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Houston Edward Summers IV (born October 26, 1983), known mononymously as Houston, is an American former R&B singer, [1] best known for his 2004 single "I Like That" (featuring Chingy and Nate Dogg). In 2005, Houston attempted suicide in a London hotel room, and later gouged his eye out with a fork on the 13th floor of his hotel building.
The South Carolina woman who gouged her own eyeballs out during a meth-induced psychotic episode has adjusted to living with blindness and is much happier now — more than six years after the ...
She may be permanently blind, but Kaylee Muthart is sober and at peace three months after gouging her own eyes out. "It, actually, feels really nice," Muthart told People. "The way it worked out ...
Oedipus gouged out his own eyes after accidentally fulfilling the prophecy that he would end up killing his father and marrying his mother. [3] In the Bible, Samson was blinded upon his capture by the Philistines. [4] Early Christians were often blinded as a penalty for their beliefs. [5] For example, Saint Lucy's torturers tore out her eyes. [6]
Eye-gouging using the thumb. Eye-gouging is the act of pressing or tearing the eye using the fingers or instruments. Eye-gouging involves a very high risk of eye injury, such as eye loss or blindness. Eye-gouging as a fighting style was once a popular form of sport fighting in the back-country United States, primarily in the 18th and 19th ...
n November 1954, 29-year-old Sammy Davis Jr. was driving to Hollywood when a car crash left his eye mangled beyond repair. Doubting his potential as a one-eyed entertainer, the burgeoning performer sought a solution at the same venerable institution where other misfortunate starlets had gone to fill their vacant sockets: Mager & Gougelman, a family-owned business in New York City that has ...
Abacination is a form of corporal punishment or torture, in which the victim is blinded by infliction of intentional damage to the eyes. Damage can be in the form of removal of the eyes or eyelids, slitting the eyes, burning, excessive pressure, chemical burns, nerve injury, or brain damage. [1]
The mythical Oedipus gouged his eyes out. Autoenucleation, also known as oedipism, is the self-inflicted enucleation (removal) of the eye. It is considered a form of self-mutilation and is normally caused by psychosis, paranoid delusions or drugs. [1]