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  2. Phase-out of incandescent light bulbs - Wikipedia

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    60 W incandescent light bulb with energy efficiency class E Equivalent 42 W halogen incandescent light bulb with efficiency class C Compact fluorescent lamp LED lamp. Various governments have passed legislation to phase out manufacturing or importation of incandescent light bulbs for general lighting in favor of more energy-efficient alternatives.

  3. Ray Lynch - Wikipedia

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    Lynch was born on July 3, 1943, in Salt Lake City, Utah. [4] [5] As the second of four children, Lynch was raised in West Texas.[6] [7] Lynch's father was a lawyer; [8] Lynch's mother was a noted watercolorist and an amateur pianist who influenced him to create music as a child.

  4. Columbine High School massacre - Wikipedia

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    Some schools implemented the numbering of school doors in order to improve public safety response. Several schools throughout the country resorted to requiring students to wear computer-generated IDs. [288] Schools also adopted a zero tolerance approach to possession of weapons and threatening behavior by students.

  5. Indian rupee - Wikipedia

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    The Indian rupee (symbol: ₹; code: INR) is the official currency in India.The rupee is subdivided into 100 paise (Hindi plural; singular: paisa).The issuance of the currency is controlled by the Reserve Bank of India.

  6. Firearms regulation in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    A few models of ISSF 50 meter pistol (also known as "Free Pistol") have been produced which exceed the defined dimensions for prohibited "short firearms" and qualify as Section 1 firearms. Some free pistols offered removable stabiliser bars; UK-legal models are manufactured with stabilisers permanently fixed.

  7. Free lunch - Wikipedia

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    The nearly indigent "free lunch fiend" was a recognized social type. An 1872 New York Times story about "loafers and free-lunch men" who "toil not, neither do they spin, yet they 'get along'", visiting saloons, trying to bum drinks from strangers: "Should this inexplicable lunch-fiend not happen to be called to drink, he devours whatever he can, and, while the bartender is occupied, tries to ...

  8. JD Vance - Wikipedia

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    James Donald Bowman was born on August 2, 1984, in Middletown, Ohio, [11] [12] to Beverly Carol (née Vance; born 1961) and Donald Ray Bowman (1959–2023). He is of Scots-Irish descent. [13] [14] His parents divorced when he was a toddler. [12]

  9. Hello Kitty - Wikipedia

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    Hello Kitty (Japanese: ハロー・キティ, Hepburn: Harō Kiti), [6] also known by her real name Kitty White (キティ・ホワイト, Kiti Howaito), [5] is a fictional character created by Yuko Shimizu, currently designed by Yuko Yamaguchi, and owned by the Japanese company Sanrio.