Dunkirk evacuation. Dunkirk evacuation, (1940) in World War II, the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and other Allied troops from the French seaport of Dunkirk (Dunkerque) to England. Naval vessels and hundreds of civilian boats were used in the evacuation, which began on May 26.
An orbital blowout fracture is a fracture or break in the small bones that make up your eye. The orbit, or eye socket, is the cavity of the skull that holds the eye. An orbital blowout can occur when an object strikes the orbit with blunt force. This injury is commonly the result of a fist, baseball or tennis ball that strikes the eye. The bony orbit's job is to protect the eyeball.
They also put a device on your eye to keep you from blinking. The reason that they do not put you to sleep is because you may go into REM (rapid eye movement) and your eye would involuntarily move. Source(s): Been there, done that. Yes you are awake during laser eye surgery. There is an instrument called a speculum that keeps the eye open and keeps it from blinking. You don't feel a thing...topical numbing drops are put in prior to surgery (they last 15 mins) and continued during the surgery to make sure it is definitely numb.