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Conjunctivitis, also known as pink eye or Madras eye, [4] [5] is inflammation of the conjunctiva and the inner surface of the eyelid. [6] It makes the eye appear pink or reddish. [1] Pain, burning, scratchiness, or itchiness may occur. [1] The affected eye may have increased tears or be "stuck shut" in the morning. [1] Swelling of the sclera ...
A man has a son and a daughter, the latter of whom is known as Maiden Bright-eye. His wife dies and he marries another woman, who has a daughter of her own, uglier than the man's daughter, which is why the stepmother is cruel to her Bright-eye, forcing her to do the household's chores. One day, the stepmother sends her to watch the sheep while ...
Unabridged and unexpurgated translations were made, first by John Payne, under the title The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night (1882, nine volumes), and then by Sir Richard Francis Burton, entitled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1885, ten volumes) – the latter was, according to some assessments, partially based on the ...
On the cover of Lisa Birnbach’s “The Official Preppy Handbook,” a tongue-in-cheek 1980s guide to looking, acting and thinking like a US prep school elite, a pattern along the border depicts ...
"That Woman on the Lawn, a tangential episode in the same "universe" as Something Wicked This Way Comes "The Very Gentle Murders", a fantasy of marital strife "Quicker Than the Eye", which visits another carnival act.
1817: Madras Literary Society is founded. 1819: Madras Eye Infirmary, later the Egmore Eye Hospital, is established. [38] 1826: Board of Public Instructions is founded. 1831: First census in the city is taken (population: 39,785). 1832: Madras Club is founded. 1834: First survey school is inaugurated; later develops as an engineering college.
The Mote in God's Eye (originally titled Motelight) [2] is set in Pournelle's CoDominium universe, where a union of the United States and the Soviet Union produced a world government and a number of colonies in other star systems, followed by nuclear war on Earth and the rise of the First Empire based on the planet Sparta several centuries before the events of the novel.
According to Heffer, the book both harks back to Huxley's early satires and links to the more serious and philosophical concerns of his later novels. Formally, the novel uses a modernist stream of consciousness but based in fact, unlike the novels of Woolf , Proust and Joyce , whose narrators' memories are unreliable.