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  • Thumbnail for Letter on the Blind
    In Letter on the Blind for the Use of those who can see (French: Lettre sur les aveugles à l'usage de ceux qui voient, 1749), Denis Diderot takes on the...
    5 KB (507 words) - 13:39, 28 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Blind spot (vision)
    Octopus A blind spot, scotoma, is an obscuration of the visual field. A particular blind spot known as the physiological blind spot, "blind point", or...
    5 KB (396 words) - 17:48, 15 June 2024
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    subject of blindness and education has included evolving approaches and public perceptions of how best to address the special needs of blind students....
    15 KB (1,855 words) - 18:54, 21 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Color blindness
    Color blindness or color vision deficiency (CVD) is the decreased ability to see color or differences in color. The severity of color blindness ranges...
    99 KB (10,395 words) - 09:29, 26 November 2024
  • newspaper L'Écho de Paris. This letter was published causing much consternation. After the letter was published, the World Blind Union recommended this innovation...
    6 KB (896 words) - 14:16, 17 February 2024
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    Braille (category Scripts with ISO 15924 four-letter codes)
    represent a letter, digit, punctuation mark, or even a word. Early braille education is crucial to literacy, education and employment among the blind. Despite...
    71 KB (7,738 words) - 02:58, 21 November 2024
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    different ways. The following are some of the more common résumé formats: A blind résumé is a modern and equitable style used to focus on an applicant's qualifications...
    20 KB (2,397 words) - 09:19, 12 November 2024
  • Need-blind admission in the United States refers to a college admission policy that does not take into account an applicant's financial status when deciding...
    59 KB (4,575 words) - 21:04, 9 November 2024
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    Large-print (category Blindness)
    recommended Adequate letter and word spacing Flexible binding recommended to allow open book to lie flat The American Printing House for the Blind defines font...
    8 KB (989 words) - 14:47, 27 December 2023
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    Snellen chart (redirect from Snellen letter)
    prescription. The largest letter on an eye chart often represents an acuity of 6/60 (20/200), the value that is considered "legally blind" in the US. Many individuals...
    12 KB (1,546 words) - 13:11, 1 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Visual impairment
    daily tasks, including reading and walking. The terms low vision and blindness are often used for levels of impairment which are difficult or impossible...
    90 KB (10,430 words) - 04:49, 22 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Royal National Institute of Blind People
    (formally, the Royal National Institute of Blind People and previously the Royal National Institute for the Blind) is a British charity, founded in 1868,...
    25 KB (2,282 words) - 19:40, 15 October 2024
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    books embossed at the American Printing House for the Blind in 1866 were in Boston line letter. By 1868, N.B. Kneass, Jr., a printer in Philadelphia,...
    2 KB (251 words) - 23:56, 29 August 2023
  • actively trying to mislead. He has found great pleasure in the work of "The Blind Letter Office" at the Post Office, helping to decipher the nigh-illegible gibberish...
    36 KB (5,244 words) - 17:49, 3 October 2024
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    A letter bomb is an explosive device sent via the postal service, and designed with the intention to injure or kill the recipient when opened. They have...
    25 KB (2,641 words) - 10:54, 12 November 2024
  • Alan Christie Wilson (July 4, 1943 – September 3, 1970), nicknamed "Blind Owl", was an American musician, best known as the co-founder, leader, co-lead...
    34 KB (4,569 words) - 22:59, 17 November 2024
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    Didymus the Blind (alternatively spelled Dedimus or Didymous) (c. 313 – 398) was a Christian theologian in the Church of Alexandria, where he taught for...
    20 KB (2,372 words) - 14:12, 29 October 2024
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    originated in the "Dear Boss letter" written by an individual claiming to be the murderer, which was disseminated in the press. The letter is widely believed to...
    91 KB (11,162 words) - 00:08, 21 November 2024
  • Standard Blind Approach (SBA) system and was trialled in the late 1930s. It was also being used by a few civil airports. By late 1941 the word 'Blind' was...
    17 KB (295 words) - 14:57, 11 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ali Khamenei
    Aghajari for arguing that Muslims should re-interpret Islam rather than blindly follow leaders. Khamenei ordered a review of the sentence against Aghajari...
    213 KB (18,199 words) - 08:45, 23 November 2024
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