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  2. Ray-Ban - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Ray-Ban Wayfarer - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  4. EssilorLuxottica - Wikipedia

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    EssilorLuxottica SA is an Italian-French vertically integrated multinational corporation based in Paris and founded on 1 October 2018 from the merger of the Italian Luxottica with the French Essilor. The eyewear -focused group designs, produces and markets ophthalmic lenses, optical equipment, prescription glasses and sunglasses .

  5. Film censorship in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Mario Bava's film was initially banned in the United Kingdom due to its violent content such as bloody scenes featuring a wooden stake being rammed into a vampire's eyeball and a metal mask hammered into a beautiful woman's face. Released in 1968 with cuts to most of the scenes of violence and the film was not released uncut in the United ...

  6. I'm Living With MS. Here's What a Mask Ban Would Mean ... - AOL

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    By trying to cut down on crime, mask bans force people with weakened immune systems to make terrible choices. I'm Living With MS. Here's What a Mask Ban Would Mean for My Health.

  7. Aviator sunglasses - Wikipedia

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    Aviator sunglasses. F.W. Hunter, Army test pilot, with AN 6531 sunglasses (1942) Aviator sunglasses are a style of sunglasses that was developed by a group of American firms. The original Bausch & Lomb design is now commercially marketed as Ray-Ban Aviators, although other manufacturers also produce aviator-style sunglasses.

  8. Firearms regulation in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    On 31 December 1996, prior to the large-calibre handgun ban, there were 133,600 FACs on issue in England and Wales; by 31 December 1997 it had fallen to 131,900. On 31 December 2001, five years after the large calibre ban, the number had fallen to 119,600 and 117,700 the following year. [29] This represents a net drop of 24,200 certificates.

  9. Geometrical optics - Wikipedia

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    Geometrical optics. Geometrical optics, or ray optics, is a model of optics that describes light propagation in terms of rays. The ray in geometrical optics is an abstraction useful for approximating the paths along which light propagates under certain circumstances. The simplifying assumptions of geometrical optics include that light rays: