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Hagioscopes and leper windows

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381875) • Rockingham, Australia 20 Aug 19

My last discussion was about a ‘squint’ in a church. As it seems many myLotters have never heard of squints (and neither had I) I did some research on them. They are more properly called ‘hagioscopes’ and aren’t particularly...

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Does Your Church Have A Squint?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381875) • Rockingham, Australia 20 Aug 19

The Church of Our Lady of Mt Carmel and Saints Peter & Paul at Mullewa in Western Australia does. A squint is a narrow aperture which allows the bell-ringer in a church to keep an eye on the priest as he is saying Mass. The...

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Do you suffer from uneven body parts?

jayaram @jayaramas (1353) • Bangalore, India 13 Aug 16

GOD has created almost all of us symmetrically. But when we look at eyes of a person to an accuracy of 0.1 mm, then most of us will have some error. Most of us will neglect it, but some people, error will be more, like squint...

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squint eyes

mariner68 @mariner68 (1276) • India 16 Jan 07

what causes a squint? Is it always congenital?

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