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Blindness is the story of an unexplained mass epidemic of blindness afflicting nearly everyone in an unnamed city, and the social breakdown that swiftly follows. The novel follows the misfortune of a handful of unnamed characters who are among the first to be stricken with blindness, including an ophthalmologist, several of his patients, and assorted others, who are thrown together by chance.
He was baptized Francisco Javier Eugenio de Santa Cruz y Espejo in the El Sagrario parish on February 21, 1747. According to most historians, his father was Luis de la Cruz Chuzhig, a Quichua Indian from Cajamarca, who arrived in Quito as an assistant to the priest and physician José del Rosario, and his mother was Maria Catalina Aldás, a mulatta native to Quito.
Seeing (Portuguese: Ensaio sobre a Lucidez, lit. Essay on Lucidity) is a novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese author José Saramago. The book was published in Portuguese in 2004 and then in English in 2006. Seeing is the sequel to one of Saramago's most famous works, Blindness.
When Alex Morgan received her lookalike Barbie doll, she was excited to show her daughter — until she saw her reaction.. The retired soccer star, who is currently pregnant with her second baby ...
Keller Fornes, star of the Great American Family Channel’s “County Rescue,” died on Dec. 19, 2024, in Eastland Texas, according to an obituary from Lacy Funeral Home. He was 32.
Laverne Cox, now a familiar face on the E! red carpet, is ending her hosting gig after three years. Her exit comes ahead of the Golden Globes Sunday.
Jean Marian Purdy (25 April 1945 – 16 March 1985) was a British nurse, embryologist and pioneer of fertility treatment. She was responsible with Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe for developing in vitro fertilisation (IVF); Louise Joy Brown, the first "test-tube baby", was born on 25 July 1978, and Purdy was the first to see the embryonic cells dividing.
As of 7 a.m. local time on Wednesday, Jan. 8, four named wildfires are impacting various parts of Southern California, according to data from CalFire.. The largest blaze is the Palisades Fire ...