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.

Eusebius of Nicomedia is not to be confused with his contemporary Eusebius of Caesarea, the author of a well-known early book of Church History.

The illustrations, definitively dated to between 1110 and 1120, have been tentatively attributed to Fujiwara no Takachika and the calligraphy to various well-known contemporary calligraphers.

The Hôtel des arts was opened in 1998, presents five exhibits a year of works by well-known contemporary artists.

Other well-known contemporary Serb filmmakers are Srđan Dragojević and Zdravko Šotra.

Professor Haywood Pearce Jr. of Brenau College ( now Brenau University ) in Gainesville, Georgia, believed in the stones, and his views won over some well-known historians, according to contemporary press accounts.

Beginning in the mid 1980s, he became a well-known figure in the contemporary art scene.

The play ridiculed contemporary academic society and was filled with transparent allusions to well-known people.

Mengs had a well-known rivalry with the contemporary Italian painter Pompeo Batoni.

Some Swedish easy listening / contemporary groups and artists who are not as well-known internationally but are recognized in Sweden include Gyllene Tider, Peter Jöback, Lill-Babs Svensson, Marie Fredriksson, Laleh, Per Gessle, Ted Gärdestad, Helen Sjöholm, Charlotte Perrelli, Loreen, Lena Philipsson and Patrik Isaksson.

Rohl asserts that this would permit scholars to identify some of the major events in the Old Testament with events in the archaeological record, and identify some of the well-known biblical characters with historical figures who appear in contemporary ancient texts.

Afghanistan's classical singers include the late Ustad Mohammad Hussain Sarahang ( 1924-1983 ), who is one of the master singers of Patiala Gharana in North Indian classical music and is also well-known throughout India and Pakistan as a contemporary of Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan.

A well-known small bronze in Paris may be a contemporary portrait of Charlemagne, although its date and subject are uncertain.

It is also one of the most well-known contemporary Chinese novels in China, and was made into a popular television series in the early 1990s.

The Sydney Dance Company is one of Australia's most successful and well-known contemporary dance companies.

Many landlords are forced to " buy out " their tenants if they wish to demolish buildings to make way for new development: one well-known contemporary instance is the Roppongi Hills complex, which offered several previous tenants special deals on apartments.

This often led to historical inaccuracies in his work, especially in the biographies of historical or contemporary people living outside of Florence ( even with well-known monarchs ).

Ace himself offered his own best epitaph when Saturday Review ran a poll asking well-known Americans to nominate members of a contemporary Hall of Fame.

In an interview given in 1930 to Eugene O ' Donnell, a well-known contemporary writer on occult matters, Latchmore finally admitted that his ' Minsden Ghost ' photograph was a hoax.

Norman is a well-known contemporary opera singer and recitalist, and is among the most successful performers in classical music.

Since 1984 they have commissioned a well-known contemporary British artist to create a limited edition Christmas card which was given to their major clients.

For example, Thomas Pynchon includes in his novels elements from detective fiction, science fiction, and war fiction ; songs ; pop culture references ; well-known, obscure, and fictional history mixed together ; real contemporary and historical figures ( Mickey Rooney and Wernher von Braun for example ); a wide variety of well-known, obscure and fictional cultures and concepts.

" The concept was applied to contemporary legends by folklorists Linda Dégh and Andrew Vázsonyi, who defined it as the way in which " the reality itself, the thing, the situation or event itself functions in the role of message " Dégh and Vázsonyi argued that the most direct form of ostension involved committing an actual crime mentioned in a well-known urban legend, such as microwaving someone's pet animal or placing poison in a child's Halloween candy.

The previous March he had begun writing an autobiography for an imaginary lady novelist, " Brunette Coleman ", adapting the name of a well-known contemporary female jazz musician, Blanche Coleman.