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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 ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 March 2025. Belgian-British Army officer (1880–1963) This article uses a Belgian surname: the surname is Carton de Wiart, not Wiart. Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart VC, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO Carton de Wiart as a Lieutenant Colonel during the First World War Birth name Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart Born ...
"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]
Famous people quotes about life. 46. “There is only one certainty in life and that is that nothing is certain.” —G.K. Chesterton (June 1926) 47. “Make it a rule of life never to regret and ...
Polyphemus first appeared as a savage man-eating giant in the ninth book of the Odyssey. The satyr play of Euripides is dependent on this episode apart from one detail; Polyphemus is made a pederast in the play. Later Classical writers presented him in their poems as heterosexual and linked his name with the nymph Galatea.
Charley Darkey Parkhurst (born Charlotte Darkey Parkhurst; [1] January 17, 1812 – December 28, 1879) also known as "One-Eyed Charley" or "Six-Horse Charley", was an American stagecoach driver, farmer and rancher in California.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king; Kill two birds with one stone; Let the cobbler stick to his last (Stick to your knitting) Like father, like son; Like teaching an old man a new language (Can't teach an old dog new tricks) A living corpse; Many hands make light work; Many parasangs ahead (Miles ahead) More haste, less speed; A ...
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 ...