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Did King Buwanekabahu IV use Eyewear? Unverified Lore and Brief History of SL Optometry

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  First and foremost, forgive the imagery being ai generated, it is for illustration purposes only and I don't have funds to commission a real artist 😅. The Sri Lanka Optometric Association website states that "Sri Lanka has a tradition in eye care that extends back to the mist of history. It is well documented that during the reign of King Bhuvanekabahu the IV (AD 1346 – 1353) of the Gampola period the ancient tradition of optical lens making with natural stone was revitalized and given royal patronage. However, there is ample indications that this craft and the technical knowhow existed and flourished dwell before this period. To further develop the crafts, the practitioners and artisans were given royal protection and a vast area of land was designated so that they could live and practice their craft free of any taxes levied by the king and the produce of the land area allocated to them was for their personal use. A few of the craftsman still live and practice in the origi...

Green Medical School - The First Med School in Sri Lanka

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  The Colombo Medical Faculty was established at around 1870, and tends to be considered the first western medical school in SL, and the second in South Asia after the Calcutta Medical College (1835). However, there was a med school set-up in Manipay in 1848, by Dr. Samuel Green, a missionary doctor from Boston, Massachussets. Dr. John Scudder was the first medical missionary in Jaffna, establishing a dispensary in Pandathirrippu in 1820, illustrated in image 3. And while there had been hospitals operated by the Portuguese and Dutch, they were mostly for their own use, they couldn't rlly be considered the 'modern' medicine, practiced since 1800s or so. Dr. Samuel Green similarly opened his clinic in 1847 (Image 4), which would eventually evolve into the Green Memorial Hospital, which is still operational to this day. The Green Med School trained around 80 doctors from 1850-1875, from local community, who were employed by the British colonial government. There was also a Gre...

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Recent Learnings from Venusian Colonization Reddit Posts

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Amma's Fried Rice for Lunch

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Amma makes the loveliest fried rice, with all the fish and eggs minced, and with all veggies and nutritients intact. The chicken devilled has alot of the devilled sauce over the years with the influence of me and my lil brother, negotiating for it over the years.. lol. And while Amma is not the biggest fan of making all the sauce curry, criticising us for out craze over it, drenching the rice in it.. rather than basking in its real flavours, which by the way is really good too, we cannot be redeemed for it 😂❤️

Today's Breakfast Burgur in Candlelight

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A Renaissance Moment 

The Ghibli Art Trend

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Recently, putting the ethics aside, tried out the ghibli prompt in ChatGTP.. and wow That was actually rlly solid - I would've never thought something like this would be attainable even last year. And as a kid, would've never thought this in my lifetime, sorta.  I took this to other sites to change the background and the results were pretty neat too. The level technology, and what is accessible to everyone, sorta, is incredible Truly incredible this contemporary period.

Burgers for Breakfast

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This morning, my mother made burgers - legit ones with the right ingredients. They were lovely. It's spelled Burger, and not Burgher - that single h changes the word entirely.. well, now I know for sure how to spell it 😂   

New Flowers in Home Garden

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So there are the new Surfinia Petunia, had no idea that Surfinia was a patented product Then we got the wishbone flowers, looks like Clitoria , but it isn't. Then we got Cockscombs, called that unironically, lol. Then we got Madagascar Periwinkles which somehow comes in many different colours. Some China Pinks too... And here are morw pictures... Angiosperms have the most beautiful reproductive parts of any species on Earth. Achinthya Nanayakkara 05.04.2025

Aliphatic and Aromatic organic Mechanisms - GCE A/L Chemistry Super Summary

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 Aliphatic Reaction Mechanisms Aromatic Reaction Mechanisms  Organic Conversion Map Super Summary

Deriving Velocity of Light from Electromagnetic Wave Equation and Maxwell's Equations (Old - 2022)

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Notes - GCE A/L Chemistry Super Summary

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Apologies for issue with order, if I were to manually add one by one, would take several days to upload