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  2. The Country of the Blind - Wikipedia

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    "Carefully,' he cried, with a finger in his eye." – illustration by Claude Allin Shepperson from "The Country of the Blind", published in The Strand Magazine, April 1904. While attempting to climb the unconquered crest of Parascotopetl (a fictitious mountain in Ecuador), a mountaineer named Nuñez slips and falls down the far side of the mountain. At the end of his descent, down a snow-slope ...

  3. List of one-eyed creatures in mythology and fiction - Wikipedia

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    Kerack, an alien race resembling large one-eyed prawns in the novel Camelot 30K; Magnus the Red, the one-eyed primarch of the Thousand Sons legion in Warhammer 40,000; Monoids, an alien race in the 1966 Doctor Who serial The Ark; Myo and other Abyssin aliens in Star Wars; Naga and his tribe of one-eyed violent mutants in the 1956 B-movie World ...

  4. Polyphemus - Wikipedia

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    An example of such a story is one from Georgia, in the Caucasus, which describes several brothers held prisoner by a giant one-eyed shepherd called "One-eye". After all but two of the brothers are roasted on a spit and eaten, the remaining two take the spit, heat it red hot, and stab it into the giant's eye.

  5. 90 relationship quotes for every love story and mood - AOL

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    It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” All love stories have a beginning, and the best ones settle into the comfortable territory of that ...

  6. Al-Masih ad-Dajjal - Wikipedia

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    "There is never a prophet who has not warned the Ummah of that one-eyed liar; behold he is one-eyed and your Lord is not one-eyed. [17] Dajjal is blind of one eye [18] On his forehead are the letters k. f. r. [17] between the eyes of the Dajjal [19] which every Muslim would be able to read." [18] [20]

  7. Charley Parkhurst - Wikipedia

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    The first ballot by a woman in an American presidential election was cast on this site November 3, 1868 by Charlotte (Charlie) Parkhurst who masqueraded as a man for much of her life. She was a stagecoach driver in the mother lode country during the gold rush days and shot and killed at least one bandit.

  8. One-Eyed Jacks - Wikipedia

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    One-Eyed Jacks is a 1961 American Western film directed by and starring Marlon Brando, his only directorial credit. Brando portrays the lead character Rio, and Karl Malden plays his partner, "Dad" Longworth.

  9. Oni - Wikipedia

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    Oni Mask [44] is a story where a young girl goes off to work at a ladies' house to make money for her ailing mother. She talks to a mask of her mother's face once she is done with her work to comfort herself. One day, the curious coworkers see the mask and decide to prank her by putting on an oni mask to replace the mother's mask.