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One of the first three blind people to reach the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro (along with John Opio and Lawrence Sserwambala). First African competitor at the Winter Paralympic Games. [12] [13] Takeichi Nishi – Colonel in the Imperial Japanese Army During World War II. Commander of the 26th Tank Regiment in the Battle of Iwo Jima. He was ...
Legally blind because of the severity of colorblindness. [31] Graham Kennedy: 1934–2005 Australia: Entertainer [32] Brian Kibler: b. 1980 United States: Game designer Publicly stated on his Twitter account. [33] Kim Sang-jin: red–green South Korea: Animator Was barred from art school, so studied economics; animated for Disney for 20 years ...
Marianela is an 1878 Spanish novel by Benito Pérez Galdós, in which a blind boy falls in love with an unattractive girl, who is afraid to meet him when he recovers his sight. "The Country of the Blind" by H. G. Wells tells the story of a mountaineer who finds himself stranded in an isolated valley inhabited entirely by blind people ...
The Blind is an epithet for: Béla II of Hungary (c. 1110–1141), King of Hungary and Croatia; Rudolf II, Count Palatine of the Rhine (1306–1353) Bogdan III the One-Eyed (1479–1517), also known as the Blind, Voivode of Moldavia; Didymus the Blind (c. 313–398), Coptic Church theologian; Henry IV, Count of Luxembourg (c. 1112–1196), also ...
Works about blind people (6 C, 7 P) Blind writers (2 C, 99 P) Pages in category "Blind people" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
The musicians were sometimes known as "blind priests" because they wore robes and shaved their heads, though they were not in fact Buddhist priests. [10] Goze were similar communities of visually impaired female shamisen and kokyū players who travelled around the country singing songs and begging alms.
Claire Sisk says she is "aiming high" and wants to "make the world accessible", after being announced as the latest celebrity ambassador for the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB).
Klein trained people who were blind to carve crucifixes which, he believed, would prevent his students falling prey to what he felt was sexual deviance. There was no widespread fine art education in schools for the blind until the latter years of the 20th century, and even when it was introduced many felt people who were blind could not draw or ...