- Yamantaka Eye
Yamantaka Eye is a Japanese vocalist and visual artist, best known as a member of Boredoms. He has changed his name three times, from Yamatsuka Eye, to Yamantaka Eye, to Yamataka Eye, and sometimes calls himself eYe or EYヨ. He also DJs under the name DJ 光光光 or "DJ pica pica pica" ("pica" means "bright" or "shiny"), and has used other pseudonyms on occasion. - Chief Sleepy Eye
Chief Sleepy Eye (also know as Ish Tak Ha Ba, Ishtaba, Ish ta hba, Ishtahumba, Eshtahenba, Esh ta hum leah, and Isk irk ha ba) was a Native American chief of the Sisseton Sioux tribe. He was chief from 1824 to his death in 1860. - Bridget Riley
Bridget Louise Riley CH CBE (born April 24, 1931 in London) is an English painter who is one of the foremost proponents of op art, art that exploits the fallibility of the human eye. Bridget was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College; she studied art first at Goldsmiths College and later at the Royal College of Art, where her fellow students included artists Peter Blake and Frank Auerbach. She left college early to look after her ailing father, … - Steven Heller
Steven Heller, (b. 1950), American art director, journalist, critic, author and editor who specializes on graphic design. Steven Heller is author and co-author of many works on the history of illustration, typography and many subjects related to graphic design. Over 80 titles and a vast number of magazine articles attest to his productive and thoughtful output. He has written articles for "Affiche, Baseline, Creation, Design, Design Issues, Eye, Graphis, How, I.D., … - Darrell Issa
Darrell E. Issa (pronounced "Eye"-suh) (born November 1 1953) is an American politician and former CEO of a consumer electronics company. A Republican, since 2001 he has been a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the 49th District of California. His district consists of portions of southern Riverside County and northern San Diego County. - Fred Miller
Fred (Frederick) Miller, (1863-1924), journalist and editor of "The Daily Telegraph" 1923-1924, was born in Dundee. He attended the High School of Dundee and the University of Edinburgh, and upon leaving joined "The Scotsman". Within a matter of weeks, he was recommended for the post of assistant sub-editor, beginning an association with the newspaper of over forty years. - James Worthy
James Ager Worthy (born February 27 1961 in Gastonia, North Carolina) is an American former college and professional basketball player. Standing 6 ft 9 in (2.05 m), he played small forward. - Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (August 31, 1821 - September 8, 1894) was a German physician and physicist. In the words of the 1911 Britannica, "his life from first to last was one of devotion to science, and he must be accounted, on intellectual grounds, as one of the foremost men of the 19th century." Helmholtz is notable in a number of areas of science. In physiology, he is known for his mathematics of the eye, theories of vision, … - Stratos
Stratos is a character from the popular toy line and cartoon series Masters of the Universe (MOTU). He is a member of the Heroic Warriors. Stratos is the leader of a race of Bird People from the land of Avion, humans with the power of flight and other bird-like abilities. The Bird People are close allies of He-Man and Stratos is one of his most trusted warriors. Besides the power of flight and his aerial acrobatic skills, … - Tobias Frere-Jones
Mr. Frere-Jones received his B.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design in 1992. In 2000 he began work with Jonathan Hoefler in New York. He has designed over 250 typefaces for retail publication, custom clients, and experimental purposes. - Victoria Snelgrove
Victoria Snelgrove (October 29, 1982 - October 21, 2004) was a Junior at Emerson College who was accidentally killed by Boston police while she and others were celebrating the Boston Red Sox' victory over the New York Yankees in the 2004 American League Championship Series. Snelgrove was a junior majoring in journalism at Emerson College, to which she had transferred from Fitchburg State College in the fall of 2003. She was 21 years old when she died. - Dean Shiels
Dean Shiels (b. 1 February 1985, Magherafelt, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish professional footballer currently playing for Hibernian in the Scottish Premier League. He was previously contracted to Arsenal, but made no first team appearances for the club. In early 2006, Shiels had an operation to remove his right eye. He had been blind in that eye since a domestic accident when he was eight years old. - John Sakamoto
John Sakamoto is a Canadian journalist and music critic. He is best known for the "Anti-Hit List" column, which has appeared on canoe.ca and in "eye", the "Toronto Sun" and the "Toronto Star". He served as executive producer of canoe.ca's entertainment section, "Jam!", from 1996 to 2002. In 2005, the Anti-Hit List expanded into a biweekly podcast. - Robert Greenfield
Robert "Bob" Greenfield is an American author, journalist and screenwriter. Greenfield began his career as a sports writer. Book reviews from his hand have appeared in "New West magazine" and "The New York Times Sunday's Book Review". From 1970 to 1972 Greenfield was hired as the Associate editor for Rolling Stone magazine (London bureau). During this time he interviewed musicians like Jack Bruce, John Cale, Neil Young, Elton John, Nico, the Rolling Stones, … - Zhang Xiaogang
