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Turning a blind eye is an idiom describing the ignoring of undesirable information. The Oxford English Dictionary records usage of the phrase in 1698. [1]The phrase to turn a blind eye is often associated with Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson at the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801.
[note 2] On the other hand, their ships were a motley collection, many of them small, and out-gunned if engaged by the whole of Nelson's force. [citation needed] Period map of the battle. Nelson's plan was for the British ships to approach the weaker, southern end of the Danish defences in a line parallel to the Danish one.
The game had a unique feature; along with the action sequences and point-and-click game elements, there was a "popularity meter" that would go up or down as Nightshade performed good deeds well or poorly. [6] Higher popularity meant greater recognition by everyday citizens of Metro City and allowed Nightshade access to more areas.
Curses was originally developed on an Acorn Archimedes using Acorn C/C++, before Nelson moved to his Inform programming language, which was simultaneously released. [2] [3] It was the first non-test game developed in the language. [3] It is distributed without charge as a Z-Code executable. The Inform source code is not publicly available.
The game begins as Agent Nelson Tethers, the sole member of the Puzzle Research Division of the FBI, is given his first field assignment. The factory that produces the erasers used by the White House has stopped production; any attempts to contact the factory are met with bizarre puzzles.
The district attorney's office has decided not to prosecute an East L.A. deputy accused of stealing $500 in poker chips during a traffic stop after the driver who sparked the investigation said he ...
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That was the case with crew chief Jeff Nelson during a game between the Los Angeles Angels and Miami Marlins on Saturday. With the bases loaded and one out in the 10th inning, the Marlins were up ...