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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.
Some cities take a gradual approach to prohibit the most polluting categories of vehicles first, then the next-most polluting, all the way up to a complete ban on all fossil-fuel vehicles; some cities have not yet set a deadline for a complete ban, and/or are waiting for the national government to set such a date. [101] [102] [103]
"Green" in these tables refers to combined totals for the green parties in the United Kingdom, namely the Green Party of England and Wales, the Scottish Greens, and, for polls of the entire UK, the Green Party Northern Ireland. The three parties share a commitment to environmental policies, but are independent of one another, with each ...
(Reuters) -A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled a Minnesota law requiring a person to be at least 21 years old before obtaining a permit to carry a handgun in public for self-defense is ...
On 16 November 2004, a Public Health white paper proposed a smoking ban in almost all public places in England and Wales.Smoking restrictions would be phased in, with a ban on smoking in NHS and government buildings by 2006, in enclosed public places by 2007, and pubs, bars and restaurants (except pubs not serving food) by the end of 2008.
To qualify for the Nuclear Test Medal, individuals need to have served at locations where atmospheric testing took place during the UK's atomic and thermonuclear development programmes between 1952 and 1967, on one of the following test operations: Operation HURRICANE – October 1952, Montebello Islands, Western Australia
Nine tests were conducted there in 1957, 1958 and 1959, [318] ultimately demonstrating that the UK had developed expertise in thermonuclear weapons. [319] Beginning in December 1962, the UK conducted 24 tests at the Nevada Test Site in the United States. [320] The final test was the Julin Bristol shot which took place on 26 November 1991. [321]
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.