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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]
Amar Meyebela ( My Girlhood, 2002), the first volume of her memoir, was banned by the Bangladeshi government in 1999 for "reckless comments" against Islam and the prophet Mohammad. [ 37] Utal Hawa ( Wild Wind ), the second part of her memoir, was banned by the Bangladesh government in 2002. [ 38]
Mallory (novel) The Mistletoe Farm. Mr. Denning Drives North (novel) Mr. Midshipman Hornblower. Murder Comes Home. A Murder Is Announced. The Mystery of the Invisible Thief.
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 .
The Strand Magazine was a monthly British magazine founded by George Newnes, composed of short fiction and general interest articles. It was published in the United Kingdom from January 1891 [ 1] to March 1950, running to 711 issues, [ 2] though the first issue was on sale well before Christmas 1890. Its immediate popularity is evidenced by an ...
Hollywood blacklist. The Hollywood blacklist was an entertainment industry blacklist put in effect in the mid-20th century in the United States during the early years of the Cold War, in Hollywood and elsewhere. Actors, screenwriters, directors, musicians, and other American entertainment professionals were barred from work by the studios.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1950 books. Books written or published in the year 1950 . Books portal. 1950s portal. 1945. 1946. 1947.
Retrieved December 18, 2011. Without rival, the twentieth century's king of the genre is Louis Cha. Estimates of his book sales reach up to 300 million copies. One editor at the Far Eastern Economic Review estimated that, if one also counted the pirated copies, over 1 billion of Cha's books have been sold.