While blind and visually impaired people had contributed to the body of common literature for centuries, one notable example being the author of Paradise Lost, John Milton, the creation of autobiographical materials, or materials specific to blindness, is relatively new.

In 1988, Jones contributed to the creation of London's Museum of the Moving Image by spending several days working high on scaffolding creating a chase sequence directly onto the high walls of the museum.

The merging of the Scandinavian and native elements contributed to the creation of one of the most powerful feudal states of Western Europe.

He contributed to the creation of the Orfeó Català in 1891, along with Lluís Millet.

The gravitational singularity predicted by general relativity to exist at the center of a black hole is not a phase of matter ; it is not a material object at all ( although the mass-energy of matter contributed to its creation ) but rather a property of spacetime at a location.

This, as well as many other factors, such as the mid 15th-century invention of the printing press, and the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire, contributed to the creation of Protestantism.

Kohl is widely regarded as one of the main architects of the German reunification and, together with French President François Mitterrand, the Maastricht Treaty, which contributed to the creation of the European Union.

" Similarly, various strategies and struggles adopted by wage laborers contributed to the creation of labor unions and welfare institutions, etc.

He contributed to the creation of the ALGOL 60 programming language.

She has widely contributed to the creation of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, of which governing board she became the first Chairman in 1966.

Through a series of amalgamations, relocations, transfers of responsibilities and diocesan initiatives, more than 20 historical entities have contributed to the creation of the University.

Wilkes also contributed part of the lands used in the creation of Madison, Warren and Taliaferro, Hart, McDuffie, and Greene counties.

Since the creation of Clarke ’ s Hill Lake, recreation has contributed to Lincoln County's growth.

A number of events contributed to the development of the city ; amongst these were its ultimate declaration as the leading port of Greece, the completion of the Athens-Piraeus Railway in 1869, the industrial development of the area in the 1860s, and the creation of the Corinth Canal in 1893, all of which left Piraeus more strategically important than ever.

His ideas on the relationship of Ego and Alter were developed by Pierre Janet ; while his stress on how " My sense of self grows by imitation of you ... an imitative creation " contributed to the mirror stage of Jacques Lacan.

There is no evidence to support a charge that we directly or indirectly screened or contributed to the creation of a blacklist.

These unsuccessful Fenian Raids were a catalyst that contributed to the creation of the new Dominion of Canada in 1867.

The scientists Claudius Ptolemy and Johannes Kepler also contributed to the creation of optometry.

In this way he contributed to the creation of scholarship of private law separate from that of Roman law.

It was during this time that the duo contributed to the creation of the character Alan Partridge.

Since the creation of this sport in the 1970s, mountain biking has grown immensely and MBHOF works to document individuals and events which have significantly contributed to mountain biking history.

King Kong was re-released in 1952, and contributed to a creation and revival of a giant monster cinema craze, especially at drive-in theaters.

Many contributed to the creation of the modern-day voice-mail.

Wolfgang Köhler ( January 21, 1887 – June 11, 1967 ) was a German psychologist and phenomenologist who, like Max Wertheimer, and Kurt Koffka, contributed to the creation of Gestalt psychology.

According to D. C. Congressional Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, Hill's treatment by the panel also contributed to the large number of women elected to Congress in 1992, " women clearly went to the polls with the notion in mind that you had to have more women in Congress ", she said.

The small landowners ' relative poverty, the lack of a large indigenous labor force, the population's ethnic and linguistic homogeneity, and Costa Rica's isolation from the Spanish colonial centers in Mexico and the Andes all contributed to the development of an autonomous and individualistic agrarian society.

Mountbatten, who was promoted to the acting rank of vice-admiral in March 1942, was in large part responsible for the planning and organisation of The Raid at St. Nazaire in mid 1942, an operation resulting in the disuse of one of the most heavily defended docks in Nazi-occupied France until well after war's end, the ramifications of which greatly contributed to allied supremacy in the Battle of the Atlantic.

Bad harvests ( caused in part by extreme weather from El Niño along with volcanic activity at Laki and Grímsvötn in 1783 – 1784 ), rising food prices, and an inadequate transportation system that hindered the shipment of bulk foods from rural areas to large population centers contributed greatly to the destabilization of French society in the years leading up to the Revolution.

Since 1990 ECOWAS has been engaged in a peacekeeping mission in Liberia to which Ghana has contributed a large contingent of troops.

With its increasing rarity, specimens of the Great Auk and its eggs became collectible and highly prized by rich Europeans, and the loss of a large number of its eggs to collection contributed to the demise of the species.

Al Qaeda inspired attacks in London and Madrid, together with a perception that Europe's large Muslim minority was not integrating, contributed to a change in public opinion in some countries.

Both domestic demand ( mainly consumption ) boosted by large increases in government spending, and exports of goods and services contributed to this favorable performance.

Towards the Late Cretaceous large volcanic eruptions are also believed to have contributed to the Cretaceous – Paleogene extinction event.

The early Earth was bombarded heavily by comets, possibly providing a large supply of complex organic molecules along with the water and other volatiles they contributed.

Some scholars theorise that the galactic tide may have contributed to the formation of the Oort cloud by increasing the perihelia — closest distances to the Sun — of planetesimals with large aphelia.

In 1873, it became known that Allan had contributed a large sum of money to the Conservative government's re-election campaign of 1872 ; some sources quote a sum over $ 360, 000.

Tin and copper also contributed to the establishment of trade networks spanning large areas of Europe and Asia, and had a major effect on the distribution of wealth among individuals and nations.

David Quammen has suggested all these factors may have contributed, and notes Darwin's large output of books and busy family life during that time.

A series of large privatizations, the stability fostered by the start of Turkey ’ s EU accession negotiations, strong and stable growth, and structural changes in the banking, retail, and telecommunications sectors have all contributed to the rise in foreign investment.

Thus, by bringing large numbers of entrepreneurial adventurers to the region, the Gold Rush significantly contributed to the economic development of Western Canada, Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.

This keen eyesight is primarily contributed by their extremely large pupils which ensure minimal diffraction ( scattering ) of the incoming light.

In the Armory show Jacques Villon exhibited seven important and large drypoints, his brother Marcel Duchamp shocked the American public with his painting Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 ( 1912 ) and Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Roger de La Fresnaye, Marie Laurencin, Albert Gleizes, and other cubist painters contributed examples of their cubist works.

Due to its large landholdings and institutional rigidity, a rigidity the excessively large ranks of the clergy contributed to, many bishops studied law, not theology, being relegated to the role of property managers trained in administration.

According to Barr, the large number of American volunteers " contributed to the Mexican view that Texan opposition stemmed from outside influences ".

The policies he introduced in those lands disturbed large numbers of Indians, and contributed to the outbreak in 1763 of the conflict known as Pontiac's Rebellion.

It was also argued, however, that the movement contributed towards generating demand for grassroots involvement in guidelines and advocacy groups, and to the shift from large mental institutions to community services.

Previously, it was believed that the megafaunal extinctions were caused by the changing climate, but many scientists now believe that while the climate change contributed to these extinctions, the primary cause was hunting by newly-arrived humans or, in the case of some large predators, extinction resulting from prey becoming scarce.