Psychical blindness is a condition in which there is a total absence of visual memory-images, a condition in which, for example, one is unable to remember something just seen or to conjure up a memory-picture of the visible appearance of a well-known friend in his absence.

Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a well-known example of a fantasized adventure story.

Proper nouns that are plural in form take a plural verb in both AmE and BrE ; for example, The Beatles are a well-known band ; The Saints are the champions, with one major exception: largely for historical reasons, in American English, the United States is is almost universal.

Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye is a well-known modern example of fictional autobiography.

For example, the well-known lines from Kipling's Song of the Dead:

The most well-known example is Angulimala in the Theravadan Pali canon who had killed 999 people and then attempted to kill his own mother and the Buddha, but under the influence of the Buddha he repented and entered the monkhood.

An example of a well-known group, until recently armed, that looks to Mao's principles is the Communist Party of Nepal ( Maoist ) who the current CPC has publicly opposed.

A well-known example of a non – carbon-based life-form in science fiction is the Horta in the original Star Trek episode " Devil in the Dark ".

For example, one publication stated: " All sex with outsiders is banned !-- Unless they are already close and well-known friends!

One well-known example of a bitheistic or duotheistic theology based on gender polarity is found in the neopagan religion of Wicca, which is centered on the worship of a divine couple-the Moon Goddess and the Horned God-who are regarded as lovers.

His theory substantially comprised two statements: first, that animal organs and behaviour can change according to the way they are used ; and second, that those characteristics can transmit from one generation to the next ( the example of the giraffe whose neck becomes longer while trying to reach the upper leaves of a tree is well-known ).

There are many well-known and economically important members of the Ericaceae, these include the cranberry, blueberry, huckleberry, azalea, rhododendron, and various common heaths and heathers ( Erica, Cassiope, Daboecia, and Calluna for example ).

" He felt that " the well-known example of the Jews, with their strong disposition towards nervous and mental disorders, teaches us that their extraordinarily advanced domestication may eventually imprint clear marks on the race ".

* The University of Chicago's Common Core, established by Mortimer Adler and Robert Maynard Hutchins is another well-known example of educational perennialism.

A well-known example of this phenomenon, the " Ouzo effect ", happens when water is poured into a strong alcoholic anise-based beverage, such as ouzo, pastis, arak, or raki.

::* Statistical self-similarity: repeats a pattern stochastically so numerical or statistical measures are preserved across scales ; e. g., randomly generated fractals ; the well-known example of the coastline of Britain, for which one would not expect to find a segment scaled and repeated as neatly as the repeated unit that defines, for example, the Koch snowflake

( A well-known example is the " initials " used by Forrest J. Ackerman in his fanzines from the 30s and 40s, namely " 4sj ".

This can be clarified with a well-known example.

For example, Graham's number, though finite, is unimaginably larger than other well-known large numbers such as a googol, googolplex, and even larger than Skewes ' number and Moser's number.

Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte ( Black Forest cake, made with cherries ) is probably the most well-known example of a wide variety of typically German tortes filled with whipped or butter cream.

Gaston Lerouxs The Phantom of the Opera ( 1909 – 1910 ) is another well-known example of gothic fiction from the early twentieth century.

An example of such an aspect is the well-known behaviour that a catchment will respond much more quickly and strongly when it is already wet than when it is dry ..

A classic example is the well-known " you have two cows " joke — after circulating in other media throughout the 1980s, it seems to have first appeared on the Internet in 1993 with simple descriptions of communism, capitalism, and socialism.

For example, in evaluating the effectiveness of a new therapy, the mean performance of the therapy in one treatment group might be compared to the mean effectiveness of a placebo ( or a well-known therapy ) in a second, control group.

The first well-known public presentation of markup languages in computer text processing was made by William W. Tunnicliffe at a conference in 1967, although he preferred to call it generic coding.

All of the guests are seated and grace is said, usually using the Selkirk Grace, a well-known thanksgiving said before meals, using the Scots language.

Learning language is Learning how to mean, the name of his well-known early study of a child's language development.

Many of his stories, such as Gulf, If This Goes On —, and Stranger in a Strange Land, depend strongly on the premise, related to the well-known Sapir – Whorf hypothesis, that by using a correctly designed language, one can change or improve oneself mentally, or even realize untapped potential ( as in the case of Joe Green in Gulf ).

Probably the most well-known linguist working with a truly Humboldtian perspective writing in English today is Anna Wierzbicka who has published a wide number of compartaive works on semantic universals and conceptual distinctions in language.

A well-known part of the project's contribution is VHDL, a hardware description language.

Ingres's well-known passion for playing the violin gave to the French language a colloquialism, " violon d ' Ingres ", meaning a second skill beyond the one by which a person is mainly known.

* Albany ( 1981 ), a well-known German language schlager by the British singer Roger Whittaker

The focus was initially on the well-known Indo-European languages, many of which had long written histories ; the scholars also studied the Uralic languages, another European language family for which less early written material exists.

Sumerian, of course, is the virtual archetype of what linguistic taxonomists call a language-isolate, meaning a language that does not fall into any of the well-known language-families or exhibit clear cognation with any known language.

A few well-known concrete poets outside the English language are András Petöcz in the Hungarian language and Joan Brossa in the Catalan language.

Dickens describes him thus: " The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, made his eyes red, his thin lips blue, and he spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice ..." His last name has come into the English language as a byword for miserliness and misanthropy, traits displayed by Scrooge in the exaggerated manner for which Dickens is well-known.

His departure angered well-known media-industry figures ; John Cleese faxed Robinson using ' vitriolic language ' and called him an ' upstart caterer ', a reference to his past employment.

A well-known example was the development of analytic geometry, which in the hands of mathematicians such as Descartes and Fermat showed that many theorems about curves and surfaces of special types could be stated in algebraic language ( then new ), each of which could then be proved using the same techniques.

The language is widely used for client-side scripting on the web, in the form of several well-known dialects such as JavaScript, JScript, and ActionScript.

Phonemic tone is one of the most well-known of East Asian language characteristics.

A notable example is " Quando el Rey Nimrod " (" When King Nimrod "), one of the most well-known folksongs in Ladino ( the Judeo-Spanish language ), apparently written during the reign of King Alfonso X of Castile.

Other well-known BBN computer-related innovations include the first time-sharing system, the LOGO programming language, the TOPS-20 ( TENEX ) operating system, the Colossal Cave Adventure game, the first link-state routing protocol, and a series of mobile ad-hoc networks starting in the 1970s.

There is a well-known myth about the word " quiz ", which says that in 1791 a Dublin theater owner named James Daly made a bet that he could introduce a word into the language within twenty-four hours.

This misconception led Alexander, or perhaps another unknown writer, to borrow language from Jefferson's well-known Declaration of Independence when the Mecklenburg Declaration was written from Alexander's rough notes.

One well-known Greek from this island was Kimon Friar who would emigrate to the United States and become a scholar and translator of Greek language poetry.