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.
Joseph Harrison Jackson was an American pastor and the longest serving President of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s was highly controversial in many black churches, where the minister preached spiritual salvation rather than political activism. The National Baptist Convention became deeply split; Jackson had supported the Montgomery bus boycott of 1956, but by 1960 he told his denomination they should not become involved in civil rights