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Adam Kadmon

The Silver Jews song Pet Politics contains the line "Adam was not the first man 'though the Bible tells us so. There was one created before him, whose name we do not know. He also lived in the garden, but he had no mouth or eyes. One day Adam came to kill him and he died beneath these skies" an oblique reference to Adam Kadmon.

Anand Neelakantan

Ajaya is the story of Duryodhana, hero of the losing side, from his perspective, seen Mahabharata from his eyes.

Angel in My Eyes

"Angel in My Eyes" is the title of a song written by Tony Mullins and Blair Daly, and recorded by American country music artist John Michael Montgomery.

Aristology

The term has also been used in the mystery novels of American author Rex Stout, whose corpulent protagonist, Nero Wolfe, has a couple of encounters with a society known as the Ten for Aristology, who in his eyes are fools as dining is an art and not a science.

Billy Mure

Perry Como — "Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes" (reached #1)

Blanche Barrow

Buck was severely wounded in the withering gunfire, shot through the head and Blanche took shards of glass in her eyes, but all five gang members escaped to an abandoned amusement park near Dexter, Iowa.

Bonnie Blue Flag

In the 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell and the 1939 film Gone with the Wind, Rhett Butler nicknames his newborn daughter "Bonnie Blue Butler" when Melanie Wilkes remarks that her eyes are "as blue as the Bonnie Blue

Books of Kings

Hezekiah, the 14th king of Judah "did what was right in the eyes of the Lord" and institutes a far reaching religious reform, centralising sacrifice at the temple at Jerusalem and destroying the images of other gods.

Canine glaucoma

Normal IOP in dogs can range between 12 and 25 mm Hg and the two eyes should be similar in pressure.

Chuck Versus the Colonel

Chuck telling Casey and Sarah to close their eyes when Roark starts the Intersect refers to the scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark when Indiana Jones tells Marion to do the same when the Nazis open the Ark.

Cinderella's Eyes

The concept of the album derived from fairy tales, focusing mostly upon Cinderella after titling the album Cinderella's Eyes.

Color of Her Eyes

The song Color of Her Eyes is also on their full-length album Billy's Live Bait.

Devon Energy

It is the corporate sponsor of the Wise Eyes community watch program, begun in 1993 in and named for Wise County, Texas, which is located in the Barnett Shale, where Devon has a large presence.

Enoch Maki

Enoch followed soon after and with is built he caught the eyes of the Eagles selectors and in 2008 he was the sought after player in the Digicel Cup competition.

Eyeless in Gaza

The title of the book, like Milton's poem, recalls the biblical story of Samson, who was captured by the Philistines, his eyes burned out, and taken to Gaza, where he was forced to work grinding grain in a mill.

Eyes in the Dark

Eyes in the Dark is a 2010 American horror film written and directed by Bjorn Anderson.

Fly2K

Fly2K was to be released in 2000, but due to his incarceration, the release date was pushed back 2 years to 2002, which is the reason why this album has tracks already used from previous albums, such tracks like "Crownin' Me" from Fly Shit, "Nobody" from Movin' On, and "Ghetto Eyes" from Da Game Owe Me album.

For All You've Done

Pop singer and former Australian Idol contestant Paulini Curuenavuli was also at the conference promoting her Number 2 hit single "Angel Eyes" from her forthcoming album One Determined Heart.

Fries with That?

One notable instance involved a particularly attractive exchange student from Flin Flon, Manitoba who caught their eyes.

Go West, Young Man

She immediately set her eyes on the young mechanic, fixing her car, Bud Norton, played by Randolph Scott.

GoldWave

Adam Young (aka Owl City) used GoldWave to record all his vocals on his major label debut album "Ocean Eyes".

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.

Hijackers in the September 11 attacks

Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi were both experienced and respected jihadists in the eyes of al-Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden.

I See the Want To in Your Eyes

"I See the Want To in Your Eyes" is a song written by Mischa Scorer and Wayne Carson, and recorded by American country music artist Conway Twitty.

Jacques Gelman

The endorsement of Charlie Chaplin had secured the feature's billing, but in the eyes of French critics, it failed to live up to Chaplin's proclamation that Moreno was the leading comic of the era.

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".

