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  2. Aviator sunglasses - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Lobster-eye optics - Wikipedia

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    This lobster-eye approach paved the way for X-ray telescopes with a 360-degree view of the sky. [10] In 1992, Philip E. Kaaret and Phillip Geissbuehler proposed a new method for creating lobster-eye optics with microchannel plates. [11] Micropores required for lobster-eye optics are difficult to manufacture and have strict requirements.

  4. UK Video Charts - Wikipedia

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    The charts are based on weekly DVD, Blu-ray and, formerly, VHS sales in 6,500 retailers across the UK. The main chart combines the sales of all video sales in the UK and trades under the name of the Combined Video Chart. There are also charts for the sales of music videos (Music Video Chart) and children's videos, among others. All of the ...

  5. Melania Trump - Wikipedia

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    Melania Trump (born Melanija Knavs; [a] April 26, 1970) is a Slovenian-American former fashion model who served as the first lady of the United States from 2017 to 2021 as the wife of former president Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States.

  6. X-ray - Wikipedia

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    X-ray art and fine art photography, artistic use of X-rays, for example the works by Stane Jagodič; X-ray hair removal, a method popular in the 1920s but now banned by the FDA. [140] Shoe-fitting fluoroscopes were popularized in the 1920s, banned in the US in the 1960s, in the UK in the 1970s, and later in continental Europe.

  7. Ray Brooks (actor) - Wikipedia

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    He rose to prominence in the UK after starring alongside Michael Crawford and Rita Tushingham in the 1965 film The Knack …and How to Get It. [3] The film, directed by Richard Lester, won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1965. [7] Brooks followed up this success starring in the ground-breaking 1966 television drama Cathy Come Home ...

  8. List of Hollyoaks characters introduced in 2015 - Wikipedia

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    Dylan Jenkins (also Royle), played by James Fletcher, made his first screen appearance on 6 January 2015. [1] [2] Dylan is the son of established character, "gangster" Trevor Royle (), who had been rejected by his mother and decided to find his father. [3]

  9. Video nasty - Wikipedia

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    Video nasty is a colloquial term popularised [1] by the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association (NVALA) in the United Kingdom to refer to a number of films, typically low-budget horror or exploitation films, distributed on video cassette that were criticised for their violent content by the press, social commentators, and various religious organisations in the early 1980s.