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Website. ray-ban .com. Ray-Ban is a brand of luxury sunglasses and eyeglasses created in 1936 by Bausch & Lomb. The brand is best known for its Wayfarer and Aviator lines of sunglasses. In 1999, Bausch & Lomb sold the brand to Italian eyewear conglomerate Luxottica Group for a reported $640 million. [ 1][ 2]
Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses and eyeglasses have been manufactured by Ray-Ban since 1952. Made popular in the 1950s and 1960s by music and film icons such as Buddy Holly , Roy Orbison and James Dean , Wayfarers almost became discontinued in the 1970s, before a major resurgence was created in the 1980s through massive product placements .
List of synchrotron radiation facilities. This is a table of synchrotrons and storage rings used as synchrotron radiation sources, and free electron lasers . Facility name. Location. Country. Energy (GeV) Circumference or length (m) Commissioned for synchrotron radiation studies. Decommissioned.
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom(UK) or Britain,[m]is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland. [21][22]It comprises England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
List of cities in the United Kingdom. Examples of major urban areas in the United Kingdom; Liverpool, Edinburgh, Newcastle upon Tyne; and London. This is a list of cities in the United Kingdom that are officially designated as such as of 12 November 2022. [ 1][ 2] It lists those places that have been granted city status by letters patent or ...
The parents of one of three girls murdered at a Taylor Swift-themed event in northern England last month called for an end to the nationwide rioting that followed their deaths at an emotional ...
Kent & East Sussex Steam Railway, Tenterden, Kent. Lavender Line, Isfield, East Sussex. Rother Valley Railway, Robertsbridge, East Sussex (line extension under construction) Spa Valley Railway, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Watercress Line, New Alresford, Hampshire. Railway centres and museums.
In the United Kingdom, the first hydraulic fracturing of an oil well was carried out shortly after discovery of the West Sole field in the North Sea in 1965. After the industry started to use intermediate and high-strength proppants in the late 1970s, hydraulic fracturing became a common technique in the North Sea oil and gas wells.