and were therefore surprised when during their first week RAF Eye was bombed by the Luftwaffe this event taking place only a few hundred yards from Hartismere.

Historically an area in which a large population of deer roamed around a mere, this topology gave rise to the school's name such that the school has always been associated with an area much larger than Eye.

ʻAkikiki

Competition for food and space with non-native birds, such as Japanese White-eye, may also impact its numbers.

Japanese White-eye

In its natural habitat, the Japanese White-eye competes with other native passerine bird species, including those of the same genus, such as the Bonin White-eye (Apalopteron familiare).

Kualoa Regional Park

The site is popular with watchers of wetland birds, such as the Japanese White-eye, Red-crested Cardinal, White-rumped Shama, Black-crowned Night Heron, Black-necked Stilt, Nutmeg Mannikin, Black Noddy, Wedge-tailed Shearwater, White-tailed Tropicbird, Red-tailed Tropicbird, Common Myna, Common Waxbill, Cattle Egret and a variety of others.

Lexovisaurus

In the early 1880s collector Alfred Nicholson Leeds acquired a skeleton of a dinosaur excavated at a small brick pit at the hamlet of Tanholt, close to Eye, Cambridgeshire.

Marianne White-eye

It is known with certainty only from the small granitic islet of Marianne Island (0,962 sqm) in the Seychelles about 6 km east of La Digue.

Edward Newton described it as a full species Zosterops semiflava in 1867, though subsequently it was considered a subspecies of the Mayotte White-eye.

Mauritius Olive White-eye

The habitat of the Mauritius Olive White-eye is the evergreen bushes and forests in the area of the Black River Gorges National Park and the Macchabée-Bel Ombre Biosphere Reserve.

Mayotte White-eye

The Marianne White-eye formerly considered as subspecies of Mayotte White-eye occurred on Marianne and perhaps other islands in the Seychelles but is now extinct.

Micronesian Myzomela

They are territorial and aggressive at defending their territories from others of the same species and other species such as Bridled White-eyes.

Pheasant Cuckoo

The precise details of its breeding biology are little known except for a list of known host species including tyrant flycatchers in the genus Myiozetetes, Yellow-olive Flatbill, Eye-ringed Flatbill, Pied Water Tyrant and Barred Antshrike, all of which are sub-oscine passerines.

Seram White-eye

It was formerly considered conspecific with Black-fronted White-eye, Zosterops minor, but work by Pamela C. Rasmussen and her colleagues showed that it is a separate species.

Solomons White-eye

It is also known as Zosterops rendovae but this name properly refers to the Grey-throated White-eye.

Sri Lanka White-eye

This bird is slightly larger than the Oriental White-eye (about 11 cm long) which it replaces above 4000 ft.

This species can be distinguished from the widespread Oriental White-eye, Zosterops palpebrosus, by its larger size, duller green back and more extensive yellow on the breast.

Teardrop White-eye

Its habitat is montane rainforest dominated by the endemic Chuuk Poisontree.

Troy Kotsur

He guest starred in 6 episodes of his wife's show Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye.

Vivicam 7122

The ViviCam 7122 works with Eye-Fi but it is not listed on Eye-Fi's compatibllity list on www.eye.fi still.

White-chested White-eye

The decline of the White-chested White-eye began as the introduced Silvereye (Zosterops lateralis) became naturalized on Norfolk Island.

William Doherty

Many of the birds he collected for Lord Rothschild were named after him, including Doherty's Bushshrike Malaconotus dohertyi, Red-naped Fruit Dove Ptilinopus dohertyi, Sumba Cicadabird Coracina dohertyi and Crested White-eye Lophozosterops dohertyi.

Yap White-eye

The name Yap White-eye can refer to either of the two species of white-eye found on Yap.

Zosterops

Rota White-eye, Zosterops rotensis (formerly in conspicillatus)


A. W. Underwood

A century later, the tale of Mr. Underwood was brought to the public eye again as the subject of a 1974 song by musician Brian Eno, entitled "The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch," from his debut solo album Here Come the Warm Jets.

Alexandre Bida

He specialized in Orientalism and studied under Eugène Delacroix, but with an artist's eye for precision and perfection, he soon developed his own style.

Antillean Adventist University

Walter J. Brown, then president of the college, provided an eye witness account for the Adventist flagship journal, the Review and Herald.

Blindness in literature

Sally Hobart Alexander became blind when she was about 25 and a schoolteacher, during the 1970s, because of an eye disease.

Charles Bird King

After the administration changed and McKenney left the BIA, the agency donated the Native American portrait collection to the National Institute, but shoddy care and displays kept it from the public eye.

