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  2. Ray-Ban - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act - Wikipedia

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    One of the most noted sections was the Federal Assault Weapons Ban. Other parts of the Act provided for a greatly expanded federal death penalty , new classes of individuals banned from possessing firearms, and a variety of new crimes defined in statutes relating to hate crimes , sex crimes , and gang -related crime.

  4. Legality of conversion therapy - Wikipedia

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    Conversion therapy is the pseudoscientific practice of attempting to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity.As of December 2023, twenty-eight countries have bans on conversion therapy, fourteen of them ban the practice by any person: Belgium, [1] Canada, Cyprus, Ecuador, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Malta, Mexico, New Zealand, Spain, Portugal and Norway; Seven ban its ...

  5. List of Olympic Games scandals, controversies and incidents

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    Intercalated. v. t. e. The Olympic Games is a major international multi-sport event. During its history, both the Summer and Winter Games have been the subject of scandals, controversies and incidents. Cheating, such as the use of performance enhancing drugs by athletes, has regularly affected the Olympic Games.

  6. List of banned video games by country - Wikipedia

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    The ban was lifted in February 2018 [90] but remains on the List of Media Harmful to Young People. [91] Dead Rising 2: Banned by the district court of Bautzen in 2011 for violating German Criminal Code section 131 (depictions of violence). [92] [93] The ban was lifted in February 2018 but remains on the List of Media Harmful to Young People. [94]

  7. British National Party - Wikipedia

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    — BNP marching song, 1982 In its early years, the BNP's involvement in elections was "irregular and intermittent", and for its first two decades it faced consistent electoral failure. It suffered from low finances and few personnel, and its leadership was aware that its electoral viability was weakened by the anti-immigration rhetoric of Conservative Party Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher ...

  8. Censorship of Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    Censorship of Wikipedia. Censorship of Wikipedia by governments has occurred widely in countries including (but not limited to) China, Iran, Myanmar, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Uzbekistan, and Venezuela. Some instances are examples of widespread Internet censorship in general that includes Wikipedia content.

  9. Censorship by country - Wikipedia

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    e. Censorship by country collects information on censorship, Internet censorship, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and human rights by country and presents it in a sortable table, together with links to articles with more information. In addition to countries, the table includes information on former countries, disputed countries ...