Jordan Alan

He has shot TV commercials for clients including 1-800-DENTIST, 1-800-USA-EYES, Invisalign and LA Sight Laser Center.

Kicking Bird

As a result, Satanta emerged in a prominent leadership role among his people and his reputation as a war-maker made him the dominant Kiowa figure to be reckoned with in the eyes of whites and other Indians.

Listing's law

Listing's law is not obeyed when the eyes counter-rotate during head rotation to maintain gaze stability, either due to the Vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) or the optokinetic reflex.

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)

Morris Frank

William Mooney wrote and performed a one-man show about Frank's life, With a Dog's Eyes.

Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy

In October 2009, Tantawy launched a campaign against the niqab (the full-face veil which covers the entire body except for the eyes, increasingly worn by women in Egypt) by personally removing the niqab of a teenage girl (after she failed to remove it) at a secondary school affiliated to Al-Azhar University, which he was touring in Cairo's Madinet Nasr suburb, much to the shock of all concerned.

Muro-Ami

It is a look at the poverty in the Visayas , primarily seen through the eyes of the coral fishers (Muro-Ami).

Nicky Hager

The book contained two forewords; one written by former New Zealand Prime Minister, David Lange and one by Jeffrey T. Richelson, a leading author on U.S. intelligence agencies and the author of the books America's Secret Eyes in the Sky and The Ties That Bind.

Organization of Chinese Americans

In early 2009, a photograph of Miley Cyrus circulated online in which she had the corners of her eyes pulled back, displaying a slant-eyed expression, while friends, including an Asian male, surrounding her posed in other manners.

Pretty Little Angel Eyes

"Pretty Little Angel Eyes" is a 1961 song by American singer Curtis Lee.

Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons

Serious disability is equivalent to visual acuity of less than 20/200 Snellen measured using both eyes.

Red adaptation goggles

Red adaptation goggles were first invented by Wilhelm Trendelenburg in 1916 for early radiologists to use to adapt their eyes to view the light produced by fluorescent screens during fluoroscopic procedures.

Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City

On the Umbrella Security Service team there is: Vector (Andrew Kishino), the team's recon expert and is equipped with a cloaking ability; Beltway (Ramon Fernandez), who is proficient in the use of explosives; Bertha (Lydia Look), the medic; Spectre (David Cooley), the marksman; Four Eyes (Gwendoline Yeo), the scientist, with the ability to program the bio-organic weapons (BOWs); and Lupo (Nika Futterman), who is the team leader.

Rob Heppler

He currently lives in Portland, Oregon where he collects sneakers, and keeps his eyes peeled for emerging trends around the globe.

Robert James Shuttleworth

Here he collected on the Grimsel and the Oberland, and worked particularly at Red Snow and other freshwater algae, until weakness of the eyes compelled him to abandon the microscope.

Sergius IV of Naples

By this he acquired a reputation for weakness in the eyes of Prince Pandulf IV of Capua, the Wolf of the Abruzzi, who had been defeated by Pilgrim.

Stay with Me Bright Eyes

"Stay with My Bright Eyes" is a song by Australian band Something with Numbers; it was the first single from their third studio album Engineering the Soul.

T. R. Ramachandran

Known for his distinctive saucer-eyes, Ramachandran was known as "The Eddie Cantor of India".

Tadeo Jones

The mother (who is the caretaker of the family) was influenced by Lara Croft and the baby (who becomes the main enemy) was influenced from Who Framed Roger Rabbit and the eyes came from Dash from The Incredibles.

Task Force Argos

The unit's name was derived from Greek mythology in which Argus Panoptes or Argos, was a primordial “all seeing” giant with multiple eyes and who was guardian of lo.

Thinking like a mountain

In his eyes, the laws of the gods outweigh those of man and man must understand his place in the order of natural law.

Through the Eyes of a Child

"Through the Eyes of a Child" is a single from the German band Reamonn.

Through These Eyes

Through These Eyes is the debut solo album by Bryan Josh of Mostly Autumn fame.

Youth Communication

Youth Communication counts many notable alumni, including the authors Edwidge Danticat (Breath Eyes Memory), Veronica Chambers (Mama's Girl), and Gina Trapani (LifeHacker), the hip hop writer and actor Bönz Malone, and the reporters Rachel Swarns (The New York Times), and Mohamad Bazzi (Newsday).


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