Zhang Xiaogang (born 1958) is a contemporary Chinese symbolist and surrealist painter. He has made a "Bloodline" series of paintings, which are often monochromatic, stylized portraits of Chinese people, usually with large, dark-pupiled eyes, posed in a stiff manner deliberately reminiscent of family portraits from the 1950s and 60s. - William H. Prescott
William Hickling Prescott was an historian. William H. Prescott was born in Salem, Massachusetts to William Prescott, Jr., who was a lawyer, and his wife, née Catherine Greene Hickling. His grandfather William Prescott served as a Colonel during the American Revolutionary War. Prescott suffered from failing eyesight after a thrown crust of bread was temporarily lodged in his eye. It was a problem that would haunt him for the rest of his life, … - Ewald Hering
Ewald Hering (full name Karl Ewald Konstantin Hering) (August 5, 1834 - January 26, 1918) was a German physiologist who did much research into color vision and spatial perception. Hering disagreed with the leading theory developed mostly by Thomas Young and Hermann von Helmholtz. Helmholtz's theory stated that the human eye perceived all colors in terms of three primary colors: red, green, and blue. - Ron Hamilton
Ron Hamilton is a Christian evangelist, singer, and voice actor. He is best known for his character Patch the Pirate, and has produced and starred in a series of audio books starring the character. The character is based on a nickname he attained after losing an eye to cancer when he was 27 years old. He is married to Shelly Hamilton who, along with many of their children, provides the voices of a number of characters in his Patch the Pirate stories. - Mari Evans
Mari Evans (born July 16 1923 in Toledo, Ohio) is an African-American poet. She is currently residing in Indianapolis.She attended the University of Toledo, then pursued a teaching career. She lectured on literature and writing; she produced, wrote and directed the television program called "The Black Experience." She is best known for many of her poems. One, called "When In Rome", is taught in many high school and college English classes. - Charles Kelman
Charles D. Kelman (May 23, 1930 - June 1, 2004) was an ophthalmologist and a pioneer in cataract surgery. Kelman was born in Brooklyn, New York to David and Eva Kelman. He grew up in Queens where he attended Forest Hills High School. After graduation, he attended Boston's Tufts University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree, then studied medicine at the University of Geneva. - Earl Cornwallis
Earl Cornwallis was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1753 for Charles Cornwallis, 4th Baron Cornwallis. The second Earl was created Marquess Cornwallis but this title became extinct in 1823, while the earldom and its subsidiary titles became extinct in 1852. The Cornwallis family descended from Frederick Cornwallis, who represented Eye and Ipswich in the House of Commons. - Kim Goodman
Kim Goodman is a woman who is able to pop her eyes out of her eye sockets by 11 millimeters (0.43 inches). She holds the world record for the farthest eyeball popper. She lives in Chicago, Illinois. She discovered her eyeball popping talent one day when she was hit on the head with a hockey mask. Her eyeballs popped out much further than usual and ever since that day she could pop them out on cue, as well as when she yawns. - Estácio de Sá
Estácio de Sá was a Portuguese soldier and officer who came to Brazil on orders of the Portuguese crown to wage war on the French invaders commanded by Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon (1510-1571), who had established themselves in 1555 at the Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro, in the episode which became known as "France Antarctique". A nephew of Brazilian Governor General Mem de Sá (1500-1572), he arrived at Salvador, Bahia, in 1563. - Makoto Saito
Makoto Saito is a Japanese graphic designer and a self-described "poster designer". Saito was born in 1952 in Fukuoka, Japan. His early work as a printmaker was successful, shown internationally, and is part of the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Saito worked from 1974 to 1980 at Nippon Design Center before starting his own firm, Makoto Saito Design. His posters are typified by text-free imagery in dense inks printed on thick, high quality papers. - Edme Mariotte
Edme Mariotte (c. 1620 - May 12, 1684) was a French physicist and priest. Mariotte is best known for his recognition in 1676 of Boyle's Law about the inverse relationship of volume and pressures in gases. In 1660 he had discovered the eye's blind spot. Mariotte spent most of his life at Dijon, where he was prior of St Martin sous Beaune. He was one of the first members of the French Academy of Sciences founded at Paris in 1666. - Thomas Reh
Thomas A. Reh Ph.D. is an United States scientist and author. He received his B.Sc. in Biochemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1977 and his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1981. He went on to postdoctoral studies at Princeton University in the lab of Martha Constantine-Paton. He is currently Professor of Biological Structure and Director of the Neurobiology and Behavior Program at the University of Washington. - William Broome
William Broome (1689 - 1745) was an English poet and translator. He was born in Haslington, Cheshire and died in Bath. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge, entered the Church, and became rector of Sturston in Suffolk, and later Pulham in Norfolk and Eye in Suffolk. He translated the "Iliad" in prose along with others, and was employed by Alexander Pope, whom he excelled as a Greek scholar, in translating the "Odyssey", of which he Englished the 8th, 11th, … - Lloyd Cross
