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What Dose Your Eye Color Mean?

 

When we're born, virtually all of our eyes started as blue (hence the phrase "baby blues"). This is because the white light entering our eyes gets scattered and absorbed by cells in the eye, reflecting only blue light back through the irises. It's the same reason the sky is blue, actually.

As we get a little older, however, a pigment in our irises called melanin begins to develop. With low levels of melanin, most of the blue light can still reflect back, and a person retains their blue eyes. At higher levels, melanin obscures this blue light, leading to brown, or even black, eyes. Green and hazel eyes are kind of the middle ground between these two extremes. Also, depending on how these patches of melanin form, you can actually have multi-colored eyes: green with brown in the middle, hazel around a ring of gold, that sort of thing.

The amount of melanin you actually wind up with – and thus, the color your eyes will be - is based on the combination of your parents' eye color genes. So, really, if your eye color means anything, it mostly serves as a reminder of where you come from – that you're your parents' offspring, or that you're one rung in a genetic ladder spanning generations. If that's something you'd like to be reminded of, great! If not, might I suggest colored contacts?

In the end, eye color can't mean the same thing to everyone. No two eyes are the same, and neither are the ways we as individuals consider them. Your feelings about each eye color – and what you feel they say about the people who have them – are based on your own personal experience. If your first boyfriend had brown eyes, maybe you still associate them with that time – sweet, innocent, carefree. If you have blue eyes yourself, maybe that's your favorite eye color in others. In the end, though, no one can really tell you what your eye color means but you

Big Ben

Big Ben is the nickname for the great bell of the clock at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London,^[1] and is often extended to refer to the clock or the clock tower as well.^[2] It is the largest four-faced chiming clock and the third-tallest free-standing clock tower in the world.^[3] It celebrated its 150th anniversary in May 2009,^[4] during which celebratory events took place.^[5][6] The clock first ticked on 31 May 1859.
A clock tower was built at Westminster in 1288, with the fine-money of Ralph Hengham, Chief Justice of the King's Bench.^[7][8]
The present tower was raised as a part of Charles Barry's design for a new palace, after the old Palace of Westminster was destroyed by fire on the night of 16 October 1834.
The new Parliament was built in a Neo-gothic style. Although Barry was the chief architect of the Palace, he turned to Augustus Pugin for the design of the clock tower, which resembles earlier Pugin designs, including one for Scarisbrick Hall. The design for the Clock Tower was Pugin's last design before his final descent into madness and death, and Pugin himself wrote, at the time of Barry's last visit to him to collect the drawings: "I never worked so hard in my life for Mr Barry for tomorrow I render all the designs for finishing his bell tower & it is beautiful."^[9] The tower is designed in Pugin's celebrated Gothic Revival style, and is 96.3 metres (315.9 ft) high (roughly 16 stories).^[
The bottom 61 metres (200 ft) of the Clock Tower's structure consists of brickwork with sand coloured Anston limestone cladding. The remainder of the tower's height is a framed spire of cast iron. The tower is founded on a 15-metre (49 ft) square raft, made of 3-metre (9.8 ft) thick concrete, at a depth of 4 metres (13 ft) below ground level. The four clock dials are 55 metres (180 ft) above ground. The interior volume of the tower is 4,650 cubic metres (164,200 cubic feet).
Despite being one of the world's most famous tourist attractions, the interior of the tower is not open to overseas visitors, though United Kingdom residents are able to arrange tours (well in advance) through their Member of Parliament.^[11] However, the tower has no elevator, so those escorted must climb the 334 limestone stairs to the top.^[10]
Because of changes in ground conditions since construction (notably tunnelling for the Jubilee Line extension), the tower leans slightly to the north-west, by roughly 220 millimetres (8.66 in) at the clock dials, giving an inclination of approximately 1/250.^[12][13] Due to thermal effects it oscillates annually by a few millimetres east and west.

Meanings Of Most Flowers

As every flower lover knows, flowers have a language of their own. Every sentiment is expressed in one form or another by these delicate blooms. Of course, even the experts disagree on the "true meaning" of many flowers and most have different meanings to different people. So, while all flowers convey thoughtfulness and love, here are some of the more traditional flower meanings, according to one source. See, if you agree. And, remember, a gift of flowers for a special someone will always create its own personal meaning, too.

ACACIA -	Concealed Love, Beauty in Retirement, Chaste Love
AMBROSIA -	Your Love is Reciprocated
AMARYLLIS -	Pride, Pastoral Poetry
ANEMONE -	Forsaken
ARBUTUS -	Thee Only Do I Love
ASTER -	Symbol of Love, Daintiness
AZALEA -	Take Care of Yourself for Me, Temperance, Fragile Passion, Chinese Symbol of Womanhood
BACHELOR BUTTON -	Single Blessedness
BEGONIA -	Beware
BELLS OF IRELAND -	Good Luck
BITTERSWEET -	Truth
BLUEBELL -	Humility
CACTUS -	Endurance
CAMELLIA (PINK) -	Longing for you
CAMELLIA (RED) -	You're a Flame in My Heart
CAMELLIA (WHITE) -	You're Adorable
CARNATION (GENERAL) -	Fascination, Woman Love
CARNATION (PINK) -	I'll Never Forget You
CARNATION (RED) -	My Heart Aches For You, Admiration
CARNATION (PURPLE) -	Capriciousness