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  2. If You Go Away - Wikipedia

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    If You Go Away. For the New Kids on the Block song, see If You Go Away (New Kids on the Block song). " If You Go Away " is an adaptation of the 1959 Jacques Brel song " Ne me quitte pas " with English lyrics by Rod McKuen. Created as part of a larger project to translate Brel's work, "If You Go Away" is considered a pop standard and has been ...

  3. Cosmic ray visual phenomena - Wikipedia

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    Cosmic ray visual phenomena, or light flashes ( LF ), also known as Astronaut's Eye, are spontaneous flashes of light visually perceived by some astronauts outside the magnetosphere of the Earth, such as during the Apollo program. While LF may be the result of actual photons of visible light being sensed by the retina, [1] the LF discussed here ...

  4. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Wikipedia

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    Their Eyes Were Watching God is a 1937 novel by American writer Zora Neale Hurston. It is considered a classic of the Harlem Renaissance , [1] and Hurston's best known work. The novel explores protagonist Janie Crawford's "ripening from a vibrant, but voiceless, teenage girl into a woman with her finger on the trigger of her own destiny".

  5. Photophobia - Wikipedia

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    Photophobia is a medical symptom of abnormal intolerance to visual perception of light. As a medical symptom, photophobia is not a morbid fear or phobia, but an experience of discomfort or pain to the eyes due to light exposure or by presence of actual physical sensitivity of the eyes, though the term is sometimes additionally applied to abnormal or irrational fear of light, such as heliophobia.

  6. Evil eye - Wikipedia

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    The evil eye is a supernatural belief in a curse brought about by a malevolent glare, usually inspired by envy. [1] The belief in the evil eye among humans has existed since prehistory, [1] [failed verification] and amulets to protect against it have been found dating to about 5,000 years ago. [1]

  7. Eye-rolling - Wikipedia

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    Eye-rolling is a gesture in which a person briefly turns their eyes upward, often in an arcing motion from one side to the other. In the Anglosphere, it has been identified as a passive-aggressive response to an undesirable situation or person. The gesture is used to disagree or dismiss or express contempt for the targeted person without ...

  8. Famous Blue Raincoat - Wikipedia

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    Leonard Cohen. Producer (s) Bob Johnston. " Famous Blue Raincoat " is a song by Leonard Cohen. It is the sixth track on his third album, Songs of Love and Hate, released in 1971. The song is written in the form of a letter (many of the lines are written in amphibrachs ). The lyric tells the story of a love triangle among the speaker, a woman ...

  9. For the Good Times (song) - Wikipedia

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    For the Good Times (song) " For the Good Times " is a song written by Kris Kristofferson, first recorded by singer Bill Nash in 1968 before appearing on Kristofferson's own debut album in June 1970. After a recording by Ray Price became a #1 hit single in June of that year, the song established Kristofferson as one of country and popular music ...