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  • 51Corrective lens — A bifocal corrective eyeglass lens A pair of contact le …

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  • 52Contact lens — Contacts redirects here. For the software application, see Address book. A pair of contact lenses, positioned with the concave side facing upward …

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  • 53Myopia — For other uses, see Myopia (disambiguation). Myopia Classification and external resources ICD 10 H …

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  • 54History of the telescope — The earliest known working telescopes appeared in 1608 and are credited to Hans Lippershey and Zacharias Janssen, spectacle makers in Middelburg, and Jacob Metius of Alkmaar. The design of these early refracting telescopes consisted of a convex… …

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  • 55Satyavati — Shantanu woos Satyavati, the fisherwoman. Painting by …

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  • 56Presbyopia — is a condition where the eye exhibits a progressively diminished ability to focus on near objects with age. Presbyopia’s exact mechanisms are not known with certainty; the research evidence most strongly supports a loss of elasticity of the… …

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  • 57Human eye — Infobox Anatomy Name = Eye Caption = Schematic diagram of the human eye. The human eye is similar to most mammalian eyes.Dynamic rangeThe retina has a static contrast ratio of around 100:1 (about 6 1/2 stops). As soon as the eye moves (saccades)… …

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  • 58Evergreen Group — Infobox Company company name = Evergreen Group company company type = Public foundation = 1968 location = Taipei, Taiwan key people = Dr. Chang Yung fa (Chairman) num employees = industry = Transport Hotel products = Shipping Cargo Freight… …

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  • 59Colonel Blink — (tagline: The Short Gighted Gink ) was a fictional character in a comic strip in the UK comic The Beezer, first appearing in November 1958. Denis Gifford in his Encyclopedia of Comic Characters (1987) attributes his creation to Carmichael. These… …

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  • 60List of Nobel laureates in Literature — Horace Engdahl, the former permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, announcing that Jean Marie Gustave Le Clézio won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature The Nobel Prize in Literature (Swedish: Nobelpriset i litteratur) is awarded annually by… …

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