Ciarán Ó Cofaigh

He set up ROSG (Old Irish rosg, meaning eye) in 1998, a film and television company based in An Spidéal.

Confrontation Clause

The Confrontation Clause has its roots in both English common law, protecting the right of cross-examination, and Roman law, which guaranteed persons accused of a crime the right to look their accusers in the eye.

Corneal transplantation

Russian eye surgeon Vladimir Filatov's attempts at transplanting cornea started with the first try in 1912 and were continued, gradually improving until on 6 May 1931 he successfully grafted a patient using corneal tissue from a deceased person.

Dog's Eye View

After an extended hiatus, Dog's Eye View released a third album (also on Vanguard), Tomorrow Always Comes, on January 24, 2006, which featured backing vocals by singers Jason Mraz and Kelly Moneymaker, as well as an appearance from Paul Doucette of Matchbox Twenty.

Douglas Argyll Robertson

Robertson made several contributions in the field of ophthalmology; in 1863 he researched the effects on the eye made by physostigmine, an extract from the Calabar bean (Physostigma venenosum), which is found in tropical Africa.

Edvard Munch

In February 2012, a major Munch exhibition, "Edvard Munch. The Modern Eye", opened at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt; the exhibition was opened by Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway.

Ernie Blenkinsop

Blenkinsop caught the eye of the Football Association selectors who choose him to play for England in a friendly match in France on 17 May 1928, at the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir, Colombes, Paris, it turned out to be a debut to remember as the English taught the French a lesson in football, beating them by a resounding 5–1 scoreline.

Eye burns

There is physical trauma like UV exposure Photokeratitis, thermic trauma by means of infrared ray leading to infrared cataract and more severe alteration of the eye by heat deriving from hot steam liquid metals.

Eye injury

Physical or chemical injuries of the eye can be a serious threat to vision if not treated appropriately and in a timely fashion.

Gasogene

The gasogene is mentioned as a residential fixture at 221B Baker Street in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story A Scandal in Bohemia: "With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner."

Geto Boys

A high-profile incident in which Bushwick Bill lost an eye in a shooting helped boost sales of the group's 1991 album, We Can't Be Stopped.

Gordon C. Strachan

In a 1997 interview with Tom Clancy for the video Eye of the Storm, John Ehrlichman stated Strachan "knows a lot, that he's not telling."

Gordon Lynn Walls

1958 Walls wrote a chapter in The eye in evolution, the first volume (780 pages) of Stewart Duke-Elder's work System of Ophthalmology, a monumental multivolume contribution to medical literature.

Head-mounted display

This is the distance at which, given the average human eye rangefinder "baseline" (distance between the eyes or Inter-Pupillary Distance (IPD)) of between 2.5 and 3 inches (6 and 8 cm), the angle of an object at that distance becomes essentially the same from each eye.

Inside the Eye

Inside the Eye is the last album released by Skin Yard in 1993.

Jacques Spitz

L'Expérience du Dr. Mops (1939) (translated by Brian Stableford in The Eye of Purgatory (2010) ISBN 978-1-935558-64-4)

Jean-Claude Garoute

The movement drew the eye of French author André Malraux who dedicated a chapter to it in his book L'Intemporel.

Jeannie Cho Lee

Since August 2010, Jeannie Cho Lee, along with the diving champion Guo Jingjing and principal dancer Yuan Yuan Tan, has represented Estee Lauder in a campaign for Advanced Night Repair eye serum "No. 1 Eye Repair in the Eyes of No. 1".

John Beck Hofmann

He has also created music used in multiple television shows, such as FX's "Nip/Tuck", MTV's "The Real World", Travel Channel's "Eye of the Beholder" and multiple NASA documentaries.

Junglist

As a subculture, however, it is not nearly as distinct as goth or punk to the untrained eye, where members can often distinguish each other by their mannerisms and fashion without hearing their choice of music.

Kepler star

Kepler's Supernova, a supernova that occurred in the Milky Way, observed by the naked eye in 1604

Laura Sinclair

Later in the pilot, after new resident Nick Hadley (Jarrod Emick) has caught her eye moving in next door to her, she tries to entice him away from his red haired wife Joanne (Michelle Stafford) by giving him a striptease, stripping away her red dress down to her black bra and panties.

Leon Battista Alberti

In his treatise De pictura (1435) he explains the theory, of the accumulation of people, animals, and buildings, which create harmony amongst each other, and "hold the eye of the learned and unlearned spectator for a long while with a certain sense of pleasure and emotion".

