blindness

     

Blinness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors.

Trivia about blindness

  • In May 2001 Erik Weihenmayer climbed Everest, not considering this condition of his a handicap
  • For the first 9 to 10 days of its life, a bobcat suffers from this ocular disability
  • Ironically, the mythical seer Tiresias was stricken with this, a punishment from the gods
  • David Blunkett, an important British cabinet minister, has this handicap & brings a dog into Parliament with him
  • (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a city square in Lisbon, Portugal.) Portugal's great writers include José Saramago, who grew up in Lisbon & who wrote this novel adapted into a 2008 movie with Julianne Moore
  • Evil men at Lot's house were smitten with this affliction "so that they wearied themselves to find the door"
  • In 1808, the first crude typewriter was built for an Italian countess afflicted with this
  • Handicap of Lemon Jefferson & also Willie McTell. They both needed a good woman to catch them if they fell
  • Orbis International says 28 million people stricken by this don't need to be
  • The virgin Lucy, whose name comes from the Latin for "light", is the patron saint of those afflicted with this

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