The optic zone of contact lenses is only a portion of the lens, which is surrounded by peripheral fitting curves that do not affect vision. It's something like looking out a small window in your house: If you are standing very close to the window, you have a large, unobstructed view of the outdoors.
Character actress Mary Jackson, best known for her role as Miss Emily Baldwin on the iconic 1970s television series The Waltons, has died. She was 95. Character actress Mary Jackson, best known for her role as Miss Emily Baldwin on the iconic 1970s television series The Waltons, has died.
Mary Harris Jones, known as Mother Jones, was an Irish-born American schoolteacher and dressmaker who became a prominent organized labor representative and community organizer. She helped coordinate major strikes and cofounded the Industrial Workers of the World. Jones worked as a teacher and dressmaker, but after her husband and four children all died of yellow fever in 1867 and her dress shop was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, she began working as an organizer for the Knights of