Marian Roalfe Cox

D - Indeterminate Among the examples included: One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three-Eyes (which she listed as approximating "Cinderella"), The Bear (which she listed as approximating "Catskin") and Tattercoats (which approximated neither)

Monsieur Pierre

As a young man, Pierre's engineering studies at Zurich University were abruptly halted when he was struck in the eye by a tennis ball.

Mount Karthala

Many of the species found on the mountain are unique to the Comoros and four bird species are found only on the slopes of Mount Karthala: Humblot's Flycatcher, Comoro White-eye, Comoro Drongo and Karthala Scops Owl.

NASA Astronaut Corps

The refractive surgical procedures of the eye, PRK and LASIK, are allowed, providing at least 1 year has passed since the date of the procedure with no permanent adverse after effects.

Pagan studies

Pagan studies scholar Chas S. Clifton argued that the discipline had developed as a result of the increasing "academic acknowledgement" of contemporary Paganism's "movement into the public eye", referring to the emergence of Pagan involvement with interfaith groups and the Pagan use of archaeological monuments as "sacred sites", particularly in the United Kingdom.

Ricci Crisostomo

Crisostomo has worked in the television industry for more than 10 years, both and making appearances in front of the camera, including his eye was featured in the show Darna and Majika, and he has made appearances on shows such as Boys Nxt Door, SRO Cinemaserye and more.

Rorschach test

James Heilman, an emergency room physician involved in the debate, compared it to the publication of the eye test chart: though people are likewise free to memorize the eye chart before an eye test, its general usefulness as a diagnostic tool for eyesight has not diminished.

Sankara Eye Foundation

SEF initiates and drives community eye care activities in India by working with Sankara Eye Care Institutions (SECI), India, which runs the "Gift of Vision" rural outreach program through Sankara Eye Hospitals in Coimbatore, Krishnankovil, Bangalore, Shimoga, Guntur, Anand, Pammal and Silvassa.

Seal of Colorado

By statute, the seal of the state is two and one-half inches in diameter with the following devices inscribed thereon: At the top is the Eye of Providence or 'All Seeing Eye' within a triangle, from which golden rays radiate on two sides.

Seumas Milne

Milne described the restoration of the sight of Mario Terán, the former Bolivian sergeant who killed Che Guevara, by Cuban doctors "paid for by revolutionary Venezuela in the radicalised Bolivia of Evo Morales", one of "1.4 million free eye operations carried out by Cuban doctors in 33 countries across Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa", as "an emblem both of the humanity of Fidel Castro and Guevara's legacy" and the transformation of Latin America.

Sumas y restas

Gerardo has many contacts in the rural region of Frontino, Antioquia were the authorities turn a blind eye to his rustic laboratory to process cocaine.

Take Me to the Pilot

The lyrics possess many elements: betrayal, either political or personal ("treason"); the illusion of danger ("through a glass eye"); and fearlessness toward the unknown ("take me to the pilot of your soul").

Trevor-Roper

Patrick Trevor-Roper (1916–2004), British eye surgeon and pioneer gay rights activist.

University of California Riverside 1985 laboratory raid

Veterinarian ophthalmologist Ned Buyukmihci of the University of California, Davis, and founder of Veterinarians for Animal Rights, said after he examined Britches that the sutures used were too large, the monkey's eye pads were dirty, and that, in his view, there was no justification for what he called a sloppy, painful experiment.

Uxfest

Sikth, PDHM, Electric Eel Shock, Aconite Thrill, Johnny Truant, JOR, The Blueprint, Hiding With Girls, Frowser, Twoday Rule, 17 Stitches, Ako, Kenisia, Project Abner, SiZE, Beecher, Lamb Quartet, Dopamine, Joski, coMA Kai, Needleye, Blind Eye Policy, Fog Donkey, Fourway Kill, My Pet Junkie, The Mirrormen, Severed State, Planet of Women, One Man Down, Lost for Words.

Vanuatu Kingfisher

The only other kingfisher in Vanuatu is the Collared Kingfisher which has paler blue-green upperparts, whiter underparts and a buff stripe above the eye.

Viktor Sidyak

At the same Olympics, he famously fenced in the team final with his right eye bandaged over after having a fragment of the Italian Michele Maffei's blade removed from his eye the previous day.

Visionworks of America

(formerly Eye Care Centers of America) is an American company which operates or manages about 430 optical retail stores in 36 U.S. states.

Waiting for Godalming

Lazlo Woodbine, famous fifties private eye sets out to solve the case.

You're the Apple of My Eye

Recorded after they were denied the opportunity to record another Blackwell song, "Don't Be Cruel", "You're the Apple of My Eye" was The Four Lovers' first exposure to U.S. national publicity, reaching the #62 position on the Billboard Hot 100 and earning the quartet an appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.