Lloyd Cross is an American physicist and holographer. As a physicist, Cross' research started in the 1950s, and focused primarily on masers and lasers at Willow Run Laboratories, at the University of Michigan. In 1968, he and Canadian sculptor Gerry Pethick, developed a simplistic stabilization system for holographic cameras, that for the first time did not require expensive optics and an isolation table, effectively making the medium accessible to artists. - Klaus Augenthaler
Klaus Augenthaler is a former football player and now manager. His nickname is Auge (German for "eye"). - Robert Malet
Robert Malet (b. Abt. 1096 - d. 1106?) was an English baron and a close advisor of Henry I. He was the son of William Malet, and inherited his father's great honour of Eye in 1071. This made him one of the dozen or so greatest landholders in England. According to the Domesday book he held 221 manors in Suffolk, 32 in Yorkshire, 8 in Lincolnshire, 3 in Essex, 2 in Nottinghamshire, and 1 in Hampshire. He also inherited the family property in Normandy. - Herophilos
Herophilos, sometimes Latinized Herophilus, was a Greek physician. He was born in Chalcedon in Asia Minor (now Kadiköy, Turkey). Together with Erasistratus he is regarded as a founder of the great medical school of Alexandria. He was the first to base his conclusions on dissection of the human body. He studied the brain, recognizing it as the center of the nervous system and the site of intelligence. He also paid particular attention to the nervous system, … - Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett
Sir Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett (1849 - 18 January 1902) was an American born British Conservative politician. He was born in Brooklyn, New York to American parents, and was the elder brother of William Burdett-Coutts. He was MP for Eye, Suffolk from 1880 to 1885 and MP for Sheffield Ecclesall from 1885 to 1902. He served as Civil Lord of the Admiralty in the governments of Lord Salisbury from 1885 to February 1886 and August 1886 to 1892. - Chakshusha
Chakshusha is the Manu of the sixth Manwantara, son of Ripu by Vrihati. The Márkandeya has a legend of his birth as a son of Ksbatriya ; of his being exchanged at his birth for the son of Visranta Rája, and being brought up by the prince as his own ; of his revealing the business when a man, and propitiating Brahma by his devotions, in consequence of which he became a Manu ; In his former birth he was born from the eye of Brahma ; whence his name from Chakshush 'the eye.' - François Magendie
François Magendie was French physiologist, considered a pioneer in experimental physiology. He is known for describing the foramen of Magendie. There is also a "Magendie sign", a downward and inward rotation of the eye due to a lesion in the cerebellum. His most important contribution to science was also his most disputed. Contemporaneous to Sir Charles Bell, Magendie conducted a number of experiments on the nervous system, … - Julius Hirschberg
Julius Hirschberg (1843 - 1925) was a German ophthalmologist and medical historian. In 1875, Hirschberg coined the term "capimetry" for the measurement of the visual field on a flat surface and in 1879 he became the first to use an electromagnet to remove metallic foreign bodies from the eye. In 1886, he developed the Hirschberg test for measuring strabismus. - Rumaisa Rahman
Rumaisa Rahman (born 19 September, 2004) is a baby who, according to medical records, is the smallest born baby in history to survive birth after complications due to her size. Rahman was eight inches (20 cm) long and weighed 244 grams (8.6 ounces). She has a twin sister, Hiba, also a small baby, weighing just 563 grams (1 pound 4 ounces) at birth. Her parents, Mahajabeen Shaik, 23, and Mohammed Abdul Rahman, 32, were originally from Hyderabad, India. - Felice Fontana
Felice Fontana (15 April 1730, Pomarolo - 10 March 1805, Florence) was an italian physicist who discovered the water gas shift reaction in 1780. He is also credited with launching modern toxicology and investigating the human eye. He had studied anatomy and phisiology in Padua and in 1755 moved to Bologna. In 1765 he moved again, this time for Pisa, where he taught logic at the university. The following year he also begun to teach physics and became court physicist, … - William Malet
William Malet (died 1071) fought at the Battle of Hastings. He had substantial property in Normandy, chiefly in the Pays de Caux, with a castle at Graville-Ste-Honorine, at the mouth of the Seine near Harfleur (and nowadays a suburb of Le Havre). Legend has it that his mother was English, and that he was the uncle of King Harold II of England's wife Edith (the claim being that he had a sister Aelgifu who married Aelfgar, Earl of Mercia, who was the father of Edith). - John Dame
Private John Dame (1784-?) was a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Born in 1784 at Pallingham, New Hampshire, he was five feet nine inches in height and had blue eyes, light hair and a fair complexion. He was recruited from Captain Amos Stoddard's Company at Kaskaskia, Illinois. He was mentioned in the journals because he killed a pelican on August 7, while in route up the Missouri River. - Earl Of Stradbroke
Earl of Stradbroke, in the County of Suffolk, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The title of the earldom, Stradbroke, is pronounced "Stradbrook". It was created in 1821 for Sir John Rous, 6th Baronet, who had earlier represented Suffolk in the House of Commons. He had already in 1796 been created Baron Rous, of Dennington in the County of Suffolk, in the Peerage of Great Britain, …
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